Mountain Moving Faith

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Start your comeback at Purdueglobal dot edu. 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.440 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.640 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.319 enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.039 share it with a friend. We appreciate you and pray 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:20.679 for God's very best in your life. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:26.759 Oh God, bless you. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.480 Always a joy to come into your homes. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:30.360 We love you. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.119 If you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:35.360 by and see us. I promise you we'll make you 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:37.520 feel right at home. But thank you so much for 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.959 tuning in today, and thank you again for coming out. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.479 And I like to start with something funny each week. 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.800 And I heard about this little three year old boy. 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.400 He had a sore throat and his mom took him 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.160 to the doctor and the doctor put his stethoscope on 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.720 his chest to listen to his lungs and said to 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.000 the little boy, Okay, just be still, buddy, I'm just 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:58.480 gonna check to see if Barney's in here. The little 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:02.280 boy said, Jesus is in heart, but Barney's on my underwear. 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.720 Hold up your Bible and say it like you mean it. 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.239 This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.120 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.880 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.840 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:23.240 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:27.799 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:31.440 to talk to you today about having mountain moving faith 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:35.400 in life. We all face mountains. May be a mountain 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.280 in your marriage. You don't see how you'll stay together. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.079 A mountain in your finances, doesn't look like you'll ever 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.480 get out of debt or ever accomplish your dreams. Maybe 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.480 it's a mountain in your health. The experts have said 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.280 that you're never going to get well. A lot of 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:56.280 times we're praying about our mountains. God please help me, God, 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.679 please make my child straight enough. God please take away 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.440 this fear. And yes, it's good to pray, good to 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.919 ask God to help us. But when you face a mountain, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.800 it's not enough to just pray. It's not enough to 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.760 just believe, it's not enough to just think good thoughts. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:17.200 Here's the key. You have to speak to your mountains. 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:22.040 Jesus said in Mark eleven. Whoever will say to this 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:26.240 mountain be removed, and does not doubt in his heart 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.720 he will have whatever he says. Some of you today 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:32.720 are praying about things. 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:33.640 You should be speaking to. 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.800 You. Don't need to pray about that fear anymore. You 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.240 need to say, fear, I command you to leave. I 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.680 will not allow you in my life. Instead of begging 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.520 God to heal you, you need to start talking to 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:51.040 that sickness. Sickness, you have no right in my body. 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.880 I'm a child of the Most High God. You are 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.040 not welcome here, and I'm not asking you to leave. 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.240 I'm not saying, pretty, please do me a favor. No, 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.880 I'm commanding you to leave my body. If you're going 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.760 to have mountain moving faith, you've got to speak to 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:07.480 your mountains. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:08.960 I've learned. 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.960 If you don't talk to your mountains, your mountains will 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:14.320 talk to you all through the day. 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:15.440 Those negative thoughts. 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.040 You're never gonna get well, you're never gonna get out 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.640 of debt, your business is going to go under. That's 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:25.200 your mountains talking to you. Either you can sit back 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:29.200 and believe those lies, or you can rise up and say, hey, 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.440 wait a minute, I'm in control here. I'm not gonna 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.880 let my mountain talk to me. Mountain, I'm saying to you, 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:40.120 be removed. You will not defeat me. It's not a 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:44.440 coincidence that God chose a mountain to represent our problems. 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:49.680 Mountains are big. Mountains seem permanent, like they're going to 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.120 be there forever. You may be facing a situation now 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:54.880 that looks like it'll never change. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:56.360 Looks like you'll. 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.080 Never break the addiction you've had it since high school. 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.919 Looks like you'll never lose the weight you've struggled for years. 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.120 Looks like you'll never accomplish your dreams. There are too 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:10.479 many obstacles. God is saying today, if you will start 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:14.360 speaking to the mountains, you will discover that they are 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:15.080 not permanent. 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:17.520 That situation you've dealt with. 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.839 A long time, the sickness, the depression, the addiction, looks 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.000 like it's not going to change. You prayed, you believe, 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.760 you've quoted scripture. That's all good. But if you're going 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.480 to see the mountain move, you need to start talking 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:36.120 to it. When you speak words of faith, something happens 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:40.640 in the unseen realm. Change are broken, the forces of 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.960 darkness are defeated. The enemy begins to tremble. When you 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:47.200 say sickness, you've got to go. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:48.320 Debt. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.800 You cannot stay in my life rebellion. You will not 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:54.320 control my child depression. 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.240 You will not steal my destiny. 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:00.200 When you speak not in your authority, but in the 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.640 authority of the Son of the Living God, then all 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.560 the forces of heaven come to attention. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.400 The mighty armies of the. 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:12.880 Unseen most High God will stand behind you. Let me 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.839 tell you no power can stand against our God, no sickness, 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.560 no addiction, no fear, no legal trouble. 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.440 When you speak, and you do not doubt, the mountain 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.799 will be removed. Now. It may not happen overnight. 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.760 You may speak to the mountain looks just the same 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:30.680 month after month. 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:32.040 Don't worry about it. 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.480 In the unseen realm, things are changing in your favor. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.880 You remember when Jesus was walking through a town and 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.680 he saw a fig tree. He went over to get 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.719 something to eat, but the tree didn't have any fruit 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.200 on it. He looked at the tree and said, you 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:53.839 will not produce fruit anymore. Notice Jesus talked to a tree. 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:55.120 People of faith. 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:56.880 Talked to their obstacles. 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.880 Jesus walked away, and it didn't look like anything at 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:00.479 had happened. 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.160 The tree was just as healthy and green as it 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:03.840 was before. 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.800 I'm sure some of his disciples whispered it didn't work. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.960 Jesus must have lost his touch because he said for 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.920 it to die, but he didn't die. What they didn't 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:18.200 realize was underneath the ground, in the root system. The 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.880 moment Jesus spoke, all the life was cut off to 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.800 that tree. When they came back through the town a 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:29.000 little later, the disciples stood there in amazement as they 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:33.440 saw that tree withered up, totally dead. In the same way, 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:38.120 the moment you speak to your mountains, something happens in 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.440 the unseen realm. The forces of Heaven go to work. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:46.640 God begins to dispatch angels. He begins to fight your battles. 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:50.240 He begins to release favor. He begins to move the 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:54.440 wrong people out of the way, sending healing, sending breakthrough, 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:58.400 sending victory. Now you may not see what God's been 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:02.240 doing behind the scenes for time. That mountain may look 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.720 just as big and permanent and strong as it was before. 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.160 But if you will stay in faith and just keep 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:13.760 speaking to the mountain, calling it gone, calling yourself healthy, 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.680 calling yourself blessed, calling yourself victorious. 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.160 One day, all of a sudden, you will see that 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:21.600 mountain be removed. 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.040 God will supernaturally do for you what you could not 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:26.000 do for yourself. 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:28.400 This is what happened to my mother. 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.960 She was diagnosed with terminal cancer in nineteen eighty one, 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.440 and she spent twenty one days in the hospital. She 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:38.520 came home and she and my father went to their 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.920 bedroom and got on their knees, and they not only 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.800 prayed and asked God to heal her, but they spoke 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:49.840 to the cancer and commanded it to leave. See, there's 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.520 a time to pray, but there's a time to speak. 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.439 You don't pray about your mountains. You speak to your mountains. 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:57.680 You command them to go. 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:00.800 Jesus didn't pray about the fig tree. 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.520 He didn't say, well, i'm believing it's not going to 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:07.160 produce any fruit. I'm hoping it's not going to produce fruit. No, 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.679 he commanded it to not produce fruit. You got to 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.320 command sickness to leave your body. You got to command 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:17.120 depression to get out of your life. You've got to 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:21.480 command strife and division to get out of your family. 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.840 If you will say to the mountain be removed, you 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:27.440 will have what you say. 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:29.000 Here's the key. 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:34.720 Your mountain responds to your voice. I can speak faith 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.560 over you all day long. Your friends can build you 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.559 up with the scriptures. You can put on good music 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.840 that will encourage and inspire, and all that's important. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:44.600 That's all good. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:49.000 But your mountain is not necessarily interested in what I'm 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.200 saying about you. It's not interested in what your friends 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.400 are saying about you. In one sense, it's not even 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:59.360 interested in what your parents are praying about you. Your 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.280 mountain is paying attention to what you're saying. It will 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:07.200 respond to your voice. When you rise up in faith 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:13.240 and with your own mouth you say sickness, addiction, depression. 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.960 I'm talking to you in the name of Jesus. 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:18.840 You've got to go. That's when the forces of heaven 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:19.840 come to attention. 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.040 I was talking to a man that had been trying 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.120 to sell some property for two years. He moved here 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:30.360 from another state, and he's never sold his other house, 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.440 and now he's having to make payments on both. He 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:36.640 was discouraged. He said, Joel, I don't understand it. I've 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:41.040 prayed about this situation. I've fasted, I've had other people 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:42.360 stand in faith with me. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.640 I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I told him 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.760 what I'm telling you. That's a mountain. It's not enough 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:49.880 to pray about a mountain. 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.120 You've got to speak to a mountain. You've got to say, house, 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.439 I'm commanding you to sell. I declare God's. 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.040 Favor over you. 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.200 You say, Joel, this is kind of far out today. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.560 You mean we're supposed to talk to a house. Jesus 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.120 talked to a tree, He talked to the whims, he 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.800 talked to sicknesses, he talked to rains. If you're going 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:14.560 to see your mountains moved, you've got to talk to 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.760 your obstacles. A lot of times we're doing just the opposite. 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:22.600 We're talking about the mountain instead of talking. 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:23.199 To the mountain. 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.480 The more you talk about the mountain, the bigger you 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.960 make it. When you talk about something, you magnify it. Well, 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.200 I don't think I'm ever going to get out of debt, Joel. 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.160 The economy is so down, business is so slow. I 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.480 don't see how I'm going to make it. No, you're 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.680 making it worse, You're making it bigger. What's the problem. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.720 You're talking about the mountain. You're supposed to be talking 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:49.600 to the mountain. When those thoughts come telling you how 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.080 bad it is and how you're never going to make it. 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.000 Just turn it around. Say listen here, Mountain of. 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:59.000 Debt, mountain of struggle, mountain of lack. You will not 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:02.560 keep me from my destiny. God has promised I am 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.160 the head and not the tale. I will lend and 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:05.880 not borrow. 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.920 He said he would cross for me, even in the desert. 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.840 So I'm not asking you to leave. I'm not begging 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:14.480 God please make it leave. 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.680 No, with my own mouth, I'm saying, mountain of debt, 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.280 mountain of black you've got to go. That's mountain moving faith. 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:26.120 I think about David when he faced Goliath. Everyone around 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:30.680 him was talking about the mountain. They were saying, Goliath 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.119 is so big, there's no way. 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.880 We can defeat him. And along came a young man 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:36.679 named David. 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:41.439 He was only seventeen years old, but somehow he understood 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.520 this principle of talking to the mountain and not talking 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:49.559 about the mountain. When he saw Goliath, instead of saying, 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.520 like the others, he's so big, we don't have a chance, 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:57.800 he said, who is this uncircumcised philistine that he should 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.199 defy the armies of the Living God. He was saying, Hey, 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.760 wait a minute, this is not right. One man is 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.920 going to keep all of God's people back. One mountain 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:09.640 is going to keep us from our destiny. 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.920 I don't think so. I'm going to take care of him. 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.320 David's friends and the people around they begin to laugh. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:20.120 They said, David, are you crazy? You can't fight Goliath. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.160 You're just a kid. You're too small, you don't have 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:24.160 any experience. 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.719 He would crush you. David shook it off. He went 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.559 out to face Goliath. When Goliath saw him, he began 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.079 to laugh when he saw how young and. 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:35.200 Small David was. 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.480 He said, Am I a dog that you would come 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.240 at me with a stick? He was saying, don't you 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.040 have anything better to send out against me than this 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.360 little runt. It's not even going to be a fight now. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.480 David wasn't focused on the size of his giant. He 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.640 was focused on the size of his God. He understood 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:58.080 this principle. He didn't just pray that he would defeat Goliath. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.319 He didn't just believe in that he would defeat him. 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.120 David spoke to his mountain. He looked him in the 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.600 eyes and said, Goliath you come against me with a 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.960 sword and a shield, but I come against you in 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.600 the name of the Lord, God of Israel. In other words, 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:19.040 you've got a sword, but I've got something better. I've 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.080 got a name. I've got the forces of heaven backing 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:26.680 me up. Listen how he spoke to his mountain. He said, Goliath, 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.560 this day the Lord will deliver you into my hands. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.080 I will defeat you and feed your head to the 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.240 birds of the air. He was saying, you may be big, 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.720 but I know my God is bigger. And when I 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:43.400 speak to the mountain, God's promised it will be removed. 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.160 If you're going to be victorious, you've got to speak 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.240 to the giants in your life. Some of you are 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:53.520 facing a situation now that looks insurmountable. 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.600 The medical report says. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:59.960 No way, the financial situation says impossible. In the natural 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:03.720 there are too many obstacles between you and your God 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:08.800 given dreams. You are standing exactly where David stood. It's 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:11.320 not enough to just pray about it. It's not enough 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.160 to just believe that you're going to get better. Now 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:17.080 more than ever. You need to start talking to the mountain. 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.080 Just say, mountain of debt, Mountain of addiction, Mountain of depression. 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.280 It may look like it's over, but I'm here to 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.560 serve you. Notice this is not the end. You will 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:31.160 not defeat me. You come against me with natural weapons. 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.920 But I come against you in the name of the Lord, 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:38.120 God of Israel. And I know when I call on 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.720 the name of Jesus, all the forces of heaven come 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.960 to attention. So I say to you, mountain, be removed, 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.880 get out of my life. I will live and not die. 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.560 I am blessed and I cannot be cursed. I'm a 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:55.680 victor and not a victim. Friend's incredible power is released 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:57.040 when we speak. 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:57.760 To our mountains. 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:01.400 Too many times we're taught talking to God about how 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.480 big our mountains are. We should be talking to our 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:08.000 mountains about how big our God is. The more you 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:12.240 talk about the mountain, the weaker it makes you. Well, Joel, 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.920 they've said, this sickness may not ever go away. I prayed, 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:19.400 but my marriage isn't getting any better. This legal problem, 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:21.320 it may go on for another ten years. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.760 I don't know what I'm going to do when you 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:24.600 talk like that. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.760 All it's doing is making you weaker, have less faith, 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.840 have less energy. You've got to quit talking about the 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.840 mountain and start talking. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.560 To the mountain. That's what David did. 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.240 He said, I will defeat you. You need to look 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.480 at that cancer and say, cancer, you may be big, 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.000 but my God. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.440 Is much bigger. You will not get the best of me. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:51.359 I will defeat you. Look at that addiction and don't. 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.680 Say I'll never break it, Joel, I just don't have 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:57.320 the will power no announce to that addiction. The power 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.440 that's in me is greater than the power that's in you. 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.479 You will not keep me from my destiny. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:06.879 I will defeat you. We see this principle from the 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:08.359 very start of the scripture. 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.520 In the Book of Genesis, it says that the earth 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:13.560 was without form and void. 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:15.600 There was darkness everywhere. 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.960 What happened and God said, in other words, it was 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:25.560 dark and gloomy, chaotic, trouble everywhere. Isn't it interesting that 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:30.080 things didn't change just because God's presence was there. It 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.280 didn't get better just because God thought, I wish I 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:34.960 had a world, I wish it was. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:35.720 All in order. 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.760 Nothing happened until God spoke. He said, to the darkness, 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.960 let there be light. Think about the word let. It 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:48.520 indicates that something was opposing it. If I say let 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.399 go of my hand means that you're holding it or 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:55.200 you're opposing it. God said, in the middle of the darkness, 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.160 in the middle of the opposition, let there be light 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.720 and our time of difficulty, when it's dark and gloomy, 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:04.760 you've got to speak light. 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:05.440 To the situation. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.120 When there's tension and strife in your home, you need 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.959 to say, let there be peace in my home. In 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.479 the middle of a financial crisis, looks like you're going 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.960 to go under, Let there be abundance in my finances. 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.280 In your health, it doesn't look good. Don't talk about 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:22.880 the darkness. 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:23.520 Speak light. 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.719 Let there be health, Let there be strength, Let there 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:31.119 be renewed vitality. Remember talking to this man after the 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:34.640 service that was very discouraged. At one point, he had 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:38.439 an extremely successful business. He was in the design and 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:42.239 the graphics industry. Over the last couple of years, his 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:45.240 business has gone down to nothing, lost all of his 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:49.960 major clients, and it looked like bankruptcy was inevitable. As 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:53.080 we were talking, he went on and on telling me 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:57.760 about the problem, explaining in great detail all the setbacks 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.280 he had suffered and how bad it was and how 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:04.600 impossible it looked he was real good at talking about 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.520 the problem. I told him what I'm telling you, you 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.280 got to start talking to the problem. You got to 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.959 start calling light in the middle of the darkness. I 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.199 encouraged him all through the data go around, saying things like, 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:21.639 I'm blessed. The favor of God is turning this situation around. 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:25.320 God's favor is bringing me new clients. Debt and lack 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.160 cannot stay in my life. I command those. 0:19:27.960 --> 0:19:29.200 Mountains to be removed. 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:32.240 I saw him about six months later, and he was 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:35.400 beaming with joy. He said, Joel, I did just what 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:39.240 you said. I started declaring favor and speaking to my 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:43.000 mountains and calling light in the midst of the darkness. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:47.040 He told how at his lowest moment, when it looked 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.160 for sure like the business was going to go under, 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.280 he got a phone call out of the blue from 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:53.760 a company he had never done. 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:54.520 Business with before. 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.159 They asked him to make a presentation, and he made it, 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:01.640 and they ended up hiring him as their graphics firm. 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:05.800 Now that one new client brings in more business than 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:09.359 all of his other clients did combined, He's on pace 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:10.440 to have a banner year. 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:12.320 But here's what I'm saying here. 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.600 I believe he would still be struggling, maybe even have 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.960 lost his business if he had not kicked his faith 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:24.880 into action and started speaking to his mountains in life. 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.080 We're all going to have mountains that will try to 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.120 keep us from God's best. And yes, it's good to pray, 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.800 it's good to believe, it's good to quote scriptures, but 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:36.280 remember the mountain moves when we talk to them. You 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.480 don't ask them to leave. You tell them to leave. Hey, 0:20:39.560 --> 0:20:41.840 mountain of debt, you gotta go. I'm a child of 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:45.840 the Most High God. Mountain of sickness, Mountain of addiction, 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:48.400 Mountain of a rebellion, mountain of lack. 0:20:48.760 --> 0:20:49.879 You will not defeat me. 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:54.680 I speak favor over my finances, I speak health over 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:58.840 my body. I speak peace into my family, I speak 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:02.159 blessings into my life future. There was a man in 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.440 the scripture that did just this. His name was Zaruba Bell. 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:09.639 He was facing a mountain in his career. He was 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:13.640 in charge of rebuilding the temple. Everything had come against him. 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:16.600 The city leaders had hired lawyers to try. 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:17.120 To stop him. 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.040 They wouldn't give him the permits that he needed, and 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:21.880 other people were causing strife. 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:22.560 And division. 0:21:23.200 --> 0:21:26.560 What did he do complain, say God, it's not fair? 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.280 Or did he just pray, say God, please, I'm begging you, 0:21:30.280 --> 0:21:30.840 You've got. 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:31.080 To help me. 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:37.760 No, Zaruba Bell understood this principle. He said, who are you, O, 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:39.240 great mountain. 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:40.160 That stands against me? 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:44.879 You shall become a mere mole hill, and I will 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:48.920 finish the temple by shouting grace to it. 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:50.919 Notice his declaration. 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:54.399 He was saying, this mountain is going to be turned 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:57.400 into a mole hill. How's it going to happen by 0:21:57.440 --> 0:22:01.440 speaking grace to it? Another word for grace is favor. 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:06.119 In other words, he went around talking to his mountain saying, 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:09.040 I have the favor of God. I can do all 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:13.160 things through Christ. I will fulfill my destiny. I love 0:22:13.200 --> 0:22:16.159 the way he started that passage, who are you, O, 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:17.000 great mountain? 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:20.119 He was saying, like David, you can't defeat me. 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:23.440 Don't you know who I am? I have an advantage. 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:27.000 I have the favor of God. In the same way, 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:31.960 when you face difficulties, don't start complaining, don't start talking defeat. 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:36.480 Do like he did, dig your heels in and start. 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:38.400 Speaking favor over that situation. 0:22:39.240 --> 0:22:41.560 Some of you are struggling in your finances. You need 0:22:41.560 --> 0:22:44.320 to get your checkbook out and speak favor over it. 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:47.760 You have a child that won't do right, Quit complaining 0:22:47.800 --> 0:22:51.119 about him and start speaking favor over him. You're in 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:55.080 a legal situation. Start talking to your mountain. When you 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:59.040 declare favor, God says he will turn your mountains into 0:22:59.119 --> 0:23:03.359 mold hills. I remember one time years ago, Victoria and 0:23:03.400 --> 0:23:06.840 I were traveling overseas and we were at this smaller 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:09.800 airport in India. We were going to meet my father 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:12.960 in another city. When we got to the gate, just 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:16.800 about to leave, the man working there was very unfriendly. 0:23:17.280 --> 0:23:20.120 He had a sour attitude, like he was mad at 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:23.200 the world. We handed him our tickets and he looked 0:23:23.200 --> 0:23:25.040 at him and he threw them on the counter and 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:25.640 he said. 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:27.240 You're too late. You can't go. 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:30.919 We were there thirty minutes ahead of time. The ticket 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:34.200 still said we had ten minutes left aboard. There wasn't 0:23:34.200 --> 0:23:37.600 another flight till the next day. And I said, very kindly, 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:40.720 very friendly, sir, we really need to get on this flight. 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:43.119 There's any way that you could help us, We would 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:47.520 really appreciate it. He didn't even look up. He ignored us, 0:23:47.840 --> 0:23:48.440 acted like. 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:49.160 We weren't there. 0:23:49.920 --> 0:23:52.639 I went over by the gate, and it was like 0:23:52.680 --> 0:23:56.919 a holy anger rose up on the inside. I didn't 0:23:56.960 --> 0:24:00.439 pray about the mountain. I started speaking to that mountain, 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:01.640 not out loud. 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:04.400 I didn't want him to hear me. He was mad enough, But. 0:24:04.480 --> 0:24:07.520 Under my breath I said, you mountain of a sour 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:10.800 attitude that would try to keep us from our destiny. 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:13.720 You gotta be removed. I'm saying to you to leave. 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:17.680 I started speaking favor over that mountain. I said, father, 0:24:17.760 --> 0:24:19.960 I want to thank you that your favor is turning 0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:23.160 this situation around. Thank you that your favor will cause 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:25.440 him to let us on this plane. Lord, I think 0:24:25.480 --> 0:24:28.480 you that your favor is greater than his sour attitude. 0:24:29.119 --> 0:24:30.359 It was the strangest thing. 0:24:30.800 --> 0:24:33.600 About ten minutes later, he came over to where we 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:36.679 were and he motioned with his hand for us to 0:24:36.720 --> 0:24:37.320 follow him. 0:24:37.760 --> 0:24:38.919 He never said a word. 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:42.280 He still seemed just as perturbed as he was before. 0:24:42.600 --> 0:24:44.879 But we followed him and he opened the door to 0:24:44.960 --> 0:24:47.679 the gate. He led us down the jetway. When we 0:24:47.760 --> 0:24:49.600 got to the plane, he put his hand out like 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:51.960 that for us to get on. Still never said a word. 0:24:52.520 --> 0:24:55.160 You know me, I smile real big, thank you so much. 0:24:55.280 --> 0:24:59.800 I appreciate that he had this frown almost like his 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:04.200 start growling at us. It was like somebody forced him 0:25:04.359 --> 0:25:06.760 to let us on that plane. I believe that was 0:25:06.800 --> 0:25:12.240 the power of the most high God moving a mountain. Friends, 0:25:12.920 --> 0:25:15.440 God knows how to get you to where you're supposed 0:25:15.480 --> 0:25:18.320 to be. And let me tell you, no grouchy person 0:25:18.440 --> 0:25:19.840 can keep you from your destiny. 0:25:20.920 --> 0:25:23.240 I see a lady saying, thank God, my husband can't 0:25:23.240 --> 0:25:26.159 stop me. But it's funny. 0:25:26.520 --> 0:25:28.639 When we got on the plane and went to our seats, 0:25:28.720 --> 0:25:31.600 somebody was sitting in them. Our son's seats were taken, 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:33.560 and the flight attendant came over. 0:25:33.359 --> 0:25:35.840 And she was very nice, very friendly. She said, oh, I'm. 0:25:35.680 --> 0:25:38.040 Sorry I gave those seats away, but follow me, and 0:25:38.080 --> 0:25:40.520 she took us up to first class. She said, these 0:25:40.520 --> 0:25:42.919 are the only two seats we have available. Do you 0:25:42.960 --> 0:25:45.119 think they would be okay? I said, well, I think so. 0:25:47.359 --> 0:25:50.960 That was the favor of God moving a mountain. Well, 0:25:51.040 --> 0:25:54.040 you say, Joel, does that happen every time you speak 0:25:54.119 --> 0:25:56.320 favor every time you speak. 0:25:56.040 --> 0:25:57.359 To the mountain. Of course not. 0:25:57.920 --> 0:25:59.800 But if we would have missed that flight and not 0:26:00.000 --> 0:26:01.919 been allowed to get on, we would have stayed in 0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:05.520 faith and believed that God was directing our steps. But 0:26:06.000 --> 0:26:09.639 are there times that we don't see mountains moved because 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:13.479 we're not speaking to them? I believe there are. Faith 0:26:13.680 --> 0:26:16.600 is what moves God. When you speak to the mountain, 0:26:16.640 --> 0:26:20.439 When you declare God's favor, that activates the power of 0:26:20.480 --> 0:26:23.880 the most High. That's when he said He'll turn mountains 0:26:23.920 --> 0:26:27.600 into mold hills. Let me ask you, are there mountains 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:30.960 that are holding you back today? Is there something that's 0:26:31.080 --> 0:26:34.880 keeping you from God's best? A mountain in your career, 0:26:35.119 --> 0:26:38.880 a mountain of guilt, a mountain of losing weight. Your 0:26:38.920 --> 0:26:42.199 mind is telling you it's permanent, it's never going to change. 0:26:42.920 --> 0:26:46.440 My challenge to us is to start speaking to those mountains. 0:26:46.720 --> 0:26:50.000 You've prayed about it long enough. Now it's time to say, 0:26:50.040 --> 0:26:53.280 mountain be removed. You will not defeat me. 0:26:53.680 --> 0:26:55.840 I speak favor over this situation. 0:26:56.800 --> 0:27:00.720 Remember, your mountain is going to respond to you your voice. 0:27:01.359 --> 0:27:06.040 There's nothing more powerful than you declaring victory over your life. 0:27:06.880 --> 0:27:10.639 And some of you have talked about the mountain long enough. 0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:13.840 You need to start talking to the mountain. If you 0:27:13.880 --> 0:27:17.359 will rise up and say to the sickness, say to 0:27:17.400 --> 0:27:20.680 the strife. Say to the depression be removed. 0:27:20.720 --> 0:27:21.400 You've got to go. 0:27:22.000 --> 0:27:24.240 Then God will do for you what he did for Zaruba. 0:27:24.280 --> 0:27:28.080 Bel he will turn your mountains into mole hills. You 0:27:28.119 --> 0:27:32.440 will overcome obstacles that looked permanent. You will accomplish dreams 0:27:32.480 --> 0:27:35.640 that you thought were impossible. And I believe in declare 0:27:35.880 --> 0:27:38.639 you will become everything God's created you to be, and 0:27:38.880 --> 0:27:41.399 you will have everything God intended for you to have. 0:27:41.520 --> 0:27:43.240 Amen. Do you receive it today? 0:27:45.119 --> 0:27:47.760 We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 0:27:47.800 --> 0:27:50.680 an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 0:27:50.920 --> 0:27:51.879 Would you pray with me? 0:27:52.440 --> 0:27:57.640 Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins, Come 0:27:57.680 --> 0:27:58.440 into my heart. 0:27:59.640 --> 0:28:01.200 Make you my Lord and savior. 0:28:02.600 --> 0:28:05.040 Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:08.080 got born again. Get in a good Bible based church. 0:28:08.280 --> 0:28:11.119 Keep God first place. 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