What's the mountain in your life
what's the mountain that needs to be moved what is the mountain in your life that you are saying
it's never moved it hasn't moved it's not going to move it never will move what's the problem that's
too big to solve what's the what's the challenge that's too big seemingly too big for you to take
on is it too big for God God is in the mountain moving business but you must not doubt Jesus said
if you have faith like a mustard seed God can move the mountain nothing will be impossible for you
a little bit of faith in a great big God is more than enough God is more than enough
we want to focus on how big the mountain is Jesus said get your eyes off the mountain
just focus on having a little bit of faith moving mountains
can I ask you this question have you ever moved mountains have you ever done the impossible
and what mountains would you like God to move now you know what I find we all believe in God
but we don't do much mountain moving
I want you to look at what I consider to be one of the greatest promises of God found anywhere
in scripture let's read what the scripture has to say Mark chapter 11 starting at verse 22 and Jesus
answering saying to them have faith in God now I have that underlined and highlighted in my bible
remember it's not us it's not having faith in us it's having faith in God that makes everything
change for verily I say unto you that whosoever shall say unto this mountain be thou removed and
be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that those things
which he saith shall come to pass he shall have whatsoever he saith therefore I send you
whatsoever things ye desire when ye pray believe that you also receive them and ye shall have them
now he wasn't talking about rearranging the topography or the geography of the area
he was talking with a figure of speech that we still use to this day
they used this figure of speech when something was so foreboding so impossible it was ridiculous to
think anything could be done about it now we in our speech still use us we say I'm
under a mountain of worry right now a mountain of depth a mountain of concern a mountain of torment
and God says I am the mountain moving God well God says I'm inviting you to be a mountain mover
God wants you to live with such an audacious bold faith a mountain moving declaration of faith that
comes from your lips that causes the world around you to marvel how does that happen it starts with
the words you speak mountain moving faith speaks mount moving faith also though prays mountain
moving faith prays because I think we have to back up here and say okay where does the fuel
for mountain moving faith come from where does the fuel for mountain moving faith where will it come
from what will ignite the flame to believe God in a way that everybody watching you would say that's
foolish that's unreasonable and you can stand and go no the mountain will move where does that where
does the fuel for that come from look at verse 24 therefore I tell you whatever you ask in prayer
believe that you have received it and it will be done for you or it will be yours
if your words aren't faith-filled then you need to back it up and go how much time am I really
spending with God because the more time you spend with God the more faith-filled your words get this
is why Jesus again and again and again talks about the importance of asking so you go to Matthew
chapter 7 ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and it will be open for you
for everyone who asks receives and the one who seeks finds and the one who knocks it will be
opened or which one of you if his son asks for bread will give him a stone or if he asks for fish
will give him a serpent if you then who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children
how much more will your father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him
then you go to John's gospel and in John's gospel Jesus again and again and again talks
about asking John 14 whatever you ask in the name in my name this I will do
that the father may be glorified in the son if you ask anything in my name I will do it here's the
thing when you don't ask God it it diminishes the glory that God gets through your life
take stock of that for a minute but he gets glory through you bringing your need to him and saying
God I recognize that you're the one who can meet this need that glorifies God it makes him look
mighty it makes him look awesome it makes him look powerful which he is
but it puts that on the screen of your life John chapter 15 verse 7 if you abide in me
and my words abide in you ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you chapter 16
until now you have asked nothing in my name ask ask ask ask and you will receive that what that
your joy may be full two results of you asking that Jesus points to in John God gets glory and
you get joy God gets glory and you get joy when you ask your good perfect Holy Heavenly Father
to do what only he can do for you it glorifies him and it fills you with joy because it reminds
you of how good he is how good he is that he will marshal the resources of heaven to provide
for his children Jesus says it's prayer it's prayer that fuels a faith-filled declaration
because public power always follows private prayer public power always always follows private prayer
this is true in the ministry of Jesus it was true in the life of the apostles it's true
throughout the pages of scripture and it's true in your life much with God he's much with you because
he wants mountains to move in your life he wants it to happen first of all if you want to move a
mountain Jesus said pray he makes it very clear he says you need to pray and ask for these things
from God a lot doesn't happen because we never ask we don't believe Mark 6:46 and when he had
sent them away he departed to the mountain to pray before you can move mountains you need to
have a mountain of prayer you need to be living a life of prayer if you want to move mountains
the day you want to move a mountain cannot be the first day you start praying
he said Matthew 7:7 ask and it will be given to you seek and you'll find knock and it will be
open to you for everyone who asks receives and he who seeks finds or to him who knocks it will
be opened and the words they are asking seeking knocking is talking about continued effort or
what man is there among you whose son asked for bread will he give him a stone or if he asks for a
fish will he give him a serpent if you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children
how much more will your father who is in heaven give good things to those that ask him
so notice ask ask ask seek seek knock knock pursue these answers these miracles
so we need to pray not only in the good times but in the bad times but we need to have lives
of prayer that's one of the keys and you can have an earth shaking experience and move mountains now
the devil's going to try to get you stopped from the get-go because the devil's not worried about
us till we get prayer rolling and then the devil's defeated and there is nothing more powerful
in prayer it's the most powerful thing in the universe because it moves the arm of the almighty
the God with whom nothing is impossible but he says here's the first key number one you gotta ask
you've got to ask be thou removed whoever shall say to this mountain be thou removed verse 24
therefore and say whatsoever things you desire when you pray believe you got to ask what are
you asking for that's out of bounds possibly something you say only God could do this only God
what exactly are you asking for now he says you have not because you ask not
has anybody ever watched you or me ask in faith believing
for the impossible or are we just too comfortable playing it safe
do you have any idea how powerful an ask is with God
ask you want to move mountains ask
what would you like to see God do when we get to heaven I'm afraid the Lord's gonna say to me David
you asked for so little didn't you read these passages do you not understand I'm all-powerful
listen to what the scripture says Matthew 19:26 with men it is impossible with God all things
are possible Mark 9:23 if thou canst believe all things are possible to him that believeth
Mark 10:27 with men it is impossible but not with God for with God all things are possible
Luke 18:27 the things which are impossible with men
are possible with God God says there's nothing I can't do I am all powerful
what do you want in your marriage
how do you want your life to be used ask ask in faith believing
he said if you have the faith of a grain of mustard seed that'll do it you can't do it
but he can how can this mountain ever move how can this complicated situation
ever change how can how could this ever be turned and become a blessing
how can how can this be how it's it's a question that's been asked probably a billion times how
how can this be how can this be done how can I get through this how is this ever gonna
how is this gonna work out how will this ever be changed how
God knows how
it's profound but simple as mind-boggling as it seems to us he knows how he knows how to do
what we can't do he knows how to make happen what we can't make happen what is impossible with
us he knows how to do God knows how to do miracles I don't know how to do miracles
but God does he knows how to give victory when we can't see how
he knows how to provide when we can't see how don't worry about the how he knows how
even something never been done before God knows how he's done a million firsts
he's done millions of never been done before's
think about it millions have never been done before you name it he knows how
he knows how to set you free he knows how to forgive he knows how to give you a brand
new life completely forgiven of sins he knows how to be there with you I'll never leave you
I'll never forsake you he knows how to make life good again God is bigger than my circumstance
he's bigger than who I am I will trust him even though you can't see how he knows how