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O, to have such faith!

Faith to Move Mountains....

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 parking 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!

PRAYER
"Lord, may I be one with you in all that I say and do. Draw me close that I may glorify you and bear fruit for your kingdom. Inflame my heart with your love and remove from it anything that would make me ineffective or unfruitful in loving and serving you as My All."

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