Mountain Moving Prayer

Here's an excerpt from Bill Hybel's book Too Busy Not to Pray that I really liked and wanted to pass along.

How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.

While the Israelites were on the edge of the Promised Land, twleve spies go out to survey it. Numbers 13 tells us that ten come back saying, "You wouldn't believe the size of the cities, the armies, the giants! We'd better look somewhere else." Two come back saying, "The God who is faithful promised he would give us the land, so let's go in his strength." Ten looked at the size of the mountain and fell back; only two looked at the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and wanted to move forward.

Or again...Israel's warriors are standing on a hill overlooking a battlefield, and the Philistine champion Goliath swaggers out to frighten them. First Samuel 17 says that the warriors declare, "We're not going down there to fight him. He's nine feet tall. Look at his armor! Look at his spear! I don't want that thing in my ribs." But the adolescent shepherd David comes out, surveys the field and says, "Look at the size of our God. Let me go!"

We all have our mountains to face. And if we focus on the mountain we will not respond in faith but in fear. However, if we focus on the Mountain Mover we will not respond in fear but in faith. May God help us all do the latter and not the former!