How to Conquer Your "Jerico"

How to Conquer Your “Jericho” 

Joshua 6:20 states, “So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets:  and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and when the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.”

       This true story of the blowing of the seven shofarot was given to us by inspiration of God and therefore is profitable to us today.  Just think of it, Joshua and his “men of war” and seven priests carrying seven trumpets (made of ran’s horns) went around the city of Jericho one time for six days.  On the seventh day (seven is the number of perfection) they went around the city six days and nothing happened.  It was on the seventh time that they went around the city that the city walls fell down “flat” under or even with the ground in such a way that each soldier was able to go straight into the city .

       Do you have a Jericho to conquer in your life?  If so, obey God explicitly and he will give you the city.  Do not only partially obey God—obey Him completely.  Musicians are known to be a bit stubborn at times.  You must follow God’s will completely if you want him to knock down the walls of your “Jericho”.

       The trumpeters blew, the soldiers shouted and the walls “fell down flat”.  Whether God used the tremendous sound of the seven ram’s horn trumpets or the sound of the soldiers “great shout” to accomplish His will or if God pushed the mighty walls of Jericho over with his little finger is not the major point of this true story.  God is faithful to keep His Word if we are faithful to obey His Word and do what it says for us to do.