Colchuck Lake || Mark 11:23 mountain be thou thrown into the sea
In 1 Kings 18:41-46, after a three-and-a-half-year drought, the prophet Elijah told King Ahab that heavy rain was coming. Elijah climbed Mount Carmel, bowed in prayer, and sent his servant to look toward the sea seven times. On the seventh attempt, a small cloud (the size of a man's hand) appeared, bringing a torrential downpour.
Key Details of the Event:
Command: Elijah told Ahab to eat & drink bc he heard sound of rainstorm.
Prayer: Elijah went to top of Carmel, bowed, put his face btw knees to pray.
Persistence: The servant was sent to look for rain seven times.
Sign: Servant reported sml cloud, no bigger than a man's hand, rising from sea.
Outcome: Sky grew black w clouds, wind, heavy rain fell, ending drought.
This event served as a direct challenge to the false god Baal, demonstrating that the Lord controls the rain
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Today's Word With Joel and Victoria Osteen - Mountain Removal
Today’s Scripture
“Whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.”
Mark 11:23, NKJV
Today’s Word
We all face mountains in life, things that seem big and permanent. It may be a mountain in your marriage, your finances, your health, or your dreams. It’s…
“I assure you and most solemnly say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea!’ and does not doubt in his heart [in God’s unlimited power], but believes that what he says is going to take place, it will be done for him [in accordance with God’s will].”
—Mark 11:23 (AMP)
“Speak your faith to your needs, doubts, fears, and pain, for it can move mountains beloved.” (Mark 11:23)
9.] In Psalms 37:4, some of us don’t have desire anymore.
We’ve been so bogged down with life, we’ve been hit a few times on the chin.
And you just don’t think GOD wants you to win. READ AGAIN.
Psalm 37:4 | Delight yourself in the LORD, & He will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 35:27 | May those who favor my vindication shout for joy & gladness; may they always say, “Exalted be the LORD who delights in His servant’s well-being.”
GOD says to those who delight in my righteousness, shout for joy.
What do we delight in? GOD’s righteousness.
What does GOD delight in? Our prosperity.
He delights when our hearts desires are met.
This is what GOD enjoys.
UNTIL NOW: By Shawn Scarborough | Part 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 [June 26, 2019]
I get it that life has some limits.
There is suffering in the world.
There is loss, there’s hurt.
There is pain.
I get it, but it doesn’t make us more spiritual bc we’re going through something.
And we have come to a place of suffering in Christianity, where we’re elevating it all the time.
As if we’re better because we’re struggling.
You will find suffering throughout the Gospel.
I challenge you, if you’re one of those who tends to elevate suffering a bit.
Like you feel that’s where GOD’s moving, when we suffer.
I would like to submit this idea:
You will find a lot about suffering between Genesis to Revelations. But one thing you will never find is that GOD delights in it.
GOD does not delight in our suffering.
RE: He tells us it’s going to happen! He tells us to prepare for it! He tells us He will be with us in it. He tells us He will never leave us. He will never forsake us! He tells us: though we walk through the valley of shadow of death, we are to fear no evil! Because He’s given us His rod & His staff, and they will comfort us.
But what He never says: Is He delights in it.
The suffering is not what GOD is leading you to.
It’s the thing that we’re led through!
What I mean by that is:
“Not every promise GOD leads you to, will go through a hard time.”
But there are just certain victories, that GOD has for you—that the journey to get there is going to be a little more complicated than you ever dreamed!
And you just go through it & hang onto HIM.
And don’t embrace the suffering; don’t enjoy the suffering.
Delight in the VISION. Delight in the DREAM.
Delight in the place where HE’s taking you.
>> Delight in the mountaintop, & just endure the valley.
Because I’m telling you, GOD wants you to win & HE’s taking you somewhere higher. He’s taking you somewhere better! So don’t get so comfortable in the suffering that you just wanna stay there. Get out!
Get through. Move on. MOVE ON!
GOD delights in our prosperity.
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10.] There is a text, Mark 11:23, it was an anthem for a previous generation.
Whoever, I like those words, whoever/anyone/everyone, all of us.
Mark 11:23 | “Truly I tell you that if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up & thrown into the sea,’ & has no doubt in his heart but believes that it will happen, it will be done for him.
Therefore whatever you ask, in prayer, believe that you have received it &
it shall be yours.
When you stand praying (v.25), forgive to be forgiven.
Mark 11:25 | When you stand to pray, if you hold anything against another, forgive it, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your trespasses as well.”
Now we see how this whole conversation delves deeper & deeper.
It begins with just say to this mountain, anything to this mountain.
Anything in-front of you, getting in the way of what GOD has for you.
That’s a mountain.
If you are here, GOD’s promise over there, & between you & there, there’s a huge mountain. He says if there’s a mountain, command it to be taken up & thrown into the sea.
Just a nice literary way to say: Get out of my way.
All I have to say is get out of my way, & if I believe, it will move away.
But then HE goes a little further, & says exactly what I mean by that is not just yelling at it to get out of your way, but now I’m talking about this place in prayer. Whatever you ask in prayer.
There’s the place in prayer, & then there’s praying..
We pray over our food.
We drive down the road, “Lord help me get a green light (4x)!”
Ahhh! I ran another one. (sorry, I’m sorry)
Like that’s just like ‘praying’
GOD said whatever you ask in prayer; that’s a deep place.
That’s the kind of place, that JESUS says you don’t do it in-front of others; & you ask in secret what your heavenly Father will reward you openly w/.
That’s being in prayer, what is it I will pray in my understanding?
I will pray w/ the Spirit also, it’s like being in prayer. That’s a deep place.
That some of you know to do, but you’re just not carving out the time to do it.
And if you’re not going to pray it through, you’re not going to see it.
I’m glad you spoke to the mountain to get it out of your way.
>> But did you say it in prayer?
>> Did you ask it in prayer, in that place?
11.] Then HE goes even deeper than that!
When you stand praying.
Remember a few weeks ago, when you’ve done all you stand, it’s all you could do. Is to do what you’ve done. There’s nothing left to do.
And then GOD just says, I’ll take over!
This battle is MINE, you’ve done all to stand.
That’s the word stand here, not when you physically pray standing vertically upright. When you stand praying, so you’ve done everything that you can do.
And now you are praying. What is the last thing HE tells you do in standing? FORGIVE
Ahhhh there’s one! When you stand praying, forgive.
You can command the mountain to get out of your way
You can get into that place of prayer, & like intercede for change!
But if standing between you & GOD is unforgiveness?
The mountain will stay in your way.
>> It’s not one idea & another idea, and another idea. It’s all of it.
It’s the whole thing, unforgiveness is a cancer that
keeps us from the life GOD has for us.
There are some of us who just live in this stationary place, of never going further because we just can’t forgive.
I get it, but we have to stop.
We can’t keep living life — where we are willing to forgive people, who are three states away — but we won’t forgive our neighbour across the street.
Like I just want to let you know, I want to give you the hard truth.
>> That’s not forgiveness because you don’t have to see ‘em.
You know when you know: When you’ve forgiven s/b?
When you’re face to face.
If they step in-front of you, & you’re (uttering threats), “Oh I forgive ‘em. It doesn’t matter to me at all!” They’re 7-states over, you’ll never see ‘em again!!
I mean it counts! But when the guy, who’s across the street or nextdoor?
Oh, let me put myself on the couch again.
Ex. Me & my neighbour, where we mow our yards doesn’t line up.
It really annoys me when he comes over on my side & his last line is
actually on my side of the yard.
It doesn’t bother you, but it really annoys me.
And I realized this is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.
Like I was getting knit-picky, he wears crocs too. I’m not a big crocs fan.
And he comes over in his crocs, (ah stupid crocs), & the only way I feel that way is because he mows on my side of the grass!
It’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard of!
But I noticed, that I was getting more knit-picky.
I was getting more frustrated, because of GRASS?!
Ex. Then when we think about somebody, like messing up Thanksgiving dinner..? or Christmas? or birthdays. Now those are real deals.
We have a real hard time getting through.
There are a lot of folk who haven’t spoken to family members in years.
Because we just won’t forgive ‘em.
GOD says, you command that mt to get out of the way, & you go in prayer to ask Me to take it out of the way. But before you do that, FORGIVE.
I’m all into the PROMISES of GOD, FORGIVE b4 you ask!
I have to work on that one.
But that’s where the TRUTH just got HARD.
And if we’re willing to accept everything, except for that?
We’ll never experience the thing that is up here.
12.] You say: How do I go from unforgiveness to forgiveness?
The same way we get any where: Little by little.
I know that is a frustrating because we want it all NOW!
Especially, in 2019 we want a house now, a promotion now!
But there is a principle we find in the Gospel, when GOD was giving His
people land, & when He was giving them their inheritance.
An inheritance of land & an inheritance of people.
And it’s the same promise both times, Exodus 23:29, “He says you’re going
to go into this land & you’re going to go take it!”
Exodus 23:29 | I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate & wild animals would multiply against you.
Then HE says, “little by little I will drive them out. Until you increase &
possess the land.”
We are here, & we want that!
How are we gonna get there?? We gotta grow!
We have to accept this WORD & increase.
We have to accept this WORD & increase
We have to accept this WORD & increase
We just keep increasing, because we keep accepting HIS WORD.
And by accepting, I don’t me we just say “yes”
>> I mean that we believe it & we do it.
There’s something to be believed, & something to be done when the WORD of the LORD comes to you. ALWAYS
This is not a hearing game. It’s a hearing & doing; hearing & doing (4x).
We know that faith is working when faith is being applied/used.
Little by little.
It’s the same promise HE made by GOD’s people, when HE said go out & I just want you to take over the world.
Take over land that’s the size of New Jersey, but this proclaim the Gospel in all the world: How’s that supposed to look [Acts 1:8]?
Acts 1:8 | But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, & you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, & in all Judea & Samaria, & to the ends of the earth.”
HE says you will receive power after the Holy Spirit comes upon you.
They weren’t just going to get power, rather there was going to be a process.
An experience that they were going to have to submit to.
And at the end of that experience, there would come power, & once power came at the end of experience that they submitted to, then HE says you will be MY witnesses in Jerusalem/ Judea/Samaria/WORLD.
HE didn’t just go from power to the end of the earth.
Where did the church begin? Locally in Jerusalem.
There is no global church, without the local church.
>> I just want to remind us all that, because sometimes we like the distraction of praying for the Southern Tip of Africa. When we won’t pray for our neighbour.
Sometimes we want to go out & make a difference over there!
And go to the President’s conference over there!
But we don’t want to do the work & see HIM fall here.
It starts in JERUSALEM.
It didn’t start because they were awesome.
It didn’t start because they prayed for 10 days.
It didn’t start because they were one.
It started because the SPIRIT of GOD fell.
Could we never ever ever have conversations that
diminish the value of the SPIRIT of GOD upon our lives.
Because in the absence of the SPIRIT upon our lives, there is no power!
If there is no power, there is no capacity to witness that we’ve been called to be.
It’s little by little.
14.] Let’s talk natural for a minute, let’s talk about your side hustle.
Because yes what is our desire/delight is in HIM.
Our delight is in HIS righteousness. Seek ye first the kingdom of GOD.
First! But it didn’t say only.
HE went on to say: Desire/delight in the kingdom. Seek first the kingdom.
But these things will be added. And I’m a give you the desires of your heart.
So there’s the kingdom & there’s the side hustle.
And there’s nothing wrong with this..& GOD has some great stuff for you.
Ex. Some of you say: I just want a house/apartment
(it swings both ways)
But I talk to people all the time, they see what they want.
They know where they are. They just don’t like the next step.
>> Well what do you need to do to have a house? Well I need $5K
>> Well how are you going to have $5K? I have no idea!
Can you maybe cut out $50/mo? Yeah I guess. Well that’s $600/yr
You see them 5years later & they still have nothing when they should
have $3K towards the $5K they needed.
Because they never were willing to take the little step.
>> It’s the same thing spiritually.
We want to prophesy! But we don’t want to spend 3 minutes praying.
There’s work to be done y’all!
Stuff doesn’t just happen! If there’s a biggest lie of our generation?
It’s that ‘everything is just going to happen’, because it creates apathy.
Apathy is the opposite of faith.
Apathy does nothing, it just sits around always hoping for something!
And nothing ever does, & we get more frustrated & more behind.
And more frustrated & more behind...etc.
>> HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET THERE? Little by little.
There’s a book by Steven Furtick, “Start Small, Dream Big.”
Don’t throw your big dream away / fall asleep / put it in your pocket.
Keep it in-front of you, just be willing to take the little steps to get there
Some of you are not going to conquer that addiction overnight.
I thank GOD for those miracle moments, when HIS HOLY SPIRIT just falls & people say, “I never wanted it again.” I love it.
>> But if that’s not your story?
There are victories to be won everyday.
Just win today. Just win the next day.
Just win the next day... “I-i-i try.”
I’m 3d into this! STOP counting days. It’s not about the days.
Today is the day, I’m not concerned about whether you got it right or wrong, yesterday.
What are you doing today?
These are just simple steps, little by little each day to freedom/prosperity.
These are just simple steps, little by little each day to forgiveness
Sometimes the only step you can take towards forgiveness is just thinking a good story about that person you can’t stand right now.
And tell somebody, hey, I remember when me & so-and-so, we did
this thing that was a whole lot of fun!
And you just stop yourself from saying: But they’re a complete jerk today!
You just stop the story at the great time.
WHAT IS GOING ON?
You are re-framing little by little how you feel about that person.
What is that doing?
Little by little, it is leading you to forgiveness.
Because when you get to that place of forgiveness, you say “GOD move the mountain <slap>, the mountain goes.”
What hard truths are you grappling with today??
What is it asking you to do? Little by little, you’ll get there.
I’ll close with this: I was watching the news the other night.
There was this little girl, I think they said she was 9 yo.
And she was climbing this huge flatiron in Boulder.
And I saw how big the mountain was & how little she was.
This is fascinating!
And the news anchor goes, how are you going to climb that mountain?
She gave a cliche that we’ve all heard before, but for whatever reason in the moment, it just clicked!
It was just like my coach always said: “How do you eat an elephant?”
One bite at a time.
How’s that mountain going to move in-front of you? one rock at a time
One stone, one act of forgiveness, act of kindness, 1hr in your prayer closet.
1 moment of worship & another moment of worship. And another moment in the word. And another moment living for JESUS.
And another moment saying yes to what you should.
And another moment saying no to what you should be saying no to.
And another moment... And another moment... And another moment in
And before long you look at where you are, & you say, “Look at what the LORD has done!”
Where did it all start?
When HIS Word came, & you accepted it.
I promise you, whatever the LORD is leading you into this hour, wrestle with it a bit (knowing the whole time that you’re going to say yes).
Do your due diligence.
Make sure that what you’re being told is the TRUTH!
Wrestle w/ GOD a little bit.
And just know at the end, HE promises to bless you.
And take you into that place, that you desire to go.
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