If we do, it will hinder or even negate our ability to be used for the Lord. They are soooo excited and want to share that exuberance with us. Jesus was also addressing praying in faith and belief. However, as Stu Weber points out, the issue is not quantity of faith but quality of faith. There is a saying in television journalism that you are only as good as your last story.
News directors are remarkably unwilling to let their staff glory in their past successes.
Many times those who do so wallow in the glory days of yesteryear but fail to turn out anything productive today. It is interesting to note that some of those journalists who have recently won the much-coveted Pulitzer Prize have encountered serious setbacks in their journalistic career. There is a remarkably similar parallel for us here. What a powerful lesson for us as 21st century believers to consider today. Despite all of our learning and technological goodies, gadgets and gizmos, we still need to continually depend on Jesus.