January 17, 2020 www.PositiveChristianity.org presents Positive Daily Inspiration JOSHUA 6 January 17, 2020 www.PositiveChristianity.org now in our 21st year presents Positive Daily Inspiration What a Spiritual Meaning of a Bible Verse Can Do for You Major Message - Behind the Story of Joshua 6. "The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets went forward, marching before the ark of the LORD and blowing the trumpets." Joshua 6:13 I would like to share with you from the Bible. This is a story you know from Joshua [Joshua 6:1-17, 20]. It is a story about the tearing down of the walls at Jericho. It has great truth for you today, and it has a Biblical principle inside of it. When I share the Bible with you, pretend you are the characters in here, and this is a story about you. Great truth can come from this as you realize that right now this is a story about your life and mine. “Now Jericho was shut up inside and out because of the Israelites; no one came out and no one went in.” Think about yourself when you are filled with fear. When you am afraid, you shut yourself up. You put a wall around your mind. At this point, someone could come up to you and say something very positive, but you couldn't hear it. You would repel that thought. All of your thoughts would be shut up inside of yourself, and all you can do is think within yourself of your worry, your sickness, or whatever other problem you are dealing with. You are closed inside the gates of your own mind. You are locked-up. You have to tear down that wall, but how can you do that? You need help. This is what this story is about. “The Lord said to Joshua” . . . Joshua is your name too. It means "whom Jehovah makes triumphant." When God comes through you and makes you triumphant, you know that something miraculous has happened. “The Lord said to Joshua, "See, I have handed Jericho over to you, along with its king and soldier." Jericho is a city just over the Jordan in the land of Canaan. It was the first city taken and destroyed by the Israelites after they entered the Promised Land. Again, let's think about your journey. Each of us is on a journey. Sometimes we're walking and sometimes we're running, but we are ALL hoping to go to the Promised Land. The Promised Land is not found on the map, it is not a geographical place, as much as it is a place of spiritual consciousness. What it means beyond the physical letter that is written in our Bible is "spiritual realization." Think about that. When you come to that point inside of yourself, when you get past all of the old stuff and decide to journey to the point of spiritual realization, all is well and there is a great joy inside of you. Jericho means "moon reflecting." This is a fascinating thing. What is the moon? If we look up some night and see the moon, what is that? As we look at the moon, it does not shine of its own light, but merely reflects the light of the sun. People looked at the moon and thought, "There must be a great fire in the moon." But we know now that is not true. We know it is simply reflecting the light. What does this have to do with you? It talks about our intellect inside of ourselves. The intellect seems to express the light of understanding, but when we investigate further, it reveals that it shines by reflected light. Even as the moon is a part of our planetary system, so the intellect has a legitimate place when used rightly by reflecting the light of God. It is when the intellect becomes egotistical, when it thinks, when it originates its own light, that there is a problem. I'm not talking about being egotistical like when a person says, "I'm so beautiful." I'm talking about being egotistical by saying, "I'm right! Don't confuse me with the facts. I know what I think, and I act because I think. I am right!" All the time it's like staring at the moon trying to get a suntan. Our intellect is reflected light. From where? From the Mind of God. When we stop thinking of ourselves as the end-all and turn to God, then the walls are torn down inside of us. Then we have the power to do what we need to do with our lives. “‘You shall march around the city, all the warriors circling the city once. Thus, you shall do for six days, with seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, the priests blowing the trumpets. When they make a long blast with the ram's horn, as soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and all the people shall charge straight ahead.’ So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, ‘Take up the ark of the covenant, and have seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams' horns in front of the ark of the Lord.’ To the people he said, ‘Go forward and march around the city; have the armed men pass on before the ark of the Lord.’ “As Joshua had commanded the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the Lord went forward, blowing the trumpets, with the ark of the covenant of the Lord following them. And the armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets; the rear guard came after the ark, while the trumpets blew continually. To the people Joshua gave this command: ‘You shall not shout or let your voice be heard, nor shall you utter a word, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.’ So, the ark of the Lord went around the city, circling it once; and they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp. “Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams' horns” I want you to hear over and over again how they talk about the number seven. It's talked about throughout the Bible, and it has a real significance for you and for me--a Biblical principle of how to tear down walls inside of us. Seven refers to the Divine law of perfection in the natural human. How do you fully manifest the spiritual man and woman while going on the journey to spiritual realization and the Promised Land? You do so through seven centers in the body. Do you remember in the Bible where Elijah told Naaman to bathe in the Jordan seven times? The Bible talks about the cleansing of us seven times over and over again. "The Sevenfold Cleansing," instructed us how to cleanse the body. If you go into many churches today, you will find candlesticks that represent seven lamps, or the seven centers in the body. You'll see seven candles on the candelabras. It was that way in Biblical times also. In times of old, the tabernacle represented the body of the human. The seven lamps were a symbol of the seven centers in the organism through which intelligence is expressed. What are these seven centers inside of you? 1. Seeing 2. Hearing 3. Tasting 4. Smelling 5. Feeling According to many traditions, the other two centers are: 6. Intuition 7. The mystical - an ability to communicate with God, and to listen and understand when God communicates with you. These are the areas to be developed inside the human. These are the ways to develop yourself as a spiritual human being. We read about going around the city seven times. This is to enter every one of your abilities you have as a human, to pray so much that you see good, to pray so much that you hear good, to pray so much that you literally sense God around you, to pray so much that you can taste it. It is talking about a completion inside of you, allowing a full day for each sense. It allows you to become so aware of the presence of God that you literally tear down any wall inside of you. You will not use any physical force in doing this; neither did they. The walls will fall down on their own. The walls you have inside of you now will not be able to stand up when you totally surrender your own human senses to the mind of God and the power of God. It will occur. Let me finish the story now. “The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord passed on, blowing the trumpets continually. The armed men went before them, and the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, while the trumpets blew continually. On the second day they marched around the city once and then returned to the camp. They did this for six days. “On the seventh day they rose early, at dawn, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times. And at the seventh time when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, ‘Shout! For the Lord has given you the city…’ The "city" is a gathering together of thought-people inside of yourself. Even all the inner voices of your fears and your worries are starting to listen to God at that point. You have marched around your city so much that everyone is listening. All your senses come together and shout, and the walls inside of you are torn down. "The city and all that is in it shall be devoted to the Lord.’ So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpets, they raised a great shout, and the wall fell down flat; so, the people charged straight ahead into the city and captured it.” That's my story; it's your story. Let's go and claim our place in The Promised Land. POSITIVE DAILY PRAYER: There is not a wall that can confine me. Past or present, or imagined future. I walk with God. I am empowered by God. I go beyond past imagined boundaries. Daily, I become more. Daily, I am more aware of God's help and presence in my life. Thank You God for helping me to bring down all walls. POSITIVE DAILY AFFIRMATION: God NOW helps me tear down old walls that used to fence me in or keep me out. 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