Overview: Mark 11:22-25 is the #1 Word of Faith verse. Winger approaches it by sidebaring the Kenneth Copeland debate to first understand the passage in its original context, then apply it.

Winger admits he was worried his anti-prosperity-theology bias would skew his interpretation. Solution: ignore modern debates, do careful verse-by-verse study of what Mark meant to its original audience, then apply correctly. He spent extensive prep time (estimates 30 min of study per 1 min of teaching). References Sharon Dowd's book "Prayer, Power, and the Problem of Suffering" as particularly helpful. The passage: Peter notices the cursed fig tree has withered; Jesus teaches on faith and prayer — "whoever says to this mountain be taken up and cast into the sea... it will be granted him" and "all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them."