BREAKING THROUGH THE BARRIERS/THE WALLS OF JERICHO

Have you ever felt like you had an obstacle in your way that you just could not get passed or push through. Has someone ever told you that you could not or would not do something? Has someone ever told you that you would never amount to anything or that you would not succeed? Have you ever told yourself these things? Sometimes we have walls built up around us(I like to call them barriers) that either we have put up for ourselves or that others have put for us. When we have these walls built up it is difficult not only for us to realize our worth or potential in life but it is also hard for others to get through to us, communicate with us or sometimes to even be around us. Do you know what your purpose is? Do you know your worth? DO you know WHO you are and WHOSE you are? How do we discover these things? No one else can tell us we can only come to this discovery by seeking God.

At times when we are dealing with some many things that become hard to face, it becomes hard to know that God loves us, it becomes hard to see that we have a purpose to fulfill. It becomes hard to feel that we can succeed. Majority of the time when we feel God tugging on us, when we know that He is calling us to do greater things for Him, we get scared and that is natural but lets talk about this a little more. Lets go back to the days when we were children and/or teenagers. We went out with our peers and we may have tried new things and we may have even did somethings that we knew we were not suppose to do. At the time that we were doing those things, we may have felt SCARED right? but it did not scare us to the point where we chose NOT to do those things/ DO you see where I am going with this? Those things did not scare us enough to so say no for many reasons probably because we were curious, we were anxious, we wanted to be spontaneous, and most importantly we were with our peers. If they could do it, we know that we could right? What happens when God starts tugging on us and we feel that change the natural or normal feeling is SCARED right? but the difference here is we get scared to the point where we DO NOT want to do it. Why is that?

There a times when we lack trust in God for various reasons, for some it is hard to trust and believe in someone that we cannot see. How can we know for sure that everything will be okay, how do we know for sure that He wants us to do what He says for us to do, how do we know that He will supply our needs? We always hear people saying God has a plan for us, God has us covered and there is no need to worry and we want to believe it but when that times come we get scared/nervous and follow our on plan, we run to a place or a person(sense of security) to hear what they have to say, and then we begin to worry. We have to learn to TRUST God and we have to learn to BELIEVE in ourselves. A lot of times we have low self-esteem or insecurities that tell us that we cannot do certain things, we began to feel inferior or intimidated by others. We ask the famous question of how do we know if we are qualified to do what God has called us to do? Let me remind you that God qualifies the called, if He calls you, he has qualified you. God already knew what we were going to do before we were born. He is the author and finisher of our faith, He has a plan and He made us FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY.

Once we began to develop a relationship with God and allow Him to work on us we will realize that we never had a reason to feel like we couldn't do anything that He called us to do. We will realize that He gave us many gifts to use for His glory. We will realize how special we are to Him and How much He loves us. We will realize that God has the final say so not man and that if we please God, He said that even our ENEMIES WOULD BE AT PEACE WITH US. So today I ask some questions, what is standing in your way? Who is standing in your way? Are YOU standing in your way? How do you get not only out of your way but of God's way? What wall do you need to tear down? What barrier do you need to break through? Where does your security lie? We have to learn to put ALL our trust in God, man did not make us so they will NEVER fully understand us or what God has for us.

I am here to tell you today that God says that it is time to tear down the walls of Jericho. DO you know about the walls of Jericho? Because the people had faith the walls of Jericho were destroyed! Only one family was saved from Jericho that was Rahab and her family because she had faith and she helped the spies and God promised her that He would save her. Jericho was a walled city that stood in the way of the Hebrews making it to the promise land. Joshua showed He had faith to carry out the plan that God had for him and when called told Him about the walls of Jericho, He did not question it but instead he had faith. What are your walls of Jericho, do you have faith? DO you believe? Let go and let God! Lets break through some barriers today.

I would like to leave you with these two scriptures

Hebrews 11:1 "Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things unseen.

Hebrews 11:30-31 "By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the army had marched around them for seven days. By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed with those who were disobedient^".

I pray that this has blessed you as much as it blessed me while writing it. God Bless you all.