Faith Capsule: Are you too quiet to be victorious?

Joshua 6

It was shouting and trumpeting that brought down the wall of Jericho for the Israelites to continue their journey where there was no way. Shouting and trumpeting gave them a supernatural breakthrough. The Israelites, having been out of bondage of over four hundred years passed through on a dry land in the middle of the Red Sea. Having experienced such a passage justified every reason for them not to expect any more hindrances before getting to the Promised Land. Yet, it was a different story when they encountered the Wall of Jericho, attempting to deny them of their progress. It is written, “Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in” (Joshua 6:1). The shut-up Wall of Jericho was a representative of hindrance to the children of Israel. God, in His goodness and mercy, revealed to Joshua what needed to be done to break through the shut-up Wall of Jericho. As commanded by God, under the leadership of Joshua, “…the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city” (Joshua 6:20). Shouting and trumpeting to God denied Jericho from hindering the children of Israel’s progress.  Are you too quiet to be victorious against the forces hindering your life?  Understand and know it is in the word of God to shout out against your shut-up doors.
Once, during the reign of Abijah in Judah, Jeroboam and his forces ambushed Judah from the front and the rear. There was no way for Judah to turn. The Bible recorded that, “…they cried out to the Lord, and the priests sounded the trumpets. Then the men of Judah gave a shout; and as the men of Judah shouted, it happened that God struck Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. And the children of Israel fled before Judah, and God delivered them into their hand” (2 Chronicles 13:14-16). In this case of Judah, when their peace was threatened, it could have been that the Priests remembered how shouting and trumpeting worked in the past to deny hindrance. As a result, shouting and trumpeting was applied to regain peace by destroying the enemies. God is eternally consistent, and when the understanding and knowledge of His testimonies and how He obtained deliverance and breakthrough for His people in the past become applicable in the present, victorious result becomes achieve-able. Do not allow your too-quiet nature deny you of your supernatural victory. The word of God encourages, “Open your mouth wide, and He will fill it (Psalm 81:10). Shout and trumpet to the Lord!

Prayer for today: Ask God to bestow on you the grace to know and shout when where there is a need not to be quiet.