COMMAND THE “MOUNTAIN” TO BE REMOVED

“For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, "Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.” Mark 11:23 I heard a very interesting testimony from a preacher from Miami, Florida. He said that one day he was leaving home to go to his office in a new car he had just purchased. When he was getting out of his garage he hit a large tree standing there by his driveway. The incident caused a huge dent on the side of his car. To make a long story short, he got so angry at the tree that he went and began punching it. He said that he cursed the tree while he quoted the verse from the gospel of Mark, chapter 11:23, he then commanded the tree to be removed from the sidewalk. He said that every time he was at home he was commanding the tree to be removed and be cast into wherever place it would like to. Well, things were not that easy because that particular tree was 100 years old and was so big that it took tree men to hold hands around it with open arms, that‘s how big the tree was. Well, he mentioned that he contacted a tree service company and ask them to give an estimate on how much it would cost to have the tree removed, and they said $2,000, besides that he had to have a special permission from the city to be able to get rid of that tree. He then thought that that would be impossible because he did not want to spend that much money to have the tree cut off. Well, he said that a month went by and the tree he had cursed was still sitting there as if it were telling him that his prayers and words were in vain. But he did not give up and kept commanding the tree to be removed from his property, but at the same time he had no way of getting rid of it. One day he was invited to speak at a conference in Venezuela, he stayed there for a week. Two days prior to his return to Florida he saw on CNN news that a hurricane had swept part of Miami, he called his wife to see how things were going and she said that the situation was under control. Many homes were damaged, but theirs was intact. Well, he then was eager to go back home to stay with his family. On his arrival to his house two days after the hurricane hit his neighborhood, for his surprise and much joy he found the tree laying flat on the ground. He said that on his street only that tree was knocked down by the hurricane, all the other ones were standing. He said that he jumped on the tree laying there and said, “Have I not commanded you to be removed out of my property?“.

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