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Luke chapter 17 verses 5 and 6. The apostles said to the Lord,

increase our faith. And the Lord said, if you had faith like a grain of mustard seed,

you could say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it would obey you.

What a statement from Jesus. Here are the apostles saying to him,

increase our faith. We want our faith to grow. And after gathering each night this week with

our church family in a way, none of us planned or expected and seeing God move in all kinds of ways,

one of the things I've seen in my life and in our church family is a rise in faith,

the deepening trust that when we are praying, as we gather together and just pray for hours

for different things. So we have faith that God is actually listening to us and that God is able

to do the impossible in response to our prayers. We're praying boldly for things that at least

in my own life, I've not prayed as boldly for. And in all of that, we've talked about how we

we pray with confidence in God's power to do anything, nothing impossible with him.

And God's wisdom, obviously God chooses to answer prayers in different ways according to his

wisdom. He sees things we don't see and knows things we don't know and is working in ways we don't

realize. We trust his wisdom and in all of that, we trust his power, his wisdom, and his love.

And so we can pray with faith, with confidence. And that's right, Jesus looks at his disciples here

and says, if you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, all you need is a little bit of faith

and a great God in order to see great things happen. And I think that is why, at least in my

own life, faith has risen even this week and gathering every night with our church family. I've

seen God's greatness and God's glory and God's spirit in greater ways. And as a result,

you realize, yeah, a little bit of faith in a big, great, glorious, all powerful, all wise,

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