Writers use show and tell to unravel stories. During Jesus’ earthly ministry He showed spiritual truths through parables, healings, and example. On one particular morning, while walking in Bethany with the twelve, He became hungry and stopped at a green-leafed fig tree beside the road. But the limbs were fruitless.
 
The Bible tells how God talks to animals, the wind, and the waves. Today he talked to a tree.
 
Mark 11:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, “No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever.” And his disciples heard it.
 
The next morning they passed the same tree. “Master, behold the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away,” Peter said.
 
“Have faith in God,” Jesus replied. He showed them that faith brings change and even moves mountains. Then he said the following:
 
Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them.