How we react to a mountain will determine the way that mountain is going to affect us. A Godly attitude through Christ Jesus is the key to victory in all areas of our life.
The mountain before you may be sickness or a financial need. Maybe it is a broken relationship causing you pain that you feel will never go away.
You see, with God, it doesn't matter how big or how small the mountain may be. He is able to take care of all our problems. He loves to do that for us (Hebrews 10:32-35).
With every prayer that we pray, there is a condition to that prayer. We need to know what is required of us and to abide by His Word. Things have a way of working out. Just try it and see if it doesn't work.
Let's say you have been praying for God to move in a situation. How do you pray?
First, we must have hope. Romans 8:23- 25 describes this hope saying, "And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it."
If a person does not have hope, they have no peace and no strength! Without hope, we will feel unable to face our problems and our steps will become slower and slower. As a friend said to me the other day, "Dolly, I wish I had some of what you have because you're always so excited." I answered, "You can!"
Faith and hope go together. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1
If we are believing for God to move on our behalf, we must have both hope and faith that it will come to pass. If one of these is absent, we will end up wondering what is going wrong.
It's like a farmer planting a crop. He prepares the ground before he plants the seed, both of which are an act of faith. Now he hopes for the sunshine and rain needed to produce a good crop.
The person who lives by hope doesn't look at the circumstance; he knows in his heart that he knows, and no one can change his mind!
An excerpt from Mountains are Moved by Prayer, by Dolly Holland
