Your Words Can Conquer Mountains
Kenneth W. Hagin
The majestic Gateway Arch is located on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri. Also known as the Gateway to the West, the arch was built to commemorate the westward expansion of the United States. St. Louis was the starting point of the Oregon Trial. Many settlers traveled this route to build new lives in the Pacific Northwest.
Can you imagine what some of the settlers thought when they reached the Rocky Mountains? Most of them had probably never seen mountains of such magnitude. At that time, two-thirds of the citizens of our young nation lived within 50 miles of the Atlantic Ocean.
As pioneering settlers began their westward journey, they first would have crossed the medium-sized Appalachian Mountains. Farther west, some would have encountered the smaller Ozark Mountains. But compared to the Rockies, these other mountains must have looked like hills.
History tells us that when some early settlers reached the Rocky Mountains, they wouldn’t go any farther. Crossing those mountains seemed impossible to them. They became dismayed at the enormity of their challenge. Some settled on the eastern slope of the Rockies, and others turned around and headed back home.
Everyone Encounters Mountains
Just as early settlers faced physical mountains, people today are confronted with figurative mountains: problems, difficulties, hardships, and impossibilities. Encountering mountains, or difficulties in life, is inevitable. We all come across them. No one is problem free. Some of our “mountains” are big like the Rockies, and some are small like the Ozarks.
Hardships, like mountains, can seem permanent. They try to tell us that they have been around a long time and we can’t do anything about them. And like mountains, they can seem intimidating. But we must not allow any difficulty or hardship to intimidate us. No matter the size of anything we face, Jesus told us how to conquer it.
Mark 11:22–24 (NIV)
22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered.
23 “I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him.
24 “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
In these verses, Jesus used a mountain to show how powerful our faith in God can be. And the way to move any mountain is to believe in our heart and say with our mouth. In fact, anything that rises up against us can be conquered by speaking to it!
Never Stop Talking
We must never face our mountains with our mouth shut. We have to tell our mountains—or whatever else is looming in front of us—what to do. When a child of God dares to speak words of faith, mountains must obey.
The secret to seeing our words move mountains is to never become separated from our statement of faith. The devil will do everything he can to try to make us stop talking. He knows that if he can do this, he will succeed in keeping the promises of God from manifesting in our lives.
When I was growing up, if someone talked all the time, we called that person a motormouth. Anytime we face mountains, we need to be motormouths! We need to outtalk the devil. We have to talk louder than he does and always get the last word. When we do this, the mountains will obey us.
God has already given us everything we need to conquer any mountain. There are verses in the Bible that cover whatever we encounter. We just have to find passages that pertain to our needs, meditate on these verses, and then start talking.
Some people learn to live with their mountain or difficulty. But we must never do that. Instead, let’s dare to conquer it. Take the Word of God and begin speaking to the mountain of debt. Speak to the mountain of sickness or the mountain of condemnation and guilt. If you’re having family trouble, take the verses you’ve found and speak to that trouble. Or if you’re unemployed, call in a new and better-paying job. Just keep talking!
And remember—as long as we keep our words connected to our faith, what we say will come into existence.
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