Read Ephesians 3:14-21

Jesus told his disciples that if they prayed with faith the size of a mustard seed (the tiniest seed known to the farmers of Jesus’s day), they could move mountains (Matt. 17:20). Today, when we hear those words, most of us write them off as hyperbolic and outlandish. We think to ourselves, “Sure Jesus, you might be talking about prayers that move spiritual mountains, but you can’t really mean literal mountains.” Perhaps that’s true, and perhaps Jesus never meant that we’d actually move an actual mountain with our prayers. But here’s Jesus’s point: if we prayed and a mountain actually did move this very moment, would we understand why it moved? It moved, not because of the strength of our prayer, but because the powerful God behind our prayers moved it! And Jesus, in saying these words, is asking us: do we believe in a weak god or do we believe in a God that can and will move literal mountains if/when he chooses? In other words, do we believe in a god that only works in categories that we can understand/explain, or do we believe in a God “who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think”? (Eph. 3:20)

What might our prayers sound like if we regularly believed for greater things? How much healthier and more vibrant might our families, relationships, and church be if our vision of God and his plans for us was bigger? We need to stop short-changing who God is and what he’s capable of, and we need to start living and dreaming according to his incomprehensible power. After all, if we’ve got a God that moves mountains on our side, what can’t we do or hope for?