We can say to the mountains

Beloved, now that we have learned the ingredients of the God-kind of faith, what it God’s intended purpose for us to have it? In Mathew chapter 6:10, Jesus tells us to pray this prayer, “ Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is heaven.” This is the true reason why God has given us the gift of faith. The faith of God RELEASES GOD’S WILL ON EARTH, JUST LIKE IT IS IN HEAVEN! The only resource we have as believers to walk in the will of God and do all God desires us to do is by FAITH ALONE!

Many believer’s pray every day and get no results from their prayers. There are prayer groups all over the world, in every church and yet we see such little impact of the power of prayer. What is the reason for this lack of answered prayer particularly in America? A heart filled with unbelief.

Beloved if we want to see our families, neighbors, cities and nation saved and made whole, then we need a different kind of prayer. A prayer that avails much! A prayer that can seize the kingdom of God violently. A prayer that can apprehend God and be pliable to work with Him to release on earth His will and desires for our nations.

The key to effective and powerful prayer is the power of the active faith of God, or God-kind of faith filling every prayer and request. A faith that does not seek it’s own aim, wisdom or power. A faith that is not seeking to get things from God to fulfill their lusts and needs, but a faith that will believe God that will shake the nations out of their blindness. A living faith that causes heaven to continually touch earth with the Gospel and power of God. An active faith so in tuned with the Holy Spirit that it can hear the very whisper of God and obey it instantly.

This is the true life of faith we are called to walk. A faith not resting in projects, programs, and agendas or committee meetings. But a real and living faith that lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. A faith that can speak as God speaks and gets the God-kind of results like the Apostles. A faith that says, “silver or gold I have not, but that which I have I give to you, pick up your bed and walk.”

Faith is the power for us to be “instant in season and in out.” Faith is the power that can speak a word of wisdom or a word of knowledge that can set the captive free. Faith is the power that can open the eyes of the blind, cast out devils and raise the dead, by the very word spoken to your heart by the Holy Spirit.

Faith is the power to hear God clearly to warn you from the dangers that are to come. Faith gives you dreams and visions to warn, train and equip your families and give you directions. Faith gives you the ability to know what is from God and what is not.

Faith is the power to walk in the Holy Spirit 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is the source of direction, instruction, guidance and life itself. It is the very fruit of the grace of God in your life. We are saved by grace THROUGH FAITH!

I pray you understand that faith is alive. It is active and must continually grow. In these articles, I have given you the ingredients, or the soil faith must grow in. However, if you never use what you have, it will never grow.

I want to conclude this teaching with verses from the Gospel of Mark chapter 11:22-24. These are the real verses the first faith movement was birthed from and the verses that final movement of a life of faith will come from. Let us read them together:

Mar 11:23-24, “Truly I say to you, Whoever says to this mountain, Be taken up and be put into the sea; and has no doubt in his heart, but has faith that what he says will come about, he will have his desire. For this reason I say to you, Whatever you make a request for in prayer, have faith that it has been given to you, and you will have it."

Beloved, Listen to the power of the words of Jesus. In the earlier part of Mark 11, Jesus was walking with his disciples when he noticed a fig tree leaves were at full bloom but there were no figs on the tree. This is a picture of what a life of a believer is that does not live a life of faith. It may be a tree, but it is baring no fruit. When Jesus sees the tree without any fruit, he curses it and then walks away.

Why did Jesus do this to that tree? He was God and could of spoke, “tree have fruit” and there would have had fruit. But He did not do that, instead He curses it that it can not grow anymore. In the book of James 2:17, the writer is going to say to us these words, “faith without works is dead.” He tells us that believing alone is not the real kind of faith. He tells us in verse 18 “ You believe God is one, even the devils believe that, and shake with fear.”

He tells them believing alone is not enough. Beloved much we do for the Lord in prayer, action in deed is in this kind of faith, simple believing that God is one. In this kind of faith, we HOPE God will do it. When it appears He doesn’t, we say it wasn’t his will, or he doesn’t care or give some lame excuse to our unbelief.

Living and active faith is much deeper. James tells us that true and living faith has “corresponding actions” that DEMONSTRATE true faith. In Mark 11 21-22, the disciples are going to walk by that same fig tree and marvel that it withered at the roots. They will say to him, “master the tree you cursed has withered and died.” It is this backdrop Jesus is going to teach them living and active faith.

When Jesus spoke to that tree it was not just a word that came from His mind. What He spoke was the “Will of the Father.” What He spoke was the “Word of His Father.” It did not come from his own aim, plan or purpose as He tells us in John chapter 5, it came from God the Father. Jesus in speaking to that fig tree ate and released the very word that proceeded from the mouth of God. His words were filled with the very power of God to do what is impossible with man, kill a fig tree by a word.”

He was demonstrating to them the power of the “Word of God” in the mouth of a man when it is spoken in the power of the Holy Spirit. This same “Word of faith” would bring blindness on a man opposing Paul in front of the King Agrippa by Paul speaking to this enemy of God. Paul didn’t bring blindness on the man, God did. He revealed in Paul His thoughts and words of action for Paul to speak, with the demonstrating results.

In both these lessons of Jesus with the fig tree and Paul speaking to the enemy of God. We see faith with the corresponding works is alive. This is the life of “walking by faith and not by sight." The fig tree had to obey the very word Jesus spoke because it came from the Father by the Holy Spirit.

Again He could have said, “tree have fruit,” but He did not. He cursed the tree because it was fruitless and no good. This is the same thought Jesus says to us if we hide our “faith” under a bushel. This is how we as the “salt” of the earth loose our “saltiness” to the world. We loose it by not living by “faith” of the Son of God." We become salt-less by not using or activating the faith of God in us by our neglect of truly abiding in Him.

Active in living faith is what is needed in our first work with God, Prayer! In Mark 11;22, Jesus says, “Have God’s faith!” Some translations write, “have the faith of God or have faith in God.” Jesus tells us to have God’s faith! How can He say that, because we have learned already, “he has given to every man a measure of faith.”

The God kind of faith comes from God alone. It comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. When God can speak a living word to your spirit, you can speak it. And when you hear that word and it burns in your being it must happen as God says! The same God who said “let there be light” and there was, is still trying to speak to every believer’s heart. He desires to speak His thoughts, plans and counsel to us daily.

He wants us to know that every word He speaks comes with power as we have learned. To understand what Jesus is saying here in the Gospel of Mark, we must be able to hear, "Have God’s faith!" As God speaks to you, believe Him. Because when you open up your mouth and speak what He has told you to say it will happen. Even if He had you speak to a mountain to be cast in the sea, it will literally get up from it’s place and go into the sea by the Word of Faith God had you to speak!

That is what a life of “walking by faith and not by sight” will produce in a believer. Jesus goes on to say, “and has NO doubt in his heart.” This is why we need to understand the ingredients of God found in 1st Corinthians chapter 1. We know can understand why God does not choose the wise, noble, but the weak, feeble things to confound the wise. He chooses the weak and needy in heart to speak a word to them.

They are foolishness enough not to doubt God, they are broken enough to trust God’s power and not their own, that they can rise up and use the faith God has given them and SPEAK AS AN ORACLE OF GOD! They can speak as God’s Ambassador, as if God himself were there speaking to them, which is exactly what an Ambassador does. He SPEAKS for the government and His words have the very weight of the government behind them. He speak as one with “authority.” That is why the crowds marveled at Jesus teaching, they recognized He was a man with great authority.

Jesus tells us that if we “do not doubt, but have faith that what you say will come about, you will have what you say!” Why don’t we live or do this, because we don’t take time to live in continuous fellowship with the Holy Spirit. We don’t hear Him speak a word to our spirit, thus we don’t say anything or we say the word of God from our own spirit which is powerless without the ‘quickening” of the Holy Spirit.

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. When our hearts are molded, shaped with the right ingredients God will speak to us His will and will be done on earth as it is heaven. He is not going to speak to move mountains to a prideful, arrogant heart that will not be broken. He is not going to speak to move mountains to those who don’t want to spend time with Him. He is not going to speak to move mountains to those who don’t want to live hearing His heartbeat.
No beloved, He has to find the right ingredients in a heart of a believer to release His miracle words that could cause a mountain to get up and move into a sea. This is living faith. The faith Jesus is looking for when He returns.

In conclusion, Jesus says these final thoughts about prayer in Mark 11:24, “ therefore I say unto you, whatsoever you desire when you pray, believe that you will receive them, and you will have them.” This is what the power of a life of faith produces. This is the fruit of a man or woman who will “walk by faith and not by sight.”

It produces a listening and hearing heart of a true worshiper ready to obey His commands. It produces a heart ready for God to speak to in power. It produces a heart that will dare believe that “He is” and rise up and speak the very words God has given them to speak. Whether it be words to pray, prophesy, or give to another person, those words will release the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.

When we walk in this kind of faith, God will allow the realm of the invisible Kingdom of God to become visible to a world in desperate need of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.