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KCM.ORG/EVENTS 1-800-600-7395 (U.S. only) ******************************************* ****** article continues below ****** Instead of boldly putting faith to work to bring the health and power and prosperity The WORD promises, too many believers get so “humble.” “Oh, I don't need much money,” they say. “Just enough for me and my little family to get by." Or “I'll just put up with this illness...I'm just suffering for Jesus.” Or “Maybe this is the cross I'm supposed to bear." That's ridiculous! God has honored us by bringing us into the most powerful household ever created. He's made us His sons and daughters. He's made us joint heirs with Jesus. He's given us a servant called faith and He expects us to put that servant to work for us. That's right! You and I are not the servants in the household of faith. Faith is the servant! Jesus told the disciples that in Luke 17. They had asked Him about faith and He said: “Which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat? And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink? Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not" (verses 7-9). Do you understand what Jesus was saying? Faith, the very same powerful force in God's WORD in the beginning, that brought all the universe into existence, has been given to you. It has the same life in it, the same power in it that it's always had, and it's at your disposal! How do you put that faith to work? Jesus answered that question in the same chapter. He said: “If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you" (verse 6). To understand the fullness of what He was saying there, you have to realize He had already taught the disciples that the primary operating principle of everything in the kingdom of God was the principle of seed-plant and harvest. In Mark 4:31-32, He'd said: “[The kingdom of God] is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it." Your Seed Has to Grow! Jesus was telling the disciples: Plant your faith and it will grow! If you need a mountain moved, plant your faith under it and it will grow big enough to blow that mountain into the sea (Mark 11:23). The same thing is true for you. If you'll take that seed of faith you have inside you and plant it with the words of your mouth, if you'll speak it out and say to the mountain, “Be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea," if you'll refuse to allow doubt to dig up that seed, it will grow. It has to grow. It has no choice. The law of God says it must and that law cannot be reversed. It is forever true that if you have a healthy seed and you put it in healthy soil and you give it air, light and water, it will grow. A seed can't argue about that, can it? If you plant a cotton seed, there's no way that seed can say, “Hold it! My daddy was a cotton stalk. My granddaddy was a cotton stalk and my great-granddaddy was a cotton stalk. I'm fed up with cotton stalks. I refuse to be cotton. I am going to be corn. If I can't be corn, I just won't be anything!" A seed can't say that, can it? Of course not! It's a servant. It has to do what it's made to do. Faith is the same way. It cannot refuse you. It's a servant and it always works the way God designed it to. You say, “It doesn't work for me!" Yes it does. If it stops working for you, you're the one who stopped it. It's a servant. If you stop it, it will stop. You can plant an acre of cotton seed, then go right out in the morning and dig it up to see if it's growing. Do you know what will happen? Your crop will fail. But it won't be the seed's fault. It will be your own fault! You messed it up. The seed didn't have a chance. If you had left that seed in the ground where it belonged, it would have grown. It wouldn't have been able to help it. It's a slave to soil, water, air and light. When it has those things, it has to grow. 20 : BVOV

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