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Lord, Transform Me into a Woman of Mountain-Moving Faith
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n my tenth birthday, I received a necklace that consisted of a small glass ball hanging from a delicate gold chain. Inside the ball was the tiniest mustard seed. I thought at the time, Why in the world did they bother putting a seed in there that was so small it could hardly be seen. Obviously, I didn’t get the point. It wasn’t until some time later that I learned the significance of that little seed. Jesus said, “If you have faith as a 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). I’ve since thought a lot about how tiny that seed was. If that’s all the faith it takes to move mountains, then surely I can come up with enough to move the o '7F6?W2????fR?v?BF?W2F?RF???W7B&?B?bf?F?vR?fR?B??W2?Bw&?r??F?6??WF???r&?rv?V?vR7B???B?F?R&?&?R6?2F?B( ?v?B?2FV?BF?V6???R?V7W&R?bf?F?( ??&???2#?2??vR?&VG??fR6??Rf?F?F?7F'Bv?F??#3???