Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Mark 11:20-25
by: Victoria Shephard.
This passage is not carté blanché to ask God for anything, and if we have enough faith, we’ll receive it. (“I have faith that God will give me a Ferrari.”) We must be within the will of God. The withering of the fig tree was within the will of God because it provided an opportunity for Jesus to teach the disciples about prayer and the importance of believing that God will answer. We need faith only the size of a mustard seed (Matthew 17:20), but we must have some faith.