Seven priests will walk ahead of the Ark, each carrying a ram’s horn. On the seventh day, you are to march around the town seven times, with priests blowing the horns.
Joshua 6:4
The city of Jericho, which was surrounded by a huge stone wall so thick that chariots could ride on top, was the last city that stood between the people of Israel and the Promised Land.
God told Joshua to have the people march around the walls once a day for six days and seven times on the seventh day.
It wouldn’t have been so difficult if, while they were walking, they saw a little crack in the wall or a shift in the foundation, but nothing day after day.
They didn’t understand it but just kept doing the right thing, and the final time around, the walls came tumbling down.
We need to keep thanking God even though nothing is improving, keep walking by faith and not sight, and suddenly the walls of obstruction and opposition will come down.
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