Faith to Remove Mountains
by Chris Machamer
December 2023
Jesus said, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you (Matthew 17:20). That is a powerful promise, but how many children of God have that promise operating in their life?
Jesus was not talking about mountains of dirt and rock. What good would it do the Kingdom of God if you were able through faith to move such a mountain? Jesus was referring to mountains you face in this life—financial mountains, spiritual mountains, mountains of trouble, mountains of sickness and disease, mountains of needs, mountains of opposition to you doing God’s will and other mountains of all kinds.
The mountain-moving faith Jesus spoke of is not human faith; it’s divine faith. Divine faith is so strong and powerful that if you have an amount that is just the size of a grain of mustard seed, it will remove the mountains in your life…and the mustard seed is the smallest seed there is. How much divine faith is operating in your life?
Many people proclaim to have faith and yet nothing is being accomplished spiritually in their lives. Their mountains remain steadfast and immovable because they are not living by divine faith, only human faith. Jesus called human faith “little faith” because it’s weak and worthless, and it doesn’t get the job done. It doesn’t remove your mountain.
In Jesus’ day, He rebuked His disciples and verbally chastised them whenever they sank into human faith. Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith (Matthew 8:26)? O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt (Matthew 14:31)?
Faith to Be Saved
The Bible plainly states that God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith (Romans 12:3). That means every person, saint and sinner alike, has a measure of faith within them; and that measure is a gift from God. It is not earned; God puts it there on purpose. Only with that measure of divine faith can a sinner make his way to Calvary. Without that measure, it would be impossible for a sinner to truly believe from the heart on a sacrifice made two thousand years ago. Only with that measure of faith can a person believe that the divine blood of Jesus will wash away their sins and make them a new creature in Christ.
Divine faith in the blood of Jesus will not only remove the mountain of sin in a person’s life but also cast it into the sea of forgetfulness. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea (Micah 7:19). For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more (Hebrews 8:12).
Live by Faith
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding (Proverbs 3:5). Trusting in the Lord with all your heart requires divine faith, while leaning to your own understanding relies on human faith. When you lean on your own physical eyesight and look at the circumstances around you to determine how you respond, you are using human faith.
The next verse in Proverbs says, In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths (Proverbs 3:6). Only through divine faith did the Lord promise to make plain paths for your feet.
Trusting in the Lord with your whole heart and forsaking your own understanding is divine faith in operation, and that faith must work in you day by day. You can’t use it one day and not the next. If you want God to make plain paths for your feet, you must walk in divine faith every day. Every time you step out of the realm of divine faith, you tie God’s hands; and He can’t move for you. God never honors human faith. He didn’t do it in the Old Testament or the New Testament, and He is not doing it today.
The Apostle Paul said, The just shall live by faith (Galatians 3:11). Only those who are justified in the eyes of God can live by divine faith. You can’t just use it when you think you need it; you have to live by it. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith (Romans 1:17).
The righteousness of God can only manifest through a person who lives from faith to faith. Living from faith to doubt, faith to weakness, faith to grumbling and complaining, and faith to deceit will not work. No matter what you face in life or how many mountains stand in your way, you must live from faith to faith. Sometimes you need enduring faith, and at other times you need conquering faith; but you can never leave the realm of divine faith.
Power from On High
Divine faith in operation obeys the whole Word of God; and the Word of God directs a person from Calvary, where they receive salvation, to the Upper Room to be baptized with the Holy Ghost and with power. Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call (Acts 2:38,39).
Jesus brought the gift of salvation and made it available to all those who will accept it—no one has to work to earn it. The Holy Ghost is also a gift from God, and that gift was paid for at Calvary too. No one should ever neglect any gift from the Lord.
God promised the Holy Ghost to the obedient. When speaking of the Holy Ghost, Peter said, Whom God hath given to them that obey him (Acts 5:32). Receiving the Holy Ghost is not an option. It is power from On High that you must have working in your life. If you want to remove all mountains of devils and demonic power that are coming against you on this journey of life, you must have the power of the Holy Ghost.
The devil and his demons want to stop you from doing God’s will, and that is why the Holy Ghost was made available to each one of us. That is why Jesus said, It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you (John 16:7).
Jesus also said, Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you (Luke 10:19). Jesus likened demons and devils to serpents and scorpions; but through the Holy Ghost and the gift of His baptism, you can have the power to trample them underfoot.
With Holy Ghost power abiding within, you can overcome this world and its mountains of opposition that are in your path. As a child of God, you will face mountains again and again as you journey through this life faithfully serving the Lord and walking the paths He directs you on.
Be an Overcomer
We’re not in Heaven yet, and our current world is now more the devil’s society than God’s. You will face mountains of all sorts, and that is why you must live by faith; but many children of God have failed to do that. As a result, their mountains have not been removed; and they have failed to accomplish the whole will of God in their lives.
When some children of God come to a mountain, they try to remove it in human faith; and it doesn’t work, so they take a detour. Then they turn around, draw back on God and fail Him. They may not sin, but they fail to obey the Lord and do His whole will because they don’t know what it means to live by faith.
Child of God, Jesus came warning, In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world (John 16:33). When Jesus walked on this Earth, every mountain of opposition He faced was removed because He lived by faith. Through divine faith, Jesus can live within you and enable you to overcome too.
You have the power to remove every mountain in your life and be an overcomer if you live by faith. Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world (I John 4:4). Do you really believe the power in you is greater than the power in this world? If so, you will live like it; and that’s living by faith and the promises in the Word of God.
Are You Pleasing God?
The Apostle Paul wrote, But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him (Hebrews 11:6). You must live in the realm of divine faith all the time because the time you spend outside of that faith is time spent not pleasing God; and when you’re not pleasing God, do you think you’ll make the Rapture?
Only by diligently seeking God with your measures of divine faith will you be rewarded. God rewards your diligence in seeking His salvation and the baptism of the Holy Ghost. He rewards your diligence in seeking and walking in His divine will and in seeking and taking on the mind of Christ. He rewards your diligence in seeking the divine power for service you need to be a blessing to the Kingdom of God.
Everything the Word of God promises can be yours if you will diligently study it and seek God through faith. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth (II Timothy 2:15). You can’t just casually read the Word like a book or a magazine; you have to diligently study it. When you stand before God one day, will you be ashamed because you neglected His Word and His promises? Will you be ashamed because you neglected to live by faith?
Stay Ready for God to Move
If you are a child of God, you should lack nothing. Don’t look at your bank account, your house or your clothes. Don’t look at the medical reports; look to the Word of God. You will find all the direction, help and promises you need for this life in the Word of God; but you can’t claim the promises of God and get the results you need unless divine faith is in operation in your life.
If you are in and out of divine faith, chances are good that your needs will not be met. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord (James 1:6,7).
You must live in faith and stay in faith so you will be ready for whatever trial or need may arise at any time of the day or night. Sometimes, the need is so great or the trial so fierce that it can knock you to your knees. If you’re not living in divine faith at that moment, it’s going to be hard to get back into that faith.
So many people live in their feelings; and when they get knocked to the ground, it’s very hard for them to get back up and into divine faith. In fact, it is so hard that some people never get back into faith. Instead, they draw back on God and walk away from Him simply because they did not live by faith.
Many people speak the Word of God and claim its promises through human faith, and that kind of faith doesn’t bring results. Then doubt, fear and misgivings creep in and cause them to question God, their life in Him and the reality in the power of His Word. Divine faith brings the Word and the power of the Word to life. It brings life into your relationship with God.
Live by Divine Faith, and It Will Increase
So many churches and denominations do not teach their people to live in the realm of divine faith, so the divine power of God is not working in their midst. That’s why they believe that so much of the divine power is not for today. The Bible describes them as having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof (II Timothy 3:5). Divine faith will move mountains of sickness and disease in your life, and God is performing miracles and healings today. He is moving spiritual, physical and financial mountains in the lives of those who live by divine faith; and He is supplying their needs.
Let’s just say that someone gave you a million dollars. Oh, how you would protect that money. You would carefully invest it so it would multiply and work on your behalf. As a child of God, your measures of divine faith should be more valuable to you than that million dollars. You should protect those measures of divine faith at all costs and learn to cultivate them so they will increase and multiply in your life.
All the money in the world cannot remove mountains of sin and disobedience in your life, but divine faith can. No amount of money can remove mountains of fear, depression, mind battles and afflictions in your life; but divine faith can.
Medical science may say there is no cure for the mountain of sickness in your life; but Jesus says, Only believe (Mark 5:36). All things are possible to him that believeth [and lives in divine faith] (Mark 9:23). We definitely believe in good doctors, good hospitals and good medicine; but when man and medicine have done all they can do, divine faith has the cure.
Jesus Only Works Through Faith
It's time to yield to your measure of divine, mountain-moving faith. You may have a mountain of cancer, heart trouble, paralysis or some other affliction; but faith in God heals all of that. Jesus and the apostles proved it again and again in the book of Acts, and Jesus is still healing today.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever (Hebrews 13:8). Jesus never changes. He was the same when He was here on Earth as He is in Heaven today. Jesus is always ready to go into action for a person in need. He carried the same compassion in His physical body on Earth as He does sitting next to His Father in Heaven.
During His Earth ministry, Jesus demonstrated the powers of divine blood operating through His divine faith. The Bible says, Jesus went about all Galilee…healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people (Matthew 4:23).
Notice that verse doesn’t say Jesus healed all manner of people, and that is significant. Time and time again when Jesus was ministering to people in need, He would say, According to your faith be it unto you (Matthew 9:29). Jesus was really saying that He had all power through the divine blood, but His power was limited by the kind of faith the people had. Would they believe upon Him and the power in His blood or not? Examine yourself to see what kind of faith is working in you.
When Jesus was in His hometown of Nazareth, He ministered to people there; but because of their unbelief, the Bible says, He could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. And he marvelled because of their unbelief (Mark 6:5,6). However, the next city Jesus went to was Capernaum; and there, He had a mighty revival with many miracles and healings. It was the same Jesus who visited both Nazareth and Capernaum, but divine faith was operating in one city and not in the other.
Divine Joy Is Powerful
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28). That verse is speaking about those who love God and live in His divine will. If your divine love and faith match that scripture verse, then you will know without a doubt that you have nothing to fear or worry about. You will know God is always in control no matter how much trouble surrounds you.
Do you love the Lord, and are you living in His divine will? As God’s love and faith work in harmony within you, the two together will produce divine peace and joy. They, in turn, provide great strength to remove mountains of depression, anxiety and anything else you need. For the joy of the LORD is your strength (Nehemiah 8:10).
Jesus prophesied that in the last days, men’s hearts would fail them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth (Luke 21:26). That time is now, and those mountains of fear have grown taller and taller until they are casting a greater shadow over our society now than ever before; yet through divine love and faith, that mountain of fear can be vanquished in your life once and for all. You don’t have to be bound by the spirit of fear. That’s not the will of God, and that’s not living by faith.
Ego Does Not Please God
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8,9). Divine faith will take all ego and boasting out of you because no one is saved by works. You can only be saved by faith in the divine blood of Jesus, yet there are those who claim to be a Christian when they have mountains of ego in their life. That all has to go if they want to make it into Heaven because ego is strictly of the devil. In fact, ego started with Lucifer when he was in Heaven, and he thought he was something he was not. Then God cast him out of Heaven. Jesus said, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven (Luke 10:18).
The “I” in your life should always be dependent on the Lord. What does that mean? Paul said, I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me (Philippians 4:13). Jesus said, I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things (John 8:28). You always have to remember that salvation and the baptism of the Holy Ghost are gifts given unto you, and they are paid for by Jesus Christ. That price is one you could never afford to repay.
Let me remind you again that God rewards those who please Him, and Enoch was one who pleased God and received a great reward. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God (Hebrews 11:5). If you want to please God, you must live by faith and be diligent about your relationship with Him.
If you serve the Lord with half a heart and are careless and negligent in your walk with Him, He has no respect for that. If you live by your feelings and you let them dictate your relationship with God, He has no respect for that. Those who are justified before the Lord live by faith. The just shall live by faith (Romans 1:17).
Tithing Removes Financial Mountains
Are you living by faith, or are you looking at your bank account? Do you tithe and give unto the Lord? The Bible says, The tenth shall be holy unto the LORD (Leviticus 27:32). If you want those mountains of debt and financial troubles to be moved out of your way, it’s time to turn to the promises of God and live by them.
If you believe you are too poor to tithe, that’s just weak, human faith in operation. Failing to tithe and give unto the Lord means you are robbing God. Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings (Malachi 3:8). Robbing God means you are not living by faith.
The Lord says a person who neglects tithing and giving unto Him is like a man trying to fill a sack with holes in it. Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes (Haggai 1:6). Those are holes of disobedience.
Tithing through divine faith will make the ninety percent go much further than what you can make one hundred percent go. Divine faith will open the windows of Heaven upon your life. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it (Malachi 3:10).
Watch for Christ’s Return
When Jesus returns, He’s coming for a spotless Bride. That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish (Ephesians 5:27). Do you think you can be without spot, wrinkle, blemish or any such thing if you’re walking this journey of life outside of divine faith? You have to be living in faith for your spiritual garments to be that clean and stay that clean throughout your journey here on Earth.
We don’t know when Jesus is returning. He could come at any moment. When you are living by your feelings, having tantrums and carrying on like a two-year-old, do you honestly think you will be raptured? Do you think God wants that kind of spirit in His Heaven? Definitely not. The Lord is coming for a Bride who is watching for His return.
If someone is coming to your house at a certain time on a certain day, you are watching for them; and their visit is foremost in your mind. Jesus did not give us a specific time of His return, but He did give us certain signs that we can look for. Then He said, When ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors (Mark 13:29).
All the signs are now being fulfilled around us on a daily basis, so you must be watching by faith. Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh (Matthew 25:13). Are you living by divine faith and watching, or are you caught up in the cares of life? Are those cares choking out the power of God, the power of the Word and the power of divine faith?
Begin Your Walk of Faith
Friend, the Lord will take full responsibility for you when you are walking in His will by faith, and it’s dangerous in this dark hour of sin and deceit to walk any other way. Give your heart to Jesus today. Let that measure of divine faith God gifted you with go into operation right now because the Word of God says, If we confess our sins, he [God] is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (I John 1:9). Put your faith in the Word of God and believe in your heart what that scripture says.
Make your confession before the Lord right now and say, Oh, God, I confess all of my sins before you. Forgive me, Lord, and I will serve you for the rest of my life. I believe there is power in the divine blood of Jesus to wash away all of my sins and remove that mountain of sin in my life. I believe that power will cast my sins into the sea to be forgotten by God forevermore. Come into my heart, Jesus. Come into my heart, dear Jesus.
Friend, if you meant that prayer and believe in it, Jesus is yours. The divine blood has washed you clean and made you a new creation, and Jesus abides within you. Now, you must go on to receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You need that divine power working in you to be ready when Jesus comes.
Let Jesus Move Your Mountain of Sickness
God has given your soul eternal life, and He will do the same thing for your body. If you are sick, diseased and in pain, let God give you life. It is God’s will for you to be well. Jesus proved that again and again when He walked on Earth. And when He died on the Cross, it was a two-fold atonement—salvation for the soul and healing for the body. He went to the whipping post and let evil men beat His back bloody so healing can be yours. The Bible says, With his stripes we are healed (Isaiah 53:5).
Jesus said, They [believers] shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover (Mark 16:18). Friend, I’m the Lord’s believer, and I’m going to agree with you in prayer for your healing right now.
Raise your hands and believe that God will move for you as I pray. Lord, in the name of Jesus, I bring those who are sick in body to you. I bring those who are afflicted and in pain, those who have been told there is no hope for them. God, we have all hope through the power in the blood of Jesus, your Son. Lay a healing hand on each one right now. In the holy, blood name of Jesus, heal, heal, heal! Let your virtue flow to these people right now for your honor and glory in the name of Jesus. Amen.
Friend, watch every sign of improvement and let divine faith lead you out. You may be instantly delivered, or it may be a healing process; but just continue to take steps of faith until you are made whole. Then let us know what God has done for you. You can contact us by mail, through email or on our Facebook page. We would love to hear your testimony.
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