In Mark 11, Jesus enters Jerusalem on a colt and proceeds to go into the temple. Because of the late hour, he leaves and comes out of Bethany the next day. He is hungry and is looking for fruit on a fig tree. He found no fruit, and so he spoke that this tree would never bear fruit again. He again goes into the temple and He is not happy by the unfair practices of the merchants, and begins throwing over the money tables. The house of God is a place for prayer, not a “den of thieves.” He upset the scribe and priest, because people were hanging on Jesus’ words. He then went outside of the city, and came by the same fig tree the next day. It was dried up from the roots. Jesus took this moment as a time to teach. Some of the lessons might be that 1) Words have power. 2) Trees should produce fruit. Or 3) What we believe is important. But he went on to talk about having the God kind of faith. Faith he said believes and speaks. When we ask, we believe that we receive, and then we have them. So we can say please and thank you in the same prayer! And then the most important part of the lesson was this; if you don’t forgive, you will not be forgiven. So in the words of Jesus, the God kind of faith believes and speaks, asks in faith, and believes that we do receive, and knows the power of forgiveness. Sounds like things we can do daily, if we want our faith to grow