Faith as a Grain of Mustard Seed

YP Sing—Mark Breman
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So Joseph asked me to speak to young people. I didn't know what age group who all would be here.
So he said I should only speak for 5 minutes. I told him I didn't think I could do that. My wife told me I probably should.
But I'm saying the problem with my brother Pamela's has, I think.
Over planning on what you'd like to share, but I'm trying to keep it basic. I mean, I'd like to hear the rest.
Of his thoughts the Lord gave him, and too bad.
Limits things. I just consumed what, a minute and a half there that I could have been sharing past this.
So I look at a group of young people like this and I I know that.
Most I can.
Guests, everyone of you know the Lord Jesus as your savior. Maybe there's one who doesn't. I don't know that if there's one in this little group that doesn't.
I do want you to pay attention and and gather from this something that might be of a help to you as well, but what I want to talk about has to do with.
Those who do know the Lord Jesus as their savior, I think back when I was.
The same age as you guys.
The things that some of the difficulties I had in my life.
I'm not going to share with you something you don't already know.
I would like to just reinforce a little bit something that you already do know.
Sometimes that really helps just to get a little reinforcement again of something that you already know.
To root it deep into your heart. Those little things help along the way.
So.
Every one of us go through trials and difficulties in our life.
Hard times.
Difficult circumstances you might call mountains. That's what the Lord Jesus called them.
Can says anyone of you had a life where you really never had.
Problems or.
Difficulties. Is it ever had that?
How many of you have ever had a broken heart?
Those things are real.
They're real.
I mean, you've been in a car accident.
Things can happen.
A lot of different things happen.
One thing.
That we can always count on is trusting the Lord in those times, the difficulty, and that's what I want to talk about.
There's one.
Main Angry. I look around here and I said, I can't see anybody here that I don't think doesn't want to please the Lord. If you want to please the Lord in your life, raise your hand.
We all want to please the Lord. What's the one ingredient, The one main ingredient you have to have to please the world? One main ingredient.
It's in Hebrews Chapter 11.
And we'll read it verse 6.
But without faith it is impossible to please him.
One reading.
Faith. Faith. Trusting him.
Trusting the Lord in those times of difficulty, those times of hardship that you run up against. Every one of us have had circumstances, and I would just venture to say that some of you right now are going through circumstances.
That are really tough.
And if you aren't?
And we're left here you will.
I want to please the Lord and seek the Lord's mind in those things. Faith trust in you.
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I was.
Looking comparing some verses back and forth through in the Gospels and I ran across this this last about, well, actually about two weeks ago, Luke's Gospel, chapter 17.
Luke 17 and I'm going to read the first part of verse 6.
And the Lord and the Lord said, if he had faith. This is what struck me. Past tense.
Had three.
If he had faith as a grain of mustard seed.
And why? You've heard this before, I'm sure. Why doesn't it say a grain of sand?
Why does it say a grain of mustard seed?
Exactly, exactly. So I said I'm going to share some things, but you've probably already heard before because it's good to root those things out. There is life in a mustard seed.
And the Lord Jesus was saying to them, if you.
Had past tense. Faith is a grain of mustard seed.
You might have said, it is Sycamine tree. Be thou plucked up by the root and planted in the sea, and it should obey you.
Well, this sick of mine tree, I'm going to liken it to like a trial or a difficulty in your life.
To me, no.
Not in it anymore, but my boys are in the tree business, work with trees a lot. Couple years ago I went to do an estimate for a guy to do some tree work and it was a big Sycamore tree. There's something about a Sycamore tree that's really interesting. If if you take a tree, you know somebody studied in school about trees and stuff and they have the park, the outer bark, the inner bark, the cambium layer and then the sapwood and so on into the tree that can be in layer that goes around that. All the nutrients goes from the leaves to the roof, to the roof and back and forth.
If you cut that out all the way around the tree, just make a circle. But what happens to the tree?
They died. I got a picture on my phone of a Sycamore tree where a guy wanted to kill that tree, so he took a chainsaw and he cut a four inch groove all the way around that tree.
And couldn't kill the tree.
He was just full of leaves and looked as healthy as could be above the cup.
Start drawing moisture, I guess from the satellite or whatever it just kept on going for. He had done it several years before. Maybe there's a trial like that where you just want to get rid of it and you don't want to have anything to do. It's just something that it maybe it plagues you, maybe it's just something you're scared of.
Maybe it's in some situation, you just don't know how to handle it.
Just don't forget how small a grain of mustard seed is, and the Lord said if you had it.
Past tense. Now let's go to Matthew's Gospel, chapter 17.
Matthew 17.
Verse 20.
And Jesus said unto them.
Because of your unbelief.
For verily I say unto you, if you have present tense right now, in the circumstance, right now, if you have faith, is a great mustard seed.
And here it's the mountain.
It's in the way the mountains.
The difficulty.
Same line of thoughts and what I want you notice here is its present tense. Now let's go to Mark 11.
Mark 11 and verse 22.
And Jesus answering saith unto them.
Have faith in God, future tense.
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Past, present, and future.
These trials are going to come. You've had trials, you've had difficulties. You're in them now. If left here, they're in the future.
Past, present, and future.
And this is the verse that that came to mind. Let's go to James.
James Chapter one only No right where I'm going.
Verse 6.
But let him ask in faith. Nothing wavered.
Wavering.
You know there is a time factor involved in wavering, isn't there?
This way back that way. This way back off way.
Past, present and future. The Lord wants us to consistently.
Now Dorothy sat on him, nothing wavering.
You know you can think of circumstances in your life.
That have proved God's faith and he won't let you down.
I don't know. I'll just share.
I know a little.
OK, I'll just. I'd like to tell stories on my cell phone going to.
That's a little boy. My dad was a Barber. He didn't have much finances.
He's a struggle sometimes so.
Meet men.
And.
I was in the living room. My mom was on the phone crying with dad. He was down at the Barber shop and.
Heard half the conversation and mom was saying we have no food in the house.
And Dad was talking about the bills that needed to be paid. And we'll never forget this.
My dad and mom started praying together on the phone. He was in town, we were out in the country and they started praying together asking the Lord for what to do. And while they were praying there was a bang on the front window when it pheasant had flown into the window and broken its neck. My mom said if there was a crash on the window with that one and she came back to the phone and said it was a pheasant.
In the window.
Thank the Lord.
Many of you had a circumstance in your life that it's kind of like strange like that, that you knew the Lord was reaching out to you.
You think of things that happen. Probably you're driving down the road one time and exhaust stack fell off of a semi and then another truck hit it. It was coming up, spinning right for our windshield and it was just coming down. And I called on the name of Jesus.
And Honey and I watch that exhaust pipe go over the air. We drove right underneath that and we hit the road behind us.
Sparks were flying.
Different things like that.
I know a guy that.
That financial difficulty trying to meet some bills and things.
And he went outside on his way to work one day and he put his hands up in the air. And he says we don't need $400.
I'm going to get it, but I need $400.
And on Monday there was two guys that came over to his house and said, the Lord told us to come over here and give this to you, and they gave this God.
Faith trusted in the war.
The almost stories like that.
Nothing, Waverly.
Maybe you want to do that? Something you want to share. Anything happening in your life that you want to share?
Lord help you with.
I'm sure you've been thinking of something.
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It's kind of hard. I'm putting you on the spot.
OK. You weren't prepared to share anything. That's all right. I don't know that you can think of things.
Where the Lord showed himself faithful to you.
And don't forget those things. Hang on to those things. Don't let go of them.
Because when times come.
That your faith is tested. Remember nothing wavering.
Past, present, and future. The Lord wants that same faith to be anchored in His supply. Doesn't mean a lot of faith.
Grain of mustard seed. And we've often heard before, it's not the faith.
Intuitive.
And so we trust him because of who he is.
Not on the basis of our faith.
But on the basis that our God is so much greater than the things that we come up against, He's known all about it before it ever happened.
And he wants to hold our hand right through it to prove his love and care to us.
I wrote a verse.
According to this king to me that Philippians 4.
Philippians 4 and verse 4. Rejoice in the Lord always and again. I say, rejoice. Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand. What does that mean? The Lord is at hand.
He's right there. Don't take it. I mean, it's nice to think of it, you know, the Lord is coming, is coming, is near. That's not what it means.
He's right there for you.
He's right there.
But those, whatever those circumstances, are that Sycamore tree, those mountains.
The Lord is right there. The Lord is at hand right there.
Be careful for nothing but everything.
By prayer and supplication for Thanksgiving. What your request be made Melinda Gall these are right there.
Talk to him about it.
Sometimes it helps to thank him for the things we don't like.
You want us to?
Prayer is general supplication specific. Don't forget the Thanksgiving part, it's very important the Lord is right there.
Nothing waiting.
Prasma, trust the Lord. Junior trials trust the Lord for his direction and all those circumstances where life would come your way. You'll have them. You've had them. You have them now.
Just lean on him.