Take a moment and consider the past 7 days. He and his wife were past the age of childbearing and yet, he believed anyway.Ībraham’s faith in God was able to move mountains because he had the courage to turn and talk to God to the point of trusting him to do the impossible. Abraham had a serious mountain, a seemingly expired promise of God to become a father of many nations. God himself said to him, “You’re going to have a big family, Abraham!” Romans 4:18 (MSG)įaith in God makes the impossible possible. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do. We have to decide not to live in denial if we want to have genuine faith in God’s power. What are some things you do when you don’t want to admit the truth about the condition of your faith? Review Sarah didn’t want to admit that she didn’t totally believe she could have a child, so she denied the truth that she had laughed at God. So she laughed silently to herself and said, “How could a worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure, especially when my master-my husband-is also so old?” Then the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh? Why did she say, ‘Can an old woman like me have a baby?’ Is anything too hard for the LORD? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.” Sarah was afraid, so she denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh.” But the LORD said, “No, you did laugh.” Genesis 18:11-15 NLT Abraham and Sarah were both very old by this time, and Sarah was long past the age of having children. Along the way, we see them battling to have faith in God, and Sarah struggled with some denial. Abraham and Sarah were past the age of childbearing, yet God promised they would in fact have a child.

The story of Abraham and Sarah in the book of Genesis gives us an incredible example of what it looks like when God does the impossible. Because I don’t really have faith that these mountains can be moved from my heart, it’s easier to deny that the mountains are there.

Up until now, denial has been a really close friend of mine. What mountains in your life do you need God’s help to move?Īcknowledging the mountains in my heart is a recent epiphany for me. If I am going to let God move these mountains, I need to acknowledge that they exist. My biggest mountains are usually inside me: fears in relationships, doubts that I can change, disappointing moments when I tried to have faith and defeats in my life that not only impacted me, but also the friends and family around me. The thing I’ve been learning is that the mountains I need to move in my life aren’t necessarily the circumstances I see in front of me. That’s what makes it even more incredible that Jesus says faith in God can actually move mountains. Mountains are massive, magnificent, and overwhelming all at once. Running the mountain hurt physically, mentally, and emotionally because it challenged every part of me. And during the worst times, we’d run the entire 6+ miles. Other times, we would get dropped off in the middle of the mountain and we would have to run different parts of the mountain. Sometimes it was just the first steep hill.

We had to run parts of the mountain for training, which made me dread Monday afternoons. I ran track in college, and I had an experience with a mountain that I’ll never forget. But before we can even begin moving mountains, we must first acknowledge that they are there. The Bible says that the way we move mountains is through our faith. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17:19-20 NIV

Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move.

Don’t be afraid to face difficult factsĪcknowledge your mountains Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?” He replied, “Because you have so little faith.

All things done in faith are good