Taking Your Mountain!

Recently I read a prophetic word that proclaimed that we must conquer the giants that occupy our future. It really made me pause and think about what those giants may be in my own life. And it made me think about conquering giants in the Bible. I began to draw parallels between the giants that occupy my future and the giants that were described in story of Caleb.. In the story of Caleb, in Joshua 14, the giants dwelt in the hill country or the mountains. Mountains in and of themselves can be intimidating because of the height and the breadth and the extra effort it takes just to go up them versus walking on a straight path. But the giants lived in walled and fortified cities. Now this is going to be even more difficult to take my mountain and gain my victory because it is occupied by giants in walled and fortified cities. But we can learn from the Biblical account of Caleb and his attitude toward this problem.
When Caleb was 85 years old, he asked Joshua to give him the mountain area that Moses had promised him. As a young man of 40 Caleb had been one of the twelve spies sent to spy out the land of Israel. He was one of two that brought back a good report. Moses made Caleb a promise that is recorded in Joshua 14:9 "So on that day Moses swore to me, 'The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.' That means that the land that Caleb had spied out was the land of the giants. He was the one that saw their walled and fortified cities. And he was still the one who states in Numbers 13:30, "Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, "We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it."
To take your mountain you cannot be dissuaded by what you see. You cannot be dissuaded by what others say. You cannot be dissuaded by the landscape. You cannot be dissuaded by your age. You cannot be dissuaded by your past. You have to know who you are in God. You have to see with eyes of  faith. You have to hear word of faith.  You have to believe that you have a future in God and that when you get there He will help you remove the giants and their walled, fortified cities. And you have to leave the past behind. You are well able to take your mountain and have your victory. But you may have to kill some giants that come against your spirit along the way. This is Pastor Susan Living the Everyday Prophetic Life and taking my mountain!