Shout Down the Walls

Text: Joshua 6: 1-20
MORE LESSONS: 2 Chron. 13:15
Bible Reading in one Year: Psalms 22-24

Bible history tells us that the wall of Jericho was a massive structure upon which chariots could conveniently ride side by side. It had the shape of a cuboid and its height was about the height of a four storey building. It was a huge wall indeed and yet the children of Israel must pass through for God said He had given them the land. So Joshua sought the Lord and He gave him the strategy on how the wall would be destroyed.

There is a strategy in God by which your walls will come crashing down but you have to seek Him to find the strategy. The Bible says the Israelites shouted, and the wall came crumbling down. In the same way you can bring down your wall by a shout of what God has promised, a shout of your expression of confidence in what God can do about that situation. It was not just a shout, it was a shout that was inspired by the Word of the Lord of hosts.

The Israelites themselves did not believe that a shout could bring down a wall so mighty but it did; and friend, if it happened before, it can happen again. God wants you to shout down your opposition, your adversary, that is, the devil, as the Bible encourages, Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you: Jam. 4:7. You must, by reason of your submission to God, get radical and resist the devil and he will flee from you.
The only language the devil understands is a radical shout from the mouth of a child of God. The devil hates it when you confront him with confidence and boldness. The Israelites kept marching round the walls for seven consecutive days according to the Word of the Lord. They didn’t give up doing what the Lord commanded concerning the wall of opposition before them. And on the seventh day, they shouted, submitting themselves to the will of God.

They were opposed and denied passage into Jericho for seven days, but they were tenacious about it. You must learn to stand your ground until the walls come down. It may take time according to your assessment but the wisdom of God is to teach us how to fight battles. He could have by the breath of His nostrils pulled down the walls but He chose to fight using the people and if it took many years for the walls to be built, one should not expect it to crumble in one day, else the victory would not be appreciated. So what is that wall of limitation confronting you and denying you entrance into your glorious destiny? It is time to shout it down by the Word of the Lord, shout against it by the boldness and confidence you have derived from the Word of the Lord, Then the men of Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted, ...God smote Jeroboam and all Israel before ...Judah: 2 Chron. 13:15.

Prayer/Action
* Today I confront every wall of limitation with a shout of triumph, in Jesus’ name.
* “The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon”; let it break every ancient wall against my going forward, in Jesus’ name.
Lift your hand to Heaven and shout hallelujah! Then give thanks to God for the fall of your Jericho. ?

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Your Word is your Victory

Text: Job 22: 28- 29
MORE LESSONS: Mal. 3: 16- 18
Bible Reading in one Year: Psalms 19-21

Your word is your life. Jesus says that the words that He speaks are Spirit and life. Hence if with the Spirit of Christ in us we say things that others in the world say then we would have the same results as theirs. But as for me, when men are being cast down, yet shall I arise and say.... That was what Job said, that when the casting down is going on, I will stand up, and I will say.... So the power over being cast down is in your tongue. What you say about your situation, how you say it, and what you believe and do at the hour that things appear tough and difficult are vital; they can determine what happens to you in that situation.
You ought to be careful what you say even after you have gone through a difficult time and you are waiting for result. For instance, when I was in school and we finished writing a tough paper, some students would not go home immediately after submitting their exam scripts, they would hang around waiting for others to come out so that they could discuss the exam. Their expectation was for you to tell them that the examination was not good.

But if you made a mistake and said it was okay, they would say, Ah, ok? Professor! And then you became an object of ridicule for declaring positive. But hear this friend, even examinations already written can turn around because of your spoken word. Next time the enemy roars at you, roar back at him; roar God's Word to him, roar your confidence in God and your faith to him. Don't ever go down agreeing with the enemy over your situation, testify what the Word of God says. Keep saying, I have conquered you, I am stronger than you, and I am more than a conqueror. Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. I am more than this challenge, and with God on my side, I will overcome it.

I can run through a troop, I will prevail; I can leap over a wall. Keep saying the Word, keep confessing it, even if the matters are not yielding, keep on expressing what God has said about the matter. Don't listen to your situation, listen to God's Word, listen to the promises of God, listen to what God has said ahead of any situation, for before the start of the problem, God has pronounced its end from the beginning.
So keep repeating what God has said in faith and confidence and it shall be to you as you say. Always bear in mind that your words go to God's hearing and He will do according to what He hears you say. Y our word is your victory. Speak God's Word always, no matter what.

Prayer/Action
* Ask God to anoint your words for victory.
* Pray that every negative word you have ever spoken about your destiny be annulled and cancelled.
* Open Psa. 1:3-4 and confess it on your life and family.

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Birthing a Glorious Destiny

Text: 1 Sam. 1: 9-18
MORE LESSONS: Luke 22:40-44
Bible Reading in one Year: Psalms 16-18

When you go through I Sam. chapter 1 you see the take off of a destiny. The chapter begins with several characters but attention is on one particularly. The whole of the book from beginning to the end speaks about a man whose mother was barren, and the mother decided to go to God in Shiloh and pray alone at the altar until the priest took notice of her. The priest thought she was drunk with wine because it was after a feast and he asked her, but she answered ...I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD: v15, and the priest blessed her .

That woman is Hannah, and the child that came out of that encounter with God is Samuel. Chapter one ends with a testimony in verse 27, for this child I prayed...., so the life of Samuel began as a testimony; he was a product of prayer, and the mother was a testifier all her life. There is a glorious destiny that you must also give birth to. But it will not come on a platter of gold, rather you get it on a well orchestrated, deliberate, conscious and desperate prayer. Though Hannah's words of prayer were not documented in chapter one, in chapter two the Bible says, And Hannah prayed, and said...: v1. Some theologians have argued that 1 Samuel chapter 2 was a song, but the woman actually said it was her prayer. When you go through it, you will find how Hannah prayed.

There is so much to learn from this because prayer should not be a mere request. The only way to bring order to prayer is to consider how men and Jesus in the Scripture prayed and got results. Then you will begin to learn to pray by praying the way they prayed. Look at the Lord’s Prayer in Matt. 6:9-13, you will discover that it is organised, orderly and inspired prayer.

Praying is not just standing up from sleep repeatedly shouting Jehovah, I ask You, Jehovah, what? If you will pray prayers that will birth a glorious destiny , you can take such prayers as the prayer of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane where, although He was in agony , ... he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground: Lk.22:44. It was few words but it got Heaven’s attention and an angel had to be deployed immediately to the earth to strengthen Him. That was destiny birthing prayer. Learn to pray the way men and women who received answer from God prayed when destiny was involved, and answer will come.

Prayer/Action
* Ask God to train your hands to war so that the bow of steel may be broken by your hands.
* Pray that God will give you grace to pray until something happens.
* Ask God to make your feet like hind’s feet, set upon high places.
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Replaced Destiny III

Text: 1 Sam. 3:11-19
MORE LESSONS: Lk. 2:40-52
Bible Reading in one Year: Psalms 13-15

I have asked myself on many occasions that when God was picking Samuel, where were Eli's children? They were adults and Samuel was only a child; perhaps they were even bullying Samuel, hitting him on the head saying that is not how to carry the ephod, sit down, that is not how to wear the minister's clothe, put your tie well, and possibly spank him for not doing things right in the temple. Yet God chose that little boy instead of them.

It pleased the Lord to attend to and prefer that boy above them; why? It is because they refused parental teaching. Eli did not handle his children in such a way that they could look like Samuel in the temple, so God sent a message through Samuel to tell him that He would strike Eli and his children in one day and they would die.

Each time I read some scriptures, I shiver. Look at one of them, In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end: 1 Sam. 3: 12. That is terrible, God said He would not spare but would do to Eli as He warned that He would judge his house forever, for the iniquity which he brought, which he knew, because his sons made themselves vile and he did not restrain them. Parents should not let their children go free when they do something wrong saying they are only children.

Because Eli did not restrain his children, he jeopardised their destiny and generations after him. In 1 Sam. 4:19 –21, his daughter-in-law delivered a child and named the child Ichabod, saying the glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father- in- law and her husband, from whom the glory departed and the destiny of the family was replaced. It is good for children to obey their parents in the Lord for the sake of their own destinies. Though Eli was not very strict about his instructions to his children, if the children were wise enough to yield to their father's words, they would have saved the destiny of their family.

Children can be the saviour of their family. Samuel was weaned early by his mother, yet he did not derail from his mother’s teachings even in the midst of the sons of Belial. Daniel was a young man also in Babylon but he purposed in his heart not to defile himself (Dan. 1:8). Even in the absence of your parents, you can still please the Lord and your destiny will not be replaced.

Prayer/Action
* Ask God for children that Heaven and earth will be proud of.
* Pray against any child’s wrong doing that could wipe away God’s favour from the entire family .
* Ask God to send more godly children to the earth through all waiting mothers in church.

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