THE WALLS OF JERICHO

When we read from Exodus to Deuteronomy, we just saw how God was always helping the Israelites even though they were always complaining about something and doing the opposite of what God asked of them. This went on even in Joshua. However, God was still mighty and loved the Israelites. God kept giving them victory over anyone that came their way. God was with them. This made the other nations scared of the Israelites. Joshua 6:1 says “Now the gates of Jericho were tightly shut because the people were afraid of the Israelites. No one was allowed to go out or in.” Verse 2 says “But the Lord said to Joshua, “I have given you Jericho, its king, and all its strong warriors.” God is good. God has already given the Israelites the power to conquer Jericho. However their only problem was “the wall of Jericho”. How will the Israelites take over Jericho if they can’t even get in?

God told Joshua, himself and his fighting armies should walk around the walls of Jericho with the Ark of God and seven priests ahead of the Ark each holding a ram’s horn. On the seventh day, they are to march around the town seven times, with the priests blowing the horns. When they hear the priests give one long blast on the rams’ horns, have all the people shout as loud as they can. Then the walls of the town will collapse, and the people can charge straight into the town. God gave them a way to break the barrier (which is the wall) in front of them.

From when we are born, we start building a wall. Each day we add a brick to the wall. When we become worried, that’s one brick. When we become sad, that’s one brick. When we become stressed, that’s one brick. When we lose any opportunity, that’s one brick. For some of us, we have been stacking a lot of bricks up our wall and it has become so high that we can’t even get past it. No one can see what is really behind that wall. As Labrinth said in his song Beneath your beautiful that “you build your walls so high that no one could climb it”. Do you know what is behind that wall? God told Joshua that basically behind that wall is their victory. What is behind your wall? Behind that wall may be your destiny helpers. Behind that wall may be the job you’re looking for. Only cause you have built a wall of shyness, low self-esteem you have never wondered that that is the wall stopping you from your greatness.

The Holy Spirit has instructed me to do this prayer with everyone that is reading this blog today. Doing this requires faith and belief. Don’t do this half-hearted because you won’t get the results that you want. Sarah Jakes Roberts said, “Stop diluting your prayer requests with fear and doubt and anxiety and insecurities”. This simply means don’t be saying “I know God can do it but in your head you’re thinking let me prepare just in case He doesn’t do it”. You’re already doubting it before you do it. Let go off any control and fly freely. Let God take over.

TASK: 7 Days Wall Breaking

Write on a paper the things that you used to build your wall (Anxiety, depression, doubt, fear, something that happened to you, something that is going on in your family that’s making you think I wouldn’t want to move forward because I don’t want that to ever happen to me, anything that needs breaking). Now for seven days, read it each day or look at it, open it wide and pray about it, pray against it (the aim of this prayer is to break down this wall). Do this for 6 days and on the 7th day, pray 7 minutes about it and after the 7 minutes play some worship or praises songs and happily dance and rejoice because the wall has come down. You will not see any changes if you are diluting your faith. If you are thinking “Maybe this might work, maybe not”, I don’t know how your results might come out. You should do this thinking “I have this wall built up but God, at the end of this seven days, the wall will come tumbling down flat just like Jericho”. May God be with you in this 7 days journey and May he show you something new each day of this journey.

Prayer: Father Lord we thank you and we bless you for bringing us to the last week of January. Lord, as you did for the Israelites in Jericho, do the same in our lives. Give us victory over everything. These 7 days show your glory in our lives. We pray and thank you God for doing it. We bless your name, amen.