Encircle your Problem with the Gospel to Ascend
“Yahweh said to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor. All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days. Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the city wall shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every man straight in front of him.”” (Joshua 6:2-5 WEB)
My pastor, Pastor Joseph Prince, released the revelation about the winding stairs, representing us ascending higher, in the shortest time within the smallest space this year.
Suddenly the Holy Spirit reminded me of a certain story related to going in a circle.
When Joshua and the children of Israel marched around the city of Jericho, it’s like they were climbing the winding stairs, one day at a time.
Even though they were physically walking in a circle, in the spirit, were actually going higher—closer and closer to their victory.
Joshua told them to be silent—to restrain their fleshly complaints and murmurings. Instead, they were listening to the trumpets of ram’s horns being sounded.
The trumpet sound reminded them that a ram had to be slain to make that trumpet. It possibly reminded them that Yahweh provided a ram in Isaac’s place for Abraham.
Who does this ram represent? It is a picture of our Lord Jesus Christ who was slain as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
In other words, every time the priests sounded the trumpets of ram’s horns, they were proclaiming the Lord’s death at the cross.
When you come to a city of Jericho in your life—a seemingly indestructible problem, surround it by hearing the Gospel—how Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection has made you righteous and worthy to receive every blessing and deliverance from God.
The walls of Jericho didn’t crack at all during those first six days.
Even though it seems like there’s nothing happening in the natural, every time you hear God’s word and believe it, you’re ascending higher on the winding stairs to a place of purer faith.
It may not take seven days, but the “seven” is a picture of perfection or completion.
When unbelief has been perfectly cast out of your heart through receiving messages of God’s love, grace and goodness towards you, then your Jericho is ready to fall.
When you confess and believe in your victory based on Jesus’ finished work at the cross, that problem before you shall surely crumble.
It’s easy to shout at any time, but the journey to an effective, wall-destroying shout is all about casting unbelief out of your heart.
It may seem really repetitive, but God’s role assigned for us as believers is that simple: just hear about Jesus, believe it and speak what you believe.
That’s the kind of faith that tears down the walls of Jericho!
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