When the people heard the sound of the rams’ horns, they shouted as loud as they could. Suddenly, the walls of Jericho collapsed, and the Israelites charged straight into the town and captured it. Joshua 6:20 (NLT)
Taking new ground often requires a battle.
Let’s say you want to move forward financially. While it’s easy to blame factors like the economy or your location, the truth is, those aspects can’t suppress a child of God.
Now, we have an enemy whose personal goal is to stop us, contain us or distract us from whatever we’re trying to do for God. So, as believers, we need to be careful we don’t develop an attitude of, “Well, if God wants me to have something, He knows my address.” Otherwise, our doctrine will soon become, “I guess God doesn’t want me to have it because He hasn’t given it to me.”
Who says He hasn’t given it to you? Look at the story of the Israelites headed into Canaan to take hold of the Promised Land. (See Joshua 1–6.) Did God say it was theirs? Yes. Did they all just sit down and say, “Okay, cool. Go get it for us, God”?
No. They had to fight for it. They had to cross the Jordan and march around Jericho. They had to capture the city even though God told them that He had given it to them.
In our lives, there are successes God wants us to have, places He wants us to go and people He needs us to influence. It takes effort to walk out the destiny God has for us.
Will we run into walls, giants, messes and valleys along the way? Of course. But we can still take what God says is ours. Rise up and go for it!
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