Gospel Corner
19/ 06/ 25
Joel Osteen Ministries
Today’s Word
Today’s Scripture
“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 ram’s 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. Then the walls of the town will collapse.”
Joshua 6:3–5, NLT
Walking in Circles.
The city of Jericho was surrounded by a massive wall made out of brick and stone. There was no way in the natural for the Israelites to conquer the city. Why did God have them walk in circles seven days, doing the same thing over and over? It seemed like a waste of time and energy. He could have brought the walls down on day one. But marching around that city was a test to see if they would be faithful in the routine. Would they trust God and do the right thing when nothing seemed to be changing?
When you’re faithful in the routine, God will make things happen that you couldn’t make happen. You may have been doing the right thing for a long time. You feel like you’re falling behind, you’re being left out. But God sees you being your best even though things are not changing. He sees you doing the right thing even when there’s no growth. Your time is coming. Suddenly those walls are going to come down. Suddenly you’re going to see favor like you’ve never seen.
A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that no obstacle is so high and wide that it can withstand Your touch. Thank You that to bring about Your promises in my life You have called me to walk by faith and not by sight. I will live with a sense of expectancy that You are about to bring walls down. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”
SECTION TWO
Join me in reading this wonderful report that Gisele from Texas shared with me that demonstrates how you can take authority over your situation by standing on the Word of God:
My husband had surgery for hiatal hernia. It was a simple procedure where a piece of mesh was inserted into the affected area and he was able to return home the same day.
However, he became increasingly unwell after he got home. He was feeling very bloated, had a lot of pain, and was running a fever. He was admitted back to the hospital and we spent the next week there.
It turned out that a bowel obstruction was causing all his problems. Another surgery was planned. Honestly, we felt very discouraged and defeated at that point.
Then, I remembered learning a few weeks earlier from Joseph Prince about how Christians should take charge and command symptoms to go using the Word of God. I told my husband about it and we prayed, speaking God’s Word. I also commanded the bowel obstruction to be gone in Jesus’ name.
Later that night, my husband went for a series of abdominal tests. These were tests that the hospital had been conducting twice daily since his admission to benchmark his progress. The next morning, when the tests were being done again, my husband started feeling great and announced that he was going home.
The doctor was thrilled with his huge turnaround and told us that the blockage, which had been detected in all the other tests done previously, was not found in the last two tests. So my husband was discharged and we went home. Praise the Lord for His protection and healing!
All glory to our Lord Jesus Christ. I love how Gisele did not take flight or freeze when she came under attack, even though as a couple they felt discouraged when they heard the doctor’s report.
She quickly put into practice what she’d heard me teach about exercising our authority through using the Word. She and her husband prayed, speaking God’s Word over his body, and she commanded the negative symptoms to go in Jesus’ name, as the apostle Peter did in today’s scripture from the book of Acts.
That, my friend, is how we go on the offensive against the enemy today.
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