We know God is a mountain mover.  Does God always move the mountains on our behalf?

“Listen to the truth I speak to you: Whoever says [decrees, commands] to this mountain with great faith and does not doubt, ‘Mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the midst of the sea,’ and believes that what he says will happen, it will be done.” Mark 11:23

Is there ever a time when we move the mountain instead?  How do we understand the difference? A better question to consider might be: Will He move the mountain without us?

Comfortableness and obedience often butt heads

Louis Giglio

If the answer we hear for this mountain is “no”, then we know it’s time to roll up our sleeves. To help paint a picture of why it may be necessary for us to move mountains I will ask why must a baby learn to walk or feed itself?  The baby has their mother and father, don’t they?  Can’t the mother and father do everything for the baby so they don’t have to do it for themselves?

Truth: until we learn to walk, we won’t know where our feet are capable of taking us.  Picture all that you are trying to understand about faith, authority, and partnership with God like a baby trying to understand how to walk.  Mamma can’t carry us around forever! 

If we compare these types of mountains we are facing spiritually to the physical steps we took as babies, we get a glimpse of God’s purpose in partnership. Step by step our faith WILL GROW, and what looks to us like a mountain right now will one day become easy peezy.

If I never move past milk, I will never taste meat!  If I don’t taste meat, I will never grow strong.  If I am not strong, I cut myself short of my destiny.  I cheat myself of who I was created to be: Kingdom builder; mountain mover; light bearer; overcomer; one with insight, shining brightly.

Anyone who has read the sixth chapter of John may have noticed the main theme running through it is BREAD!

42 They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does He now say, ‘I have come down out of heaven’?” John 6:42

The Jews in this passage saw only with physical eyes, not with the eyes of faith.  As a result, they were questioning how Jesus, who they all knew physically to be the son of Joseph, could make such lofty claims to be the bread of Heaven.

Moving mountains (or exercising our faith muscles) enables us to see beyond the physical realm (where the Jews were seeing) and gain a greater understanding of the spirit realm (where Jesus is really from). It is in these moments when prophecy in scripture seems to leap off the page in new revelation! 

Proverbs 29:18 tells us that where there is no vision, the people perish.  “No vision” doesn’t mean the prophecy/revelation/vision is not there, it only means the people cannot see it.  Why?  There was no one there who was strong enough in their faith to see the revelation in Heaven and call it down into the physical realm, so that others may see it also.

Faith is a key component of the supernatural life that every Christian is called to lead.  But if I don’t have the faith to believe that Jesus heals, I will never expect it in anyone’s life.  And if I don’t believe that God can change a nation, I will never speak it.  If I don’t believe a life can be transformed by the Holy Spirit, I will never prophesy it. – Emma Stark

In the book titled “Prophetic Warrior”, author Emma Stark tells us there are 3 kinds of faith:

• Saving faith (Romans 1:16-17).  Anyone who has professed faith in Jesus Christ has saving faith; all believing Christians have this.
• A measure of faith (Romans 12:3).  A measure of faith is faith that grows in God through repetitive life experiences.  We see, through practicing and having a history with God that He is real, good, and faithful.  [This is the “I move the mountains” faith.]
• The gift of faith.  Faith is listed in 1 Corinthians 12:9 as one of the gifts of the Spirit.  The gift of faith is not faith in God but the faith of God.  Through the Spirit we can have the faith level of God.  When we strive to grow in faith by ourselves, it puts the burden on us to come to a place of strength [like a baby learning to walk].  Having the faith of God is very different. It goes beyond our faith that we can have in Him; it is God’s faith given to us.  [This is when HE moves the mountain on our behalf.]

Faith the size of a mustard seed is all it takes to move those mountains, and knowing God reveals His strength in our weakness means that for those who believe, one way or another the mountain will be moved! Think about it!