RCCG SOD Year Six. The Disciples and Mountains

Many believe that every mountain we come across must be removed, because of Mark 11:23-24, which says: “If you have faith and you doubt not, speak to the mountain and say mountain, be thou removed, be cast into the sea and it shall obey you”.

But that is good, it is the Word of God but as disciples in Year 6, you need to know things that the children don’t know because there are mountains and all mountains have their usefulness. Some mountains are for climbing, some mountains are for sitting upon. Some mountains draw you nearer to God. You remember Jesus Christ said in this world, you will have tribulations, He said:

“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulations, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world”- John 16:33.

The word of God says,

“Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him from them all”. Psalm 34:19.

So for genuine Christianity, everything is not always bread and butter. There are some wars that we have to fight but for every war we fight, God has a purpose. When you are born again, the difference between you and sinners is that for sinners, when their problem comes, when their mountain comes, they are completely devastated but for us who are born again, our victory is certain. In fact for every mountain that comes our way, we know that one way or the other, we will reach the top.

Some People that sat On Mountains and what happens to them on the Mountain Top

#1 Abraham

You will remember in Genesis 22:1-8, God ordered Abraham to go to the Mountain top, to go and do what? TO go and sacrifice his only begotten son. Abraham climbed this mountain and when he got there, he met blessings, tremendous blessings that many of us are still enjoying today.

What happened to Abraham on the mountain?

i. Total Surrender

He surrendered his only begotten son to be slaughtered to God. The mountain allows us to demonstrate our absolute surrender to the will of God. When problems come, mighty problems, we will then be able to find out whether we are one hundred percent for God or not. Many people when real mountains come, run to places they thought they would never go again. But those who surrendered to God completely always say,

“Even though He slay me, I will trust Him”.

ii. Miracle of Supply

On that same mountain, Abraham met a miracle of supply and deliverance, because there, God provided a ram for sacrifice and He provided deliverance for Abraham, deliverance from loss because he would have lost his son but God delivered him from death. This means that mountains give us opportunities to receive miracles, miracles of divine deliverance.

iii. Total blessings

The kind of blessings he had not received before, he got on the mountain top. It is there that God said, “I swear by myself because there is nobody higher than me to swear by”. He said, “In blessings, I will bless you, I will bless your children. I will bless your seed after you”.

You see, God gives opportunities for blessings in the form of mountains. There are some problems, which if solved by another person for you, may rob you of your blessings.

2. Moses

In Exodus 19:20, God called Moses to the Mountaintop. When he got there, God told him to fast for forty days and forty nights. He told the other people to stay away and they stayed in the valley. It was Moses alone who went to the mountain. Moses received a lot of blessings on the mountaintop, as follows:

I. Total sanctification

He got total sanctification. The mountain gives us opportunities for total separation from God and total separation from evil, which is sanctification. Many of us don’t pray hard unless a problem comes. If your child will not sleep because of serious sickness and you have no car, no phone to call the doctor, you don’t even have the money to hire a taxi, you will pray all night, all night long. Not only will God heal your son, but you will also develop spiritually. Believe me honestly, during those forty days that Moses was on the mountain, you can be sure he did not sin.

If you are fasting for forty days, for mountains to be moved out of your life, there will be no sin at all. There is the story of a brother who was asked to fast for three days so that he would not get into trouble. He said, “You want to commit murder?” Then the civil war came. He ran home and then two armies were converging on his village, and he ran into a trench where one soldier had just vacated. He was there for seven days as bullets were flying over his head. He could not even sleep not to talk of eating. During those seven days, I am sure he did not think of girlfriends. When he came out of the hole, he became a better Christian than ever before. Some mountains are sent to purify you.

ii. Mouth to mouth Discussion with God

On the mountaintop, Moses had a mouth-to-mouth discussion with God. In other words, mountains at times provide you with an opportunity to have intimate discussions with God. When there are no problems in your life you are asked to pray, and you only pray as the pastor directs, but when you face a big problem, even your sigh will be a prayer to God.

iii. Glorification

On the mountain, Moses was glorified because, by the time he came back, his face was shining like the sun. So some mountains bring glory of God to the lives of believers. People see you and they say “Ah, we glorify God. How are you able to survive that? ” People will look at you and they will marvel.

iv. Visions

And when mountains come at times the invisible becomes visible because in Exodus 20:18: , the Bible say:

“The people saw lightning and thunder”.

We could see some lightning but do we see thunder? It is only on special occasions when something special is happening when there is a big mountain and you pray and you fast, you do night vigils and all kinds of praises; suddenly you begin to see visions of the other world, angels, visions of heaven. If you don’t know what am talking about, try it. Just try it, maybe for fourteen days without food at all, I can guarantee that you will see visions, glorious visions too. So you can see that mountains can be very useful.

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