My Jericho...

'Yet when you relied on the LORD, he delivered them into your hand. For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.'      ---- 2 Chronicles 16:8b-9a

Joshua listened and obeyed. He followed God's instructions to get his people across the Jordan. He ordered the priests carrying the ark to do what would naturally seem a crazy thing - to go into the middle of the Jordan - this river that was full to the brim of rushing water. All it took was for these men to carry God's presence into the middle of the situation and the flooding waters were held back.

All it takes is for us to carry God's presence and we walk through on dry ground.

Then there is Jericho. To walk round the walls of a city a certain number of times and then to shout until its walls fall is an impossible thing. Nevertheless, Joshua didn't impossibility defy the Word of God. When they obeyed and followed God's instructions they shouted and the walls crumbled. The city was delivered into their hands completely.

All it takes to defy impossibility is to follow God's instruction.

After the walls fell, it was up to them to consecrate the holy things that they found to God. They were to keep nothing that would doom them to destruction. They were to dedicate everything that belonged to God to Him and not to keep those things to themselves.

All it takes is to consecrate your heart and your mind and those things that God requires of you, to give glory to God and to live in His blessing.

God has been speaking to me about my Jericho - those obstacles in my life which are impossible or unfathomable. These issues can be practical and spiritual - finance, health, family conflict, spiritual warfare. God promises that if we keep to His words and obey His commands then He will lift us up, He will be our Provider, He will be our Healer, He will be our Hope. That when I march around this wall and act when He says, it will come tumbling down under His might.

'This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.' 
 --- 1 John 5:3-4