Invincible by Robert JeffressÀpẹrẹ

Day Two

Mountain Mover

Scripture: Numbers 13:31-33; Nahum 1:5; Zechariah 4:6-7 

At first glance, mustard seed faith hardly seems enough to conquer the mountains that loom large in our lives. But to look at the mountains from merely a human viewpoint is to take our eyes off the Mountain Mover. The ancient Israelites did that when they looked across the river into the promised land. 

In Numbers 13, God’s people were on the verge of receiving the blessing promised long ago. All they had to do was cross the river and conquer the people who lived there. But when the spies Moses sent in to survey the land returned, ten of the twelve were frightened by the mountain-sized people who occupied the land. They were so large, these spies said, “We became like grasshoppers in our own sight” (v. 33). 

Can’t you picture the image? People as big as mountains compared to people as small as grasshoppers. From the spies’ perspective, the mountain-sized giants could (and would) squash them like bugs. What the spies failed to consider was that the God who made the mountains had already promised to move the mountains, if they would just have faith and trust His promise. 

The biblical writers often used the imagery of a mountain to refer to something that seemed impossible. In the Old Testament book of Zechariah, for example, an angel said to the prophet, “What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain” (4:7). 

Seventy years earlier, Nebuchadnezzar’s army had marched into Jerusalem and destroyed Solomon’s magnificent temple. When the Jews finally returned to their homeland, rebuilding the temple to its former glory seemed impossible. But the angel promised Zechariah that God would level that “great mountain” like “a plain.” How? “‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts” (Zechariah 4:6). 

In the little book of Nahum, the prophet wrote, “Mountains quake because of Him and the hills dissolve; indeed the earth is upheaved by His presence” (1:5). Mountains humble us. But even the tallest mountain stands in humility before God, who helps us overcome the mountain-like difficulties in our lives.

When has God helped you overcome a seemingly insurmountable problem in your life?