If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain,'Move'... and it will.Matthew 17:20
When you're battling a mountain of sickness, debt, loneliness ordepression, it's easy to harbour self-defeating expectations about howthings will turn out based on your past experiences. Also, because welive in a "faithless and perverse generation" (v.17), it means constantly fighting the defeatist attitudes of our culture, media, theeducational system, the workplace, and even our friends. Unless you recognize this it can wear you down by diluting and polluting your faith. That's why you need to renew your faith daily by reading God'sWord.Notice that Jesus isn't referring in this verse to a mountain you encountered years ago, or some future issue. No, He said, "Say to this mountain." He wants you to exercise your faith today!
Listen again: "If you have faith as a mustard seed...nothing shall be impossible."
Amustard seed is so miniscule it can get stuck between your teeth! Yet the Bible says that although it's "the least of all seeds," under the right conditions it can grow into a tree big enough for the birds tonest in ( Matthew 13:32 NKJV).God-given faith is like a sleeping giant within each of us. When it awakens, miracles happen. If you've one atom of faith left, you have what you need to prevail. But this kind of faith only works when it becomes the language you speak and the attitude you maintain. The enemy doesn't want you to know that, because when you do, you won't just think about what's happening - you'll think about what's possible!
Saturday, April 16, 2005
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