Tune: Wiltshire
('Through all the changing scenes of life')
Mark 11 v.20-24
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Have faith in God, and come in prayer
With Him all your needs share
Jesus says, Whosoe'er shall say
To mountain, Move away
Be removed, cast into the sea
Have faith, so it shall be
And who shall doubt not in their heart
This sure shall be their part
To see things come to pass, large, small
Move fig trees, mountains, all
Who shall believe that what they ask
Shall come to pass, each task
Nothing too great, whate'er we say
So what we desire, pray
And believe we do them receive
Shall be sure, no deceive
The promise is we shall each thing
Shall have, if forgiving
Any that have us offended
For such the words are said
The words that if we do forgive
Through God we shall too live
For He our Father is, and we
Then be forgiven, see
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: February 6th, 2019 03:09
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.6.8.6. metre. maybe move a fig-tree (or to begin with) if you feel you have not faith to move a mountain. Original hymn by Tate (a Poet Laureate) and Brady - quite eloquent I think. Bit old, around 1696.
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A useful quote I found:
'Living by faith is going by what we believe to be true; living by sight is going by our senses'. This means senses of actual sight, and also hearing, taste, touch, and smell.
very interesting.. I have a fig tree from a cutting taken 40 odd years ago from one my great, great grandfather planted...talk about old 1696 my house is over a hundred years older.. maybe that is why we are thinking of moving... ... which reminds me of a moving hymn poem I was just reading.... N
Thanks Neville. We got many figs 'ere in the UK? The original is bit puzzling. Jesus curses a fig tree. Some Gospels add 'But the time of figs was not yet'. But that fig tree met with disaster and shrivelled up later on. Peter saw it. He said 'Oohh, that fig tree dead as a door-nail'. Or summat like that.
my figgin pleasure sir.... N
Fido is barking at that telly advert - 'Flippin' this and flippin' that! Was ya around in 1696?
No.. but my house was...
I was not going to care a flying fig, but then Fido barked at me! lol.
maybe you should trade Fido in for a budgie or summat... sorry Fido...
Great work O - looks like Sylla in the clip.
Thanks Michael. lol. Ahh, there she is, Sylla. Were you hob-nobbing with any old Poet Laureates years ago? Any contenders for that title on 'ere?
I wish the angels would come and help me plant fig trees in my garden (or something else that would live in this climate) - I promise I wouldn't offend them..............
Thanks Lorna. So you want to plant them, not remove them!
Lots of big trees are down - now it looks too empty so going to plant much smaller varieties - dogwood probably........ figs would just freeze I think.
Great HYMN UNCLE STEVE ! Love Coventry Cathedral it brought back Memories ! Love the Poem ! JESUS was a great example in Prayesr ~ and He encouraged us to PRAY BIG & expect BIG ANSWERS ~ AMEN "What a priveledge to carry EVERYTHING to GOD in PRAYER.
Thanks for the daily uplift ~
Brian & Angela ~ 🧡🧡🧡🧡
Thanks B&A. I was hob-nobbing with the Archdeacon of Coventry a while. Well, he wasn't the Archdeacon at the time, and he wasn't in Coventry then either. Doh!
Faith may move mountains, why can it not remove dementia from my wife!!
Thanks Gold. Maybe it can? Easy for me to say that, I know, with not having personal experience or relatives with it. I'm sure it means something: 'faith to move mountains and fig trees and whatever else' and as a figurative expression too. I can't see any point in moving literal mountains or trees.
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