Matthew 17:20, NLT; "You don't have enough faith," Jesus told them. " I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it would move. Nothing would be impossible."
The disciples asked Jesus Christ a question after witnessing him cast out a demon out of a boy. “Why couldn’t we cast out that demon?” “You don’t have enough faith.” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, move from here to there, and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.”
Driving past the local cable store the other day reminded me of my last visit. I had to exchange some equipment and on this particular night the line for customer service was abnormally long. For some reason though I wasn’t too bothered, I now know it was the Holy Spirit within me keeping me patient in the wait. The wait was for me to come in contact with a customer service representative that was dealing with some turbulence in her family. All it took was for me to ask how her day was going, and it was if she had been waiting to exhale in that moment. She shared that her twin sister was in an abusive marriage with two young sons. Adding insult to injury, it was revealed that her sister’s husband had gotten another woman pregnant.
What mountains do you need to move from here to there? There are some mountains in our lives that for some, are inconceivable to climb or even think to move. There is a mountain in the sister’s life in the form of her abusive husband. Right now she may not think that anything can change her circumstances, but just as Jesus Christ told his disciples in Matthew 17, if we have the smallest of faith, it’s enough to tell the mountain in your life to adios.
A mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds but it produces the largest plant that grows into a tree. Imagine what you could accomplish with your seed. It’s time we get very specific about how to use the right kind of faith for what we want. Because faith for financial prosperity is not the same kind of faith that you apply to get relief from a person causing pain and anguish. It’s up to you to decide how far you want to move and at what pace you want to move in.
We sometimes get sidetracked with thinking that size matters but God has scriptures that paint a different perspective. All we have to do is read 1 Samuel 17 about David slaying Goliath. Goliath, was a Philistine Champion that stood over nine feet tall. He taunted the Israelites who were terrified of him and it only took a young boy named David, who was small in stature, to kill him. What allowed David the advantage was he never wavered in his trust and faith in God’s ability to deliver him out of the hands of his enemy. He said that as many times as he fought lions and bears, God delivered him out of his enemies hand every time, so his faith was so strong, that he knew that a nine-foot tall fighter was no different.
This is how we have to be when it comes to our faith in God’s ability to deliver unto us what we desire. As long as we trust him and never doubt, we will always have the advantage.
Not only do we have plant good seeds, we have to plant them in good ground. Your mustard seed of faith has to planted on the ground that God has ordained as good. We represent the Kingdom of God and He wants us to know that the Kingdom of Heaven is wherever we are. We can rest easy with the assurance of faith in God to move any mountain out of our way.
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“Rest Easy”, written by Kim for https://rescuefromdomesticviolence.blogspot.com© 2021. All rights reserved. All praise and honor to God through Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
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