faith as a mustard seed.
True faith, by Christ’s definition, always involves surrender to the will of God. What He teaches here is nothing like positive-thinking psychology. Jesus says that both the source and the object of all genuine faith—even the weak, mustard-seed variety—is God. And “with God nothing will be impossible” (Luke 1:37).
nothing will be impossible.
Here Christ assumes the qualifying thought explicitly added by 1 John 5:14 : what we ask for must be “according to His will.”
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.” ~ Matthew 17:20
Exodus 2:11-3:22
Matthew 17:10-27
Psalm 22:1-18
Proverbs 5:7-14
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New Testament: Matthew 17:10-27
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Now listen, let me sum all four of these up. And you get this, you get the whole lesson here. All these incidents tell us what little faith is. Little faith is the kind of faith that believes in God when you have something in your hand. Got it? “Oh, yes, I believe God. Oh, yes, the Lord provides; here it is, and I’m hanging onto it.” That’s little faith. But little faith can’t believe God when it doesn’t have in hand its resource. That’s little faith.
Great faith says, “I believe God without anything in my hand. I believe God in the middle of the storm. I believe god though the wind is howling. I believe God though there’s nothing on the cupboard. I believe God though I don’t have any clothing. I believe God.” That’s great faith.
Little faith, most of us are really good at little faith. We believe God because we can see what He’s done; it’s right here.
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