Building Heaven’s Faith Account

When we closed our computer yesterday, I posed the question and asked “how much faith was in your heavenly account …in the black or in the red? So, today, let’s take a few minutes and examine “how much faith is enough?”

It seems in each of the Gospels, Jesus keeps coming back to the men he has chosen to carry on his heavenly work on earth and asking them, “Where is your faith?”

In the gospel of Luke in the eighth chapter, Jesus sets sail with his disciples to cross to the other side of the lake when they encounter a squall that threatens to capsize the boat. The disciples hurry to awaken Jesus for fear that they will all drown….He speaks to the winds and waves and all is calm…and then he says, “Where is your faith?”

Or let us consider the time that Jesus held up the faith of the centurion in Matthew 8:5-10…. “When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help. “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly.” Jesus said to him, “Shall I come and heal him?” The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith."

And the story that always seems to speak to the heart of my faltering and half-hearted faith is found in Luke 12:22-23, 25-28…”Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life? Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest? Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in his entire splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you— O’ you of little faith!"

Time and time again, Jesus calls us to forget what our eyes see …only to trust Him in blind faith so that we might be amazed at his power and fulfilled in his promises. God’s ability to perform more than we can ask or imagine in our lives is a direct result of the faith by which we encounter the Living God. God’s word says that we have not because we ask not; but I contend, we ask not because we believe not!!!!!

So how much faith do we need to realize the power that is stored within each of us who call Jesus, Lord and Savior? The answer is found in the story of the disciples who failed in their attempt to cast out a demon from a small boy….Matthew 17:19-21 “Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?” He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

Are you exercising faith in your walk with the Lord today….or are you going down a path that can be seen by the human eye? Are you trusting in the power of the Most High God to remove obstacles and defeat giants …or are you flinging rocks at your enemies, hoping they will retreat?

God is waiting on you to use your faith, no bigger that a mustard seed, to say to the mountain of hopelessness, loneliness or emptiness…BE GONE…AND THEN, BY YOUR FAITH AND THROUGH HIS POWER, HE WILL REMOVE IT.

Today, God is waiting for you to join your faith with His power to accomplish things for Him that you can’t even begin to comprehend…He is waiting for you to take a stand, as did the centurion, and trust the Savior to heal and restore you (or someone you love) to a place of service …so that one day, you can hear the Father say, “Well Done, my good and FAITHFUL servant!”

How much faith do you have….only you and God can answer that question!

Living by faith…growing the mustard seed,
WPQ