Lord, Give Me My Mountain

Joshua 14:12 “Lord give me my mountain”

I would like to ask you a question; are you ambitious enough to go after you dreams, your blessing, the promises that God has spoken over your life?

Many people might say that having ambitions or being ambitious is being self-centered. Ambition means to have a dream, hope, a purpose and the determination, the drive, and the motivation to reach it. God has placed in each of us the desire to be better, to accomplish great things… whether it’s to raise children in a godly home, to have a successful career, to finish school, to have a strong and healthier marriage, or to grow in the Lord. Whatever the case may be we must understand that having ambitions is God given.

Often times the enemy cripples our ambition. I call it the “A.C”, the Ambition Crippler. The enemy to ambition is our past. Every time God shows you your future, what you can do and what you can become, the devil comes along and shows you your past, your failures, your faults. All of a sudden you become overwhelmed with a spirit of inadequacies and fear comes over you and leaves you paralyzed. Another day goes by, a week, a month, then a year and you find yourself in the same place.

This is what happened to the nation of Israel, they came to the place of their promise, or their blessing. God told them to go up and to possess the land, but instead of possessing their blessing, they ran because of what they saw. It wasn’t the giants that they saw that frightened them, it was how they saw themselves, and they said “We are like grasshoppers in our own sight”. Seeing themselves as being inadequate robbed them of the ambition to go forward.

But forty years later Joshua and Caleb stand with the nation of Israel at the same place of forty years earlier, looking at the their promise. Caleb has seen this place before and says with a loud voice, “Lord give me my mountain”. In other words, I have the ambition, the faith, the motivation to go into my promised land and possess my blessing. Without ambition you will never possess your dreams. So go for it! The Lord has already gone before you to make the way!

Pastor Daniel R. Grandberry….G.M… You Know!!!