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Mark 11:20-26

How long have you been seeking, hoping and looking for a solution to move the mountain that is before you? The mountain that refused to move before you for your breakthrough needs to hear from you by the authority that was delivered to you when Jesus was with His disciples. It is time that you should begin to speak to the mountain instead of sitting and looking up to the mountain. The devil is a liar; he is stubborn and he is always looking for an opportunity to operate. After Jesus had defeated the devil in the wilderness, the devil did not give up and the Bible recorded, ÒNow when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time.Ó (Luke 4:13) This is a testimony to the fact that the devil will not give up on having you stagnated and he will continue to take a stand against you moving the mountain before you. Is it possible for you to avoid or stop counting the number of years that you have been looking up to your mountain instead of speaking to your mountain? Counting the number of years in stagnation is an indirect way of complaining and also a way of looking back. Looking back is not an option for your getting to where you are going in the journey of life. Looking up to God in praise and worship for where you have been coming from will also get you through. Every attempt to stay focus on looking back is a way of termination in the journey of life. Look to your mountain and speak to it. LotÕs wife looked back when she was supposed to focus on moving forward in her route of escape, ÒBut his wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.Ó (Genesis 19:26) Except for two out of all that were in journey to the Promised Land, all of the children of Israel looked back by virtue of their complaint about food, Ò We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.Ó (Numbers 11:5) All of the children of Israel who looked back were terminated. When the need to look and speak to the mountain is before you; is not the time of entering into the act of looking back complaining. Can you put the past in the past and face the future by speaking to the mountain? Jesus gave the prescription that will move your mountain in Mark 11:23-24, ÒFor assuredly I say unto you, that whoever says to this mountain, ÔBe removed, and be cast into the sea,Õ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. God has never failed in His Word and He will not fail.  He cannot fail! The devil will try to resist you from moving your mountain, but you will have to persist because God have insisted in blessing you.