Taking Your Mountain

Part Three of Reflections from Our Founder

Dear Caleb Family,

When Caleb was eighty-five years old, he made a remarkable request. After decades of wandering in the wilderness and years of battle in the Promised Land, he said, “Now give me this mountain” (Joshua 14:12).

He did not ask for ease or comfort. He asked for the very hill country where the giants still lived.

What strikes me most is that Caleb’s courage at eighty-five was rooted in a promise he had received at forty. For forty-five years, he carried that promise in his heart. And when the time came, he stepped forward with the same confidence he had as a younger man: “The Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as He said” (Joshua 14:12).

Taking your mountain is not about ambition. It is about faithful and enduring obedience.

Each of us is given a “mountain,” an assignment where God has asked us to trust Him fully. Sometimes that mountain looks intimidating. Sometimes we wonder if God’s promise will ever come to pass.

But I have learned this over many years of walking with the Lord: if He made the promise, He will remain faithful to fulfill it. Our part is to stay close to Him, to keep believing, and to move forward when He says, “Now.”

My prayer for you is that you would not shrink back from the mountain before you. Whatever God has spoken over your life—believe and hold fast to Him. The same God who sustained Caleb will sustain you.

May we continue to take our mountains together and glorify the Lord!

Standing with you in faith,
Papa Don