NCarolinian

In Matthew 17:14-21 , a father brought his son to the disciples for healing an epileptic demon. They could not heal the boy. When the disciples questioned Jesus about it saying, "Why couldn't we drive it out?" Jesus replied, "Because you have so little faith." Then Jesus proceeded to tell them their faith was even smaller than a mustard seed, one of the smallest seeds in the plant kingdom. He said, "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." Thank the Lord, God works with a scalable, developing faith. However, I hear the Lord saying - it would help tremendously if you at least had faith, the size of a mustard seed. Any level of faith seems to be able to adjust whatever issue the believer is facing. Zero faith level to a mark before mustard seed faith level will grant you differing results (i.e. able to move a bush-sized...

Decisions, decisions, decisions - I have to pull the trigger on many things daily and accept the consequences. I don't want the mountains, I do not even desire the molehills for the size and types of problems they bring. I would much prefer living in peace, as a flat-lander with my decisions. Knowledge on matters of interest and necessity is no issue for me. Wisdom, on the other hand, could be with me or not. This is my challenge going forward and my strong encouragement to you forever - make sure wisdom is always part of the decision-making process. A person can have all the facts about a situation, but if he/she does not use wisdom to discern how to use those facts, they remain non-applicable. Interesting, the view some of us take of mountains and molehills. I am experiencing a seismic-sized-situation in my life and the roots stem back to a decision made thirty plus years ago. Some people would claim if the challenges that the mountains bring did not come then we could not "...