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•A Prayer to Increase Your Faith•By Anthony Valente👉 He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there, and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”(Matthew 17:20)“You have so little faith.” Can you imagine hearing Jesus say those words to you? His disciples had asked Jesus why they couldn’t cast a demon out of a child. Jesus then said that if they only had faith the size of a mustard seed that they could move a mountain.Have you seen a mustard seed before? It is really tiny! In my years of walking with the Lord, I have never seen anyone move a literal mountain. I have, however, seen lives dramatically changed when the mountains of self-centeredness and anger are removed. I have seen hearts and homes drastically improved when someone in that home begins to completely immerse themselves into the Word of God.I have seen many people do the impossible. I have seen what the power of forgiveness can do in a life. I have seen what happens when someone reaches out and lends a hand to someone who is hurting. I have seen what happens when someone chooses to set aside their agenda to love someone unlovable. I have seen the power of a hug. I have been challenged when I see someone forgive the unforgivable.There is incredible power when you show love, kindness, and caring to another person. It takes incredible faith to do what seems at times impossible to do. Hebrews 11:1 says this about faith: "Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”Faith is not belief in something that we can see, it is belief in something that we hope to see. What in your life is not quite working out as you had hoped for? Have faith. Do the impossible in that situation. Forgive, love, don’t quit, set boundaries with kindness if needed.A mustard seed is very small. If that is the size of your faith in Jesus, then that is enough! Keep on looking to Him, keep reading your Bible, keep trusting Him to do the hard work as you keep on loving and praying for those hard hearts and situations that surround you.Go into your day with the promise from James 1:2-4: “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”I love that! Your faith produces steadfastness and that makes us perfect, complete, and lacking nothing! Can you keep on in faith, in all your situations, trusting the Lord with what seems impossible?Let’s pray.✝️ Dear Lord,Thank You that nothing is impossible in my life as I trust You in every area. Give me wisdom in all these difficult things facing me today. Give me the faith to be able to trust again, to forgive, to care, to love all those who have caused me pain. Give me the faith that I need to keep doing the right thing at work and at home. Give me the faith to be able to keep on trusting You for all the hard spots in my heart, home and work. I’m giving You all the worries and concerns facing me today and trusting You to do the impossible Lord. Increase my faith, today Lord, I pray.AMEN 🙏 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.(James 1:22-24)He must increase, but I must decrease.”(John 3:30)So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.(Romans 10:17)Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.(Hebrews 11:1)For God knew his people in advance, and he chose them to become like his Son, so that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And having chosen them, he called them to come to him. And having called them, he gave them right standing with himself. And having given them right standing, he gave them his glory. What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us?(Romans 8:29-31)“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”(Romans 8:38-39)“And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.”(Philippians 1:6)“And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”(Mark 11:22-24)“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us.”(Ephesians 3:20)“For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.”(Ephesians 2:8-9)We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.(Romans 5:3-4)By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.(2 Peter 1:3-4)You are under a curse, for your whole nation has been cheating me. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test! Your crops will be abundant, for I will guard them from insects and disease. Your grapes will not fall from the vine before they are ripe,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.(Malachi 3:9-11)For nothing will be impossible with God.”(Luke 1:37)For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.(Ephesians 3:14-21)For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.(Hebrews 4:12)You can pray for anything, and if you have faith, you will receive it.”(Matthew 21:22)“If you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else—your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple. And if you do not carry your own cross and follow me, you cannot be my disciple.(Luke 14:26-27)Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.(Hebrews 12:1)He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.(Hebrews 1:3)(pic verse)Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.(John 14:6)