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Joshua 6: 2: "And the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have delivered into your hand Jericho and his king, with his men of war."
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PRAYER IN FAMILY
"FATHER, THANK YOU FOR YOUR BONDADES AND YOUR WONDERS FOR OUR FAMILY. WE GIVE YOU ALL THE GLORY AND HONOR TO YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE THE GOD OF MIRACLES AND WE BELIEVE THAT THIS WILL BE A TIME OF EXALTATION AND BLESSING FOR US. IT WILL BE A TIME OF REWARD FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND FOR YOUR CHURCH, AND WE BELIEVE IT IN THE NAME OF JESUS. AMEN".
PRINCIPLES OF BLESSING FOR THE FAMILY
THE LORD BRINGS A WORD OF BREAKING AND OPENING WHEN EVERYTHING SEEMS THAT IT IS CLOSED (JOSHUA 6: 1-3).
The reason why Jericho was "closed, well closed" was because of the children of Israel, since the people who lived in this region were filled with fear because they had heard of the great wonders that the Lord had done with the nation. of Israel, they heard of how the judgment of God fell on Egypt, they heard that the Lord opened the Red Sea and how they defeated their enemies (Joshua 2: 9-11). The Lord was affirming the faith of Joshua and of all Israel for the conquest of Jericho, the Lord had to do it. Remember the bad report that the spies had given 40 years ago where they said it was difficult to conquer that land because there were giants and fortified cities, cities surrounded by large walls, cities with great resistance and opposition to be taken and conquered. That's why, this report from this woman to these spies was great news of faith. However, the Lord himself appears to him and manifests himself as the prince of the army of God who had come to help him, spoke to him and taught him what he had to do (Joshua 5: 13-15). First thing what the Lord said in this great supernatural vision we see in Joshua 6: 2 which says: "But the LORD said to Joshua: See, I have delivered into your hand Jericho and his king, with his men of war " But, in the midst of the great news of faith that the woman gave to the spies and that they informed Joshua, the appearance of the same Lord prepared for the war, the word that the Lord gave him that had given him to that land, there was a problem: Jericho was closed, tightly closed (Joshua 6: 1).Sometimes, the Lord manifests himself with power in our life, and we receive a Word on Sundays that raises us, a Word of conquest, a word that tells us that we are eagles, a breaking word but, when we go to our daily life, our work or our chores, we see that everything is closed and not only closed, but it is well closed. At times, we can see that God did great wonders in the past, like the nation of Israel that 40 years ago saw the miracle of the sea open and bring a great opening for the liberation of their nation; We can think that God did wonders in the past, but he can not do wonders in the present because it is another era. Imagine that Jericho was walled with walls that were wide enough for two horse-drawn carts to run, the doors were very thick and strong and, practically, we can say that Jericho was an impenetrable city, an unconquerable city, a closed city, tightly closed (hermetic). At times, in God's purpose we get ourselves with closed, well-closed fortresses, and those great strengths we can get in the minds of people. It seems that it is impossible to be saved and we say "they are hard to save" because they have such a closed mentality that it seems impossible for the light of the gospel to shine, but the Lord is powerful and overthrows that strength through his Word and his power, and people like that are saved and transformed. It also happens with believers who have been gathering for years but have many strengths in their minds and many haughtinesses, resist and oppose being disciples, believe themselves wiser than the ministers that the Lord gives them to teach them, want to believe and serve God. its way according to your comfort. I call these "Hard to Disciple" because they have strengths as thick and broad as the walls of Jericho, but the weapons of the apostolic ministry are powerful to overthrow all kinds of fortresses, and the apostolic anointing is so strong that it causes the person to allow them to be torn down those thoughts and incorrect ways of thinking through surrender or the Lord himself makes it go through a strong process where they have to surrender. This is taught to us Matthew 21: Glory to God, or you want to be crushed and made dust.
There are also families, cities and regions with great strengths, these are ideologies that stand against the knowledge of God (2 Corinthians 10: 3-5), but while something seems to be closed and impenetrable, more fast will be opened and taken for the gospel.
In 2 Corinthians 10: 3-5 we see that there are two kinds of strengths or walls: The first are the arguments that are in our mind, and then the haughtiness in the spirit. It means that there are two strengths, in the mental and spiritual.
When the revealed Word or the Word of life comes, your arguments and your thoughts want to drown it and reject it so that it does not produce the desired effect, just like the parable of the sower: there are people who harden themselves as the way, others who are sown in between the stones (which are people who receive the word in their emotions, but has no depth), others sown in the thorns (which are the eagerness and deception of the riches that make the Word fruitless) (Matthew 13:19 -23) We must let the word of God remove all hardness, every stone, every thorn and make us good land.
You should know that behind the arguments or the walls in your mind are operating evil spirits that reinforce your wrong way of thinking. I will illustrate this in this way: Your way of thinking or your scheme or structure of thought is the house or the castle where the evil spirits live.
What does the liberation do without renewal? Cast out the spirits but leave the house intact (Matthew 12:45). We must free ourselves and cast out the evil spirits, but we must also tear down the house, tear down the walls, and build our life as a spiritual house to live and the Holy Spirit is manifested. There can be no renewal without liberation, and there can be no liberation without renewal; we must break with mental strengths and with the strengths and resistances of evil.
Mental and spiritual strengths can govern people, families, communities, a nation and nations, and have a purpose: to oppose God's purpose, to preach the gospel, to make disciples in all nations and to manifest the will of God nice and perfect.
The city of Jericho not only had physical walls, but a great opposition and spiritual resistance, this was because the inhabitants of this place sacrificed children in the wall, were very idolatrous and worked with darkness. For that reason the Lord told him to use spiritual weapons:
- Go around and around the wall for 6 days (Joshua 6: 3)
- Use the power of priests, the power of intercession and worship (Joshua 6: 4-5)
- Carrying the ark of the covenant, which was a figure of the presence and glory of the Lord (Joshua 6: 7)
- Praise and worship with joy and strength (Joshua 6:16).
What was the result of all this? Joshua 6: 20 says: "Then the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets, and it came to pass that when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, he cried out with a great shout, and the wall fell down ..."
The closed thing was opened, the closed closed well opening. I prophesy in the name of Jesus, that through all the spiritual weapons that the Lord has given us (prayer, fasting, covenants of generosity, praise and adoration, evenings, vigils, the prophetic Word, the Family Altar,
Houses of Salvation, the name of Jesus, the Power of the blood of Christ, the power of the Holy Spirit, the apostolic and prophetic anointing), all resistance and opposition of evil collapses in the Name of Jesus.
The breaking for a great opening is not achieved with carnal and natural strength (2 Corinthians 10: 3) because the carnal and the natural is weak, however, the spiritual is powerful. The closed will open only through spiritual weapons, so praise the Lord before the closed and open. Create the prophetic word of opening although it seems that everything is closed, praise the Lord where it seems that everything will be closed, have prophetic acts in the midst of what is closed, have the family Altar in the middle of the closed, have homes of salvation and preach the word and everything will open.
Everything closed will be opened, everything closed will be taken, everything closed will be conquered and everything closed will be collapsed.
GENEROSITY IN THE FAMILY
The nation of Israel, of the gold and what they took from that great victory, dedicated it to the Lord and were generous with God (Joshua 6:24). It is a time to give the Lord the best, and as God has brought openness, advancement and breaking, give the Lord the best and raise an offering of gratitude.
APOSTOLIC DECREE
WE DECIDE IN THE NAME OF JESUS, THAT WE LIVE IN OPENING AND ADVANCE, THAT WE ARE IN A NEW TIME FOR US AND OUR FAMILY, THAT ALL RESISTANCE OF EVIL HAS BEEN BROKEN AND THAT WE ENTER IN A TIME OF RENEWAL AND OF WHAT NEW OF GOD. WE BELIEVE THAT IN CHRIST, ALL THINGS ARE NEW AND THAT OLD THINGS HAPPENED.
AUTHOR: APÓSTOL HOLVER ESCALA
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