Toddler, Stumbling

The first few times he fell it was painful, to watch.
He would stumble a few feet, then fall flat, sometimes bouncing his chin on the floor.

As the distance between falls began to increase
we became glad we allowed him to continue to try,
even to the point of encouraging his efforts.

Without the knowledge that he could in fact walk
we would not have been able to do it.

Similarly, it is our confidence in what He has said that allows us to rise after falling. It is our knowledge that He heals, that He delivers, that He has saved, that allows us to pray for the victory time after time until results come, acting each time as if it were now. And just like His disciples, we learn and we eventually see results.

Matthew 17:14-21
And when they were come to the multitude, there came tohim a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,
{15} Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is a lunatic, and sore vexed: forofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.
{16} And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.
{17} Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? bring him hither tome.
{18} And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the childwas cured from that very hour.
{19} Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we casthim out
{20} And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I sayunto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say untothis mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; andnothing shall be impossible unto you.
{21} Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.