Matthew 21:21-22 KJV
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
This is the second time in Matthew that the Lord has used a statement similar to this concerning believing prayer
Matt 17:20
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye 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. (KJV)
I know of no time in human history when any man has been able to pray a mountain removed (at least in the sense that these verses refer. I have heard the testimony of churches having mounds of land moved off their property when they needed or others of large quantities of earth being moved to their property when they needed; but nothing that would catch the attention of the world as I imagine this refers to.) The truth is that there has been a mountain of doubt mixed in with the faith of the believers since the earliest of days.
Who could deny that Peter had moments of doubt?
Who could question that Paul had times of doubt?
I look through the pages both of Scriptural and extra-biblical Christian history and I am forced to admit that among the greatest of believers, there was always unbelief. We have not seen what we might have seen because we have all been, more or less, in states of unbelief.
No doubt the Lord has allowed much to be done through believing saints. But what might have been done had we prayed believing more than we had?
So there is not one of us who could not say
Mark 9:24
... with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. (KJV)
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
This is the second time in Matthew that the Lord has used a statement similar to this concerning believing prayer
Matt 17:20
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye 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. (KJV)
I know of no time in human history when any man has been able to pray a mountain removed (at least in the sense that these verses refer. I have heard the testimony of churches having mounds of land moved off their property when they needed or others of large quantities of earth being moved to their property when they needed; but nothing that would catch the attention of the world as I imagine this refers to.) The truth is that there has been a mountain of doubt mixed in with the faith of the believers since the earliest of days.
Who could deny that Peter had moments of doubt?
Who could question that Paul had times of doubt?
I look through the pages both of Scriptural and extra-biblical Christian history and I am forced to admit that among the greatest of believers, there was always unbelief. We have not seen what we might have seen because we have all been, more or less, in states of unbelief.
No doubt the Lord has allowed much to be done through believing saints. But what might have been done had we prayed believing more than we had?
So there is not one of us who could not say
Mark 9:24
... with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. (KJV)
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