Words Of Life, May - August 2005: Give Me This Mountain

To pray 'Give me this mountain' is to stand alongside the Old Testament figure Caleb, a man of great faith in a great God. At the age of forty, he claimed a mountainous part of the promised land of Canaan. At the age of eighty-five, his prayer was answered. To pray 'Give me this mountain' is to dream the impossible dream, to reach higher and go further than we have ever gone before. It is to trust more deeply in the God who declares he can do in us 'immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine' (Eph 3:20). This edition of Words of Life features the stories of Caleb and Joshua, along with letters to Philemon and the seven churches in Revelation, promises from Isaiah, highlights from Paul's third missionary journey, readings for Pentecost, and a glimpse into the lives of some great prayer mentors from the past. May these daily readings encourage you to dream your impossible dream.