Stop Telling Mountains About Yourself; Start Telling Them Where To Go

This is episode 4 of our Foundations Of Faith Series.

What if your words weren’t meant to describe your life, but to create it? We open the Foundation of Faith series with a bold claim rooted in Mark 11:22–24: faith speaks first, then sight follows. Together we unpack how saying, believing, and receiving form a single pattern for mountain-moving prayer, and why repetition without revelation falls flat. From 2 Corinthians 4:18 to Isaiah 55:11, we trace how God’s living Word carries creative power—and what happens when our mouths align with His reality instead of our circumstances.

We tackle a listener’s question on speaking with confidence when everything looks the opposite. The answer cuts to the core: doubt isn’t only disbelief; it’s divided belief. Mixing faith and fear gives the world conflicting instructions. Drawing on Proverbs 18:21 and James 3, we show why a single-sourced confession matters and how meditation turns into declaration, then manifestation. You’ll learn the difference between talking about mountains and talking to them, how to cultivate persuasion through consistent hearing of the Word, and why authority grows from personal revelation rather than borrowed formulas.

Expect clear, practical steps. We guide you to speak one specific scripture daily over a stubborn situation, replacing scattered hopes with targeted confession. We highlight the “spirit of faith”—I believed, therefore I spoke—and explain how to call the things that are not as though they were without straying into presumption. By rooting your speech in the nature and promises of Jesus, the Word made flesh, you move from pressure to persuasion and from passive waiting to creative partnership with God’s purpose.

If this teaching stirred your faith, subscribe for more, share it with someone who needs courage today, and leave a rating or review so others can find these messages. What scripture will you speak over your life this week?

Transcript

Foundations: Faith And God’s Word

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This is a season reason. This is your moment. This is faith reveal. Welcome back to Faith Revealed. I'm VM Mansfield and today in our Foundation of Faith series, we deal with the relationship between faith and the Word of God. Not the written word alone, but the spoken, revealed, living word that proceeds from God. Jesus explains that mountain moving faith is inseparable from the word spoken in conviction. What if the word of God was never meant to describe your reality, but to create it? Faith speaks what God has said until the natural world submits to the spiritual reality of his word. In Mark chapter 11, verse 22 through 24, Jesus answering said unto them, Have faith in God, for verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore, I say unto you, what things soever you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them. That's what we're going to be dealing with in this episode of Faith Revealed. But before we get into the message, it is time for a big old faith-revealed listener shout-out. I want to take a moment and honor two very special people. Pete and Mary in Kansas. Pete and Mary have been faithful encouragers and partners with this podcast and this ministry for years now. And I want you to know how deeply grateful we are for you. Your prayers, your support, your steady faithfulness. It truly matters more than probably you realize. People are there's people that are are you know, the god places behind the scenes who kind of stand quietly, uh believe and strengthen the work. Nobody ever sees them on camera, no one ever sees them, you know, in live meetings or anything. Well, Pete and Mary are two of those people. And you'll see them in the audience, don't get me wrong, but you know, you don't see these people on stage, you don't see they just kind of quietly sit to the side uh and and they make things happen. Uh, you've helped make it possible for the word to go forth and reach others who are hungry for truth. And Pete, Mary, we bless you today, we thank God for you, and we speak his favor, his peace, and increase, and divine health over your lives. Thank you for standing with Faith Revealed. You are deeply appreciated, and you are a true part of this ministry family. Today's listener question comes from Justin in Kentucky, who writes, You taught that sight follows faith. If faith comes before sight, how do I speak the word with confidence when my situation looks the opposite of what I'm declaring? Well, Justin, that is a powerful question. And it gets right into how faith actually works. So the scripture teaches us that faith does not respond to what is seen. Faith produces what is seen. 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 18 tells us that we don't look at the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen, because the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. How do you so uh speak the word with confidence when everything looks opposite? You anchor your confidence not in the circumstance, but in the source of the word. Romans chapter 10, verse 17. We've dealt with that a lot in the previous episode, says that faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Faith grows because you've heard something from God, not because the situation agrees with you yet. Okay. Hebrews 11:1, uh in our first episode of this series, we taught that uh that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Notice it's evidence. Before there's evidence, faith treats God's promise as the greater reality while the natural realm is still catching up, okay? When you speak the word of God, you are not denying the circumstance, you are denying it the authority to be the final voice. You're aligning your mouth with what God has already spoken. Mark 11, 23 says, Whoever says to the mountain and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, he'll have whatever he says. Okay, confidence comes from repetition and obedience. The more you hear the word, the more you believe the word, and the more you speak the word, the more settled your heart becomes, and the more settled the word becomes in your heart. Sight eventually does follow faith. Okay. Um we don't we don't talk too much about sight, but sight eventually does follow faith. But faith must always speak first. So don't wait for sight to give you permission to believe. Believe because God has spoken and let sight catch up later. I hope that that answer has helped uh helped you, Justin. Thank you for writing to us. We really appreciate your questions. Uh, I hope that's helped you. And I've I think the the rest of this episode is is really going to help expound on that. Uh, as you know, I can't always do it, but I try to strategically place your questions in the episode that I think is going to expound on the answer for your questions. It doesn't always fit, uh, but when it does, well, it it I like to do it. So uh Justin, thank you so much for uh following this podcast and reaching out to us. We appreciate you. Uh and write back to us and let us know how that worked out for you uh for the answer. And stay tuned into following episodes as we continue uh to delve into faith. Okay, Mark chapter 11, verse 22 through 24. Uh we've already read the passage. Uh I want to look at the word say or saith. It's the Greek word lego or lego, lego, uh, to speak from understanding is what it means. To declare with authority, to command to bring forth a matter. Okay. Saith, whatsoever you say, whatever you speak from understanding, whatever you declare with authority, whatever you command to bring forth a matter, okay? Jesus did not say repeat, he said speak with conviction born from revelation. That's essentially what we're getting out of the word, okay? Uh the word doubt means to waver, to divide in mind, to hesitate between two realities. Doubt isn't just disbelief, okay? Doubt is divided belief. And listen, when I say things like that, that's not the end-all be-all, okay? I'm just giving you another angle to look. We know, we know what disbelief is, you know, but we a lot of people we've never considered it to be a divided belief. So when I when I give you a definition or something or a statement like that, I don't want you to take that as just, okay, he said it. That's the absolute end-all be-all. That's what it means. Now, there's there's a number of ways we can look at it. If we all watch the same car crash, we're going to give a different report, right? So I'm just trying to give you a different angle to look at things uh from kind of an out-of-the-box perspective that will help you get more of a visual and an understanding of what you're reading to help encourage your faith. Okay, the word belief. Now, this is pretty cool. It is the Greek word pisteo, excuse me, to be fully persuaded, to entrust oneself, to stand in confident conviction. Faith is persuasion, not pressure. Receive is limbano, and it means to take hold of, to seize, to appropriate, to take into possession. Okay, you receive the promise in the spirit before the manifestation ever arrives. Okay, so Jesus connects faith with speaking, not whispering, not hoping, not repeating formulas, speaking with conviction. So Mark 11 22, have faith in God, literally reads, have the faith of God. Faith that originates in God speaks what God speaks, it knows what it says is undoubtedly going to come to pass. Okay? Look at Second Corinthians chapter four, verse thirteen with me. And it says, We having the same spirit of faith. I like that. According as it is written, I believed, and therefore I have spoken. We also believe and therefore speak. The spirit of faith always speaks from belief, not from observation. Okay? We can look at a situation and see how bad it looks and say, Oh, they're doomed. Or we can speak the word of God and say, You shall live and not die. See, faith does not speak from what it sees. It doesn't always so the spirit of faith always speaks from belief. Remember, these signs shall follow them that believe. That is the action of faith. That is the knowing that God will bring to pass whatever He said. Isaiah fifty five, verse eleven says, So shall my word be that goeth forth out of thy mouth. It shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereunto I send it. When the word is spoken, it carries God's nature, carries God's authority, carries God's creative power. Now we know that the Isaiah 55, when it's talking about the word that was sent forth, that word was Jesus. Okay? That kind of that's the sum totality of that verse is that word was Jesus. However, you are Jesus' body, his spirit is dwelling in you. When you speak what he spoke in faith and believe that what you say is going to come to pass, you speak with the same same authority that Jesus spoke with. Okay? So your words then carry God's nature. Your word then carries God's authority, and your word then carries God's creative power. Now, I've said for years that you have the power to create, and people look at you when you say something like that like you're absolutely crazy. And I say, I'll just prove it to you. It's very simple. You create all kinds of problems in your life. See? We speak problems into existence all the time. We create all these problems. We have creation power because we're designed in the image of God, in the likeness of God. Okay? So if you speak faith, if you speak the word of God, using the same natural order that God created you in his likeness, in his image, you will have whatever you say. Just change what you say. See, speak with a new tongue. Stop speaking fear, doubt, and unbelief, and start speaking the positive effects of God. Okay? Jesus repeats the word say three times in Mark chapter 11, verse 23. First time, whosoever shall say unto this mountain. That that is directional speaking. Faith speaks to things, not about them. Okay? The second time he says, Shall believe those things which he saith shall come to pass. This is faith's persuasion. Okay? You must believe in the creative power of your own spirit-filled words. Now don't twist what I said there. I don't mean your spirit. It's God's spirit. Jesus said, The words that I speak, they are spirit and they are life. It's literally rendered, they are the spirit of life. In him was life, and his life was the light of men. See, John 1. So his words are life. Well, when you speak, you must believe that when you're speaking, just like he did, the scriptures or the voice of God, that your words have creative power because they are filled with the Spirit of God, because you're uttering and the voice of God. Okay, the third time that he said it, he shall have whatsoever he saith. That is manifestation. Okay? So the first time, let's let's look at it again. The first time he speaks, it's directional. The second time he speaks, it's persuasion. Or the second time he says saith, it's persuasion. The third time he says saith is manifestation. Okay, now watch this. Proverbs chapter 18, verse 21 says, Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Your tongue is an instrument of manifestation. Okay, you have to you have to really understand uh what he's saying about the tongue. Okay, death and life are in the power of the tongue. The tongue is what shapes your words, okay? The actual physical organ of the tongue or whatever it is, it is not what controls your life or death situation. It's what you're speaking, it's the words that you're shaping it and the spirit that you're putting behind what you're saying. Okay, so understand that your tongue is an instrument of manifestation. Psalms chapter 33, verse nine. For he spake and it was done. We could stop there. I love that. For he spake and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast. When you speak God's word, you are participating in the divine creative order. Okay, you are causing things to start to align when you speak God's word, because that was the original law of creation, was his word, and it's still the law of creation. Whatever he says is done. You cannot speak two realities and expect one to manifest. Okay? There's a lot of double-mindedness, and I'm gonna try to tread lightly here, but here's a pretty profound thought for you if you're if you're new to this, or maybe even if you've been preaching faith for a long time, you might not have considered this. You can't speak two realities and expect one to manifest. If your mouth speaks faith one moment and fear the next, you've given mixed instructions to your world. Okay? It doesn't work. Uh you you can, if you have an employee, you can tell them climb a ladder and get down off the ladder and climb a ladder and get down. And when they're on the ladder, you could say, Well, I told you to get off the ladder. It's confusion. They're not going to want to work for you. They're just gonna, they're just gonna fold up and quit. Okay, well, that's that's the outcome of your situation when we speak faith one second and doubt the next second. Faith one minute, fear the next minute. It doesn't, it doesn't work. Okay. Uh James chapter 3, verse 10 and 11 uh said, verse 10 said, Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessings and cursings. My brethren, these things ought not to be. Verse 11 says, Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Okay, the mouth reveals the mixture in the heart. Faith speaks out of persuasion, fear speaks out of observation. Did you get that? Faith speaks out of persuasion, fear speaks out of observation. Mountain moving faith requires a single sourced confession. You cannot be double-minded in your confession if you expect situations to flee from you, mountains to uproot and be cast into the sea. Okay. How do we activate this? Joshua chapter one, verse eight. We we've quoted this a number of times that the book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth. Notice out of thy mouth. Okay, meditation becomes declaration. Declaration becomes manifestation. When you meditate on the word of God, it takes root inside of you, and then you begin to declare it. So your meditation in the word of God becomes your declaration, and your declaration of the word of God becomes the manifestation of the word of God in your world, in your reality, in your life. Okay. Romans 4 17 said, God called those things which be not as though they were. You speak from God's reality, not your situation's reality. Okay? You don't look at your situation and say, this is going to be the outcome of that situation. You speak from God's reality that calls those things that be not as though they were. And when you speak from God's reality that calls those things that be not as though they were, then the meditation of the scripture that you have put in the time to receive the word of God, which is what you're doing right now, is you're receiving the word of God. Okay? When you put the time in and meditate upon that, that's why I tell you at the end of every broadcast, I'm going to let that just soak in you. Just let that word saturate inside of you. Meditate upon it. Think on those things. Okay? When you allow that to happen, then you begin to declare those things that be not as though they are over your life. And when you start to declare the things that be not over your life, the things that be not become. Okay? So God calls those things that be not as though they were. You're made in his image, in his likeness. It's time you start calling those things that be not as though they were. Now, I'm going to give you a little contingency here. Now, I believe you can you can call things. However, I'm going to tell you right now that your neighbor's vehicle or your neighbor's wife or husband is not what you're calling into existence. Okay. Don't get crazy with this stuff. There's a lot of loopy loony-tooned Christians out there that tend to get really crazy with this stuff. Don't be one of those people. Stay rooted, stay grounded, stay stable. Okay. I told you God is more stable than we'll ever be. Stay be like God. Be stable. All right. If it belongs to someone else, don't think that you're going to call that into your house. That's probably not going to happen. Okay? And if it does, you're wrong. All right. So let's stick to let's stick to Bible when we're doing this stuff. We let the Bible answer the Bible. We let the Bible produce what the Bible said it can produce. Hebrews chapter 4, verse 12. For the word of God is quick and powerful. The word quick is alive. So the word is alive. When you speak it, you release life. Okay? The word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting it asunder to the dividing of the joint and the marrow, separating the soul from the spirit. It's the only thing that can divide the two, for one. But you've got to understand that the word of God is alive. Now, why is the word of God? Is this Bible, is the words in this Bible alive? Are they literally breathing? Yes, they are. Jesus was the word. John chapter 1, verse 1, Jesus it said, Jesus was the word. In the beginning was the word, the word was with God, and the word was God. Okay. Jesus said, I've come in the volume of the book. He is the book. Okay. He told the Pharisees, search the scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life, but they are they which testify of me. Okay? He is the word. And he dwells in you if you have the Holy Spirit. That is him. Okay? When you understand that he dwells in you, then you speak his words with confidence, knowing he's right there to back them up. It becomes a lot easier to speak from a persuasion as opposed to a perception. Okay? I can tell you all of these things, but until it come it becomes alive inside of you, you're not going to have the authority to speak it with. See, Jesus I know and Paul I know, but who are you? When they got to the seven sons of Skeva, they're preaching the I adjure you by the Jesus that Paul preaches. Well, these demons looked at these guys saying, Well, listen, we know Jesus and we know Paul, but we don't know who you are. And they they whip those guys because they had no authority in somebody else's revelation. That's why I keep telling you it's vitally important for you to get this for yourself. You can't quote what I quote and it worked the same way for you as it does me. It has to become alive in you. That's why you've got to meditate upon the word. That's why you've got to delve into the word for yourself. So look at this. Faith does not wait for the natural to change. This this is a big thing when people are praying for people. Uh, like especially in churches. Uh if you go to churches or if you've been around churches uh that lay hands on the sick and they they they make a big hoo about all of these things, and I'm not I'm not knocking them. But what happens is a lot of these preachers, man, they'll they'll start praying for people and they'll pray themselves right into unbelief before the prayer finishes. They've they've got somebody up there that's sick and needs uh needs some serious help and needs some serious prayer, needs somebody with some dunamis, some power. It's the word Greek word power, needs somebody with some dunamis to come in there and start speaking to a situation, not about a situation. I watched, I watch them just, oh God, if it be your will, listen, by his stripes you are healed. Again, Peter said you were healed, done, already finished. All right, walk in it. Become aligned with the word. It is his will. First, if somebody had ever, if I'm if I'm in trouble and I need somebody to prayer, or if I like if I'm hurt or sick or something, and I call somebody for prayer and that they start that prayer off, if it be your will, listen, kick them out of the room. Don't let them pray for me. I don't want those people near me. I want somebody that walks in there with some authority that says, I'm calling those things that be not as though they are. You shall live and not die. You shall walk and not be crippled. Reach forth your hand, take up your bed and walk. Do what they did in Acts 3, silver and gold, have I none, but such as I have I give unto you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Rise up and walk. And they weren't playing back then. Now we come in and we gotta feel good, and we're we're looking talking to lawyers and insurance companies, wanting to know is it, can we pray for somebody in this church, or will our insurance covered if they fall? Listen, I'm not worried about it because I'm speaking from a persuasion. I'm speaking from a place of results. I'm not speaking from an I hope so, or maybe it'll work. Let's flip a coin, heads I win, tells you lose. No, we're not doing that. We are speaking from a place that is absolutely 100% effective because that place is God's place. That is where God abides, in the unseen, which is the eternal. You can see the cancer, you can see the problem, you can see the the bones broken, you can see whatever the case is, you can see that. But what we cannot seem to see in our spiritual mind or our natural eye is the outcome that God has already promised. So call those things that be not as though they are, and meditate upon what we taught. I want you to pray this with me. Say, Lord, align my mouth with your word. Let what you have spoken become the only truth that I declare. Now confess this. Say, I speak what God has said. And what God has said comes to pass. Now, I want you to do something this week. Speak one specific scripture daily over the situation you want to change. Consistency creates clarity. Clarity produces manifestation. Think for yourself. My words frame my world. If God's word is in my mouth, God's reality will be in my life. That's where we're going to stop for today. I want to take time, let this settle in you, let the word establish faith inside of you, and let it guide your steps. If faith revealed has helped you to understand the word more clearly or strengthen your walk with God, would you take just 30 seconds to leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify? Uh your review helps this teaching reach people who are looking, who are hungry. Uh, it's one simple way that you can help spread the word. And while you're at it, share the episode with someone who needs encouragement and teaching from the word. 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