The Little Mustard Seed

Been trying to get this blogged since Tuesday. In my dream Tuesday I kept hearing "mustard seed," over and over. Finally got up at 7AM and started the day, kept hearing "mustard seed." I decided I needed to figure out what to do, so I prayed, then went to the scriptures.

"The apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith! He replied, If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, Be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it will obey you." Luke 17:5-6 NIV

"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Heb. 12:2 NIV

When God shows us something in His word, He expects us to do something about it, not just hear it. I decided to do one of those things the world would consider foolish. I'm ok with foolish if God is directing all of it. I went to the spice shelf in the store and got a small can of mustard seeds. There must be 2,000 seeds in that can! Went to a craft store and bought 100 small plastic zip-lock bags. One by one, I filled 100 small bags with one mustard seed in each bag. Put scotch tape on each bag and wrote this reference down: Luke 17: 5-6 and Heb. 12:2. I started mailing mustard seeds and handing them out to everyone I talked to in the next couple days.

Friday Jim left work early and we decided to take a drive north in the sun. We stopped in Monroe for lunch first and saw three friends from TRC, talked faith for about 45 minutes and handed out six more small bags. On our way home, we stopped at our kids house and gave four more small bags, also saw two more friends from church. Stopped by their house and we talked faith for another 45 minutes and gave them small mustard seed bags. Some things we heard were amazing! God is talking to His people of faith! No one is squishing their foreheads really hard to have faith...we are believing. We believe because of Who is telling us what He will do in our lives. We know He is faithful!! We fill our hearts with the things that encourage our faith; prayer, hearing and doing the word, fellowship, worship, serving, planting seeds, giving. Whatever His commands are.

I'm going to be carrying around the small bags of mustard seeds until they are all gone. If you want one, let me know. When these run out, I just might be filling more bags. The Lord is doing something in the Church on faith.

Next blog is on the holy seed. Isaiah the prophet talked about it, prophesied it.