Luke 17 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. 6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
For a period of months now, the Lord has impressed upon me the importance of faith. I have been trying to figure out exactly the points he's trying to make. Some were obvious, some not so obvious.
What do I think the Spirit of God is saying to the churches today? I've been on this same thing over and over again. Get back to the fundamentals of the faith. Pray, believe without doubting=faith, read your bibles. Meditate on the word of God day and night. Why are these things important today?
I don't know how much time we have left, but I believe the Lord has spoken to me that whatever it is I have in my heart to do for him, I need to get busy with it today-starting with prayer and faith. If there is anything you thought you would like to do, if there was nothing standing in your way, and you were able to do whatever you wanted for our God, what would that thing be?
Here's where prayer and your faith come in. Read this again:
Luke 17 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. 6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
I have pondered for years why things like "The Secret" and the message of self-help guru's seems to work, even when they are not believers in our God, or they preach a message that is contradictory to our God's message. The reason why these things work is because our Lord has created LAWS that are immutable. The LAWS our God has established from the beginning of the earth govern all things, all the time, 24/7-365 days a year. The laws our God has established are evidence that he exists. The atheist can argue with you about how a single celled blob on a beach somewhere somehow "evolved" into the mindbogglingly (is that a word?:-) complex beings that humans are. What they cannot tell you and never will be is what were the LAWS that governed the evolution of things? Random explains nothing. Someone established the laws, who was it? We know who it was while they flail away in the darkness for an answer to that question.
Back to my point, these laws that our God has established work all the time, every time. Consider the woman with the issue of blood, what happened with her?
Matt 9:20 And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: 21 For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole. 22 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
Notice, that woman did'nt even pray to be made whole, she simply BELIEVED, there was no doubt in this woman that if she could touch our Lord's cloak, bam, done deal healed, and guess what? It happened exactly as she believed it would.
The example we started with today illustrates the same point:
Luke 17 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. 6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
What do we see here? Faith is the atomic energy, the gold bar currency, the power that moves heaven and earth according to pre-established laws which is why you see a kind of formula above. Have faith, then act on that faith "say to this sycamine tree" and it will obey you. Notice it does'nt say the Lord would yank the tree out and toss it into the sea, it says that thing you had faith for obeyed you. Why? It has to, no choice, its a LAW. Humans break laws all the time but in the spirit world apparently the laws are iron clad ubreakable rods that do not bend, they just are.
The start of these things is to "have faith." Where does this faith come from? The apostles said to Jesus above "increase our faith!" The apostles asked Jesus for the faith, so where should we go to increase our faith? You guessed it, the Son of God, our Lord and master. People don't move mountains today because they don't have the faith to move mountains, its really that simple. We receive by asking. Ask and ye shall receive, remember? The other caveat here is that our Lord serves as a quality control over the things we have faith for. Do you think he's going to deposit the faith in you to lay hold of things that will destroy you? I don't think so.
Okay, this has been a longwinded way of coming back around to what I was saying earlier. What is it you have in your heart to do for our God before you meet him face to face? Are you sick of the corporate rat race and you'd rather serve the Lord by feeding the hungry, or building homes for the poor, what is it that is in your heart? "How"it will be done is our God's department, "what" and "why" is yours. What is it you would do for him and why do you want to do it. Your life leading up to the day the Lord shows up for us could be as different as night is from day if you would only believe and not doubt. Pray, seek his face, dream big, get pregnant and do not abort that thing in your heart that will serve the kingdom of our God. Erase from your mind everything this sick babylonian system of churchianity has taught you about what it means to serve the Lord. You have a bible read it for yourself. The babylonian priests (pastors) will not be there to answer for you on the day you stand before our master. You will answer.
I believe that we are standing on 3rd base with home plate just a dash and slide away. Between here and there will be the last chance to change course, to set things right, to stop procrastinating, to dream big, to abandon the life of quiet desperation that so many live. The laws are immutable, Jesus is listening right now. If you ask, and he deposits the faith in you, you can and will move mountains. What is in your heart today? What do you want to look back on with a joy swelled heart and say "Lord, we did it!!!!" and he'll say "of course we did, I don't lie :-)
This is huge guys, I don't know if I will write on this topic again. The Lord has dealt with me on this issue, the words you read here have been given to me and I am a nobody, but I am a nobody with a task to do, and a place within the kingdom of our God. I am also a nobody who is your true brother if you are "in Christ." I don't know how much time is left but we have been told to make the most of the days that are left.
We are dearly loved children, grace and peace
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