To enjoy spiritual power and spiritual victory, you need spiritual resources, not human prescription.

Dr. Tony Evans says that requires a deliberate decision to have faith.

Your choice to trust God or not to trust God is a choice.

It doesn't do with how you feed.

This has to do with deciding whether he's worthy to be trusted.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Most of us understand that God has the power to deliver us. But when we're caught in a difficult situation or circumstance,

we sometimes wonder if he'll actually do it. Today, Dr. Evans talks about how we can grow our faith

to trust fully in God's deliverance. Let's join him. How do I deal with the bondages in my life?

The things for which I desperately desire to be delivered.

That is the question.

In Matthew chapter 17, we have a story, and oh, what a story it is.

To appreciate where I'm going, the first thing I want you to understand is the concept involved of a mountain.

Verse 20 said that if you have the faith of a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain be moved, and it will move.

The concept of a mountain means a difficulty you can't climb over.

He's not talking about a literal mountain here.

He's talking about a mountain symbolically, that is,

a situation in your life where you are stuck. The reason he uses the word mountain is because

of the context in which this story is found. Jesus has just taken Peter, James, and John to the Mount of Transfiguration.

They just came down from a literal mountain, see?

So because they had just come down from a literal mountain,

Jesus uses the figurative concept of mountain

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