What is Jesus talking about when he say the mustard seed?

Answer 1

Christ described it as a small seed that creates a large plant. He compared this to the kingdom of heaven, it would start small with a seed God planted and grow through spreading the word he gave and gaining more believers.

Answer 2

Matthew 17:20: "if you have faith as small as a Mustard Seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."

Jesus was telling his disciples (and meant for all children of God) that it only needs a bit of faith to move the mountains in your life. Whatever issues and problems we are having we can remove them by speaking to them and commanding them to leave. Matthew 11:23-24, "Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."

Here is another place where Jesus is giving instructions to speak to the mountain (representing the problems) in your life. Most people pray to God about the problem instead of speaking to the problem. Instead we are instructed to speak TO the problems directly and tell them where to go.

Tell sickness "go, in Jesus name." Insecurities, "leave me alone, in Jesus name." "Headache, get off my body."

Then we need to command our bodies to line up with the the promises in God's word.

"Body, be healthy," "marriage, be blessed."

Proverbs 18:21, "death and life are in the power of the tongue."

James 3 also says that as a rutter steers a big ship, and as a bridal tells the horse where to go. So does our mouth and words stear your life and the direction you will go in.

Words are important, they have power. If we are God's children (by asking Jesus into your heart) not only will you go to heaven when we pass away, but our words will carry loads of power and authority just like God's does. God spoke the world into existence Gen 1. We are created to his image and he wants us to imitate him Ephesians 5:1.

So we first need to ask God to come into our heart, and you will be adopted into his family as one of his children. Then we need to recognize that as his child we have the power to change our lives by the words that we speak. As we continue to speak goodness over our lives, we will experience the goodness.

Be blessed