The Walls Are Falling!
Are you exhausted? Do you feel like every day you just do the same old thing and yield little to no results? You aren't the only one that feels like this!
"Dry seasons" come and go in life where you feel like you are working so hard and going absolutely no where. Sometimes it feels like we're running on a treadmill.. we put in the same effort that we would running on the road yet we go nowhere. It is okay to feel like this!
If you are in a dry season right now where you don't feel very productive, then this Blog post is for you. I'm going to tell you a story of some people that might have felt the same way.
This story begins with a man named Joshua who was leading the people of Israel. God had promised him that he would take the city of Jericho in battle and capture it for his people.. but there was one little detail that troubled Joshua. The city was surrounded by HUGE walls!!
If you know anything about military strategies then you know that one of the best places you can be on a battlefield is behind a huge wall where you can pick off the enemies while they can't touch you. So how could he possible defeat such an insurmountable foe?
This is the promise that came to him from the Lord:
Joshua 6:2-5
"the Lord said to Joshua, “I have given you Jericho, its king, and all its strong warriors.3 You and your fighting men should march around the town once a day for six days.4 Seven priests will walk ahead of the Ark, each carrying a ram’s horn. On the seventh day you are to march around the town seven times, with the priests blowing the horns.5 When you 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.”
What an amazing promise. The walls will collapse without any physical attack against them? Amazing!
Can you imagine how excited Joshua and the Israelite's felt when this promise was made? I imagine they immediately picked up the required materials and began walking. And they went around the wall. And the next day they did the same. And the next day they walked around again. And scripture doesn't say this but I imagine the enemy sitting on the walls just laughing at them.
Have you ever felt like this? God promised you the victory but you feel like your just walking around in circles while the enemy laughed? I know I have.
I imagine 3 or 4 days in and the army of Israel was thinking, "Why are we doing this? How can we claim victory without even touching their walls!?"
But not Joshua. He stayed faithful and led his people around and around the wall and on the seventh day he told them the news. "Today we will not just walk around this wall once, but instead we will do it seven times that much!"
Can you imagine the exhaustion? Think of what you are doing now that is causing you this stress and anxiety and then multiply it by SEVEN!
But they got up again like they had this entire week and they began to march... and the enemy once again began to laugh. They knew they were safe within their walls. They knew that no amount of marching could harm them. Until the trumpets sounded after the seventh lap and the walls fell with a loud BOOM!
I imagine the enemy that had once been laughing and taunting, now turned to screaming and running!
Israel had stayed faithful and God had delivered the victory!
Maybe you have been in a dry season for what feels like ages. Maybe you are becoming discouraged. But God is telling you today that if you will just stay faithful in doing what He has called you to do the the walls will fall and VICTORY will be yours!
Don't give up now. The enemy may be laughing, he may be taunting you.. but God will turn the tide and send him screaming!
Finishing notes: Thank you so much for reading! Tomorrow I will be releasing a 30 minute podcast about discipleship and the process of "Bearing Fruit" that I call "Apple Tree Discipleship"! I am very excited to be releasing this leadership talk and I hope you will all tune in for it!
Thank you for your continued support,
Ethan Corbett
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