“INCREASE OUR FAITH!”

Luke 17:5-6                         (ESV)

“INCREASE OUR FAITH!”

[“5] THE APOSTLES said to the LORD, “INCREASE OUR FAITH !” [6] And the LORD said, “If you had FAITH like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.”

THE APOSTLES  is defined by one dictionary as “any of the early followers of JESUS who carried the CHRISTIAN message into the world:”.   Another dictionary defines APOSTLE as “Apostle, (from Greek apostolos, “person sent”), any of the 12 disciples CHOSEN BY JESUS CHRIST.  The term is sometimes also applied to others, especially Paul, who was converted to Christianity a few years after JESUS’ death.”  THE APOSTLES were CHOSEN by their CREATOR to BELIEVE in HIM like few others.  In Luke 17:5 “THE APOSTLES said to the LORD, “INCREASE OUR FAITH !””

People who BELIEVE are those who have FAITH,  The Apostle Paul was one of the greatest examples of a person of FAITH. In Romans 10:17 he wrote “So FAITH comes from hearing, and hearing through the WORD of CHRIST “.  John 1:1 says “In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was with GOS, and the WORD WAS GOD”.  Then in John 10:30 JESUS HIMSELF says “”I and the FATHER are ONE.”  So to “INCREASE OUR FAITH” is to INCREASE OUR HEARING FROM GOD!!!

We don’t just HEAR from GOD on our own timeframe.  Sometimes we literally have to EXPERIENCE “the valley of the shadow of death” before we are able to BE STILL, AND KNOW THAT HE IS GOD!  Saul was persecuting BELIEVERS when JESUS “SPOKE” to him on the road to Damascus in Acts chapter nine!  By the time Acts chapter thirteen comes around Saul was known as Paul because his life was CHANGED by KNOWING JESUS!  

THE CHOSEN, THE APOSTLES, said to JESUS “INCREASE OUR FAITH” in Luke 17:5   Just because we are CHOSEN doesn’t mean that our FAITH is where it needs to be and we have “arrived” Spiritually!  By the Apostles asking to “INCREASE OUR FAITH” they were saying to increase their BELIEF that JESUS WAS THE SON OF GOD!  They were ASKING to be USED to be PERSECUTED by “this world” to EDIFY and GLORIFY JESUS!!!

FATHER IN HEAVEN, “INCREASE OUR FAITH” to EDIFY and GLORIFY the NAME OF JESUS to this lost and dying world!!!