Adventures of Faith

You may very well know that mountains represent obstacles, limitations or challenges in life that seem to deter you from making progress or moving forward. Sometimes, the Mountain appears so large that you begin to wonder if truly you can ever overcome it. At other times it is not only the largeness of the mountain that bothers you, but the timing and condition at which you are now confronted with it. The fact remains that the challenges of life comes to us all whether we are prepared or not. It is therefore how we handle and deal with these challenges that set the difference in our lives. It is not as though we are all confronted with the same Mountain, no, our mountains are as different as our faces, but the goal of the Mountains confronting us remain the same - to limit us. In Zechariah 4:7, ( Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain ) Zerubbabel was confronted with such a mountain and it definitely looked like a hopeless situ...

Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.  Zech. 4:6 When you cross into another year as we have just done a few days ago, it may be with mixed feelings of Joy, and of pain or regret; Of joy because it is a new year and you have hope that things will be better this year than the previous years. Of pain or regret because of the things that didn’t work out in the previous year or because of the losses. However, the important thing is to focus and not allow the feelings of the past to overwhelm you. God definitely has better things He has prepared for you this year. In our text, God promised to make the impossible looking situation before Zerubbabel possible, but definitely not by Zerubbabel’s effort, it was going to be by the Spirit of God helping him. That promise still holds true for you today as a citizen of the kingdom. Go...