Mustard Seed Faith

Matthew 17:20, “So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”

In this passage Jesus is speaking to His disciples and a father who is in great despair because his son is bound up with evil spirits that caused him to be epileptic. The father was frustrated because although the disciples prayed for the young boy, they were unable to set him free him from his bondage and see him healed.

Jesus told them that the reason this boy wasn’t healed; the reason that mountain of sickness was still in his life wasn’t because God wasn’t able to do it or that God wasn’t willing to do it. No…. God was able and He was willing, but because of their unbelief His disciples lacked the ability to apprehend the power of God for this boy.

I am convinced that a deep root of unbelief within our hearts is still a major obstacle that we face in receiving miracles from God. Whenever there is a discrepancy in what the Bible tells us about how God sees something or what He wants to do about something and what we are actually experiencing in our life, the problem isn’t on God’s side. When circumstances don’t line up with what it says in God’s word; it is because of us… because of our unbelief.

Unbelief can be buried so deep in our heart that we don’t even recognize it.  Sure; we can mentally ascent to God’s word but deep down in our heart; where it really counts, we don’t truly believe it. The author of Hebrews knew that there were consequences when God’s people fail to mix His word with their faith as we read in Hebrews 4:2b, “….but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard.”

Jesus said something very important to His disciples in Matthew 17:20. He said if that one mountain was removed, nothing would be impossiblefor us. Can you imagine that one mountain in our life being removed and taken out of the way? Maybe it’s a sickness, maybe it’s a marital problem, maybe it’s a financial problem or maybe we have an emotional issue; but if that mountain was removed we would have the freedom and the ability to go forward and fulfill God’s destiny.

We need to get the seed of God’s word. It can be as small as a mustard seed but when it is planted in our heart it becomes a belief and that belief will produce faith. We will begin to see God’s word greater than we see the circumstances…. when we speak it to that mountain, it will be removed.

It’s time to examine our heart and realize that if we take God’s word (which is the seed) and mix it with our faith, we can say to the mountain that is before us…”Be removed!” Let’s remove mountains in our lives today and walk in God’s possibilities rather than being constantly hindered and defeated by the impossibilities that surround us in life.

God loves you…. God loves me… and His desire is that we succeed. He redeemed us by the precious price of His son’s life so every promise that comes from heaven (through faith) could be ours!!!