Tear the walls down

Campaigners tonight really opened my eyes to a cool way of life that I had been missing the past 2-3 days. As many know, there has been some very saddening events that took place recently. I've just been good at hiding the pain I've felt. I've been telling myself to keep my faith strong, which hasn't been easy in any perspective. Until tonight

The talk at Campaigners was ironically on faith. God's promises, and how faith in His promises will bless you more than anything else, ever. We also talked about the fall of the walls of Jerico. (Joshua 6:1-20). When God told Joshua to march around the city of Jerico, with trumpets blasting, the ark of the covenant with them, and the soldiers not making a sound until the 7th day, Joshua was promised by God that Jerico would become his. Joshua, having a great amount of faith in God's promise, did exactly as he was instructed, and marched for 7 days, once a day, for 6 of them, and 7 times  on the 7th day. Such a tedious task, but very worth his effort. After the last march, the trumpet players blasted even louder, and the soldiers screamed, and sure enough, the walls of Jerico came crashing down.

Unthinkable! The fact that just by having faith in God's promise, Joshua was given exactly what he was promised by God. Thing is, Joshua knew that the land there was set-apart for God. When Joshua took over the city of Jerico, he gave it right back to God. He knew that everything we own belongs first to God.
I think it's insane that one would do so much to win a city for the israelites, just to give control of that city over. He gave it to good hands though. God never once thought of blowing Joshua off. As long as we obey what God has to say, we will be blessed. Now, you would think "No way if I march around a fortress 13 times and blow trumpets, with the most holy object in the world at that time with me will the walls ever just fall down. Not even with the greatest amount of faith" Watch out, there's a double meaning.

The double meaning is this: We must go out, march around our area that we are trying to win over for Christ, and love the people who live in that area that do, and definitely the ones that do not know Him. When we speak to the ones who don't know Him, we must make sure that the words we speak are not ours, but they are His, so that we can build a relationship with them that will bring them to trust us more, and be more apt listen when we talk about our God. They will ask questions, they will want to know more about Him. It's our job, to be disciples of Christ and make Him known to the world.

Well, this is my 10 minute talk for tonight. I love you guys, and I hope that I will be able to talk to you again when I can.

With as much love as can be,
TJ