Whatever impossible you are facing, God could overcome it all in an instant, but he often doesn’t. Why is that? Why doesn’t he call down the angel armies to fix this? Why doesn’t he display his extraordinary power and intervene in a way that not a single soul could deny him?



If I were God, that’s what I would do. But God’s thoughts and God’s ways are infinitely higher and better than my own.



Instead, God often invites you and I into partnership with him and gives us marching orders to be part of his miraculous victory. He empowers us to walk in faith, but it’s always our choice whether we walk or whether we cower in fear. Whether we show up for the battle, or whether we give up in the fight.



God wants to know … are you going to be his partner in the impossible? While his power is not dependent on your participation, his invitation has included you and maybe he’s just been waiting for you to lock arms with him in this and not look back.



Joshua 6 tells the story of the Battle of Jericho. It’s a nearly unbelievable story of impossible walls crumbling with the shout of God’s people. A shout that was both a battle cry and a praise to God, and everything that stood in their way fell to the ground and they walked right in.



I don’t know about you, but I need some walls to fall! There are some things in the way that are causing problems and heartache I never saw coming. I fully recognize I don’t have the power to tear these walls down myself. I don’t have the ability to climb over them. (But boy do I want to!) My God holds the power to make them fall, and he’s invited me to a divine partnership in the battle. My role is to depend on God, march forward in faith, and prepare my praise.



And my sister, I believe you’re listening today because that is your role in the impossible you’re facing too. You’re being called to depend on God, march forward in faith, and prepare your praise.



Joshua is the leader of the Israelites after Moses died. The Israelites have spent 40 years wandering in the wilderness after their lack of faith and overwhelming fear that held them back from stepping into God’s good plans. And now, they’re ready. The next generation is ready to trust God in the impossible and move out of their wilderness. And God says, go to Jericho … I am giving you Jericho.



Jericho is a 6 acre fortress. The entire city is protected by a massive wall, the walls of Jericho. These walls were first 13 feet of stones, then on top of the stone was over 20 feet of brick walls. You couldn’t climb these walls, and you certainly couldn’t break through these walls. Jericho was considered to be the best defended city of Canaan and no doubt the most difficult to conquer. Jericho knew the Israelites were camped nearby so they were on high alert.



But our God is not detoured by the impossible! Defeating Jericho was impossible, but Jesus said in Matthew 19:26, “With God, all things are possible.”



Joshua 6, beginning with verse 1. “Now the gates of Jericho were tightly shut because the people were afraid of the Israelites. no one was allowed to go out or in. But the Lord said to Joshua, ‘I have given you Jericho, its king, and all its strong warriors. You and your fighting men should march around the town once a day for six days. Seven priests will walk ahead of the Ark, each carrying a rams’ horn. On the seventh day you are to march around the town seven times, with the priests blowing the horns. When you hear the priests give one long blast on the rams’ horns, have all the people shout as loud as they can.