It’s Time to Take the Mountains

Destiny doesn’t happen by accident, it must be intentionally pursued. It is not handed to any man on a silver platter nor to men lying on a bed of feathers; if we really want it, we must go for it, press for it, and fight for it. It’s time to take it by force.

[1 Timothy 6:12 KJV] “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses”.

Reference text

Joshua 14:5-15¹

Numbers 14

Motivation

Stop waiting on God to take your mountain for you, He does not take mountains for people, you must be ready to pull the bow with strength, tenacity, desire, and drive, to take your shot at destiny.

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If you really want to make it, then be ready to dream, step out and put on effort with strength, tenacity, desire, and drive to take a shot at destiny.

Dream | Step out | Become through drive and tenacity.

Discussions

Apostle Paul is exhorting us to fight the good fight of faith. What is this good fight of faith and how is it fought? The good fight of faith is pursuing what God has said until it manifests.

Our classic example of a man who fought the good fight of faith is Caleb.

1. Caleb followed the Lord with a different spirit and heart:

In number 14, we read about how the Lord testified of Caleb that he had a different spirit. He followed the Lord and the servant of the Lord with a different heart. When the spies that Moses sent brought their report, Caleb was one of the men who speak by faith and not by sight (See Numbers 14:1‭-‬10²).

Hence the Lord made him a promise. Caleb was a man of faith who was ready to fight and win by faith.

[Numbers 14:22-24 KJV] “Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; [23] Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it: [24] But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it”.

Men who fight the good fight of faith follow the servant of God with a different heart and with a different spirit. They are loyal followers.

2. Caleb was ready to war only by the prophecy that had gone ahead of him:

Caleb did not go to Joshua out of wishful thinking; he stepped out to ask for the land by the prophetic word spoken by Moses.

Many people fail because they run after things through wishful thinking. They run because everyone is running. They want to marry because everyone is marrying, but Caleb was ready to go and fight because Moses said he will possess a land 45 years earlier when he, Caleb, was 40 years old.

The good fight of faith is one that is according to prophecy. Caleb was ready to fight by the word, by prophecy, and by the declaration of faith.

3. Caleb was ready to step out and take the mountain:

He was prepared and ready. He was prepared to fight and take the mountain. He knew that destiny deliver to those who are ready to fight for it. He was ready and prepared to fight for even the mountain inhabited by the Anaks and Anakims.

He weighed his strength.

He spoke to the authority set over him, although they once fought together as colleagues, he obtained permission from Joshua.

He had a strategy; a workable strategy, to pursue.

Caleb was ready and prepared to step out and possess the mountains. We must be ready to take our mountain and take it now.

4. Caleb fought until he possessed the mountain:

He respected and used time and principles wisely, he made the right decisions and maintained his focus. Listen, so many worthwhile things take time, principles, decisions, and focus. You must be ready to mix these in the right proportions in order to win.

Benediction

I pray for you that in the coming days you will arise to take a hold of the prophetic word and begin to war. We are here now and we must take our mountains now. This is the time and we can’t wait anymore.

Let us hit the roads, the highways, and hedges, the country and city, the lanes and streets and do the needful. This is the time to preach and take hold of destiny. Destiny will not happen by accident, we must intentionally pursue it. This is the time, arise and fight.

Be blessed; I love you!

Noah Simpe Bediako

Referenced Scriptures

1. Joshua 14:5-15 (KJV): As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land. Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea. Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart. Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God. And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children’s for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God. And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said. And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel. And the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war. ↩︎
2. Numbers 14:1-10 (KJV): And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness! And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes: And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land. If the LORD delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey. Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not. But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel. ↩︎