Mountains

The Royal Wedding of 2011 (and a few nudges by God) inspired me to begin an online community to pray for Kingdom marriages.  With a few more God-nundges, as we enter the summer and wedding season, I feel that we need to unite our faith and our voices in prayer, and press-on believing that marriage is on God's heart.  YOU and the desires of your heart are important to God, and I am expecting to be amazed and dazzled by the testimonies soon to come!   ALL things are possible with God!  Mary said so!  Some of the upcoming posts will be a repost from last summer’s 40 Days of Declarations, which is the case today.  

And please let me know if you have a good report to share!  (I might soon....)  

Summer in the Colorado Rockies is glorious!  I love to escape the heat, head to the mountains, and set out on an adventure, ususally with my most faithful male companion, my Labrador.  On the most recent mountain adventure, my group of friends made it to the the tippy top of a 14,240’ peak, in extreme wind, (which changed our plans of skiing the peak.)  Dare I confess that we drove to the top?!  We saw a young “stag” on the drive, but we really bonded with the hearty goats (you will understand the reference in a moment.)   

A verse that I have been declaring for a few years over my future husband is Song of Solomon 2:17 (NKJ):  

Until the day breaks 

And the shadows flee away, 

Turn, my beloved,  

And be like a gazelle, 

Or a young stag 

Upon the mountains of Bether.

Bether means SEPARATION.  The Mountains of Separation!  Are there mountains of separation in your life that are blocking you from walking in the fullness of your destiny, and meeting the person God has for you?     

The Amplified:  

[Then, longingly addressing her absent shepherd, she cried] Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away, return hastily, O my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young hart as you cover the mountains [which separate us].

Zechariah 4:6-7 (NKJ):

      “ This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel:
      ‘ Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’
      Says the LORD of hosts.
    ‘ Who are you, O great mountain?
      Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain!
      And he shall bring forth the capstone
      With shouts of “Grace, grace to it!'"

 The book that has inspired me to speak and declare the Word of God, more now than ever, is by Charles Capps, called “Faith and Confession.”   Charles Capps describes “grace” as “God’s willingness.”

This is what he says regarding Mark 11:23 

“...whoever says to this mountain, 'be removed ...’”   

“Jesus is talking about problem areas in your life, about situations that you face and circumstances you don’t know how to handle.  

He tells you to say to that situation, ‘Be plucked up, be planted in the sea; depart, be gone.’  Tell it what to do and where to go!”  

Today, imagine yourself on top of a mountain, after our long journey, and we are going to declare with authority that the mountains of separation, or hinderance are removed!  

Declarations:  

Thank You Father God for this journey of faith; for Your faithfulness to lead us, and to instruct us in the power of Your spoken Word.  “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by [speaking] the Word of God.”   Fill our words today with the power of Your Holy Spirit, and flatten the mountains of separation in our lives, and the lives of the men called to be our husbands!  

• We declare that God’s way is perfect; The WORD of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. (2 Samuel 22:31)

• We declare that is it not by our might, nor by our power, but by the power of the Holy Spirit, to breakthrough in our lives, and the lives of the men called to Kingdom marriages.  

• I speak to the mountains in my life, with the authority of the King of Kings - Be plucked up, be planted in the sea; depart, and be gone!   (or as Beth Moore would say), “MOVE IT!”

• I shout “Grace! Grace!” To the mountains of ________________ (fill in the blank as things come to your mind), DEPART!  BE GONE!

• I declare to my beloved - Come to me hastily!  Be like a gazelle, or a young stag, and LEAP over the mountains that separate us!

• I declare over myself and the man God has appointed as my husband (2 Samuel 22:33-37)

33 God is our strength and power,
      And He makes our way perfect.
 34 He makes our feet like the feet of deer,
      And sets us on the high places.
 35 He teaches our hands to make war,
      So that our arms can bend a bow of bronze.
 36 “You have also given us the shield of Your salvation;
      Your gentleness has made us great.
 37 You enlarged our paths under us;
      So our feet do not slip.

Thank you Father for your bringing Your Good gifts into our lives, and for exposing everything and anything that is an obstacle on the path of our destinies. 

AMEN!  [so be it!]”  

Expecting to be amazed ~

Barbara

© Barbara Nelson – 2012