Why Simple Faith Actually Makes Moving A Mountain Easier Than You Think
Everybody knows we need faith to please God. We need faith to get answers to prayer. How do we get it? How do we use it?
It’s not as hard as you think.
It’s like riding a bike. It looked impossible to balance, pedal, steer and brake at the same time. Then, you rode it. You stopped analyzing it and started doing it.
People make it too hard. Here are some thoughts I have about faith that keeps it attainable (even for me!):
Faith is something you already have.
We think faith is like a drink or a sandwich. You order it and wait for your order. You think you don’t have it yet.
Actually, faith is something you already have. Jesus said you only need faith the size of a mustard seed (one of the tiniest seeds in the world). That tiny measure of faith is all you need and you already have it inside of you right now.
Faith is a word you speak.
Jesus told us that if we had as much faith as a mustard seed that we could speak to a tree and it would be planted in the sea.
In other words, it’s up to you to speak. Speaking and believing go together. Unless you engage your tongue as Jesus did when he spoke to the wind and the fig tree, your faith remains inactive.
Nothing could be easier than to talk to things and situations and command them to change.
Faith is a word you DON’T speak.
I think the parting of the Red Sea is the greatest display of God’s power in human history. The key to that miracle: “Stand still and be quiet.”
Moses told the fearful, panicked, whining Israelites to “be quiet.” Faith took over when their fear got quiet.
Stop broadcasting your fear. Be quiet. Watch God do a miracle in your situation.
Faith is an action.
Elisha told a poverty stricken widow to take her little pot of oil and borrow all the vessels from her neighbors she could find.
Then, she poured. She filled every vessel she borrowed.
Faith steps out and prepares for a miracle. She didn’t need to create the oil, just take an action. Start “acting like God told you the truth.”
Faith is a law.
Faith is a law, not just a promise. You don’t have to believe in gravity for it to work. It’s the “law of gravity.”
When Jesus said, “Give, and it SHALL BE GIVEN TO YOU,” it’s a spiritual law like gravity. You don’t have to “try” to have gravity, you just obey the law (don’t jump out of skyscrapers!).
Quit thinking and believing that faith is hard. You exercise it all the time.
Make faith simple. Possess it, speak it, and act on it. It’s simple if you don’t complicate and overanalyze it.