Written by Uyoyou Christiana Charles-Iyoha
Beloved, make the mountain a plain ground.
There is no mountain anywhere which cannot become a
plain ground, especially the mountains of ignorance. Everyone’s seemingly
insurmountable mountain is most often his or her ignorance. Ignorance is a
mountain. The great mountain before Zerubbabel would become a plain ground by
the Spirit of the Lord. How? The Spirit of God would give Zerubbabel and his
colleagues the requisite knowledge, understanding and wisdom to make the
supposed mountain a plain ground. God through the Holy Spirit supplies the
required knowledge to overcome the ignorance.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of wisdom, knowledge
and understanding. Please read Isaiah Chapters 11 verse 2, 61 verse 1, 48 verse
17, Luke Chapter 4 verse 18, Exodus Chapters 31 verses 3 to 6, verse 3, 35
verses 30 to 35, and Daniel Chapter 2 verses 16 to 19. The Holy Spirit is the
Spirit of Truth (John Chapters 16 verse 13; 15 verse 26, 14 verse 17.
Therefore, you must be truthful in acknowledging that there are indeed
mountains before you that cannot be brought down in your own strength. Living
in denial, craftiness and lies will not help you as the Holy Spirit does not
work with liars and lies or any form of craftiness. Therefore, you must empty
yourself of all falsehood and deception (Acts Chapter 5 verses 1 to 5).
Truthfulness is a sign of humility. Please read Luke Chapter 8 verses 43 to 48
where the woman with the issue of blood stepped forward boldly to acknowledge
before Jesus and the crowd that she was the one who touched the hem of Jesus’
garment to receive her healing. That singular act put permanence to her
healing. Compare this to King Saul and Adam who refused to acknowledge their
challenges and weakness (Genesis Chapter 3 verses 11 to 13 and 1st
Samuel Chapters 15 verses 1 to 25; 13 verses 11 to 13. Pride made it difficult
for them to acknowledge their weaknesses and receive grace (Hebrews Chapter 4
verses 12 to 16).
On the other hand, Daniel, Jabez were truthful in
their requests to God. They acknowledged their challenges and requested help
from God and help came speedily. So also was Hannah, the mother of Samuel. She
did not go before God to accuse anyone of her childlessness. Rather, she
requested for a child from God and she got quite a number.
Mountains of ignorance exist in nations and while
such nations and the peoples in those nations suffer unnecessarily, such
mountains can be easily leveled through knowledge from God. Mountains are
challenges and challenges are challenges because people are ignorant of the
solutions. Significantly, the solutions are in the word of God and most times,
faith in the word of God is required to receive and apply the solutions from
the word of God.
WHAT IS FAITH? The definition of faith in Hebrews
Chapter 11 verses 1 to 6, note verse 1 and 6 that faith is … the substance of
faith is predicated on certainty, being sure of what we hope for ad certain of
what we do not see. We hope for it because we believe God will do it for us and
even if we do not see the immediate manifestation of what we are hoping for, we
are still certain that there will be a manifestation because we know and
believe that God Who does not lie, Who is faithful to His promises will do it.
Faith is absolute belief and confidence in God to do
the impossible because God always does the impossible. Please read Luke Chapter
1 verse 37, Mark Chapter 10 verse 27. Anchor your faith on the word of God and
you can source, know and understand the word of God from the Bible as you daily
interact with the word of God through reading and studying the Bible as well as
meditating on the word of God in addition to speaking and prophesying the word
of God. You may ask why you should believe God and His word. The answer is
simple. God does not lie and His word always comes to pass (Isaiah Chapters 55
verses to 11, 40 verse 8, Numbers Chapter
23 verse 19, 2nd Corinthians Chapter 1 verse 20, John Chapter 10
verse 35 and 1st Thessalonians Chapter 2 verse 13. God cannot and
does not lie (1st Samuel Chapter 15 verse 29 and Romans Chapter 3
verse 4).
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