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As I read this devotion this morning it caused me to stop and meditate on mountains. Sometimes the very happenings in my life seem to be as monumental as Everest itself! I am thankful that every mountain has its peak, purpose, and more importantly Proprietor! As my heart longs for Everett, Washington, close to Seattle, to live there and behold the almost Heavenly beauty of the Pacific Northwest, as I ponder the mountains it will take to get there, the seemingly insurmountable mountains in my life at the moment...then consider our final home will be the city of God sitting 272.5 times the height of Mount Everest, or 15,000 miles high...I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help...my heart longs to see every mountain and storm as an exciting adventure at the hands of the One Who Loves me and that I can safely trust with every detail of my life...the One Who sees my future...the One Who molds me and makes me in His image, as my greatest hearts desire! I want that mountain!
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Seven Mountains
November 13, 2005
"His foundation is in the holy mountains" (Psalm 87:1).
It is fascinating to study God's selection of several key mountains to mark key events in human history. Mount Ararat was the first great mountain of Scripture where God's Ark of safety would rest (Genesis 8:4). Then, when the first nations failed and God had to form a new nation, it was on Mount Moriah that Abraham passed the great test with his son, Isaac, and became "the father of all them that believe," testifying that "in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen" (Romans 4:11; Genesis 22:14). When the time came for God's law to be revealed, "the Lord came down upon mount Sinai," and gave Moses "upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God" (Exodus 19:20; 31:18).
"Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion," where the holy city was built and where Christ will reign in the great age to come. For God has promised concerning Christ: "Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion" (Psalm 48:2; 2:6).
Insignificant in size, but preeminent in importance, is the small hill outside Jerusalem that has come to be called Mount Calvary. There a "stone was cut out of the mountain" which "became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth" (Daniel 2:45,35) when Christ died there and conquered death. He arose from the grave and then ascended into heaven from the Mount of Olives, to which one day He shall "so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven" (Acts 1:11).
Finally, in the new earth, "every mountain and hill shall be made low" (Isaiah 40:4), and the only mountain will be "a great and high mountain," the beautiful city of God, towering "twelve thousand furlongs" (Revelation 21:10,16) over the fruitful plains of the eternally new earth below. HMM
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I Want That Mountain
Words and music by Bill Harvey
Joshua 14:12
"Now therefore give me this mountain,
whereof the Lord spake in that day;"
I saw the Giant of Prayerlessness upon the mountain high;
He laughed so hard at my unbended knee.
No longer in the Wilderness I'll stay, and so I cry:
I want that mountain, it belongs to me!
Chorus
I want that mountain! I want that mountain!
Where the milk and honey flow,
where the grapes of Eshcol grow,
I want that mountain! I want that mountain!
The mountain that my Lord has given me.
There was a Giant of Laziness who said I wouldn't go
And witness for the One who set me free.
I'll come from out the Wilderness, I'll witness now I know;
I want that mountain, it belongs to me!
One faithless Giant upon the crest of Hebron's lofty height
Has vowed that he's the one to make me flee.
I'll climb from out the Wilderness! and trust Jehovah's might!
I want that mountain, it belongs to me!
Let ev'ry Giant of Distress and Unbelief and Sin
Get ready now to vacate, for you see:
I've come from out the Wilderness! I know I'm going to win!
http://www.everettwa.org/visitor/default.asp?sectionid=5
As I read this devotion this morning it caused me to stop and meditate on mountains. Sometimes the very happenings in my life seem to be as monumental as Everest itself! I am thankful that every mountain has its peak, purpose, and more importantly Proprietor! As my heart longs for Everett, Washington, close to Seattle, to live there and behold the almost Heavenly beauty of the Pacific Northwest, as I ponder the mountains it will take to get there, the seemingly insurmountable mountains in my life at the moment...then consider our final home will be the city of God sitting 272.5 times the height of Mount Everest, or 15,000 miles high...I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help...my heart longs to see every mountain and storm as an exciting adventure at the hands of the One Who Loves me and that I can safely trust with every detail of my life...the One Who sees my future...the One Who molds me and makes me in His image, as my greatest hearts desire! I want that mountain!
www.icr.org
Seven Mountains
November 13, 2005
"His foundation is in the holy mountains" (Psalm 87:1).
It is fascinating to study God's selection of several key mountains to mark key events in human history. Mount Ararat was the first great mountain of Scripture where God's Ark of safety would rest (Genesis 8:4). Then, when the first nations failed and God had to form a new nation, it was on Mount Moriah that Abraham passed the great test with his son, Isaac, and became "the father of all them that believe," testifying that "in the mount of the Lord it shall be seen" (Romans 4:11; Genesis 22:14). When the time came for God's law to be revealed, "the Lord came down upon mount Sinai," and gave Moses "upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God" (Exodus 19:20; 31:18).
"Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion," where the holy city was built and where Christ will reign in the great age to come. For God has promised concerning Christ: "Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion" (Psalm 48:2; 2:6).
Insignificant in size, but preeminent in importance, is the small hill outside Jerusalem that has come to be called Mount Calvary. There a "stone was cut out of the mountain" which "became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth" (Daniel 2:45,35) when Christ died there and conquered death. He arose from the grave and then ascended into heaven from the Mount of Olives, to which one day He shall "so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven" (Acts 1:11).
Finally, in the new earth, "every mountain and hill shall be made low" (Isaiah 40:4), and the only mountain will be "a great and high mountain," the beautiful city of God, towering "twelve thousand furlongs" (Revelation 21:10,16) over the fruitful plains of the eternally new earth below. HMM
http://my.homewithgod.com/heavenlymidis2/mountain.html
I Want That Mountain
Words and music by Bill Harvey
Joshua 14:12
"Now therefore give me this mountain,
whereof the Lord spake in that day;"
I saw the Giant of Prayerlessness upon the mountain high;
He laughed so hard at my unbended knee.
No longer in the Wilderness I'll stay, and so I cry:
I want that mountain, it belongs to me!
Chorus
I want that mountain! I want that mountain!
Where the milk and honey flow,
where the grapes of Eshcol grow,
I want that mountain! I want that mountain!
The mountain that my Lord has given me.
There was a Giant of Laziness who said I wouldn't go
And witness for the One who set me free.
I'll come from out the Wilderness, I'll witness now I know;
I want that mountain, it belongs to me!
One faithless Giant upon the crest of Hebron's lofty height
Has vowed that he's the one to make me flee.
I'll climb from out the Wilderness! and trust Jehovah's might!
I want that mountain, it belongs to me!
Let ev'ry Giant of Distress and Unbelief and Sin
Get ready now to vacate, for you see:
I've come from out the Wilderness! I know I'm going to win!