Mountain Moving Faith
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· 10 viewsMountain moving faith is trusting and beleiving in God enough to know that there is nothing He cannot do.
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When life hits you so hard and you just don’t know what to do, what do you do???
When life hits you so hard and you just don’t know what to do, what do you do???
I have known people who have some pretty major struggles in life, some have had the faith to carry on through the faith. Then there are others who have struggled through the struggle and threw in the towel.
What Do you Do with Your Struggle
When the hardship hits you right between the eyes, we need to be resilient and fight back with the faith that we have founded in Jesus Christ. The author and finisher of our faith,
Where Does our Faith Come From
Our faith has been handed down to us from Jesus we just need to take hold of it and believe and receive
What is Mountain Moving Faith
Mountain moving faith is the little known faith that you can’t see, that is so deep down inside of you that it musters every ounce of you being to stand strong in the midst of the battle.
And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling before him, said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he has seizures and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.” And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.” And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” 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.” As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day.” And they were greatly distressed. When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?” He said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?” And when he said, “From others,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free. However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.”
Each of these three events that takes place in this text require faith, mountain moving faith!
The epileptic boy, and the fathers faith to ask for help!
The father didn’t just ask for help once, we know that he asked at least twice once from the 9 other disciples that were present at the time and then from Jesus because they couldn’t do it!
Jesus tells of His death and resurrection again!
When Jesus tells of His death the disciples get all gloomy and sad, it say they were exceedingly sorrowful. When He really wants them to understand what this means to them. But all they can see their loss.
Jesus asking Peter to pay the taxes!
Jesus tells Peter to go down and throw hock into the Sea and the first fish you catch take the coin from its mouth and bring it back to pay our taxes.
Each of these situation require mountain moving faith to tackle what is before them, a sons need; believing in the resurrection of Jesus; catching a fish to pay the tax!
One commentary described mountain moving faith, by planting a seed and the little teeny tiny sprout push up through the mountain, through the rocks, through the dirt or even through concert and asphalt.
It won’t let anything deter it from accomplishing it task. That is mountain moving faith!
What is impossible for man is all possible for God!
And Jesus said to him, “ ‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.”
Matthew: An Introduction and Commentary iv. The Power of Faith (17:14–20)
The disciples should have been able to deal with the case: see 10:1, 8. Their failure illustrates the too-frequent combination of a divinely-given authority with a lack of the faith needed to exercise it.
And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.
Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.
Faith that appears small or weak to us can still accomplish the humanly impossible!
What is the mountain?
Spirit Filled Commentary “The mountain is the figure of the obstacle, the hinderance, or humanly insurmountable problem, none of which are impossible for God to deal with through committed people who accurately understand their authority and know His power, will, purpose and provision.”
Matthew: An Introduction and Commentary iv. The Power of Faith (17:14–20)
Here again, as Jesus’ following words show, it points not even to a faith which is small but real, but rather to faithlessness. For even the smallest faith (see on 13:31 for the proverbial significance of mustard seed) can move mountains (again a proverbial expression, for the most improbable occurrence; see Isa. 54:10; 1 Cor. 13:2; cf. Baba Bathra 3b). A similar promise of the unlimited possibilities for those who have faith will occur at 21:21. It is a striking illustration of the fact that faith is, for Jesus, not a matter of intellectual assent, but of a practical reliance on a living God. It is important to observe here that it is not the ‘amount’ of faith which brings the impossible within reach, but the power of God, which is available to even the ‘smallest’ faith
The mustard seed that we have talked about before, planting it and nurturing it, and feeding it so that it will grow. If you ignore your faith it will just lay dormant.
Dormant is having normal physical functions suspended or slowed down for a period of time; in or as if in a deep sleep.
Nurtured is to care for and encourage the growth or development of.
We need to nurture our faith, not neglect it, we have to put it to work!
And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.
We have to believe in and trust in and comply with what God has given us to overcome the obstacles in our way.
Obstacle is a thing that blocks one's way or prevents or hinders progress.
Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
The Corona, Covid 19 virus have had there affect on us and the world around us, but again God has this, there is nothing He doesn’t know about and can’t handle. He is our healer, He is our strong tower, He is our provider, He is our peace, He is our righteousness, and most of all He is our deliver.
We can’t always see what is on the other side of the hinderance or obstacle that has been set before us, but what I do know is if Jesus is in it, then He is in it to win it!!!
Again it is about our theme statement for the year “ALL IN” for the win!!