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In 2017 when Hurricane Harvey hit I think that we all remember the devastation.
The overwhelming flooding and destruction.
As a church we commited to doing whatever we could.
I had a few pastor friends in the area who were doing awesome work.
We connected with them on needs.
So we bought and loaded up a truck and trailer with supplies they needed, waters, etc.
But we had a problem.
We knew where we needed and was supposed to get to deliver, but we couldn’t get there.
Every path we looked at had roads and bridges flooded over and out.
We were so close but just couldn’t make it.
It honestly looked impossible.
We had people calling police stations and city between here and houston to see if there was any way in.
Finally.
We found a path.
We had to go to college station, head south until we hit i10, took small roads that were clear all the way until we finally made it!!
A 2 hour drive took over 5.
I wonder if today in your life there are some places that look and feel impossible.
You can look into some places that you hope to be, wished you could be.
But maybe it seems impossible to get there.
Something seems in your way.
THE GREATEST OPPORTUNITIES ARE OFTEN DISGUISED AS GREAT IMPOSSIBILITIES.
There is not way past.
Maybe it’s your marriage.
An addiction.
Your past.
maybe it feels impossible.
But I really believe it can be your greatest opportunity.
We’ve been following the Hebrew people (the Israelites) through their journey from being freed from slavery in Egypt, to finally walking into their own land, their own country.
God had promised them this land for generations.
It was a promise they knew what there, but had almost forgotten.
and know they can finally see it.
Last week we say that God performed a miracle and stopped the water of the Jordan river and the entire people of Israel walked across on dry ground, now they are standing in the land that God says will be theres!
There was a small problem, The city of Jericho.
They had to overtake and conquer this City, it was the gateway to all of the rest of the land they were meant to go in and take.
Joshua 6:1-2
Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites.
No one went out and no one came in.
Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.
This impressive city would have seemed overwhelming to look at especially to think they could conquer it.
These were a bunch of people with not military training, had been in slavery and homeless in the wilderness all of their lives.
Jericho was majorly fortified.
An excavation of Jericho in the 50’s revealed it was a double walked city built on a hill.
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Walls were approximated at up to 30 feet high and 6 feet thick.
At the bottom of an embankment with double walls, it would have looked like a 10 story structure!
Every door and gate was shut up tight.
Imagine how intimidating it would have been to look and see that as your target...
Intimidation is still how our enemy works.
If satan can get you intimidated by what looks like is in front of you, he will knock you out and discourage you before you even try.
What they could have seen and an impossibility, God recognized as an opportunity (see I have deliver it into your hands)
If your scared and intimidated by things you see in front you right now, just know God isn’t limited in the ways we are.
Sometimes we can falsely view God as just a little bit bigger and better version of us.
But he is nothing like us.
Nothing limits him!
Joshua 6:3-5
March around the city once with all the armed men.
Do this for six days.
Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark.
On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets.
When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”
The walls will come down!!
He told them look, the very thing keeping you out I will bring down.
I we believe that God brought this wall down, we have to also believe that our walls aren’t impossible for him either.
Their impossibility became a God opportunity.
In life we face a lot of walls that try and stand in the way of us walking out God’s plan and promises for our lives.
It’s time for some wall to fall.
It happened just as God said!
They listened to him and the walls collapsed, and they went in and took the land!!!
WALLS STILL FALL DOWN!
1) WE FIGHT FROM VICTORY NOT FOR IT.
Joshua 6:2
Then the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.
Not you may be victorious, it’s possible you will win.
I have delivered.
Already.
It was already, but not yet....
The victory was sure!
But they still had to go and do it.
Just because we see a battle we question the possibility of victory.
But God always makes a way where he leads.
You aren’t trying to find Victory, you are victorious.
Now we just live it out.
We see the victory, IN HIM.
In in the places of impossibility, with the walls in your life, you have to give it to him.
It IS too big for you.
ALONE.
Romans 8:37
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Fighting with God is assured victory!!
2) IT’S BY FAITH WE FIGHT
Joshua 6:8–14 (NIV)
When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the Lord went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant followed them.
The armed guard marched ahead of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark.
All this time the trumpets were sounding.
But Joshua had commanded the army, “Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout.
Then shout!”
So he had the ark of the Lord carried around the city, circling it once.
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