Can we really move mountains with mere words? There’s a simple, magnificent pattern that makes it not only possible, but absolutely certain. It is a mystery to many, yet God explains it clearly in His word.

And God said, Let there be light.

At that command, the Holy Spirit created infinitely vast star fields (as well as solar systems and galaxies). A star might be ten billion light years from us, or ten million times larger and brighter than our own sun. That’s only one star. If you look up to the heavens you’ll realize you’d have to live forever to count them all.

The Father, in his authority and will declared, light be. God, the Spirit, took direction by that word of God. The everlasting, omnipotent Spirit exerted the absolute and infinite force required to transform the spoken word into the living manifested substance God intended.

Christ Jesus came to earth and yielded His place as God to become fully human. The Father-Creator anointed Jesus by the Spirit with the measure of authority needed to accomplish His assignment.

By faith, Jesus took that authority and declared that My words are Spirit and life. He spoke, declared, commanded and prophesied according to what he saw and heard from the Father. Seeing that Jesus was subject to God; that Jesus acted in God’s stead (in His Father’s Name) to accomplish His will, the life-giving Spirit acted for Jesus in precisely the same way He acted for God the Creator. With immeasurable power He propels Jesus’ living-but-invisible words into full-blown matter in the earth.

Next, Jesus (God with us) came to earth and brought His kingdom with Him. Jesus commissioned his disciples, saying:

• Stay in Jerusalem and wait for the filling of the Holy Spirit.
• I give you authority to forgive sins.
• I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
• If two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
• Whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.

Jesus told the disciples, as the Father sent me, I send you. (you’ll remember when as Mary clung to Jesus in the garden moments after His resurrection, Jesus told her, do not cling to me for I have not yet risen to my God and to your God, to my Father, and to YOUR FATHER.)

So we now see the pattern, the relationship, and the process;
- We submit ourselves to the authority of Jesus to whom God gave authority over heaven and earth.
- We are baptized in the Holy Spirit and authorized by Jesus’ commands to establish His Kingdom here in the earth.
- As we carry out our assignment the Holy Spirit, hearing our words of faith, exerts His power to make substance of that which we declare in Jesus’ Name.

It is the Holy Spirit's good pleasure to glorify Jesus Christ.

Very simply then, the Holy Spirit is doing what He has always done:
He hears God’s voice spoken by the Father,
He hears God’s voice spoken by Christ,
He hears God’s voice spoken by you and me - His Body.
He hears and executes God’s word with indomitable force.

Today God may speak through the mouth's of millions of believers throughout the world. The Holy Spirit performs those faith-filled words. He makes them be, to the glory of Jesus Christ and the Father.

Consider, child of God, that the Spirit who exerted His power to execute God’s spoken intent is now living and working - coursing inside your own body. He is joined to your spirit. Can you get a hold on that? Can you take that in? Do you not fall down and worship the Lamb of God at the glimpse of it?

Hey, where'd that mountain go? Go to the beach and look around.