*EXCELLENT LIFE KEYS* 🔑🗝️
Tue/01st/Nov/2022
*Francis Reign* (Ap & Coach)
_"Raising excellent agents of change and transformation, well equipped with Truth and Wisdom."_
*UNDERSTANDING THE ACTS AND WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST (192)*
Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?" He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you." (Matthew 17:19-20).
The theme of faith comes up often in the Gospels and seems to accompany a life where the belief that saves is lived out through the works that demonstrate it. Kingdom lifestyle and Kingdom works seem to go together and require a belief that would lead one to act and live in a whole new way of peace, goodness, and power. Sometimes it is the faith if the one being freed or healed that is the barrier, such as those in Jesus' hometown (Mark 6:5). But in this case, it was the disciples' own inability to believe that was the hindrance to God's work. Seek to live a Kingdom lifestyle by faith. Cultivate faith in the promises of Jesus.
Jesus reveals here that the key to power is faith in Him. Part of the lesson here is the potency of genuine faith. In giving this reminder, Christ once again mentions the tiny mustard seed as a metaphor for living, active faith (Mat 13:31-32). Even with that amount of faith, Jesus says, they will be able to tell a mountain to move and it will do so. With even a sliver of faith in His power and authority, nothing will be impossible for them. This is an important and powerful lesson for the disciples, and us today. These men will eventually come to perform impossible-seeming miracles as they represent Jesus for the rest of their lives on earth. The power to do so will never come from their own ability or goodness or status. It will always come through their special endowment, enabled by their faith in Jesus Christ.
*EXCELLENCE KEY* 🗝️
_Take the opportunities God gives you to see faith in action. It's not enough to say you have faith or even believe God is God. True faith grows when you let God be God and do what He does best - the amazing and seemingly impossible through you._
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*Excellence is within you. Bring it out >>*
#1582 ELK.
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