Where is your Faith?

By: Hope S. Harmon

I want to encourage you to read Mathew 17:1-21, when you have an opportunity. 

Today I’ll just focus on Matthew 17:21 for the topic before us: “Because you’re not yet taking God seriously,” said Jesus. “The simple truth is that if you had a mere kernel of faith, a poppy seed, say, you would tell this mountain, ‘Move!’ and it would move. There is nothing you wouldn’t be able to tackle.”

‭‭Matthew‬ ‭17‬:‭20‬ ‭MSG‬‬

In this particular passage of scripture, we read that Jesus had just come down from a mountain with three of his disciples. He was met at the foot of the mountain by a father asking for Jesus to heal his demon-possessed child because the disciples couldn’t. Jesus looked at the disciples, I can imagine a little frustrated, and then cast the demon out himself. 

It’s not as if the disciples hadn’t seen Jesus cast out demons, heal the sick, raise the dead, feed 5,000 with two fish and five loaves of bread, heal the woman with an issue of blood…Jesus had even given them the power to heal ANY ILLNESS! The disciples had the ability to cast the demon out of the boy but it was their LACK OF FAITH, that kept them from performing the miracle. 

In the text it says, all they needed was the faith the size of a tiny mustard seed and that would move mountains. I want to encourage you to buy a bottle of mustard seeds, as a reminder of the faith I need to move mountains. A mustard seed is so tiny and between the 9 of them, they didn’t have that much?!? That’s just beyond me! 

I just want to encourage you to get your faith back today! God has given us the ability to do so many amazing things but our faith is holding us back. The same power he gave the disciples to cast out illness, is the same power he has given us to move mountains! 

Where is your faith today?!? I know I feel like I can move a mountain or two! Don’t let this month or year-end, without exercising your faith! God has given us the power! He has give us the ability! Now it’s time for US to act on our Faith!

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