To enjoy the presence of the Lord in the midst of trouble we will need the faith that only God can give us! There are times when we have a mountain of circumstances before us and we feel that our faith is to small and inadequate to handle that mountain! In Matthew 17:14-20 the disciples had this very problem when a father brought his demon possessed son to them to have that demon cased out! Jesus would soon rebuke and cast out that demon and the boy was immediately healed! The disciples asked, “ why couldn’t we cast out that demon”? Jesus told them, “because you have so little faith”. It was not so much the quantity of their faith as to the quality of their faith! A faith bathed in prayer. When the disciples felt the sting of failure over their inability to heal the boy, Jesus directed them to place their faith-no matter how small-in Him rather than in their own abilities. It is the same with us! God has given to each of us a measure of faith so we can walk hand in hand with our all powerful God to the base of whatever mountains we face and watch God remove them, thus increasing our faith in Him! A great way to start this process is to thank the Lord for the victory won even before and in the midst of the time the mountain is being moved!
FAITH IS TO PRAYER WHAT THE FEATHER IS TO THE ARROW; WITHOUT FAITH IT WILL NOT HIT THE MARK. J. C. Ryle (1816-1900)
The Mission for Prayer For The Harvest Ministries is to encourage and assist the body of Christ corporately and in their personal lives to come back to our first love, Jesus Christ, through the teaching of God’s Word and the literal doing of crying out to God in prayer. Psalm 127:1 "Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain."
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