Matt. 21:21-22
Then Jesus told them, "I assure you, if you have faith and don't
doubt, you can do things like this and much more. You can even say to this mountain, 'May God
lift you up and throw you into the sea,' and it will happen. If you believe, you will receive whatever you
ask for in prayer."
The more faith we have, the greater our
authority to move the mountains in our lives will be. There is nothing that can hinder us if we
have the faith to move forward. Faith can
be either our greatest friend or our worst foe.
Faith is our friend when it is a real presence
in our lives, when it is actively working to draw us closer to God. It helps us to grow up and become more
effective lights of grace in the world.
It helps us to be able to handle whatever life throws at us with a calm
confidence and unshakeable peace. It
provides for us a purpose for living and dying.
Faith is our enemy when we don't exercise it and
give it opportunity to take root and grow in our lives. When we don't nurture it, we live in
misery. To believe in God without living
in God saddles us with a life without peace, joy, and no real hope. We try to justify ourselves with our
knowledge of God, but we can't. We base
our relationship with God on what we think we know, instead of with whom we
know. We try to live without God
influencing our lives and yet thinking it's okay since we believe in God. One of the biggest problems that plagues a
Christian today is the thinking that we are saved and alright with God since we
mouthed some words at some point in our lives.
Faith that is a saving faith is a faith that changes the way we think
and live.
Faith can be your friend or your foe. It's up to you. Make a commitment to nurture your faith so
that it can grow in you and you will be able to command the mountains of your
life to go away and they will.
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