ICS Daily Devotions
Mountain, Get Out of My Way!
Mark 11:22-23 (NKJV) So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
Jesus is encouraging anyone who has a “mountain” in his path preventing him from having what is rightfully his to speak to it! We really need to get out of our comfort zones to speak to the mountain in our lives. Normally, we will have the tendency to be overcome by the challenges that we experience in life and will never ever think of speaking to the problem. We have the tendency to talk ABOUT the problem instead of speaking TO the problem. Jesus never asked us to magnify the problem and be overwhelmed by it. When we talk too much about the problem, it will change from a mole hill into a mountain! He is asking us to SPEAK TO the mountain to get out of the way!!
Man is created in the image of God thus there is also tremendous power in our words. In fact, what we say will either allow God or the devil to work in our lives because we release that authority over our lives by the power of our words. We need to realize that something is released in the spiritual realm when we speak to our mountain. We have at least two guardian angels who take instruction from God and listen to our conversations too. While God is sovereign, He has entrusted the work, ministry and His authority to His body on earth. Jesus told us that He has all authority in heaven and on earth (Matthew 28:18). He has disarmed the enemies (Colossians 2:15). He has vested us with His authority in the Great Commission. We are also aware that God has raised Jesus up to be seated far above all principality, power, dominion and might (Ephesians 1:21). He has also raised us up to be seated with Christ in the heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6). Therefore, there is tremendous power and authority that goes out with our words when we speak since we are made in the image of God, hidden in Christ, empowered with His vested authority and being seated with Christ in the heavenly places. Hence, it is not based on our own ability when God asks us to speak to the mountain in our lives. We might want to be passive about dealing with it and would rather that God sorts it out for us. We need to remember that we have the authority over our own lives because this is how God has designed it. The consolation is we are speaking from a position of victory and authority in Christ. We should not allow anything that is not of God to come into our lives by instructing/speaking to it to leave us and our household. We are to tell the devil to back off or take his dirty hands off our projects or our family! We are supposed to be the ones who speak to the mountain in our lives and not God because He has given the authority to us. The whole of God’s authority vested on us goes with our word when we speak to the mountain in our lives!
Sermon Series: Speak to your Mountain
