Mathew 21:18-22

In the measure that you believe you can receive. Be still and know that He is God.

2 Corinthians 12:9: "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.'" 

Mark 11:24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. 

May the fruit of the Spirit be revealed in us as believers!

God will always be faithful to us… (1 Thessalonians 5:24) 

Jesus told His first disciples, and those of us who would follow Him today, that life on this earth will not be free from trouble. He said, "In the world you will have tribulation." If His words had stopped there, life would be hopeless; but He continued, "take heart; I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). 

The power in that statement was proven at the cross. Jesus HAS overcome the world, and right now, He is ruling and reigning as Sovereign over angels, authorities, and powers in heaven and on earth. (1 Peter 3:22)

We need to be reminded of the power of our Savior today. Even though we cannot see Him, we trust Him; and as we trust Him, we are given strength for our journey on this earth. First5 

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness.
God is the friend of silence.
See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls.”
Mother Teresa

Mathew 21:18-22

18 Now in the morning, as He returned to the city, He was hungry. 19 And seeing a fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it but leaves, and said to it, “Let no fruit grow on you ever again.” Immediately the fig tree withered away. 20 And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither away so soon?” 21 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done. 22 And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” The New King James Version

When Jesus reenters Jerusalem the next morning, He pronounces a curse on a barren fig tree as a symbolic act of judgment against the city and its leaders. In rejecting the Messiah, Jerusalem is failing to fulfill its purpose—just like the fig tree. Faithlife Study Bible

Jesus desired to eat of the fruit of the fig tree one more time before He died, but could not. Fig trees do not bear their fruit in the spring, during Passover, but in the fall of the year. However, fig trees do have a small, edible fruit that appears in the spring before the sprouting of the leaves. This tree was full of leaves, but had no fruit. It looked full of promise, but was empty—just like the city of Jerusalem and its beautiful temple. Immediately does not necessarily mean instantly; it may have the idea of “very soon”. This miracle—the only recorded miracle of Jesus that involved judgment—illustrates God’s judgment on the Israelites, who professed adherence to God but produced no fruit or spiritual reality. The NKJV Study Bible

This cursing of the barren fig-tree represents the state of hypocrites in general, and so teaches us that Christ looks for the power of religion in those who profess it, and the savour of it from those that have the show of it. His just expectations from flourishing professors are often disappointed; he comes to many, seeking fruit, and finds leaves only. A false profession commonly withers in this world, and it is the effect of Christ’s curse. The fig-tree that had no fruit, soon lost its leaves. This represents the state of the nation and people of the Jews in particular. Our Lord Jesus found among them nothing but leaves. And after they rejected Christ, blindness and hardness grew upon them, till they were undone, and their place and nation rooted up. The Lord was righteous in it. Let us greatly fear the doom denounced on the barren fig-tree. Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Matthew 7:8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Mark 11:24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.