Faith Can Move Mountains
(Author Unknown)
A small congregation in the foothills of the Great Smokies built a new
sanctuary on a piece of land willed to them by a church member. Ten days
before the new church was to open, the local building inspector informed the
pastor that the parking lot was inadequate for the size of the building.
Until the church doubled the size of the parking lot, they would not be able
to use the new sanctuary.
Unfortunately, the church with its undersized lot had used every inch of
their land except for the mountain against which it had been built. In order
to build more parking spaces, they would have to move the mountain out of the
back yard. Undaunted, the pastor announced the next Sunday morning that he
would meet that evening with all members who had "mountain moving faith."
They would hold a prayer session asking God to remove the mountain from the
back yard and to somehow provide enough money to have it paved and painted
before the scheduled opening dedication service the following week. At the
appointed time, 24 of the congregation's 300 members assembled for prayer.
They prayed for nearly three hours. At ten o'clock the pastor said the final
"Amen." "We'll open next Sunday as scheduled," he assured everyone. "God has
never let us down before, and I believe He will be faithful this time too."
The next morning as he was working in his study there came a loud knock at
his door. When he called "come in," a rough looking construction foreman
appeared, removing his hard hat as he entered. "Excuse me, Reverend. I'm from
Acme Construction Company over in the next county. We're building a huge new
shopping mall over there and we need some fill dirt. Would you be willing to
sell us a chunk of that mountain behind the church? We'll pay you for the
dirt we remove and pave all the exposed area free of charge, if we can have
it right away. We can't do anything else until we get the dirt in and allow
it to settle properly."
The little church was dedicated the next Sunday as originally planned and
there were far more members with "mountain moving faith" on opening Sunday
than there had been the previous week!
Would you have shown up for that prayer meeting? Some people say faith comes
from miracles. But others know: MIRACLES COME FROM FAITH!
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