Mountain Moving Prayer

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Mountain Moving Prayer
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  And Jesus answered and said to them, Truly I
say to you, if you have faith, and do not doubt,
you shall not only do what was done to the fig
tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be
taken up and cast into the sea, it shall
happen.   And everything you ask in prayer,
believing, you shall receive. Matthew
2121-22 
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And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of
him, and the boy was cured at once. Then the
disciples came to Jesus privately and said, Why
could we not drive it out?" And He said to
them, Because of the littleness of your faith
for truly I say to you, if you have faith the
size of a mustard seed, you will say to this
mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will
move and nothing will be impossible to you.
Matthew 1718-20
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I. What is your mountain?   -To experience
mountain moving prayer, you must first
develop mountain moving faith.  
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II. How to build your mountain moving
faith   Faith comes from looking at God, not at
the mountain. Then the LORD spoke to Moses
saying, "Send out for yourself men so that they
may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going
to give to the sons of Israel you shall send a
man from each of their fathers' tribes, every one
a leader among them." Number 131,2  
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When they returned from spying out the land, at
the end of forty days, they proceeded to come to
Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of
the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at
Kadesh and they brought back word to them and to
all the congregation and showed them the fruit of
the land. Numbers 1325, 26
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Thus they told him, and said, "We went in to the
land where you sent us and it certainly does
flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
  Nevertheless, the people who live in the land
are strong, and the cities are fortified and very
large and moreover, we saw the descendants of
Anak there. Amalek is living in the land of the
Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the
Amorites are living in the hill country, and the
Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side
of the Jordan. Numbers 1327-29
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Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and
said, We should by all means go up and take
possession of it, for we will surely overcome
it. But the men who had gone up with him said,
We are not able to go up against the people, for
they are too strong for us. So they gave out to
the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which
they had spied out, saying, The land through
which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land
that devours its inhabitants and all the people
whom we saw in it are men of great size.
Numbers 1330-32
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2. Faith grows as we step forward in
faith. Joshua 31-17
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40 Years later Then the two men returned and
came down from the hill country and crossed over
and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and they
related to him all that had happened to them.
  They said to Joshua, "Surely the LORD has
given all the land into our hands moreover, all
the inhabitants of the land have melted away
before us." Joshua 223,24
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At the end of three days the officers went
through the midst of the camp  and they
commanded the people, saying, "When you see the
ark of the covenant of the LORD your God with the
Levitical priests carrying it, then you shall set
out from your place and go after it.
Joshua 32
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 "It shall come about when the soles of the feet
of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD, the
Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the
Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off,
and the waters which are flowing down from above
will stand in one heap." Joshua 313  
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So when the people set out from their tents to
cross the Jordan with the priests carrying the
ark of the covenant before the people, and when
those who carried the ark came into the Jordan,
and the feet of the priests carrying the ark were
dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan
overflows all its banks all the days of harvest),
the waters which were flowing down from above
stood and rose up in one heap, a great distance
away at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan
and those which were flowing down toward the sea
of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut
off. So the people crossed opposite Jericho.
vs.14-16
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And the priests who carried the ark of the
covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in
the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed
on dry ground, until all the nation had finished
crossing the Jordan. Joshua 317
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How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith
that it can move a mountain? By shifting the
focus from the size of your mountain to the
sufficiency of the mountain mover, and by
stepping forward in obedience. As you walk with
God, your faith will grow, your confidence will
increase and your prayer will have power.
Bill Hybels