Removed or Conquered

# 290 – We are continuing a series on fasting. As we have seen, this spiritual discipline is not just for Old Testament believers. Today, I want to continue to speak about moving mountains through fasting. You should know by now that God wants His people to be mountain movers! These mountains are to be taken figuratively not literally, and in that sense they mean obstacles. It's not that God cannot literally move mountains, of course He can, the extreme examples used by Jesus in the Gospels are given to us so that we may see, that literal mountain moving, and any other even lesser obstacles that need to be removed are not too difficult for God. Do you have mountains in your life right now? You know, those hindrances that seemingly won't budge? Those things that ever loom in your life. You can’t help thinking about them, worrying about them, and even though you may forget about them for a time as you get occupied with other things, when you look up, …..there they are again. They are like Mt. Ranier in Seattle, never far from sight. Sometimes it’s not just Mt Ranier, sometimes it’s the who stinking range. It’s not just Mt Ranier….it’s seems like the Himalayas.  These obstacles or mountains do nothing but take up space and time in your life that could better be spent on kingdom matters. That’s what the devil does with the mountains in your life. He puts them there to keep you preoccupied with fruitless distractions, but, ENTER GOD!  The Great Remover of Mountains.  God uses the mountains in your life for His glory, and He is more than able to remove them if that’s His will, or  more than able to conquer them in His name for His glory.   When Jesus came upon a blind man, His disciples asked Him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" You see this blindness was a mountain in this man’s life.  3 Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him. (Jn 9:2,3)   God was glorified as the mountain of blindness was removed from the man.  Still another time, a man brought his demon possessed son to the disciples. His boy often fell into the fire and into the water. Jesus cast out the demon and set the boy and his father free. Afterwards he told his disciples that this kind of demon only comes out by prayer and fasting. Just think of the mountain this demon possessed boy presented to his father through the years. Look what He told His disciples to do to remove that mountain. He told them to pray and fast. It is praying and fasting that invites the power of God into the situation. Invite Him into yours. When the power of God is unleashed there are two possible results for you and your mountain. It will either be removed or conquered. Either way, to the glory of God, it will no longer be an obstacle in your life.