“The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.”
John 14:10 (NKJV)
When Jesus told His disciples to speak to the mountain, I do not believe He was giving them permission to command creation at will. He was not handing them independent authority. He was inviting them to carry His authority. He was calling them to become crew who faithfully relay the Captain’s orders into the storm.
The sea does not obey my voice. It obeys His. Yet when He gives the command and I repeat what He has spoken, His authority flows through my obedience. Nothing moves because of my strength. Things move because I am aligned with His voice.
To speak to the mountain, then, is not to make declarations out of determination. It is to echo what the Captain is already saying. It is faith in transmission. Hearing. Trusting. Relaying the message exactly as given.
When He says, “Peace, be still,” I carry that word into chaos.
When He says, “Fear not,” I speak courage into trembling hearts.
When He says, “Forgive,” I loosen the anchor of resentment that holds the boat back.
These commands are never random. They come through the harmony of Word and Spirit working together. The Word gives the chart, the unchanging truth of Scripture. The Spirit gives the wind, the direction for this particular voyage. As I align with both, what I speak carries the resonance of Heaven. The mountain yields not to volume but to alignment.
Sometimes the command changes in the middle of the storm. A subtle shift. “Ten degrees starboard.” I may not understand why, but obedience brings the turn that keeps us from the rocks.
And if the mountain still stands, I trust that the Captain has chosen another route. Perhaps through calmer waters. Perhaps directly across the ridge. But always toward His destination.
The mountain’s movement or stillness is not the measure of faith. Obedience is.
Nor the master of the storm.
My role is simply to hear and relay the command faithfully.
The authority is His. The echo is mine.
And when I speak what He speaks, mountains bow, storms settle, and peace returns to the deck.
It shall not return to Me void,
But it shall accomplish what I please,
And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.”
Isaiah 55:11 (NKJV)
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