There’s something powerful that happens when you sit still and truly listen to God. Recently, as I was talking with the Lord, He revealed something to me deep in my spirit — something that gave new meaning to what Jesus said about faith as small as a mustard seed.
In Matthew 17:20, Jesus tells His disciples, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” For years, I heard that scripture and believed it meant having enough faith to change a physical situation. But the Lord showed me something deeper.
He revealed that when Jesus spoke about moving mountains, He wasn’t just referring to the ones standing tall in the natural world. The “mountain” can be anything in your life that feels too heavy to move — the pain, the sickness, the heartbreak, the financial burden, the spiritual warfare, or even the fear that keeps you from trusting Him completely.
God made it clear that belief itself is a form of power. Your belief is your faith. And your faith is your power. Because when we pray and ask God for something that we know we can’t do on our own, we’re not asking from the flesh — we’re asking from the Spirit. That’s when miracles happen.
The Lord reminded me that anyone can use a bulldozer to push down a physical mountain. That doesn’t take faith — it just takes human strength and machinery. But when you’re facing a mountain that can’t be seen — a mountain of depression, fear, or sickness — there’s no bulldozer big enough to handle that. Those are the moments when faith must rise up.
God said that’s why some things move in our lives instantly and some things take time. When you already have the power in your hands — when it’s something you can do yourself — He lets you act. But when it’s something beyond your reach, that’s when the Spirit steps in. That’s when your mustard seed faith becomes a force that moves mountains.
The Spirit of God living inside of us is the same power that raised Jesus from the dead (Romans 8:11). That’s why when a doctor says you’re dying, faith can rise up and declare, “I shall live and not die, and declare the works of the Lord” (Psalm 118:17). That’s the kind of mountain-moving faith that Jesus was talking about — the faith that speaks directly from the Spirit, not from fear.
When we believe that God can move what man cannot, we enter into a realm of spiritual authority. We stop begging for things to happen and start speaking to the mountain, knowing that it has no choice but to obey the Spirit within us.
Faith doesn’t mean we ignore reality — it means we believe in a greater one. And when that faith begins to speak, the natural world has to align with the supernatural. That’s what it means to walk by faith and not by sight.
So if you’re facing something today that feels impossible, remember: you don’t need a mountain-sized faith to move a mustard seed problem. You need a mustard seed faith to move a mountain-sized problem. God never asked us to do the impossible — He asked us to believe that He can.
Keep praying, keep believing, and keep speaking from your spirit. Because the power to move the mountain is already inside of you.
