Shout Your Walls Down

JOSHUA 20

verse 20 When the trumpets sounded, the people shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the people gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so every man charged straight in, and they took the city.


God gave Joshua a command that seemed insane and illogical to the human brain, a command that would rock the Israelite's world. Jericho was a sinful city and needed captured. It was protected by a strong wall. Joshua and his people couldn't break through in their own strength. It was going to take the supernatural.

God told Joshua to tell the Israelites to march around the walls of Jericho once each day while blowing the horn each day for 6 days. Then on the 7th day march 7 times and then on the 7th they were to shout. That is when the walls of Jericho will tumble.

I am sure that sounded insane to Joshua but he did it anyway. My point today is not the obedience though. You see, I taught this lesson in Sunday School last week and during church service later on God brought to remembrance the lesson during a song. I don't remember the song now but it had the word "shout" in it. And God spoke to me and said we tend to wait to shout the victory until we see evidence of it instead of "shouting the victory down." The Israelites didn't wait until after the walls crumbled to shout. It was the shouting that made the walls crumble.

It is our praises that crumbles those walls, those mountains, that have kept us from taking what belongs to us. Let us shout the walls down! God Bless~