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| 22"So Jesus answered and said to them, "Have faith in God. 23 For assuredly, I say unto you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them." |
From Jesus' own lips we receive the most direct and practical instruction concerning our excersise of faith. Consider three points: 1) It is to be "in God." Faith that speaks is first faith that seeks. The Almighty One is the Source and Grounds of our faith and being. Faith only flows to Him because of the faithfulness that flows from Him. 2) Faith is not a trick performed with our lips, but a spoken expression that springs from the conviction of our hearts. The idea that faith's confession is a "formula" for getting things from God is unbiblical. But the fact that the faith in our hearts is to be spoken, and thereby becomes active and effective towards specific results is taught here by the Lord Jesus. 3) Jesus' words "whatever things" apply this principle to every aspect of our lives. The only restrictions are (a) that our faith be "in God" our living Father and in alignment with His will and word; and (b) that we "believe" - not doubting in our hearts. Thus, "speaking to the mountain" is not a vain or superstitious excersise or indulgence in humanistic mind-science, but instead becomes an applied release of God's creative word of promise. |
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