Speak To Your Mountains Sermon given by: Joel Osteen I want to talk to you today about having mountain

moving faith. In life we all face mountains. Maybe a mountain in your marriageyou dont see how youll stay together. A mountain in your financesdoesnt look like youll ever get out of debt. Or ever accomplish your dreams. Maybe its a mountain in your health. The experts have said that youre never going to get well. Allot of times, were praying about our mountains. God please help me. God please make my child straighten up. God please take away this fear. And yes, its good to pray. Its good to ask God to help us. But when you face a mountain, its not enough to just pray. Its not enough to just believe. Its not enough to jus t think good thoughts. Heres the key: You have to SPEAK to your mountains. Jesus said in Mark 11 Whoever will say to this mountain Be Removed and does not doubt in his heart he will have whatever he says. Some of you today are praying about things you should be speaking to. You dont need to pray about that fear any more. You need to say Fear, I command you to leave. I will not allow you in my life. Instead of begging God to heal you, you need to start talking to that sickness. Sickness, you have no right in my body. Im a child of the Most High God. You are not welcome here. And Im not asking you to leaveIm not saying pretty please do me a favor. No, Im commanding you to leave my body. If youre going to have mountain moving faith, you gotta SPEAK to your mountains. Ive learned, if you dont talk to your mountains, your mountains will talk to you. All through the daythose negative thoughtsYoure never going to get well. Youre never going to get out of debt. Your business is going to go under. Thats your mountains talking to you. Either you can sit back and believe those lies or you can rise up and say Hey, wait a minute. Im in control here. Im not going to let my mountain talk to me. Mountain, Im saying to you Be Removed. You will not defeat me. Its not a coincidence that God chose a mountain to represent our problems. Mountains are big. Mountains seem permanent. Like theyre going to be there forever. You may be facing a situation now that looks like itll never change. Looks like youll never break the addiction. Youve had it since high school. Looks like youll never lose the weight. Youve struggled for years. Looks like youll never accomplish your dreams. There are too many obstacles. God is saying today, If you will start SPEAKING to the mountains, you will discover that they are not permanent. That situation that youve dealt with a long timethe sickness, the depression, the addictionlooks like its not going to change. You prayed, you believed, youve quoted scripture. Thats all good, but if youre going to see the mountain move, youve got to start talking to it. When you speak words of faith, something happens in the unseen realm. Chains are broken. The forces of darkness are defeated. The enemy begins to tremble. When you say Sickness, youve gotta go. Debt, you cannot stay in my life. Rebellion, you will not control my child. Depression, you will not steal my destiny. When you speak, not in your authority, but in the authority of the Son of the Living God, then all the forces of heaven come to attention. The mighty armies of the unseen Most High God will stand behind you. Let me tell you, no power can stand against our God. No sickness, no addiction, no fear, no legal trouble. When you speak and you do not doubt, the mountain will be removed.

Now it may not happen overnight. You may speak to the mountain and it looks the same month after month. Dont worry about it. In the unseen realm, things are changing in your favor. You remember when Jesus was walking through a town and He saw a fig tree. He went over to get something to eat, but the tree didnt have any fruit on it. He looked at the tree and said You will not produce fruit anymore. Notice, Jesus talked to a tree. People of faith talk to their obstacles. Jesus walked away and it didnt look like anything had happened. The tree was just as healthy and green as it was before. Im sure some of His disciples whispered, It didnt work. Jesus must have lost His touch cause He said for it to die but it didnt die. What they didnt realize was underneath the ground. In the root system, the moment Jesus spoke all the life was cut off to that tree. When they came back through the town a little later, the disciples stood there in amazement. They saw that tree withered up, totally dead. In the same way, the moment you speak to your mountains, in the unseen realm the forces of heaven go to work. God begins to dispatch angels. He begins to fight your battles. He begins to release favor. He begins to move the wrong people out of the way. Sending healing, sending breakthroughs, sending victory. You may not see what Gods been doing behind the scenes for some time. That mountain may look just as big and permanent and strong as it was before. But if you will stay in faith and just keep speaking to the mountain, calling it gone, calling yourself healthy, calling yourself blessed, calling yourself victoriousone day, all of a sudden, you will see that mountain be removed. God will supernaturally do for you what you could not do for yourself. This is what happened to my mother. She was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1981. She spent 21 days in the hospital. She came home and she and my father went to their bedroom and got on their knees. They not only prayed and asked God to heal her, but they SPOKE to the cancer and commanded it to leave. See, theres a time to pray, but theres a time to speak. You dont pray about your mountains; you speak to your mountains. You command them to go. Jesus didnt pray about the fig tree. He didnt say Well, Im believing its not going to produce any fruit. No, He commanded it to not produce fruit. You gotta command sickness to leave your body. You gotta command depression to get out of your life. You gotta command strife and division to get out of your family. If you will SAY to the mountain to be removed, you will have what you say. Heres the key: your mountain responds to your voice. I can speak faith over you all day long. Your friends can build you up with the scriptures. You can put on good music that will encourage and inspire and thats all good. But your mountain is not necessarily interested in what Im saying about you. Its not interested about what your friends are saying about you. In one sense, its not interested in what your parents are praying about you. Your mountain is paying attention to what youre saying. It will respond to your voice. When you rise up in faith and with your own mouth you say Sickness, addiction, depressionIm talkin to you. In the name of Jesus, youve gotta go. Thats when the forces of heaven come to attention. I was talkin to a man who was trying to sell some property for two years. He moved here from another state and hes never sold his other house. Now hes having to make payments on both. Hes was discouraged. He said, Joel I dont understand it. Ive prayed about this situation. Ive fasted. Ive had other people stand in faith with me. I dont know what Im doing wrong. I told him what Im telling you. Thats a mountain. Its not enough to pray about a mountain. You gotta speak to a mountain. You gotta say House, Im commanding you to sell. I declare Gods favor over you. You say Joel, this is kinda far out today. You mean were supposed to talk to a house? Jesus talked to a tree. He talked to winds. He talked to sicknesses. He talked to rains. If youre going to see your mountains moved you gotta talk TO your obstacles.

Allot of times were doing just the opposite. Were talkin ABOUT the mountain instead of talkin TO the mountain. The more you talk ABOUT the mountain, the bigger you make it. When you talk about something, you magnify it. Well I dont think Im ever going to get out of debt Joel. The economy is so down. Business is so slow; I dont see how Im going to make it. No, youre making it worse. Youre making it bigger. Whats the problem? Youre talking ABOUT the mountain. Youre supposed to be talking TO the mountain. When those thoughts come telling you how bad it is and how youre never going to make it. Just turn it around. Say Listen here mountain of debt, mountain of struggle, mountain of lackyou will not keep me from my destiny. God has promised I am the head and not the tail. I will lend and not borrow. He said He would prosper me even in the desert. So Im not asking you to leave. Im not begging God please make it leave. No, with my own mouth Im saying Mountain of debt, mountain of lackyouve gotta go. THATs mountain moving faith. I think about David when he faced Goliath. Everyone around him was talking about the mountain. They were saying Goliath is so big, theres no way we can defeat him. And along came a young man named David. He was only 17 years old. But somehow he understood this principle of talking TO the mountain and not talking ABOUT the mountain. When he saw Goliath, instead of saying like the others Hes so big, we dont have a chance. He said Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? Wait a minute. This is not right. One man is going to keep all of Gods people back? One mountain is going to keep us from our destiny? I dont think so. Im gonna take care of him. Davids friends and the people aroundthey began to laugh. They said David, are you crazy? You cant fight Goliath! Youre just a kid. Youre too small. You dont have any experience. He would crush you. David shook it off. He went out to face Goliath. When Goliath saw him he began to laugh. When he saw how young and small David was he said Am I a dog that you would come at me with a stick? He was saying, Dont you have anything better to send out against me than this little runt? Its not even going to be a fight. No, David wasnt focused on the size of this giant. He was focused on the size of his God. He understood this principle. He didnt just pray that he would defeat Goliath. He didnt just believe and hope that he would defeat him. David SPOKE to his mountain. He looked him in the eyes and said Goliath, you come against me with a sword and a shield, but I come against you in the name of the Lord God of Israel. In other words, youve got a sword, but Ive got something better. Ive got a name. Ive got the forces of heaven backing me up. Listen how he spoke to his mountain. He said, Goliath, this day the Lord will deliver you into my hands. I will defeat you and feed your head to the birds of the air. He was saying You may be big, but I know my God is bigger. And when I speak to the mountain, Gods promised it WILL be removed. To be victorious, youve gotta speak to the giants in your life. Some of you are facing a situation now that looks insurmountable. The medical report says No way. The financial situation says Impossible. In the natural, there are too many obstacles between you and your Godgiven dreams. You are standing exactly where David stood. Its not enough to just pray about it. Its not enough to just believe that youre going to get better. Now more than ever you need to start talking to the mountain. Just say Mountain of debt, mountain of addiction, mountain of depressionit may look like its over, but Im here to serve you notice this is not the end. You will not defeat me. You come against me with natural weapons but I come against you in the name of the Lord God of Israel and I know when I call on the name of Jesus all the forces of heaven come to attention. So I say to you mountain, Be Removed! Get out of my life. I will live and not die. I am blessed and I cannot be cursed. Im a victor and not a victim.

Friends, incredible power is released when we speak to our mountains. Too many times, were talking to God about how big our mountains are. We should be talking to our mountains about how big our God is. The more talk about the mountain, the weaker it makes you. Well Joel, they said this sickness may not ever go away. I prayed, but my marriage isnt getting any better. This legal problemit may go on for another 10 years. I dont know what Im going to do. When you talk like that all its doing is making you weaker, have less faith, have less energy. Youve gotta stop talking ABOUT the mountain and start talking TO the mountain. Its what David did. He said I WILL defeat you. You need to look at that cancer and say Cancer, you may be big, but my God is much bigger. You will NOT get the best of me. I WILL defeat you. Look at that addiction and DONT say Ill never break it Joel. I just dont have the will power. Noannounce to that addiction The power that is in me is greater than the power in you. You will not keep me from my destiny. I WILL defeat you. We see this principle from the very start of the scripture. In the book of Genesis it says that the earth was without form and void. There was darkness everywhere. What happened? And God said. In other words, it was dark and gloomy, chaotic, trouble everywhere. Isnt it interesting that things didnt change just because Gods presence was there. It didnt get better just because God thought I wish I had a world. I wish it was all in order. Nothing happened until God spoke. He said to the darkness, LET there be light. Think about the word let. It indicates that something was opposing it. If I say Let go of my hand. It indicates that youre holding it or youre opposing it. God said in the middle of the darkness, in the middle of the opposition, LET there be light. In our times of difficulty when its dark and gloomy youve gotta speak light to the situation. When theres tension and strife in your home, you need to say LET there be peace in my home. In the middle of a financial crisislooks like youre gonna go under LET there be abundance in my finances. In your healthit doesnt look good. Dont talk about the darkness, speak light. LET there be health. LET there be strength. LET there be renewed vitality. I remember talking to this man after the service that was very discouraged. At one point he had an extremely successful business. He was in the design and graphics industry. Over the last couple of years, his business has gone down to nothing. Hed lost all of his major clients and it looked like bankruptcy was inevitable. As we were talking, he went on and on telling me ABOUT the problem. Explaining in great detail all the set-backs he had suffered and how bad it was and how impossible it looked. He was real good at talking ABOUT the problem. I told him what Im telling you. You gotta start talking TO the problem. You gotta start calling light in the middle of the darkness. I encouraged him to go around all through the day saying things like Im blessed. The favor of God is turning this situation around. Gods favor is bringing me new clients. Debt and lack cannot stay in my life. I command those mountains to be removed. I saw him about 6 months later and he was beaming with joy. He said Joel, I did just what you said. I started declaring favor and speaking to my mountains and calling light in the midst of the darkness. He told how at his lowest moment when it looked for sure the business was going to go under; he got a phone call out of the blue from a company hed never done business with before. They asked him to make a presentation and he made it and they ended up hiring him as their graphics firm. Now that one new client brings in more business than all of his other clients did combined. Hes on pace to have a banner year. But heres what Im saying. I believe he would still be struggling, maybe even lost his business if he had not kicked his faith into action and starting SPEAKING to his mountains.

In life were all gonna have mountains that are going to try to keep us from Gods best. Yes its good to pray, its good to believe, its good to quote scriptures. But remember, the mountains move when we talk to them. You dont ask them to leave. You TELL them to leave. Hey debt, you gotta go. Im a child of the Most High God. Mountain of sickness, mountain of addiction, mountain of a rebellion, mountain of lackyou WILL not defeat me. I speak favor over my finances. I speak health over my body. I speak peace over my family. I speak blessings into my future. There was a man in the scripture that did just this. His name was Zarubabell. He was facing a mountain in his career. He was in charge of rebuilding the temple. Everything had come against him. The city leaders had hired lawyers to try to stop him. They wouldnt give him the permits that he needed. Other people were causing strife and division. What did he do? Complain? Say God, its not fair! Or did he just pray God Im begging you, you gotta help me. No, Zarubabell understood this principle. He said Who are you oh great mountain that stands against me? You shall become a mere molehill and I will finish the temple shouting grace to it. Notice his declaration. He was saying this mountain is going to be turned into a molehill. Hows it going to happen? By speaking grace to it. Another word for grace is favor. In other words, he went around talking to his mountain saying I have the favor of God. I can do all things through Christ. I WILL fulfill my destiny. I love the way he started that passageWho are you oh great mountain? He was saying like David You cant defeat me. I have an advantage. I have the favor of God. In the same way, when you face difficulties dont start complaining. Dont start talking defeat. Do like he did. Dig your heels in and start speaking favor over that situation. Some of you are struggling in your finances. You need to get your checkbook out and speak favor over it. You have a child that wont do right. Quit complaining about him and start speaking favor over him. Youre in a legal situation. Start talking to your mountain. When you declare favor, Gods says He will turn your mountains into molehills. I remember one time years ago, Victoria and I were traveling overseas and we were at this smaller airport in India and we were going to meet my father in another city. When we got to the gate just about to leave, the man working there was very unfriendly. He had a sour attitude like he was mad at the world. We handed him our tickets and he looked at them and threw them on the counter and he said Youre too late. You cant go. We were there 30 minutes ahead of time. The tickets said we still had 10 minutes left to board. There wasnt another flight until the next day. I said very kindly, very friendly Sir, we really need to get on this flight. If theres any way that you could help us, we would really appreciate it. He didnt even look up. He ignored us. Acted like we werent there. I went over by the gate and it was like a holy anger rose up on the inside. I didnt pray about the mountain, I started speaking to that mountain. Not out loud, I didnt want him to hear me. He was mad enough. But under my breath I said You mountain of a sour attitude that would keep us from our destiny. You gotta be removed! Im saying to you to LEAVE! And I started speaking favor over that mountain. I said Father I want to thank You that Your favor is turning this situation around. Thank You that Your favor will cause him to let us on this plane. Lord, I thank You that Your favor is greater than his sour attitude. It was the strangest thing. About 10 minutes later he came over to where we were and he motioned with his hand for us to follow him. Never said a word. He seemed just as perturbed as he was before. But we followed him and he opened the door to the gate, he led us down the jetway, when we got to the plane he put his hand out motioning for us to get on. Still never said a word. You know meI smile real big. Thank you so much, I appreciate that. He had this frown almost like he was going to start growling at us. It was like somebody forced him to let us on that plane. I believe that was power of the Most High God

moving a mountain. Friends, God knows how to get you to where youre supposed to be. And let me tell ya, no grouchy person can keep you from your destiny. I see a lady saying Thank God! My husband cant stop me! But its funny. When we got on the plane and went to our seats someone was sitting in themour assigned seats were taken. The flight attendant came over and she was very nice, very friendly and she said Follow me. She took us up to first class. She said These are the only seats we have available. You think they would be okay? I said Well, I think so. That was the favor of God moving a mountain. Well you say Joel, does that happen every time you speak favor? Every time you speak to the mountain? Of course not. But if we wouldve missed that flight and not been allowed to get on, we wouldve stayed in faith and believed that God was directing our steps. But are there times that we dont see mountains moved because were not speaking to them? I believe there are. Faith is what moves God. When you speak to the mountain; when you declare Gods favor that activates the power of the Most High. Thats when He said Hell turn mountains into molehills. Are there mountains that are holding you back today? Is there something thats keeping you from Gods best? A mountain in your career? A mountain of guilt? A mountain of losing weight? Your mind is telling you its permanent. Its never going to change. My challenge to us is to start speaking to those mountains. You prayed about it long enough. Now its time to say Mountain, be removed! You will not defeat me! I speak favor over this situation. Remember, your mountain is going to respond to your voice. Theres nothing more powerful than YOU declaring victory over your life. Some of you have talked ABOUT the mountain long enough. You need to start talking TO the mountain. If you will rise up and say to the sickness, say to the strife, say to the depression Be removed, you gotta go! Then God will do for you what He did for Zarubabell. He will turn your mountains into molehills. You will overcome obstacles that looked permanent. You will accomplish dreams that you thought were impossible. And I believe and declare you will become everything Gods created you to be. And you will have everything God intended you to have. AMEN !!

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I've moved to an upscale community called Higher Heights with unlimited potential and opportunities for me to succeed. I can do ALL things through CHRIST who strengthens me! Life is good because God is good! Care to change your address? There are many vacancies! GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS Oh LORD! I AM WELL BLESSED, in spite of temporary circumstances!!!!!! (AND SO ARE YOU) DON'T TELL GOD HOW BIG YOUR MOUNTAINS ARE; TELL YOUR MOUNTAINS HOW BIG YOUR GOD IS!! May God Richly Bless Each and Everyone who Receives This Message