![]() Help us to believe and never doubt Your mighty power. He replied, Because you have so little faith. NIV He replied, Because you have so little faith. Matthew 17:20 Meaning of Faith of a Mustard Seed. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you. God, we ask for a mustard seed sized faith. ESV He said to them, Because of your little faith. Though it is a tiny little seed, it grows more than others. God has the power to do anything, and God is for us so we can trust whatever He does. You may have heard that you need to have faith like a mustard seed to move a mountain. ![]() Why? Because what happens doesn’t depend on us, but instead on God. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this. He was teaching us that it doesn't take a great faith for great things to happen. His reply to them is found in verse 20: because you have so little faith. Jesus didn’t say someone with the faith of the mustard seed can move trees to the sea so that a bunch of people would start uprooting trees. ![]() If some would like to try it, then decide on where they’d like to move the plant, and lead them in all saying prayers to move the plant.) (Invite kids to discuss whether they can do it. (Place the plant in front of the children.) If Jesus said we could pray and ask God to move a tree from our front yard to the sea, then we need even smaller faith to just move this plant a little bit. Wow! (Hold up one mustard seed and look closely at it.) Jesus said that God is so powerful that if our faith is even as small as this little seed, then we can do incredible things with His power. (Open your Bible.) When Jesus’ friends asked Him how they could have stronger faith, Jesus said, “If you had faith even as small as a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘May you be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you!” (Luke 17:5-10) ![]()
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