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Have you ever thought that you would like to have more faith? I know I have!

Well, Jesus’ disciples thought they needed more faith, too. Let’s look at what Jesus said when they asked for more faith.

One day the apostles said to the Lord, “We need more faith; tell us how to get it.”

“Even if you had faith as small as a mustard seed,” the Lord answered, “you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘May God uproot you and throw you into the sea,’ and it would obey you!” Luke 17:5-6 (NLT)

Jesus told the disciples that they didn’t need more faith, they just needed to use the faith that they had. Then, He proceeded to tell them a parable.

Before we look at the parable though, let’s take a moment to look back at what we have learned about faith over the last weeks.

1. Faith is one of the fruit of the Spirit.
2. Faith is tangible.
3. We all have the same amount of faith.
4. Faith helps us withstand the deception of Satan.
5. Faith just appropriates what God has already provided for us.

Now, what is Jesus telling us about faith via this parable?

“When a servant comes in from plowing or taking care of sheep, he doesn’t just sit down and eat. He must first prepare his master’s meal and serve him his supper before eating his own. And the servant is not even thanked, because he is merely doing what he is supposed to do.” Luke 17:7-9 (NLT)

Our faith is to be something that we command and control.

Most of us do not relate well to having a servant or a slave, but imagine for a moment that you hired someone to come live with you to do all the things that you didn’t have the time to do.  This person was paid to go out and work in the garden, do the yard work, the cooking and cleaning, the shopping, etc.

If you hired this person to do this job and they came in from a day of work and then expected you to serve them supper, you wouldn’t be too happy, would you?  If you hired someone to do all those jobs, you would expect them to do what they were hired to do.

It’s the same with our faith.

Our faith is tangible…it’s like a servant that we send to appropriate those things that have already been provided by Christ’s atonement.  All of the promises of healing, abundant life, prosperity, etc are there in the spiritual realm, we just have to help it to manifest in the physical realm.  And that is the job of our faith.

Jesus said that we don’t need more faith, we just need to use the faith that we have.

Spend some time meditating on that truth today.

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