The tiniest of seeds produces a large tree
Dearest reader, I have no desire to deny your difficulties, at home, at work, or in the world. There is no intention to belittle your/our struggles. Yet dear soul, I encourage you to grasp hold of Christ's words about faith and the mustard seed, because it is crucial to Hope.
"And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”
So the Lord said, “If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you." Luke 17:5-6.
The mustard seed is the smallest seed, and yet in the right conditions grows to an enormous tree. This is what Christ is offering to us in relation to our faith. Faith is crucial to our continuing Life in Christ as “faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1). How do we keep persevering despite our worldly trials when St Paul makes it clear “without faith it is impossible to please God…” (Hebrews 11:6)?
As I've said before, I live with the prayer, 'Lord I believe, help Thou my unbelief'! So day by day, month by month, year by year, I have offered this prayer, and my faith has grown. I know He is the Love I carry, and the guide to my work. He is indeed my Hope, because He is alive through His Spirit as I pray and seek His will and purposes. But when we have deep trauma or on-going loss of love in our lives, everyday seems as if we have gone back to the beginning each morning because the lies that stem from the pain and loss hold part of our hearts and minds in the dark. This spiritual malaise needs the on-going work of the Holy Spirit to drive it out in faith and hope.
Sometimes I know I am leaning on the Lord in darkness, as I feel unsettled. It is as if I have no hope. I own these feelings, and surrender to God the Father in trust and Hope in Christ. I pray for others who are suffering, (a good antidote to self-pity) and I ask that the Holy Spirit show me what needs to be confessed or owned, so healing can take pace. In other-words don't immediately run away from these feelings, but OWN them with Christ who descended into Hell. His Spirit will shed light within you and guide you into all Truth.
He has promised that all that is in the dark will come to the Light..with our Yes!! So what we are being called to do in Faith, He will provide and enable the task, prayer, act of love to be completed.!! And today He needed me to own afresh the very roots of lovelessness and pain, look in honesty at those who had not provided welcome, encouragement,Truth and Love even to the unborn child. I needed to see who I was subconsciously blaming in the past, and now, and therefore tying myself to....ie making them the hope of my healing and provision. Once things come out of denial, and can be forgiven at a deeper level, 'They knew not what they did'...then God is free to bring us resurrection in Christ.
We are blocked from moving forward in Hope and Love, if we are tied in the human past, even subconsciously, to bitterness, self-hatred, hatred of others, or blaming others for our inability to act, praise, love, serve, etc. Once we own these pains and subconscious hurts and blaming, we can turn back to God. Then, accepting all the trials as GIFT, we turn instead to God in love, to purify and sanctify our past, and even our present through the Holy Spirit of Life and Truth. Once we have turned another corner, through His mercy and grace, we can again take up our Cross and follow Him. Thank you Lord that indeed Hope is Alive, in You and through You, in our hearts.
Amen Lord, we believe, help Thou our unbelief, that the mustard seed of faith becomes fruitful for Your Kingdom, in purity of heart, Love and acts of mercy. Lord have mercy.
Where can I find out more?
If you do not have an active faith in God, (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) or simply want to know more about living for Christ, you could go to my YouTube videos -
YouTube/HMCinFaith43 @hmc432 to learn from the Play Lists, 'Alive in Christ......' , or 'Grace is a Person...' or 'He Heals the broken hearted.....'
Or browse the other resources.
Helping the Provision
Some blog readers have told me they would have liked to make a donation:
If you would like to make a donation towards this work you can go to this link:
https://overcoming.live/contact/are-you-wanting-to-give/. Thank you and bless you.
whoah this weblog is excellent i really like studying your articles.
Keep up the good work! You know, many individuals are
searching around for this info, you can help them greatly.
Thank you for sharing such well-written and clear content.Your writing has greatly enhanced my understanding
Asking questions are actually fastidious thing if you are not understanding anything entirely, except this piece of writing gives nice
understanding yet.
Heya i am for the first time here. I found this board and I find It truly useful & it helped me out
much. I hope to give something back and help others
like you helped me.
I was recommended this web site by my cousin. I am not
sure whether this post is written by him as no one else know
such detailed about my difficulty. You’re amazing!
Thanks!
Please let me know if you’re looking for a article author for your blog.
You have some really great posts and I believe I would be a
good asset. If you ever want to take some of the load off, I’d really like to write some material for your blog in exchange for a link back to
mine. Please send me an email if interested.
Thank you!
Awesome blog! Is your theme custom made or did you download it from somewhere?
A theme like yours with a few simple tweeks would really make my blog stand out.
Please let me know where you got your theme. With thanks
THrive Themes with WP base.
I have been surfing online greater than three hours today, yet I by no means discovered
any fascinating article like yours. It is beautiful value enough for me.
In my opinion, if all website owners and bloggers made just right
content as you did, the net will likely be a lot more
useful than ever before.
Wow, that’s what I was exploring for, what a information! present here at this
blog, thanks admin of this site.
A person essentially lend a hand to make severely articles I’d state.
This is the first time I frequented your web page and up to now?
I amazed with the analysis you made to make this actual submit incredible.
Magnificent process!
Greetings from Idaho! I’m bored to tears at
work so I decided to browse your site on my iphone during lunch break.
I really like the knowledge you provide here and can’t wait
to take a look when I get home. I’m amazed at how quick your blog loaded on my phone
.. I’m not even using WIFI, just 3G .. Anyways, very good site!
Hello,
What an fantastic post!
May I scrape this and share this with my blog subscribers?
Thanks and Keep up the good work!
Neat blog! Is your theme custom made or did you download
it from somewhere? A design like yours with a few simple adjustements would really make my blog jump out.
Please let me know where you got your theme. Cheers
Hi exceptional website! Does running a blog such as this take a great deal of
work? I have virtually no knowledge of computer programming however I had been hoping to start my own blog soon. Anyhow, should you have any suggestions or techniques for new blog
owners please share. I know this is off subject but I simply wanted to
ask. Thanks a lot!
Ask for instruction on YouTube…and be willing to learn and go through uncertainty to learn.
Good post. I’m dealing with many of these issues as well..
Hey I am so glad I found your site, I really found
you by accident, while I was browsing on Google for something else, Anyhow I am here
now and would just like to say thank you for a tremendous post
and a all round interesting blog (I also love the theme/design), I don’t have time to read through it all at the minute but
I have saved it and also included your RSS feeds, so when I
have time I will be back to read more, Please do keep up the fantastic work.
I really like looking through a post that can make people think.
Also, many thanks for permitting me to comment!
I was pretty pleased to discover this website.
I need to to thank you for your time just for this fantastic read!!
I definitely appreciated every little bit of it and I have you book marked to look at new information in your web site.
I constantly emailed this website post page to all my friends,
for the reason that if like to read it next my links will
too.
Great blog here! Also your website loads up very fast!