In my own life, there have been so many instances where it seemed my back was up against a wall and there was no other way out. After the Lord set me free, I began to learn how to trust Him during very difficult times. I began to see example after example in Scripture of different people who encouraged themselves in the Lord – by praising the Lord in the midst of those circumstances!
David’s own army wanted to do him bodily harm after the Israelite women and children were captured while David was leading his men elsewhere. The Word says that David encouraged himself in the Lord!
The children of Israel were taking the promised land city by city – and Jericho seemed invincible. Yet they praised their way around…and watched the walls fall down.
Paul and Silas - stuck in jail – chose to praise and glorify God even in the midst of their bondage…and God delivered!
Many times I have felt bound up by sin or circumstances only to choose to praise God – and have seen His deliverance each and every time! Not always in the way or timing I would have chosen, but always delivered!
Most often, deliverance is being set free from our own mindsets – our own fear and doubt - our own wrong thinking. The walls that block our minds are the ones we most need to have knocked down. How do we do that? Look to the examples from those who have gone before us. Praise Him…no matter what!
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 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. Joshua 6:20 KJV
What walls do you need to see come down in your life today? Praise God until the walls fall down.
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed. Acts 16:25-26 KJV
What personal bondage or attack of the enemy do you need to seek freedom from today? Praise God until the bonds are broken and the lies are renounced and replaced with the truth!
Dennis Jernigan
To hear the Dennis Jernigan Podcast version of this teaching and to hear the song ’Til The Walls Fall Down, got to http://podcast.dennisjernigan.com/e/til-the-walls-fall-down/
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