You Can Move That Mountain

By Sydney Douglas Smith

So many bad circumstances take place in this fallen world – such as illness, crime, accidents, and conflicts – that it’s easy to get so discouraged that you simply let it all happen without fighting it. But you actually have more control over bad situations than you may realize. Evil is behind much of the bad that happens in the world, and God has given you the ability to fight evil and overcome it with good through the most powerful weapon possible: prayer.

What is a Prayer Warrior?

God calls all believers to fight in the spiritual battles that are constantly taking place, where evil causes suffering but God works to redeem it for good purposes. Those who say “yes” to God’s call – prayer warriors – participate in the world’s most important work. Prayer warriors see the battle and consistently take action by coming before God.

How Can you Become a Prayer Warrior?

Understand that there is a war and you are in it. Like it or not, all of us are caught up in the spiritual war that’s taking place between good and evil. If you don’t engage in the war, you’ll still be affected by it – and you’ll be much more vulnerable to evil than you would if you decided to fight as God calls you to do. So be active; not passive. Engage in spiritual warfare with the confidence that God’s power working through you is greater than any evil working against you. Your prayers can help prevent bad things from happening to people and usher good things into people’s lives. Listen to the Holy Spirit’s promptings for guidance about how best to pray for what’s most needed – and then pray to advance God’s kingdom on Earth and stop the spread of evil.

You can move mountains will help you build up your prayer life and mountains will jump into the sea. Including God's word in your prayer you will see that He answers your prayer and if you ask, you will receive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sydney Douglas Smith
• Release date: Dec 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463186442

Sydney Douglas Smith

I was born into a "working class" family and spent my childhood learning to "be happy with what you have" My father was the hard working head of a very poor but very loving family.I was bullied by my peers and by the education system and I came to believe the many negative things that were told me such as; "You are a stupid boy", "You can never learn", "You will never be anything in your life".In addition I was brought up in an age where Class and religious distinctions and prejudices decided what sort of a person you were destined to become and more or less how you were to live your life. Any signs of ambition were quickly stifled by a lifestyle and social system driven by the upper class.An inherited work ethic and the ability to care deeply for others (especially the under-dog) are among the life gifts that carried me through-out my early years even though I didn't have a relationship with God then. I found God later in life (about 45), and this led me to college where I learned that I wasn't stupid after all, and I could learn new skills, using my gifts and be valuable to God and other people. I became a Counsellor with Lifeline, and attained many qualifications I thought I could never get.Yes I have been knocked down in life, quite a few times. Sometimes because of wrong decisions I have made, sometimes when others have hurt me and sometimes just because of life, but through it all there has been a great God who even in the depths of my hurt, fear and sorrow has just reached down, taken my hand and gently lifted me!My theme song is a re-written version of the tub-thumping song “ I get knocked down, he lifts me up again”It helps also that I have had a good wife who has stuck by me in the hard times and helped me celebrate the good times, thank you Ruby for being there to lift and encourage me and also keeping me grounded when I get above myself.I currently have a small Life Coaching practice where I teach and mentor “Bright Endings” in a one-on-one environment or group workshops where people can and do move past the mistakes and disappointments of the past and even learning to appreciate some of the lessons learned to help create for themselves a “Bright Ending”After a lifetime of many failures and some great success stories I have learned to lean on God in the tough times and thank Him for everything.We are not able to go back and change the beginnings, undo the mistakes or redo the regrets in our story! BUT we can start now and write a brand new ending.I am living in the peace and calm that comes as we are able to find what I call the "sweet spot' in our life that is the purpose for us which I am sure we are pre-destined to be before we were born.

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Prologue – Empathetic Prayer or Personal Appeal?

Posted by Nik Bonkoski on her Facebook page on the morning of 10th September 2019

Dear you,

You who is thinking of taking your own life today. Here is what will happen if you go through with it. You will be found. Most likely and almost always by a family member that loves you. That memory will never leave them. That family member will have to call 000 while their hands shake and their heart is in shock.

The police will come and investigate the scene. They have to make sure it was a suicide and not foul play or an accident. The family member that found you will notify other family members. The chain of pain starts at this moment and trickles on down the family tree throughout the day.

If you are married....family will go knock on your door and say to your spouse, I'm sorry. Your spouse killed themselves today. They are gone. They died.

Your spouse will pace around and replay that morning. They will want to run screaming down the street with no shoes on, but they won't,because your small children are napping in the next room. The shock keeps your spouse from trying to follow your spirit to Heaven.

5 minutes or an hour later the police show up at your home to interview your spouse. They hand them your wallet, your keys...your belongings and they ask a million very personal questions and ask to look in your fridge and medicine cabinet for clues.

The day you take your life the people around you that love you, their lives are turned upsidedown. Your spouse will immediately get phone calls from organ donation banks, the mortuary, the church. Instead of falling into a heap of tears in bed they will stand in your kitchen planning your funeral. Do you want roses or sunflowers? A wood casket or metal? Pictures of trees on the church program or the photo of a farm? So many things to figure out when a life ends so abruptly.

On the day that you die the word will spread fast thanks to good ol' social media. Friends will be posting, R.I.P. on your Facebook page before all of your family has even been notified of your passing.

Your spouse will have to sit down your small children and tell them that you have died. They will have no idea how to word this or how to answer those little children's questions. They were never taught how to comfort a child through trauma of this magnitude. Your child will cry, What does die mean?

Your parents will be in shock. - Your siblings’ knees will hit the floor.

Your friends will wonder about what they could have done. They will beat themselves up that they never returned the call (for help?) that you left just the other day on their voicemail.

Everyone will wonder how they will live all these decades without you. Your job will be notified that you have died. Your work items sent home. No one you love will eat anything that day.

Everyone you love will hold each other that day, possibly blame each other or themselves on that day. Some will lose their faith in God...others will cling to theirs like a life line. The angels will cry. Your dog will wonder when you are coming home to take her for a run. Your mail will arrive with no one to open it. Your clothes will hang sadly in your closet. Your coffee cup will sit dirty on the counter. Remnants of a life left too soon.

On the day that you take your life, there are a series of events that unfold like dominoes that cracks the hearts of those you love. Forever. They are never, ever the same. They might wonder if they ever really knew you, forever wonder of secrets you might have