You know that thing you have been praying about for longer than you want to admit? The situation that was supposed to have changed by now. The door that was supposed to have opened. The relationship that was supposed to have been restored, the debt that was supposed to have been cleared, the healing that was supposed to have come. You have watched other people get their breakthrough. You have sat in rooms where people testified about what God did for them, and you clapped and you celebrated — but somewhere quietly on the inside, a small voice whispered, "What about me?"
I am not going to pretend that question is not real. It is one of the most honest things a person can feel. And if that is where you are today, I want you to know you are in good company — and more than that, you are not forgotten.
Because the God we serve, He moves mountains. Not sometimes. Not only for certain people. He moves mountains for you and I too — and the fact that yours is still standing does not mean He has stopped working.
"Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." — Matthew 17:20
Now I want you to sit with this scripture for a moment, because what Jesus is not saying is just as important as what He is saying. He is not saying you need a giant, unshakeable, never-wobbled-a-day-in-your-life kind of faith. He is saying a seed. The smallest possible version — the kind of faith that is barely holding on, that showed up anyway, that still whispered a prayer at midnight even when it did not feel like anything was getting through.
That is enough. You are enough. What you have in you right now — trembling and tired and real — it is enough for God to work with.
Let Me Make This Personal
Maybe you are at a point in your life where you have done everything you were told to do. You got the degree. You applied for the jobs. You kept yourself together even when everything around you was falling apart — and you are still waiting. Still sleeping in the same room you grew up in. Still watching your bank account say things that make you question your vision. Still wondering if the version of your life you believed God for is ever actually going to materialise.
Maybe your mountain does not even have a name you can put on it neatly. It may be a heaviness — a feeling that your life is not progressing, that the version of yourself you were becoming has gone quiet, and you do not know how to put those broken pieces together again.
I want to speak directly into all of that and say: this is exactly where God meets people. Not when everything is sorted. Not when you have finally figured it all out. But right in the middle of the confusion — He glorifies His Name.
"Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland." — Isaiah 43:18–19
He is the same God who parted the Red Sea for the Israelites to walk through on bare land. Who provided water from a rock through His servant Moses. God is not describing a comfortable, ideal environment — He is describing your exact situation, the dry place, the place that looks like it should not produce anything — and saying, I am building something new here. The water is already coming. You just cannot see the stream yet.
That phrase — "do you not perceive it" — is God's way of asking you to look again. To look at that situation from His point of view, not yours. To trust that what He is doing behind the scenes of your life is already in motion, even when your eyes have not seen it yet.
Hannah: When God Remembered
There is a woman in the Bible named Hannah whose story I return to again and again when I am talking about waiting, immovable mountains, and a God who remembers. Hannah wanted a child more than she could put into words. Year after year, nothing — she remained barren and watched others around her receive what her arms were empty of. In 1 Samuel 1, she goes to God with a grief so raw that the priest watching her thought she was drunk.
She was not drunk. She was desperate. And God, in that place of raw desperation, heard her cry.
"The Lord remembered her." — 1 Samuel 1:19
Three words that carry the weight of the whole story. After all the years. After all the tears. After every moment of sitting with empty arms and a full heart — the Lord remembered her. And what followed was the answer she had been waiting for.
Friend, the Lord remembers you. He has not lost track of your name or your pain or the specific promise He placed in your heart. The wait you are in is not evidence that He has forgotten. It is often the space where He is doing the deepest work — both in your situation and in you.
God has not given up on you and your story is not finished. The chapter you are in right now is not the last one, and the mountain in front of you is not bigger than the God behind you. He is the One who parts waters, raises the dead, and turns mourning into something you did not know was possible. He is a mountain moving God — and I am here to remind you that He has not changed.
Keep speaking to that mountain. Keep showing up. Keep bringing your mustard seed faith to the God who can do everything with it that you cannot do alone.
Something To Think About
What is the mountain you have been standing in front of for so long that some part of you has started to treat it as permanent? What would it feel like to speak to it out loud this week instead of around it?
Has this season of waiting changed you in ways that surprised you? If so, could some of those changes be exactly what God wanted for you?
What is one small sign that God has been at work in your story even during the season that felt most silent? Is it possible He has been moving in ways you have not yet stopped to name?
A Prayer
God, I am tired and I am not going to pretend otherwise. The mountain is still there and some days I genuinely do not know how to keep going. But I choose today to trust You anyway, not because I have it all together but because You have never once let me go. I believe You remember me. I believe the promise You placed in my heart is still alive. Move in my life, God, in whatever way You see fit, and give me the strength to hold on until I see it in Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.
Your Challenge This Week
Pick one specific thing you have been afraid to pray out loud to God about because it feels too big or too far gone. This week, pray it out loud every day, just once a day, with whatever faith you have in that moment. You do not need the right words. You do not need to feel it fully. Just say it out loud and trust that the God who hears is already listening and He will answer.
Written with love for every soul that is still standing.
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