With the faith of a mustured seed, you can move a Mountain

Text for this message is: MATTHEW 17:20-21

Mountains are generally hard to climb because they are usually large and upright without stairs to make the climb easier. The religious life has always depicted mountains as symbols of hardships and difficulties to life. Mountains are the problems that we need to solve, obstacles to overcome, and the general difficulties that are needed to be dealt with.

So what kinds of mountains do the youth of today face? Drugs. Drinking. Family problems. Pregnancy. Relationships. School. The truth is that life itself is a mountain because there are always problems to be faced. But using our scripture Christ says that if you have the faith of a mustard seed, you can say to the mountains in your life, "Move from here to there", and it will have to obey you.

While it is true that faith may not always change the outer circumstances of our life but it always changes our Outlook!

Hebrews, chapter 11, verse 1, says, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." One always hears that it is not the outside that counts but what is on the inside looking out that really make the difference.

Sometimes in life you have to use just a little mental magic to get over the 'mountains' in our lives by remembering the little red train who had to climb the mountain he faced, continually saying, "I think I can", "I think I can", and when making the climb of a life time he finally says "I knew I could", "I knew I could." Accomplishing that goal is the one thing that you have to keep focused on and keep in mind that Christ is there to help you through all of your trials. HE does want you to succeed to overcome your personal mountain.

Faith can change your outlook...And if your outlook has been changed, it does not matter what is on the horizon. In 2 Corinthians 5, the Aspotle Paul, in dealing with his own eminent death said, "We walk by faith, not by sight." FAITH changes your outlook. Faith can move mountains because faith can change the outlook of your life despite what is on your horizon.

Faith can move your mountain because faith enlarges the possibilities of life.

It is sometimes helpful to look at the different ways that verses are translated or spoken about in one gospel or another. For example, in the book of Luke, Jesus says, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, "Be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey you." While the imagery changes here a little we can see that faith can create new possibilities that did not exist before faith. Faith enlarges the possibilities of life. Faith enlarges the options because faith brings God directly to bear on the situation. Remembering mathematics here, when you change one variable in an equation, you change the outcome of that equation. So when you put faith and God into your life you have changed two huge variables in the equation of your life, there by changing the outcome of that equation.

Let God's grace move through your trials!

Call upon God's grace using the powers of other peoples prayers and annointing oils. You want to have the grace of God to move through your life by any means necessary to bring about the end that God would have for you.

Faith is not about constricting the possibilities.

Faith enlarges the possibilities and creates new possibilities. A problem is only a problem as long as there is no solution. If there is even a hint of a possibilitie of a solution, you don't have the same problems. If you have God in your life, you will still have problems, but with God in your life there are always other possibilities.

God is the author of possibilitiy !!

Before creation, there was nothing...but God authored a new possibility and Creation camento being. For the Israelites there was no hope in slavery. But God created a new possibility and Pharaoh let God's people go. Jesus could have died on the cross, but God raised a new possibility and raised Christ to a new life. Faith can move mountains because faith enlarges the possibilities of life.

Faith can move mountains because we are connected to the mover of mountains by our faith. Have you ever noticed that our God is a mountain God?

God does some of His best work on a mountain top.

It was on a mountaintop that Issac was saved from sacrafice. It was on a mountain top that Moses met God met the LORD in the burning bush. Jesus was transfiqured on a mountain and crucified on the mountain top of Calvary. Yes we serve a God of mountains. El Shadi...God of mountains. HE can make mountains, HE can move mountains, and our faith connects us to the LORD of mountains.

Take your mountain to the LORD of mountains, and in faith pray, and then believe, and it shall be done for you. There are problems to which GOD has given a promise and provision, have faith.