Speak to Your Mountain
Life’s mountains are no match for God.
The sun-soaked mountains loom large in my bedroom window. Shades of green and brown shimmer as the days grow longer and warmer. Summer is just around the corner. I find mountains to be beautiful when viewing them in nature, but the mountains I face in life - not so much.
In church this week, we sang this song about the mountains in our lives and wow did it speak to me. I have been struggling with the mountain of heartbreak for some time now. It often felt like a mountain that would never move. But as I began to pray over my heart, truly surrender the mountain to the Lord, and believe that He is bigger, better, stronger, and greater than any mountain I face (as the song says), the pain supernaturally fell off my life. I had prayed for deliverance from this mountain for some time, but I had never fully surrendered it to God and honestly I never truly had the faith to believe that God was indeed bigger than the pain I faced.
This post is a testimony of what God does to your mountains when you submit them to Him. I pray you would be encouraged!
What mountain in your life do you need to overcome?
Pain from a breakup?
Unforgiveness from a past hurt?
Fear over the future?
Hopelessness?
Unemployment?
Insecurity or self-hatred?
Shame?
Disappointment or failure?
Whatever you are facing, strengthen yourself in this:
No mountain is too big for God. There is no mountain that God can’t overcome. There is no pain that God can’t heal. There is no heartbreak that God can’t mend. There is no wound that God can’t bind up. There is no brokenness that God can’t restore. Our God is bigger than any mountain! He is greater than any trial. He makes a way when there is no way. He is better than any counterfeit comfort. He is stronger than any mental or emotional giant in your life. God is Jehovah Jireh - the God who provides. Jehovah Nissi, the Lord my banner, my victory. He is El Roi - the God who sees me. Jehovah Rophe - the God who heals. Jehovah Shalom - the Lord our peace.
Who is God to you?
My God is big yet I made Him small in my life. I had been facing the mountain of heartbreak for about a year now. The Holy Spirit revealed to me that I have allowed this mountain to loom larger than my God, who is Lord over all. There is no thought in my head, no word on my tongue afar off that He doesn’t know (Psalm 139). What is the darkness to the Father of Lights who is the same yesterday, today, and forever? He knows it all beginning to end, end to beginning. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. The mountain is no match for the power of God. Mountains are merely testimonies in the making.
Consider who God is to you. Is He big to you, or is He small? Is He all powerful, or is He your last resort? Make your view of God larger than the mountains you face. Get yourself into a posture to receive, as my wise dad recently told me. Be in a posture to receive God’s power, provision, healing - whatever antidote God may send for the mountain.
Are you praying real prayers?
When you begin to fear that the mountain will never move, pour out your heart to God. I believe that authentic prayer builds authentic faith. I’ve cried so many real tears before the Lord this year and I’ve never felt closer to Him. I poured out my heart to God over the mountain I never thought I’d receive full healing and deliverance from and God revealed how small the mountain was compared to Him. My doubt for deliverance was right where the devil wanted me - hopeless and trapped in bondage. God had to remind me that it’s not about the size of the mountain but about the size of our God!
As I prayed a real, raw prayer detailing the heartbreak weighing so heavy on my heart, God ushered me into a prayer of surrender. We receive breakthrough when we surrender and I experienced that in real time. I could feel the pain and weight falling away as I surrendered it all to Him. The surrender cannot be a half-hearted surrender. It has to be a “Lord I release this to you. My life doesn’t belong to me” surrender. A “Lord I give you my entire life” surrender. A “I lay every burden at your feet” surrender.
While praying, I realized I needed to release things I wasn’t even aware I was lugging around. God began to take away the pain, sadness, and heaviness. God put it all on Himself - and all that my heart can say is thank you.
A transfer and a transition. I believe that healing shifts us into new seasons with new stories. God binds our wounds and replaces them with a testimony. God is still moving on this earth, healing and setting us free. I am a walking testimony. I can’t even begin to tell you the lightness I feel right now. God really healed me and leveled the mountain I never thought I’d overcome. And quite honestly I was right - I could never overcome it in my own strength. The mountain was overcome by the power of God working on my behalf.
Speak your testimony to your mountain.
The Bible tells us that we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony (Revelation 12:11). Speak your testimony to your mountain. Speak of what God has already done in your life. Speak of your salvation, deliverance, restoration, and revelation. Tell your mountain of the darkness God pulled you out of, the depression He delivered you from, the pit He saved you from, the relationships He mercifully plucked you from, the battles He fought and won for you.
Speak your testimony to your mountain! “Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone with shouts of ‘grace, grace to it!’” (Zechariah 4:7). The grace of God working on your behalf produces a testimony. Grace working in and through your testimony levels mountains! That is the power of God. That is the power of the Word of the Lord made manifest in your testimony. Stand on your testimony to remind yourself that God is infinitely bigger, greater, and stronger than any mountain you face. Ask God to open your eyes to His greatness in your life.
Have the faith of a mustard seed.
Jesus teaches us in the book of Matthew that mustard seed faith moves mountains (Matthew 17:20). Faith displaces obstacles and obstructions. It puts everything into God’s hands, rendering the mountain powerless. God has never lost a battle and He never will. Have faith to believe that God is fighting every battle in your life, nullifying every giant that stands in your way, and cultivating a testimony from the test.
Do not doubt that God is working on your behalf if the deliverance feels like it’s taking longer than you’d like. I believe that God desires that we come to a place of true surrender, which often comes after we’ve insisted on trying to do things in our own limited strength and wisdom. I invite you to lay everything at His feet, releasing control and demands. It is under His grace that miracles happen and mountains move. In the waiting, God is working - not just on our situations, but on our hearts.
God is bigger.
I don’t know what mountain you’re facing, but I do know this - God is bigger than every mountain. He is faithful, loving, good, and better than any quick relief this world may offer. God brings soul-level healing, deep healing. Pour out your heart to Him, get yourself into a posture of surrender, praise Him for who He is, and watch mountains move.
God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us (Ephesians 3:20).