Speak To Your Mountains

A few months ago, I was battling with smoking and what a battle it was. It started as a thought process that lasted 10 years in my head and in my dreams. I had quit smoking for over 20 years.  However, the last 5 to 7 years of my life contained many heartaches, hurts, and shattered dreams.  As a result, I returned to smoking and was tormented for the next 2 ½ years.

Over the course of the last six months, a couple of influential people spoke into my life two very important things. One reminded me that I knew the voice of the Lord and that when the enemy attacked me, to tell him that “it is done”. It was done when Christ paid the ultimate price for us on the cross. Every affliction, every sickness and disease, it was all conquered on the cross.

The second reminded me how God had spoken everything into existence. I had stopped speaking over my life as I had come to a bad place in my own life and in some ways, had given up and began to accept things the way they were not expecting anything good to come from it.

As I began to listen on that faithful Wednesday evening about speaking to the mountains in my life, I took both principals shared with me, to heart and began doing what they told me to do. It didn’t happen overnight, slowly – but all at once – I was delivered from that nasty habit. I know that things started moving and changing in the spiritual once I started speaking it in the natural.

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. God spoke everything into existence. When we hear God’s word, our faith is being built. When it comes to Spiritual matters, water is a representation of the Spirit. It is a fact that sound travels 2-3 times faster in water. When I got that revelation in my spirit – water – i.e. it went from my head to my heart – things went into warp speed.)

There is a distinct difference between positive affirmations and standing firm on a word God has promised you and not letting it go. He had told me that there was coming a day soon when the thought of a cigarette would disgust me and that rather than making me want one, it would play a powerful role in my testimony as I shared what God had done for me. However, when I was in the midst of it all, the thought of one didn’t disgust me. It made me want one more! If I had any sort of conversation about what I was going through, I would go smoke because the conversation would get me to thinking on it and I’d want one!

I would say, (as I was smoking a cigarette) “it is done”. I felt like quite the idiot as I was speaking this thing into existence. The whole while, Satan was also in my head telling me how stupid I was for lying to myself and to God. He went on to tell me that there was no way the Lord could really deliver me if I wouldn’t have the obedience to put them down and not light up to begin with. The problem was, that deep down, inside my heart I really did want to quit. I prayed many times for God to give me the “want to” to want to quit smoking. That may sound goofy, but as much as I hate to admit it, I really had no desire to quit and truly enjoyed it. Or I should say, my flesh enjoyed it.

Many times, when God is looking for our obedience, it’s not always in the natural – such as not lighting up, or deciding not to go to that porn site or deciding not to cheat on your spouse although there is a “sense” of obedience in deciding not to do the things we know will get us into trouble. More importantly, standing on the promises he has given you. Whether those promises were 20 years ago or yesterday. Many times its simply saying “it is done” and then reminding ourselves as well as the devil that it’s not that we say so, but that the Lord says it’s so.

We all have our own “sack of rocks” so to speak. Whether or not we choose to carry them around with us for the rest of our lives or allow God to chisel them and refine them into beautiful diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires is up to us. He will not take us where we are not willing to go. Knowing and understanding where that is, I believe can be a lifelong journey. Many know what they are supposed to be doing, but because of lack of faith in themselves they never rise to the occasion. The understanding of this principle is imperative to moving into one’s destiny. It is my desire that this is merely something that will drive the point home that was opened up to me and that I believe the Lord wants the church to know. The time is now and time is short. God wants to do something mighty in His house. We, as the church, have no idea of the magnitude. This is only the beginning.

It’s time we start taking our lives back, our homes back, our families back and our dreams back. Begin speaking to your mountains today. Stand on God’s promise and tell the devil that IT IS

DONE.

By:

Stephannie Martin