Sentences with phrase «faith of a mustard seed»

It says with the faith of a mustard seed God can heal all things, if he chooses, but God does nt always choose to bestow upon us what we want.

Can you guess what's coming next... with the faith of a mustard seed you can move mountains.

But all it takes is the faith of a mustard seed.

Christ tells us if we have the faith of a mustard seed we can move a mountain.

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But Jesus said that all you have to do is have faith the size of a mustard seed and that would be enough.

-- Matthew 17:20»... 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 to you.

Seems like in 2000 + years, someone must have had faith the size of a mustard seed.

Matthew 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.

Your good book says that faith as a grain of mustard seed can move mountains.

Only a short step separates this notion from Jesus» teaching that faith, like a grain of mustard seed, can move the figurative sycamore tree of natural obstacles (Luke 17:5).

Jesus often spoke of the Kingdom of God in small ways: a seed that grows to a mighty oak, a mustard seed of faith, a bit of yeast that causes the whole loaf to rise.

In Luke 17, Jesus says that if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you could command this mulberry tree to be uprooted and planted in the sea.

For the next saying, concerning faith like a grain of mustard seed (Lk 17:5 - 6; Mt 17:20), Luke provides an occasion: «The apostles said to the Lord.

«If,» the Lord reasonably replied, «you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, «Be uprooted and planted in the sea,» and it would obey you.

Elsewhere (Mt 17:20; Lk 17:6) Jesus speaks of «faith as a grain of mustard seed,» obviously meaning «even a tiny bit of faith.»

Surely their faith community has greater faith than a grain of mustard seed.

Jesus constantly modeled that the small things, the unimportant people, the little children, the cup of cold water, the tiny mustard seed, the one act of faith, the shameful, the foolish, and the insignificant,... these are the things that mattered to God and where God was most at work.

He seems to have laughed in my face and belied such promises as «Ask what ye will believing» and «If ye have the faith of a grain of mustard seed.»

I learned when i studied the Bible, and met a man that taught religious studies at Penn.State Remember, God loves you, even with faith as little as the size of a mustard seed!!

The way Chance uses reminds us of the value of sharing our stories, telling others the ways in which we have hidden from God, and how we came to embrace «faith of pumpkin seed - size mustard seed.»

«If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Go over there, and it will go.»

It could become this, on reflection, but the fact is that faith is used absolutely in the characteristic «Your faith has saved you», or «faith as a grain of mustard seed...» It is not there further defined as faith in God, in Jesus, in the good news, as it is in the characteristic reformulations in the tradition, for example Mark 1.15: `... believe in the gospel».

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Having religious longings of a sort (he swore that the later poems were as religious as the early ones, though secretly so), he wrote like a helpless saint; but having faith smaller than any mustard seed, he saw no chance of moving mountains except by courage and incantation.

And the Lord said, «If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this sycamine tree, «Be rooted up, and be planted in the sea; and it would obey you.»»

In the first place, both the absolute use of «faith» and the imagery of the mustard seed are evidence that faith either is or is not; so far as the teaching of Jesus is concerned, there is no less or more to faith.

Having faith smaller than any mustard seed, he saw no chance of moving mountains except by courage and incantation.

In Matthew he says, «Because of your little faith,» and adds that with even a little faith, small as a mustard seed, one could order a mountain to move and be obeyed (cf. Mk 11:23; Mt 21:20).

If you prayed to that can of green beans and had a faith the size of a mustard seed, you could move as many mountains, as if you had prayed to Jesus!

Jesus replies rather obliquely, «If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, «Be uprooted and planted in the sea,» and it would obey you.»

But Jesus responds to the disciple's request with a touch of irritation — the Greek would suggest a bit of snark — and he tells them that if they had faith as small of a mustard seed, they could command a mulberry tree to uproot itself and replant in the sea... and it would obey.

And I wonder if Jesus wasn't reminding his disciples that faith isn't manifested in flashy magic tricks, or pointless, self congratulatory displays of power, or in destruction and uprooting, but in daily acts of faithfulness — those quotidian acts of obedience that grow the kingdom, one carefully tended little mustard seed at a time.

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