When I was still a young Christian I remember reading Matt. 17:20 . Living in a valley I could literally go outside and see a mountain no matter which way I looked. So I thought about the verse for a little while and came to the conclusion that surely I had little bitty, tiny, mustard seed faith! So I scrounged up every bit of faith I could, leaned out the front door, pointed at the mountain in front of me and said, “Be moved Mountain, in the name of Jesus!” Needless to say it did not move, well at least not instantaneously. It was about five years later when the highway that had been discussed since my dad was a boy finally came through causing the mountain which had always been there…to be moved!
During our life we all experience many mountains in our way (i.e. finances, health problems, spiritual warfare). So why is it that we have a tendency to believe that we can not remove them from our life? Did not Jesus tell us if we had faith those mountains would move? Just an itsy bitsy little faith, not truck loads of it! One problem we have is we tend to forget that Jesus did not say, “…and the mountain will be moved before your eyes as soon as you speak.” If He had said that then I could see believing we can not move mountains when they do not just poof away, but He did not.
Sometimes we do not believe we can move mountains because we fail to recognize the mountains that have already been removed. I remember the Apostle Paul had an infirmity that he asked God to take away from him three times. This could be considered a mountain in Paul’s life. Paul asked God each time to remove his ailment without any prevail. God simply explained to Paul that His grace was enough, that His strength would better be revealed in Paul’s weakness. God did not remove Paul’s thorn, but we see in Paul’s statement “therefore I take pleasure in my infirmities…” that because of Paul’s new insight it ceased to be a mountain! (2Cor. 12:7-10)
Wherever you are with the mountains in your life, you need to realize that those mountains can be removed. They will seldom be removed the way and in the time frame which you expect them to, but with a little faith they will cease to exist! I will close by telling you about a Christian family who prayed every night for the fall of the Berlin
Pray
Precious Lord, I thank You today for the mountains that You have already removed from my life. Help me Lord to realize that through faith in You I can move every mountain, although they will not always move in the way I think they will or as fast as I think they should. I acknowledge today that Your timing is perfect as is Your will. Help me to move these mountains in my life today that are keeping me from fully serving you. I look forward to seeing how You remove them! I give to You all the praise as it is only through my faith in YOUR POWER that mountains move. I love You Lord. In Jesus name I pray, Amen (Yes, Yes!)
