A Hurting Word...
Wall-building can be fun! You've done it--if you can remember back that far! Your kids have done it--and you surely remember picking them up (the blocks, not the kids--well, maybe the kids too!) Wall-building is Biblical--there's the Tower of Babel, and the Walls of Jericho! Wall-building can also be painful--we remember the Berlin Wall and the Vietnam Memorial Wall. Walls we could see, touch, and remember--with great sadness and sorrow.
Some walls defy description--they are neither fun nor famous. They are the untouchable, unseen, silent, hurtful fortresses of the heart. Walls built out of pain that do not protect--they kill! Many live in their shadows and in daily distress. The shadow of the wall blocks the light of God's love, joy, and peace--nothing gets in, nothing gets out! No one but Christ can fully break down these walls--and so, if you're a walled-in miserable person, or you know someone who is, let's go to the Well for a Word from Him.
Remember--wall-building is a repetitive process--wall-breaking can be too, for His anointed Word has power to tear down what the devil has repetitively drummed into your soul--and built in your life. He's a liar and a defeated foe! And so I encourage you to find below the "wall" in which shadow YOU live; then read it aloud--let the forces of hell hear it and fall--under the dynamite of God's truth spoken aloud!! I DARE you to do it! The truth of God's Word WORKS, and it will work for you!
A Helping Word...or Two!
Wall of Anger and Hatred!...
"...God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth; But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from all sin (1 John 1:5-7 KJV)."
"Lord, in the shadow of this wall, LOVE has died! But You've promised--WHEN I cry for help, YOU will hear. Lord, I'm crying now. Let Your love break down the wall of anger and hatred in my heart; replace it with love and forgiveness You alone can give. I want to live, not in the shadow of the wall, but in the shadow of the Almighty. I refuse Satan's lies! He is defeated, and Jesus, the Mighty Wall-Breaker, is Victor of my life this day!"
Wall of Sadness!
"For the Lord shall comfort Zion; he will comfort all her waste places, and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found in it, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody (Isaiah 51:3 KJV)."
"Lord, in the shadow of this wall, JOY has died! But You've promised--WHEN I cry for help, YOU will hear. Lord, I'm crying now. Let Your joy break down the wall of sadness and depression; replace it with a joy You alone can give. I want to live, not in the shadow of the wall, but in the shadow of the Almighty. I refuse Satan's lies! He is defeated, and Jesus, the Mighty Wall-Breaker, is Victor of my life this day!"
Wall of Fear!
"Lord, in the shadow of this wall, PEACE has died! But You've promised--WHEN I cry for help, YOU will hear. Lord, I'm crying now. Let Your peace break down the wall of fear; replace it with a peace You alone can give. I want to live, not in the shadow of the wall, but in the shadow of the Almighty. I refuse Satan's lies! He is defeated, and Jesus, the Mighty Wall-Breaker, is Victor of my life this day!"
The shadow of the wall--any wall--will block your communion with God, your relationship with others, and your Christian service to the world. But you know a toddler's philosophy--high-built walls are MADE to be broken, just waiting to tumble! And so the walls of your life this day are not permanent, not in the power of God's wall-breaking abilities.
You've lived behind walls long enough! Refuse to live in the shadow of the wall--any wall--any longer! Let God break it down, for in the shadow of the Almighty, there ARE no walls--only the SONlight of His love!!
And that's just a word or two--from my heart to yours!
His Healing Words
"He who dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God; in him will I trust...Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him. With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation (Psalm 91: 1,2,14-16 KJV)."
"Lord, I've lived in the shadow of the wall long enough; break it down that I may once again know your love, joy, and peace; and that I may give it forth to a needy world. In Jesus' Name, Amen."
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