Faith like a grain of mustard seed

He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.” ~ Matthew 17:20

faith as a mustard seed.
True faith, by Christ’s definition, always involves surrender to the will of God. What He teaches here is nothing like positive-thinking psychology. Jesus says that both the source and the object of all genuine faith—even the weak, mustard-seed variety—is God. And “with God nothing will be impossible” (Luke 1:37).

nothing will be impossible.
Here Christ assumes the qualifying thought explicitly added by 1 John 5:14 : what we ask for must be “according to His will.”

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