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 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 the pastor 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 shopping mall. 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!

Some people say faith comes from miracles. But others know:
MIRACLES COME FROM FAITH!

“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.” -Matthew 17:20.