I would like to give a deep insight on Matthew 17:20 which says...
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

Some people believe all you need is a faith as small as mustard seed. NO! Mustard seed is so little infact, than almsot all the seeds I've ever came across. But have you ever seen the type of tree they normally give birth to? One of the biggest.

Now let us consider this little story;

In the gathering of seeds, a mango seed came out and said "watch out everyone, I'm gonna produce a big tree in the next few years". Knowing too well that the seed itself is fat and big enough, everyone clapped and believed it could.
Then orange seed came out to say thesame thing. Being a much smaller seed to the mango seed, Some people chuckled while some have believe in it.
Then a mustard seed came out and said thesame thing. Everyone lughed it to scorn. No one believe it could do so but the seed had faith in itself.
Many years later, the mustard produced a bigger tree than its counterparts. What a big faith.

Now look at Matthew 13:31
Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: 13:32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

You need spiritual knowledge to understand most of the parables of Jesus. Little faith doesn't move moutains, great faith does...
God bless you today.

*Olofinkua Oluwafemi Steph

A mustard tree

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So Jesus was saying the opposite of what he clearly meant, which is that it only takes a little faith to achieve big things with God's power?

Seun:
So Jesus was saying the opposite of what he clearly meant, which is that it only takes a little faith to achieve big things with God's power?

Jusus never said the faith of a mustard seed is small. But from the illustration you can clearly see that eventhough the seed itself is small, its faith was big was big enough to achieve something great.

I think I understand you, but you're over-analyzing the verse. Jesus was clearly referring to the size of the seed, not the size of the tree.

Seun:
I think I understand you, but you're over-analyzing the verse. Jesus was clearly referring to the size of the seed, not the size of the tree.

that's faith

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Stop misleading people. That passage was clear enough.

Seun:
I think I understand you, but you're over-analyzing the verse.
Jesus was clearly referring to the size of the seed, not the size of the tree.

The small size key factor works for doubt, just as much as it works for faith
Only that the in the case of doubt, the small seeds of doubt conversely creates mountains, instead of moving them