How to Bring Your Mountaintop Experience Down into the Valley

Have you ever had an amazing moment with God where immediately after, things went wrong?

Sometimes you are greeted with terrible circumstances after your time with God on the mountain.

Genesis 32
¹⁵ Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the covenant law in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. ¹⁶ The tablets were the work of God; the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
¹⁷ When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “There is the sound of war in the camp.”
¹⁸ Moses replied:
“It is not the sound of victory,    it is not the sound of defeat;    it is the sound of singing that I hear.”
¹⁹ When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. ²⁰ And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.
²¹ He said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you led them into such great sin?”
²² “Do not be angry, my lord,” Aaron answered. “You know how prone these people are to evil. ²³ They said to me, ‘Make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.’ ²⁴ So I told them, ‘Whoever has any gold jewelry, take it off.’ Then they gave me the gold, and I threw it into the fire, and out came this calf!”
²⁵ Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies. ²⁶ So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come to me.” And all the Levites rallied to him.
²⁷ Then he said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.’” ²⁸ The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died. ²⁹ Then Moses said, “You have been set apart to the Lord today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day.”

Moses had a really bad day.  

Genesis 33

⁷ Now Moses used to take a tent and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the “tent of meeting.” Anyone inquiring of the Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp. ⁸ And whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances to their tents, watching Moses until he entered the tent. ⁹ As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance, while the Lord spoke with Moses. ¹⁰ Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshiped, each at the entrance to their tent. ¹¹ The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent.

God still talked to Moses after He was in the valley.  Moses made the same atmosphere as the mountain. He had a place where He could talk to God face to face and without everyone around.  Be sure to maintain that connection that you had with God on the mountain.  

Carrying out the vision of the mountaintop. 

Utmost for His Highest

We can not stay forever on the mountain, basking in the light of our mountaintop experience.  But we must obey the light we received there; we must put it into action.  When God gives us vision, we must transact business with Him at that point, no matter what the cost.

We must be able to mount up with wings as eagles but we must also know how to come down.  The power of the saint lies in the coming down and in the living that is done in the valley.  Can I face things as they actually are in the light of the reality of Jesus Christ, or do things as they really are destroy my faith in Him, and put me into a panic?

 A psalm of David.
¹ The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.²  He makes me lie down in green pastures,he leads me beside quiet waters,³  he refreshes my soul.He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.⁴ Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me;your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
⁵ You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.⁶ Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life,and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

His rod and His staff comfort us as we are in the valley, no matter how dark it is.  The rod that Moses used spoke of God's provision and God's authority.  God had turned it into a snake in the presence of Pharaoh.  Moses had used it to part the red sea.  Moses had used it to make water come out of a rock.  All these things God did.  God comforted Moses by giving him something that would help his walk when the way wasn't smooth.  Also something that showed God's authority and provision.  This is yours when you walk in the darkest valley.  
 
You are to change the valley… not have the valley change you.
 
Ezekiel 37

The Valley of Dry Bones
37 The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. ² He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. ³ He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”
⁴ Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! ⁵ This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. ⁶ I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
⁷ So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. ⁸ I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
⁹ Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” ¹⁰ So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.
¹¹ Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ ¹² Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. ¹³ Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them. ¹⁴ I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’”

The valley holds a lot of dead people.  In the valley you will be in contact with many people who aren't alive.  You are to speak to the dry bones!  The breath you prophesy to them will allow many people to live.  You are brought down into the valley to help raise up an army of the Lord.

You're heightened capacity to breathe will not only sustain you in the valley, but will be used to breathe life into those around you.  The things you learned in your mountaintop experiences will help you to change lives in the valley.  Bring the atmosphere of the mountain with you.  Like Moses and his Tent of Meeting.  

There is a physical precedent to this.     

Mountain atmosphere makes you stronger for the valleys.   

"Live-High, Train-Low", whereby the athlete spends many hours a day resting and sleeping at one (high) altitude, but performs a significant portion of their training, possibly all of it, at another (lower) altitude. A series of studies conducted in Utah in the late 1990s showed significant performance gains in athletes who followed such a protocol for several weeks. Other studies have shown performance gains from merely performing some exercising sessions at high altitude, yet living at sea level. 

When we are on the mountaintop we rest in God.  He reveals things to us.  We learn from Him.  When we come down from the mountaintop, we are stronger then we were before and able to perform what He asks of us.  On the mountain, the atmosphere makes it possible for us to breathe deeper and at a higher capacity when we are down in the valley.  Rest in God… cultivate an atmosphere in the valley that replicates your time with God… and be strengthened to carry out the work He has for you in the valley… in the doldrums… in the everyday ho hum existence that we all have to live through.  And in so doing your capacity to breathe life into the dead around you will increase and if you let God live through you, you will help raise an army for God.