Faith to Remove A Mountain

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!