Praise Him In Advance Before The Wall Is Moved

To those of you that has ever paid on a bill or given a check that was postdated know that; that basically means that you write a check and date it for some time in the future and the understanding between the two parties is that the check is not to be cashed until that particular date.

In essence, a postdated Check implies that you have an assurance that on a future date you can take the check to the bank and it will be honored.

You have an assurance in your hand for a future date

You can cash that check on the recognized date, and what you are saying is that I may not have the money now, but I will have it then on that upcoming agreed date.

We find there are times in our lives where money may be short, and we need to get some things done, but our money is funny. We need to pay some bills but our months are longer than the money. We find ourselves facing hurdles and circumstances that have causes our finances to be short, but we still need to take care of business. We will find that there are some burdens of life that we are trying to bare, that will bring us to the point where sometimes we would write a

postedated check in order to make it.

As we consider our text this morning we find the Israelites is

in this same position. There they are standing, on the edge of the Promise-Land. After their years of bondage. After facing the Red Sea. After wondering in the wilderness for 40 years and after losing their great leader, Moses.

Here it is that this is generations after the promise had been spoken to Abraham – Isaac - Jacob. After their period of trials tribulation and travail. Now they are standing with the Promise Land in their vision. But there is a problem here. A bit of a snag in the process. You see even though they have caught a glimpse of the Promised-Land. Despite the fact, that their place of victory is just around the bend. They still can’t touch it yet

The Israelites were faced with a problem, the Israelite were faced with something that hindered them, stalled, they were held up by something that impeded their progress, the issue that kept them at bay was a wall. And some of us can related to what the Israelites were dealing with because many of us have faced some of the same issues in our lives at some point or another. The issue of a wall.

Pastor what is a wall? Well, a wall is something that separated them from the fulfillment and the promise. A wall is something that hindered them from moving from where they were to the place that God has called them to be.

And many of us know what God has promised us, but we have not arrived yet because there is a wall in front of us. We know that there are blessings for us, but right now there all we see is a wall. We can literally feel our blessings-but it’s behind the wall. We know that God promised our Children would be blessed, but they are hindered by a wall. We know that God said that our church would improve but, there is a wall.

Understand that Joshua and the children of Israel were on a mission to gain the Promised Land. A land that was promised to them, but, in order for them to get there they had to overcome, surmount, defeat and conquer the obstacles that were in their way. I wonder saints, how many of us has found ourselves in a similar situation, it seems like the harder we work at every turn we find more obstacles. We pray but it seems like our prayer are hindered.

We recognize that God has spoken his promises over us but yet, we find ourselves faced with obstacles. We always find ourselves facing something that’s trying to keep us back. It feels like there is a gap that needs to be bridged. Some growth that needs to take place, or a stronghold that needs to be broken. In other words, there is a wall that needs to be removed, that keeps us from receiving the God ordained place of victory on the other side

So the question becomes: How do we remove these hindrances? How do we overcome the obstacles? How do we position ourselves to receive all that God desires for us to have and be?

The scripture tells us in verse 2 that the Lord said unto Joshua he said see, I have given into thine hand Jericho. Now the word see is an interesting word, which brings me to our first point this morning. And that point is which I have stated before. We must learn how to develop our spiritual eye.