Marilise Posted October 1, 2013 Report Share Posted October 1, 2013 01 October, 2013Today's Free Devotional from Ellel Ministries International Mustard Seed Faith" “You don’t haveenough faith,” Jesus told them. “I tell you the truth, if you had faith even assmall as a mustard seed, you could say to this mountain, ‘Move from here tothere,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.” "Matthew 17:20, NLTI doubt many of us have had to face a situation in our lives when we needed tomove a physical mountain. But it was in facing an extremely difficult personalsituation I discovered a meaning of the word, ‘mountain’ in this context.Having a mountain before us means that there is something that has to be scaledin order to overcome it. To move ahead is daunting. It is fraught with theunknown, knowing there will be times of real difficulty, a possibility of gettinglost, with no evidence to prove you will ever achieve the seeminglyimpossible... all in all, an exceedingly intimidating scenario.When facing these life situations, either from our past or living in them inthe present, we face a choice.Do we stay at the bottom of the mountain, allowing the intimidation to hold usin the same place without a hope for any future? In this place, we disregardGod’s view of the mountain completely. We are locked into our fearful viewpointand can even blame God for the mountain being there, or for him not ‘doinganything about it’.Do we try to overcome the mountain ourselves, thinking we can scale it on ourown without anyone’s help? We can all be very good at presenting to God ourlist of our solutions to our problems, and then we get frustrated because Hedoesn’t respond as we think He should and the mountain persistently remains.Or, do we take all the knowledge that we have of God and set it against theperceived enormity of the mountain? When we do this, we start to see themountain as He sees it. In His sight, there is no unknown, there is no fear,and there is no intimidation ... indeed it is not impossible!Whilst the difficulties that we face are still there, the view of them fromGod’s eyes makes them so much less daunting, they cannot be described as amountain any more. The more of our viewpoint we give up, the more theintimidation diminishes, and we can walk in His faithfulness to a place ofvictory and freedom.I truly believe that the mustard seed of faith is simply hanging on to who Godis and allowing the fullness of that to stand against any situation we may facein our tumultuous lives.Prayer: Father God, You are trulyunfathomable and awesome. Help me live from a place of a deep and unshakeableknowledge of who You are and to keep my eyes fixed unwaveringly on You so thatYou can take this mustard seed of faith and turn it into mountain-movingmiracles. Amen. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanieR Posted October 1, 2013 Report Share Posted October 1, 2013 Marilise thanks for sharing this with us. It is so relevant to many of us trying to deal with the mountains on our own. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilise Posted October 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2013 Only a pleasure. We will not be able to climb these mountains on our own Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter7 Posted October 2, 2013 Report Share Posted October 2, 2013 Thank you for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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