Little Faith + Big God = Huge Results

>>from my inbox:
Start with the Faith You Have
by Rick Warren
“[The boy’s father said,] ‘If you can do anything, do it. Have a heart and help us!’ Jesus said, ‘If’ There are no ‘ifs’ among believers. Anything can happen.’ No sooner were the words out of his mouth than the father cried, ‘Then I believe. Help me with my doubts!’” Mark 9:22–24


Is it possible to be filled with faith and doubt at the same time? Yes!
You can have faith that God wants you to do something and still be scared to death.


Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is going ahead and doing what you’re called to do in spite of your fear. You have to begin with the faith you already have; it may be just a little, but you start there.


a) Jesus looked at the man and said, “I can heal your son. If you will believe, I will heal him.”The father then makes a classic statement: “Lord, I do believe. Help me overcome my unbelief.”


b) Matthew 17:20 says, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed … Nothing will be impossible for you.” That’s not a lot of faith; in fact, it’s just a little faith. But what else does that verse teach? “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move,’ and it will move.”
Mustard seed faith moves mountains. Don’t get this reversed; we tend to read this verse backward; we want it to say, “If you have faith like a mountain, you can move a mustard seed."


- I'm afraid of my future, what lies ahead of me and whenever I struggle, messages from my inbox relates to my situation. Indeed God is watching. One time, I prayed so hard until I feel the peace in my heart. Sometimes I sway, forget to thank Him for all the blessings, sleep at night without offering a prayer, too busy to go to church, and still God loves me, even before I explain he already forgive me. I'm so blessed. I may lose everybody, everything, but He will never leave me. "Please help me get close to you," I always ask this, 'coz time and time again, I betray Him (I'm trying not to, but there are forces around me that makes me do bad, toinks! explanation! hahha!), and when it happens I need to renew my faith.