THE MOUNTAIN OF FELLOWSHIP

Psalm 11:1 In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

To my fellow reader, this word that God laid upon my heart is to encourage you that you have a mountain to go to in the midst of process that God has appointed you to! This mountain that I am referring to is not the mountain of what the world calls success, but the mountain in which God places in our life so that we can come up higher towards Him in fellowship, which is true success for any son or daughter of Christ!

Throughout the journey Israel went through, from Egypt to Canaan, God had always placed a mountain in the midst of the wilderness. If you read from Exodus to Deuteronomy, you will see how in the different locations they went from until they reached the promise God called them to, there was a mountain in the midst.

Moses addresses Israel before entering the promise land concerning this fact saying, in Deuteronomy 1:6-7 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates. They went from mount to mount as they drew closer to the land God appointed for them to go. Anytime Moses ever addressed God concerning the children of Israel, concerning God’s will (not his own) was either in the tabernacle or the mountain top. The higher Moses went up a mountain the closer he got to the heavens. He got closer with God, by going up to God’s level. He was able to, because of a covenant in which was initiated by The Lord, between Him and Moses concerning God’s will.

If we have received Christ into our lives, repented, baptized, born again, our hearts being circumcised as a new testimonial sign of covenant we have with our Father through the blood of Jesus, then we are able to go up the mountain in the midst of our journey. It is the mountain of fellowship and communion with The Lord! Remember when you first went up the mountain to fellowship with God at the alter of repentance?

In this mountain we learn of God’s plan within the earth and through our life. We learn of God’s nature and even of our own. Hallelujah that in this mountain we can be transformed (Mark 9) in His likeness. These “mountain top” experiences can be accessed anytime if we are willing to climb. Are you, my fellow reader, willing to climb higher in prayer and ascend into the heavenly realm of God?

We will go through wilderness experiences and thank God for them, because they bring more of an added influence upon our life to go climb that mountain and commune with The Lord.

Some just live life, indeed loving Christ, but not enough to climb to talk to Him, rather they are to busy trying to get a word from some one else who has been to the mountain top on quite a number of occasions. Thank God for His appointed Prophets, Pastors, Apostles, etc… however, we (being saved and born again) have the capability to hear God and come up higher in fellowship with Him!

Jesus said in Matthew 4:4 … It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. It’s not enough to just hold a Bible and shout “Praise God”, yet not experiencing fellowship, as Jesus puts it, not experiencing “Every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God”. We have to be in constant fellowship with Him. Don’t quench the communion with the Holy Spirit.

James 5:16 …The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

We can repeat James 5:16 all we want, but let me tell you; the righteous man in that scripture knows how to take the time to climb the mountain of fellowship. Nothing could be availed through His life or prayer without first being availed to God! The same way that none of the children of Israel would have been able to see the glorious glow on Moses’ face as He came FROM the mountain, without first going UP the mountain to talk (pray and fast) to The Lord! If we are a people who want to do great thing and endeavors for Christ, we need to climb the mountain of Fellowship with God and be availed to His Word and plan. To climb the mountain, in daily fellowship and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal the word that we been carrying with us all along!

Even when we repeat the part of the perfect prayer (Luke 11) that Christ His disciples, not what, but HOW to pray, we start by saying “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name…” Right off the bat in this perfect prayer we are acknowledging and affirming that God has, no matter what, a heavenly perspective over all things. He is God of the heavens and the earth. If you want to know what’s going on, how the update is according to God’s will in your life, while you’re in this wilderness, then go to the mountain where you can get this heavenly perspective.

I saw for my self, as I flew with my family to the Dominican Republic, a higher vantage point over the land of America. It was fascinating. The distance from Baltimore to Washington D.C. looked so amazing close together. The higher we went in the plane, the closer those cities came to be. The mountains even looked like speed bumps from a higher perspective, then when on dry land. The same is this mountain God wants us to climb, the ascent in prayer. Sometimes the promises Christ spoken to us looks far away, the giants seem bigger, and the mountain looks higher as we approach them, but when we begin to push forward, to climb that mountain and come up higher to God. We see the distance isn’t as far as we allowed our mind to think. We begin to see the giants aren’t as tall as they appeared and the mountain was easier to climb, because we climbed so many before. Each mountain we climb, it seems the next one will be higher, but Praise God it’s because God wants us to get higher and caught up more with Him.

Let me remind you of how the children of Israel were discouraged of the giants in the land of promise God gave them, and were intimidated by the high cities walls. However Moses always reminded them that God spoke the land to be given to Israel and they will have it (Deuteronomy 1:24-31)! How was it that Moses didn't conform to the rest of Israel's discouraging heart affect toward what God spoken? Because Moses has spent time on the mountain with God. When you spend time in fellowship with God, receiving a renewed mind (Romans 12:2), you keep away from having a discouraged heart and are able to help other who are discouraged. We are guaranteed to be encouraged at the mountain top, receiving an impartation of faith for the distance, every time we go up!

I encourage you my fellow reader that our Lord God Almighty wants to show you the distance from His perspective. There is a mountain of fellowship you can always climb. Let’s live life from mountain to mountain, from fellowship to daily communion with Christ and allow that fellowship with God to reflect within your fellowship with others!

Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

God Bless