“If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed you can say to your mountain move, and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17:20

All of us face mountains, some large, some small, some daunting and some scary. Some mountains look so insurmountable that we try to ignore them and trek the long journey around them rather than even trying to scale them. Scripture is filled with examples of impossible mountains: the Israelites backed up against the Red Sea with the Egyptian Army bearing down, David facing Goliath, Shadrach Meshach and Abednego being thrown into a burning hot furnace, Lazarus family seeing him die, the disciples as they watched Christ nailed to a cross. There is no shortage of incredible mountain stories in scripture. Yet the lesson to learn is that

Each Mountain Was Moved

Perhaps not as we would expect, but in each case perfectly according to God’s will. So how do you and I learn mountain moving faith? Christ tells us that if we have faith no larger than a grain of mustard seed that we can say to our mountain move and it will move. But where am I taught how to achieve this level of faith? All you have to do is move forward one more verse in Matthew, there you will find THE instruction manual Christ gave to us on how to achieve mountain moving faith. Matthew 17:21 “This kind (of faith) does not go out except by prayer and fasting”. Matthew 17:20 says mountain moving faith is possible, and 17:21 tells us that a life lived in prayer is the key! Prayer so powerful that it consumes your life. If you want mountain moving faith, build a prayer life and faith will come alive.