A Devotional for such a time as this: Mustard Seed Faith SCRIPTURE READING: Mark 11:23–26 KEY VERSE: Matthew 17:20 Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.” Mary Damron refuses to stare at her mountain, not even the impoverished one she calls home. Mary is from the poor coal mining hollows of West Virginia, but she is rich beyond measure. In his book Living Beyond the Limits, Franklin Graham devotes a chapter to Mary, who is a walking testimony of the life-changing power of faith in Christ. In 1994, Mary learned Graham needed gift-filled shoe boxes to distribute to the war-scarred children of Bosnia. Instead of focusing on her struggling Appalachian family, Mary traversed her community, asking for donations from churches and groups. The day after Thanksgiving, she delivered to Graham twelve hundred shoe boxes in a twenty-ton truck. A year later, Mary delivered more than six thousand shoe boxes in time for Christmas. Her devotion and uncanny faith resulted not only in Graham’s sending her to Bosnia to help deliver gifts, but also in President Bill Clinton’s honoring her at the White House. Mary boldly asked the president for permission to pray for him, and she did. The story of Mary Damron can be duplicated by anybody. She started small, with a mustard seed of faith and a mountain-sized heart for Jesus. And just as He will do for you whenever you are within His will, He made sure nothing stopped Mary’s twenty-ton truck full of shoe boxes. Lord, give me mustard seed faith to move mountains. Use me for Your glory! Stanley, C. F. (2000). Into His presence (192). Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers. - via Logos 5
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:50:56 +0000
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