"Mountain Moving Faith."

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
 parking 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!

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