After working in the addiction and recovery field for several years, I’ve noticed something very critical. There is a place and time when the person who is in treatment begins to make progress in their recovery. This comes when their mental and emotional being begins to heal, allowing them to start seeing the big picture of their life. While in this process, they begin to come across obstacles, barriers, and obstructions that attempt to stop them from reaching the point of breakthrough. Some, not all, may never push down the walls of their life. Some, when things become too hard, quit and go back to what is easy, what they are used to, what they know. Proverbs 26:11 KJV, “As a dog returns to his own vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.”
In life, we all come across hard times, challenges or obstacles. It can be a bad report from the doctor, a failed marriage, job loss or financial trouble. These are all walls that keep us from God’s best in our lives. The word “wall” is defined as: to enclose, shut off, divide or border (limit your access to.) So the wall comes to separate you from your goals and dreams of life. But the good news is that God said that we can win and tear down every wall of life. Mark 11:23 & 24, “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, “be removed and be cast into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.”
Your wall is not “an American Idol.” People love watching American Idol to see who the next big star is going to be. They talk about it at work, they talk about it with friends, they text in their votes. And when the idol is chosen, they buy their cd’s, go to their concerts and just talk about how much they love this idol. People do the same thing with their walls. They talk about the problem, not the solution. Jesus only spoke the solution, Mark 11:13-14, 20-24, “And seeing a fig tree having leaves, He went to see if perhaps He would find something on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. In response Jesus said to it, “Let no one eat fruit from you ever again.” And His disciples heard it.” Now in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away. So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, “be removed and be cast into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.” See, Jesus never idolized his problem, He only spoke the solution. He never spoke about the wall, He spoke to the wall and got the desired results.
Your wall needs to hear your shout. It amazes me how many of us will allow our thoughts to run our minds. A mirage for negative and defeated thoughts that keep us from the victory on the other side of the wall. When your wall begins to shout defeat to you, you shout your victory in Christ Jesus to that wall. Joshua 6:5 & 20, “It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat. And the people shall go up every man straight before him.” “So 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.”
When your wall is shouting at you, you shout back at your wall!
God loves you and so do I!
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