Saturday, March 13, 2010

How BIG is your Mustard Seed?


Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Heb.11:1) and if you have faith the size of a 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 17:20)

How BIG is your Mustard Seed? Is it bigger than your illness? Which is larger? Your electricity bill or your faith? Your child is in a gang, hanging with the wrong crowd and you don’t know what to do. Where is your mustard seed? Let me see which is bigger.

Out of work and no severance pay? Why are you hiding your mustard seed? Boss didn’t take their meds this morning? Mustard seed? What mustard seed? This mustard seed…the one that is minute and barely visible, but you know it’s there. Just like your faith huh?

We need to use the spiritual resources we have to get by all the pain staking issues we deal with on a daily basis. The number one spiritual resource we have is our FAITH. Faith in God, that no matter what, he has our best interest at heart. He loves us.  He has the last say in everything, once you ask him. He wants to know, that you know, without a shadow of a doubt that he will bring you through. He is the “fat lady” we talk about when we say “it ain’t over until the fat lady sings.” If you use your mustard seed, no matter what the battle the enemy is waging against you, it ain’t over until God says it’s done! Like the song says, by Maurette Brown Clark, “keep praying, keep fasting, keep pressing, progressing, keep moving, it ain’t over NO, keep reading, interceding, keep believing, it ain’t over NO, keep trusting, keep trying, keep travailing, Why? It ain’t over, NO, keep living, keep giving, whatever it takes keep going, it ain’t over, NO. What the devil meant to take you out…God meant for your good. Cause it ain’t over.

S t r e c h your faith because the impossible is where God will work a miracle, but you got to use that mustard seed and watch the battles be won one at a time. Then that mustard seed begins to grow and so does your faith so that when the next fight comes, you are stronger because you have history with God.

Let me see that mustard seed. How big is it now?

Be encouraged and take a listen to “It Ain’t Over” by Maurette Brown Clark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXNhArf-MSk

Lyrics used in the body of this blog from: “It Ain’t Over” by Maurette Brown Clark

1 comment:

Debra Stokes said...

Thanks for the encouraging post, Edie! I like your attitude and your sweet spirit.
Be Blessed!