Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me

 Good morning. Jesus sends two of His disciples into the village and tells them they will find a donkey with her colt. They bring them and put their garments on them. The multitudes put their garments and branches from trees in the roadway. They enter Jerusalem with the multitude proclaiming His majesty. Jesus enters the temple and puts out those who are buying and selling and overturns the tables of the money-changers. God said His house shall be called a house of prayer, but they were making it a robber’s den. He healed many people. Of course the chief priests were delighted – not! The people were saying Hosanna to the Son of David. They were saying that He was the Messiah. That did not sit well with the chief priests. He left and went to Bethany – that's where Lazarus lived. Coming back to the city in the morning, He sees a fig tree and goes to see if there are any figs on it. There are only leaves, so He curses it. It is not the season for figs, but on the Mount of Olives sometimes the fig trees had figs earlier than in the city. It should not have leaves without any figs on it. It withers at once. The disciples marvel. If you have faith, and do not doubt, you shall not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, be taken up and cast into the sea, it shall happen. And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive. As you have heard many times – believing is seeing. Father thank You that the reader has faith and does not doubt. He/she can say to her mountain, be taken up and cast into the sea – and it shall happen! He/she believes, therefore he/she will see it.