Hang in there

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"The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while the priests continued blowing the trumpets . Now Joshua had commanded the people saying, 'You shall not shout or make any noise with your voice, nor shall a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I say to you, 'Shout!' Then you shall shout' " Joshua 6:9 - 10 NKJV.

The people of Israel must have felt they were facing an impossible task. They, together with the priests were to march around the city of Jericho once each day, for six days. Then on the seventh day, they were told they would march around the city seven times and on on the seventh journey they were to shout - loudly and the walls of the city would fall down.

Now let's look at this carefully. The city perimeter was 600 metres long. Around the city there were two walls, 15 foot apart and between 12 and 17 feet high. The walls were over 6 feet in thickness. On the outside of the walls was a ditch 27 feet wide and 9 foot in depth which was cut through solid bedrock. Adding to this, there were armed guards around the top of the walls. The very idea of it was quite absurd to them.
Then Joshua told the men that as they marched they were not to speak - at all. There was to be complete silence, not a word was to be spoken out of their mouths.

Why did they have to remain silent until the last walk around the city? Quite simply, because Joshua would have remembered the moanings, groaning and complaints of the former generation who had been led out of Egypt by Moses. They never stopped moaning and paid the price of not getting to the promised land because of their insolence and disobedience. Joshua didn't want a repeat of this. He didn't want faithless talk being spoken. He wanted faith not doubt. If they had been allowed to speak they would probably have been speaking doubt and failure to the task ahead. Therefore, he told them to be silent until he gave the command to shout. And it happened this way, on the seventh day and the seventh march around the city, Joshua gave the command and the walls came tumbling down.

Unbelievable? Not really. Not when we have a God who can take the impossible and bring victory. Joshua had been given a strategy by God. He followed it totally - obedience. The people did what Joshua commanded - obedience. Joshua believed God totally and he carried out God's Word of being bold and courageous, meditating on His Word and God gave him success.

He was patient. He didn't give up. Many of us may have given up on the sixth time of marching around Jericho. We would then have lost the blessing. Don't give up in your own lives. You don't know how close you are to receiving what God has promised. If you give up now - before you get there, you'll miss out on what God wants to give you.

Your time is coming. be patent and do all that God is telling you to do. It may be taking forever, but it will come if you don't give up. Stay close to God; be obedient to His Word and the walls will come tumbling down on your own, personal Jericho.

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