This passage of scripture is powerful. It’s implications overwhelm the mind. Is it really true? Can we actually do that? Yes, we can. But we must be careful to make the proper application.
When faced with a mountain (obstacles, setbacks, disappointments, hardships, and difficulties of every kind) we are not to speak just whatever comes to mind, but we are to speak what God says in His Word! The late author and speaker Judson Cornwall once said: “You do have the right to speak to any mountain. Just be sure that when you speak, you speak what the Lord told you to speak. When you do, then you can expect the mountain to be moved.”
The power of what is spoken is not in what we say, but in what God says! The Lord of the universe always backs up His Word! There is power in His Word. And when His Word is spoken in faith (absolute confidence and trust in His Truth) then His power is unleashed into whatever situation we may be facing. And we can expect the mountain to be moved in God’s time and in God’s way. So just keep speaking to the mountain what God told you to speak. The mountain must move. It has no choice.
The perseverance in speaking is not to convince God to move. It is to convince the evil one and the mountain he has created, must yield to the Name of Jesus and the Power of His Word. The adversary will resist until he is convinced that we are convinced of the absolute truth of God’s Word. Once that is established he (the evil one) and the mountain that has been created by him has to move.
Rev. James Black
