Secondly, faith can move mountains because faith enlarges the possibilities of life. It's sometimes helpful to compare how one verse is translated or spoken in one gospel and how it's looked at in another, when Jesus sometimes says the same thing in a different place in a different way. In Luke's version of this saying, Jesus says our text this way. The image there now is taking up a tree and planting it in a new location and creating a new kind of tree. The idea is that faith can create new possibilities that did not exist in the previous context before there was faith.
Faith enlarges the possibilities of life.
Faith enlarges the options because faith brings God directly to bear in the situation. And if I remember my mathematics correctly, when you have an equation and you change one variable in the equation, you change the outcome of the equation. Well, when God is factored into the equation of your life by faith, then the outcome is going to change. I remember awhile back taking communion to a dear parishioner who was in the hospital, a woman who had been battling cancer, she was a cancer survivor, and she had been battling with it for a long time. And she was going through one of those periods where the illness came back and we didn't know how it was gonna all go.