Text: Matthew 21:21-22; James 1:6
“If you have faith as a grain of
mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place;
and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you” (Matthew 17:20).
Jesus was telling us that before we can see the supernatural happen we must
first believe in the possibility of it.
When the Holy Spirit came with
power upon the first generation of Christians, it was, at least in part,
because they expected to see God’s power revealed. They had seen it before, and
they would settle for nothing less. A
All these things and more they
had seen at the hands of the One who told them, “He that believeth on me, the
works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do”
(John 14:12). They expected Christ to keep His word and He did.
Do we really believe this today?
Do you believe it? Have your expectations of Jesus and His power been dimmed
somehow? Have you filed them away in the dark, dusty corner of what used to be?
Will you be satisfied with less than those who passed the message of Christ
along to you?
What do you believe about God’s
ability to transform lives today? These are questions each of us must answer. For
I tell you that we experience no greater manifestation of His power than we are
willing to believe, nay, expect. Whether we think Christ can and will, or
cannot and will not, we will always be right. “
Our expectations become
self-fulfilling prophecies. From the world’s perspective ‘seeing is believing’,
but as Christians, you first have to ‘believe it to see it’ or rather, you can
and will only see God’s power transforming your circumstances when you
eventually bring yourself to believe in Him and His word.
*** By Robert Leslie Holmes | The Breath of Abundant Life ***
THE TRUTH MEDIA
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