EP 49 How Do I Break Down Strong Brick Walls How Do I Move Mountains and Cast Them into the Sea: Joshua, Rahab, Jericho

So what does a brick wall and Joshua and Rahab have to do with reaching your promise, reaching your goals every day? That's what we're going to talk about in today's episode!

Ladies.

I am so thankful that you guys are here today. We're going to talk about how do we bring down strong walls that are in front of us today? I was honored and privileged to be able to do a ride along with a couple of people in my community who are up and coming real estate investors, and one who is a very experienced real estate investor in our city. And he does these ride alongs. And so I was riding with one, two, three, four, five, five others, including myself. So six of us plus the very experienced person. And as we rolled through the city and he kind of gave us his take on real estate, investing in our city and talked about all of his trials and tribulations, everything that he's faced, everything that he's gone through and everything that he's triumphed in, everything he's learned, all the lessons learned as he's been investing in our city.

He ended the trip with a visit to a brick wall and his point was to talk us through we had already talked about our why and why do we want to invest? Why do we want to do this? And in anything in life that you do anything that's worth getting after there's a why behind that. And there's also work. There's also trials and tribulations. There's also sweat and tears and blood. There's also joy and laughter. There are all these things that come with accomplishing a goal, especially when it's hard. And as you know, I say, how you do anything is how you do everything. So I believe that you should put in a hundred, 10% effort in no matter what you're doing. But I also know that in the pineapple, it says when we are faced with our trials to trust in the Lord.

And I definitely believe that no matter what you're doing, you're going to come up against brick walls, right? So this metaphor, I guess, of looking at this brick wall, it was all the way around. And there was, you know, we were thinking about the fact that what if your promise is right on the other side or what if your, why is right on the other side? And all you had to do was figure out how to get over through, around, under under this brick wall, right? What would you do if your children were in there? And the only way you could get to your children was to figure out how to get through this wall. The fact is, is that most of us, if our backs were up against the wall and we had to get to our kids on the other side, we would figure out a way.

And I think that the important thing to this is that you have to understand why it is that you're doing what you're doing. When we face walls in our life. We just have to remember what are we doing this for in the first place? Because I will tell you, especially now, as I have transitioned into this current season where I'm not currently responsible for a big team of people, and I'm not on call 24 seven, and I don't have all of these key performance indicators that I know I have to meet, it has been a lot harder to be accountable to myself than it is for me to be accountable to my team, to the people that I am supervising or managing or the people I'm leading, or even the people that I am directly reporting to. It's so much easier to meet expectations and to push and to meet those goals, create those goals and go after those goals sometimes when you are doing those things for other people.

So the point was, is to think about your, why, why are you doing the things that you're doing? And when you come up against the wall to be able to push through that thing, just figure out a way to get through it. You know that in thinking about the word of God, it talks about being able to cast the mountain into the sea. Well, yes, we can talk to God about these days and yes, we can ask him to move it. But he has asked us and told us that we have the power of the holy spirit within us to be able to cast that mountain out into the seas. He left us with the same powers of the holy spirit within us that Jesus had. And we can pray and heal the sick we can you know, call out miracles. We can call out greatness in other people we can say to that mountain, be that removed and be cast into the sea.

We can say to these demons in our life, in the spiritual realm of, you know, I rebuke you and I tell you to flee seven different ways. We have power in our tongue now by no stretch of the imagination. Am I trying to say that we are cheeses or anything like that? So please don't misconstrue. We are all sinners. I am a sinner and I am not at all saying I'm Jesus. What I'm saying is that we all have the power within us and it's not our own strength. It's God's strength. It's the holy spirit strength to really trust in him and do what it is he's called us to do. So as we're standing here looking at this brick wall, and I'm thinking about all the reasons why I do the things that I do, I thought of Jericho. I thought of how the Joshua in Jericho, the kind of leader he was, he was very bold, very courageous and very upfront saying, you know, if God said, this is our promise land, why do you talk about how we can't conquer it?

He said, it was hours. He's said, it's a promised land. We are going to go there. And we are going to get what he said is ours. And so when they get there and wall is there, you know, many are probably looking at that wall. Like, man, yeah, no, historically nobody could get in and nobody could come out. So I don't see how this is gonna happen. And isn't that always the case that sometimes we have no clue how a wall is going to come down. But what we do know is that if we listen to the holy spirit and we listened to God and we follow what he's asking us to do, that he will help us get that wall down. He'll help us go through it around it, under it sideways. He'll help. He'll bring people to us that have ladders. He will bring other strong people around us that can help lift us and get us over that wall.

We are equipped to do whatever it is to do it. It is that we're called to do. And if it is steps that we're taking that are ordered by God, if we are taking steps that he's asked us to take, then he will provide a way he is the way maker. He is the promise keeper. And if our promise is on the other side of that wall, you best believe that he's got a way for us to get through it, to get over it, to get to our promise land. That's the promise. That's the word? That is the truth. So I want to talk about a little bit about Jericho and something else, which was crazy, right? Because at church the other day Colin pastor Colin was talking about rehab, the story of rehab. And as we sat in this right along and we approached this brick wall and he talked about, you know, you are the one who can make a choice here and make a difference.

You are the one that can set up generational wealth for your children and your children's children. But it depends on you taking a step. It depends on you making a choice. Well, the story of rehab, it was so crazy. I feel like that story that I just heard a couple of weeks ago, I, it was ringing in my ears as we sat here and looked at this wall because the story of rehab is that when Joshua, the son of nun sent out two men to spy secretly saying, go and view the land, especially Jericho. They came across this harlot named rehab and rehab new that they were here to take over the land. They asked her for a place to stay. She then hid them. Okay. She hit them. And when they came looking for the two men, the woman hit them, the woman being rehab.

And she said they didn't, she didn't know where they were. She hid them after the men that were looking for Joshua's men left, she said to them, listen, I know that you have come to take over the land and that everybody in the land is nervous. They're concerned. I'm just asking, asking you to spare me in my family because of what I have shown you, that what hospitality I have shown you. And I am paraphrasing guys. This is in Joshua two. And it took re Hab this one choice to help hide these two men that were Joshua's men. She could have chosen not to do that, but she chose to help them help hide them so that they were not captured. They were not seized. And that choice is what saved her and her family. And don't, you know, that in her bloodline comes David and then comes Jesus.

So imagine if Ray Hab had not been the one to stand up, stop and say, I will hide you. I will protect you if you will in return, protect me and my family. What if she had not done that? What if she had given them up and she was killed for being a trader and hiding them in her home, there are choices that we have to make every single day. And we may face walls. We may have to make really tough choices, but one choice, one step, one obedient act from what, whatever it is, God's giving you, whatever it is God's leading you to do could be the pivotal moment that changed, changes everything. So I'm thankful that pastor Colin had talked about this as we sat here and looked at this one, because the story of Jericho, you know, all of us pretty well, no, this is that they had to walk around the city, walk around the city and they had to keep doing and keep going and keep going.

And eventually the miraculous thing of the walls came crumbling down and they were able to enter the city. Now these were walls that were supposedly 10, the high double bricked, right? Nobody could come in or out. So the only one way that that could happen would be from an act of miraculous places which come from God, but it was their obedience and their willingness to step into the promise that God had for them. They could have turned around and said, forget it. We're not going to do all of this stuff. We