What If Your Greatest Obstacle Is Really Your Greatest Opportunity?
Breaking Down Walls with God’s Strategy
Discover how prayer, risk, and obedience can lead to breakthrough.
What is our response when we run into metaphorical walls in our lives? Do we throw in the towel? Or do we rise up like Joshua and his army in obedience to God and believe if the Lord promised to give us the land, then it will be ours?
After Moses died, Joshua led the Israelites across the Jordan River and brought the Ark of the Covenant into the promised land. Once there they faced a battle for Jericho - a city well defended with high walls. Joshua instructed Israel to let the Ark of God’s Presence lead them, along with the musicians, and march around the walls of the city of Jericho for six days. On the seventh day he instructed the people to yell and the trumpets to sound! The blast destroyed the walls and Israel won the victory that day.
Joshua trusted the Lord for a divinely inspired strategy to deliver his people and God revealed His great wisdom to break through the city’s walls.
We, too, can expect God’s faithfulness in our lives, whether we are in unfamiliar territory, in front of a situation that looks daunting, or anything we think can stop us from doing what God has called us to do. We can be certain that the Lord will lead us, grant us heaven’s strategy and set us up for victory!
«Later, after you crossed the Jordan miraculously, you faced another impossibility —Jericho! The lords of Jericho, as well as the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, fought with you, but I gave you victory over them all! I sent the hornet ahead of you to run off the two Amorite kings. Your weapons and strength had nothing to do with it! I gave you land on which you had not labored and cities that you had not built. You are now living in the land I gave you. You are eating grapes from vines that others planted and olives from trees planted by the people who lived there before you.»
Ephesians 3:17-19 MSG
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with Johanna Wilson, Director of Project Management, Ramsey Solutions.
Key Steps to Overcoming Obstacles
The next time you face a wall in your life:
- Pause in prayer, asking Him for wisdom and strategy. Listen for what the Lord is saying.
- Be willing to be unconventional at times as you follow His leading, and not rely on human reasoning and understanding.
- Remember, faith is spelled: R.I.S.K
- Obey in faith!
- Trust Him with the outcomes - sometimes success and victory looks different in His eyes than the world's point of view.
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