So the Lord said, "If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you.
Yes, and also consider the man born blind. It’s easy for people to fall into this trap that because they don’t have (insert thing here) that therefore they lack faith and/or must be sinning.
The disciples asked whose sin it was, his or his parents, that this man was born blind? But Christ answered neither. The faith is submitting to the will of God, not in believing that God is, and then asserting one’s own will.
So then in this example, Christ acts in His time, and the previously blind man later demonstrates faith. Did he have faith before? Probably, but it isn’t explicitly told in that order as it is with the bleeding woman.
Point is, while one with faith *could* uproot a mulberry tree, and the article correctly gets the connection between thought and utterance (hello? The *what* made flesh? Oh, that), one shouldn’t pridefully or despairingly regard ‘my’ faith. Even that is a gift.
further, Proverbs 18:21 says ‘death and life are in the power of the TONGUE and those who love it eat the fruit thereof’
it is all about our Words.