An eight year old boy came running home from school one day all excited because he'd won a stuffed animal won at the class Valentine's party.

"Congratulations. How did you do that?" Mom asked.

"Well," he explained, "the teacher put all our names together in a box, and then picked one out. I feel kinda bad though. I cheated." he said.

You cheated?" Mom said. "How did you cheat?"

With a guilty look on his face he said, "I prayed!" (1)

I like that little boy's faith. According to the passage we're going to look at today, "Faith should be telling a mountain to move and being shocked if it doesn't."

Let's look at the passage. Matthew 21:18-22 (NRSV)
[18] In the morning, when he returned to the city, he was hungry.
[19] And seeing a fig tree by the side of the road, he went to it and found…