The answer to prayer is the evidence of faith. Faith is getting hold of the Triune God till He fulfils His goals and plans.
Faith is putting our trust, hope and confidence in Jesus to carry out His purposes. When we want to fulfil our plans, sometime faith will fail. But faith will always be effective in fulfilling God’s purposes. Faith always works when our plans coincide and are aligned with God’s purposes.
Faith comes by hearing and obeying God’s word. If you don’t know the scripture, you will not develop faith in God. Faith is not an emotional motivation but comes from the scripture highlighting Jesus’s virtues. The breath to scripture is our faith in Jesus. Only the Holy Spirit is capable of making the scripture real in our lives. Faith asks Holy Spirit’s help to make the scripture real. When scripture forms in your life, it takes the shape of Jesus. The shape of Jesus is accompanied by God’s power. God’s power creates direction for the fulfillment of our promises.
“If you have faith as 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
If we have faith as a mustard seed, we can move the mountain. Faith as a mustard seed – With the understanding of ourselves how wretched and poor we are and then reach out to God for divine help. This means with human effort we cannot move the mountain, but by divine help, we can surely move the mountain.
To move a mountain, we must find someone who is strong and capable enough to do so.
Faith is the ability to recognize Jesus as a mountain mover and to acknowledge Him as such. We must acknowledge and see Jesus as the mountain mover in our words, actions, and thoughts. First our spiritual eyes must see Jesus as the mover of mountains, then our physical eyes will comprehend it.
God had to move the mountain of doubt before we see our mountain move. The bigger the miracle, the more the doubt. Doubting God (Mountains of Doubt) is the sinful nature passed on from Adam and Eve as a result of the fall.
When God gives you a promise or dream, in order to fulfil it, God makes you start from the lowliest situations and most hopeless circumstances. God trains you in the lowliest situations, then removes all mountains of doubt and then starts your journey towards promise fulfillment.
Did God give you a wonderful promise? If so, for God to fulfil this promise, God will make you pass through the mountains of doubt till we overcome every doubt until there is none left. When God works on you to remove the doubts about God and Jesus, we begin to walk along the path of promise fulfilment.
Doubting God and people is the sinful nature that came from Adam and Eve. Doubting God has two aspects
a) Cast doubt on God and His attributes
Doubting that God will keep His word. Doubting that God will fulfil His promise. Doubting the ability of God to heal. Doubting the blessings from God. Doubting the forgiveness of God. All these doubts regarding God arise from a fallen mindset. God will surely fulfil His promise to heal, bless, save, etc. Our faith in Jesus can break the curse of doubting God. Self always casts doubt on God’s ability and power.
b) Create doubt about the promise itself
As result of the fall, people start doubting the spoken word or promises of God in below ways
- They doubt the promises of God
- They doubt the will of God
- They doubt the voice of God
- They doubt the power of God
- They doubt whether God is speaking or not
This sinful nature of doubting God has cast doubt about God and His promises in all matters pertaining to Him.
Ask God to remove all mountains of doubt regarding Him and His promises from every area of your lives today.