The Forgotten Mountain - PREVIEW
The Forgotten Mountain - PREVIEW
The Forgotten Mountain - PREVIEW
FORGOTTEN
M O U N TA I N
The Place of Peace in
a Time of Confusion
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Dedication
There are no words that will adequately compliment Cathy for
who she is in her own right and for what she has done for me over
the years. She has stayed in the shadows, raising our five sons and
encouraging me so Gods plan could unfold. She is the hero of the
family. Only God can adequately bless her for what she has done and
for who she has been...a loving, tireless, compassionate and powerful
disciple of her King Jesus.
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Dedication
I would like to dedicate this book to my wife MaryAlice. Words
cant even express the love and the support you have been in everything I do. Without you none of this is possible. My love to you.
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Contents
Is the Forgotten Mountain the Eighth Mountain?
Foreword
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Two:
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Five:
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Six:
Ambassador Kings
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es, there are more than seven mountains. There are actually
more mountains of control and authority than can be listed. But
there is one mountain that is to rule them all. There is one mountain
whose love and light shine with the Divine Light of the King, Himself. That mountain is the dwelling place of God. That mountain is
Mount Zion, and it is the quintessential forgotten mountain...but
not for long!
What is it about man that he exalts himself and minimizes the
place of the King? It is amazing that the religious man is more apt
to marginalize the King than those of governmental, cultural, and
societal positions. Maybe it is because some have encountered the
King and found that they want all He has, with the exceptions of
allegiance to His character and obedience to His Lordship. But Mt.
Zion will not be silenced. Her song continues to sing through the
lives of those who have surrendered to Royal authority.
As for man, he clamors and drools over his accomplishments and
crowns himself with every religious, cultural, and political crown he
can invent. But Mt. Zion stands in stark contrast to the contrived
eorts of man-exulted kingdoms. For this forgotten mountain is
the place of broken humility and abandoned obedience. Do not
let these words cause you to dismiss their importance, for from this
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mountain flow both the law and the love that transforms individuals
and nations into beacons of hope, love, and wholeness.
The key is the King Who will live His life through the lives of
those who have given themselves to HimHe Who rules from Mt.
Zion within their own hearts. For when the King has established His
authority within, man can rule anything in righteousness, compassion, and peace. This is the Mountain of the House of the Lord, and
it is the chief of all the mountains. It is the ultimate authority, the
all-encompassing domain of the King.
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FOREWORD
he King and His Kingdom have been the passion of my life for
many years. The inner governance of the King in my heart has
been the topic of countless hours of prayer, meditation, and study. I
may not have been sure of much over the years, but of this I was positive. True world peace, authentic tolerance, and brotherhood would
only be possible when the King ruled the heart of man, trumping the
cultural, religious, political, and geographic limitations with which
we confine ourselves. His Kingdom was bigger than mere mortals
could wrap their heads around. His love, mercy, compassion, and
justice were more equitable than any mans constitution or the interpretation of any mans holy book.
I have always wanted, more than anything else in this world, to
be the authentic representation of His Life in the earth. I wanted
an understanding so clear that it would serve as a launching pad
into the reality of the Kingdom-ruled. But for all I had written, all
I had studied, there were key points missing to this journey I had
committed myself too.
Then I met Dr. Myles Munroe, who I consider the father, the
apostle, the pioneer of the modern Kingdom experience. We would
listen to him for hours talking about what he saw of this incredible
Kingdom. This was years before we published his first book on the
Kingdom of God. We asked him again and again to write on it for
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CHAPTER ONE
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Why Now?
This Mountain is the authority of redeemed humanity, submitted
to the King of this Mountain and in the relationship of committed
union, selfless transformation, eternal Union. The Mountain of the
House of the Lord is within, waiting for those who die to themselves
in order to see His expression through the likes of simple folks like
you and me.
The forgotten Mountain is coming onto the stage of human governance and is beginning to emerge as the chief of all the mountains
of authority and dominance. Having waited for man to discover his
inner emptiness and bankruptcy, it is becoming visible by a most
unpredictable phenomenongenuine inner transformation. No
longer will the nations be governed by those who have no inner
governance to support the words they say. No longer will the people
be so void of true discernment that they will not be able to hear the
truth in spite of the spoken word.
The hearts of men and women are the birthplace of the Kingdom
lifestyle in the earth. It is found among the most unlikely of all people. Kingdom reality is being born within the hearts of the broken
turned mighty, the weak turned strong, the rejected turned powerful,
the lame turned healers, the backward turned kings, the stutterers
turned mighty men, the forgotten turned counselors, fools turned
wise, and the mighty turned humble.
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take the country from the Jordan River to the sea. It was a breath
of fresh air, a new hope, and a determined direction after so many
years of being sidetracked and sidelined by their wobbling faith and
feeble obedience. The time had come. They stood at the waters of
their destiny. This is where their God wanted to take them some
forty years earlier. Now, they were here. On the brink of destiny they
would have to decide whether they would finally respond to God or
once again turn back into the wilderness where there was no hope,
no direction, and certainly no destiny.
So here we are as well. We have followed many very smart men,
many charismatic leaders and dedicated holy men. We have new discoveries in science, inventions to make life easier, psychological and
cultural advisors to tell us what is right and wrong. After all this, we
are at the end of ourselves. We have been found wanting, waning, and
wandering. We are on the very brink of human disaster where we will
either ignore the reality around us and plow on to our own demise
or we will have the courage to face our failure, our uncertainty, our
pride and admit that we need a King who will have our best interests
at heart. At this most critical point in our global history, the King
stands at the door of humanitys heart and He is knocking. Who will
allow Him unhindered entrance, access, and dominion?
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Religion?
So is religion the answer? Those who claim experience, fellowship, or
communication with this otherworldly dimension are often deemed
unfit at worst and untrustworthy at best by most who are entrenched
in the currently accepted forms of governance. If the truth be known,
the religionists are as incapable of governance as the secularists. No,
religion has not proven to be any better. For history is also full of awful
religious wars and attitudes. Their zealots have successfully alienated
the world from the One whom they so completely misrepresent.
Allowing their own fleshy zeal to consume them, they have
destroyed nations on a grand scale and torn apart families on an
individual scale. They have presented a most anti-Christ view of the
genuine Christ of God, who in His eternal wisdom actually demonstrated that love by self-sacrificenot by forcing others to sacrifice
themselvesbrings true peace. Yet even to this day, tyrannical voices
continue to give air to the hatred and destruction that the King came
to put an end to. These folks do not represent the reality of the loving
God who gave His Son for humanitys sake that they might live a life
of fulfillment, peace, and rest.
God has moved many times over the centuries and is evidenced
by the number of monuments built as a result of His attempts to get
the attention of mankind. Every time God begins to do something
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They understand life apart from this Divine inner governance. They
know who they are and what they are capable of apart from God
and it caused them to yield their lives, their futures to Him. As a
result, they have made the commitment to give themselves to Him
for inner transformation, the kind of change that allows the very
love and Presence of God to flow through them. They have seen and
have understood His power, for they have seen His love as well as His
power at work within their own hearts. But I am ahead of myself.
Allow me to start at the beginning.
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Come
Come, let us go up to the Mountain of the Lord. For there He will
teach us of His ways that we may walk in His path, for out of Zion,
the dwelling place of the King, will go forth the governance of the
King, and His word will flow from the hearts of the meek and will
heal the land. For the land that once mourned will flourish in the
joy of the King. The people, once oppressed, will find their destiny
within their own hearts, where the King establishes His Kingdom
and rules with a heart of love, compassion, mercy, and peace.
There is no doubt that these words also will find their ultimate
fulfillment. The only remaining question is this: Who will give
themselves to the King so that these final prophetic words will come
to pass? All they have ever said hinged upon the response of men
to God, as mans free will is sacred territory before God. He will not
infringe upon mans right to choose his own destiny. But these days
are perilous. The hope of the world lies within the hearts of those
who are of no reputation, little stature, and few endorsementsthose
who will simply respond to the call of the King to die to themselves
to take of the Person of the King as the preeminent inner governmental force of their lives.
There is certainly a new order, which is really an old order, born
in the heart of the King and proclaimed by the ancient prophets who
saw this day and saw the emergence of the King through those who
would surrender to Him. Rather than fear the future, the purposes
of the King for this planet are about to unfold in ways that no one
could have imagined.
Consider the ancient words of the prophet Daniel concerning
the the stone which was cut without hands which struck the image
of the kingdoms of this earth and broke them to pieces. And the
stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the
whole earth (Dan. 2:35 NKJV).
All the words of the Ancients have come to pass to this point in time.
They have seen this Mountain as the hope of the world. They wrote it
down. It is destined to be. Why not now? Why not through you?
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