A Prayer to Activate God’s Blessings

          Scripture warns us to put a watch over our mouth!

Ill. Joshua leading Israel into Promise land. They came to Jericho a walled city. God gave strange instructions. March around city for 6 days and on 7th day seven times. But one final instruction which was a vital key. While you march around the city don’t say a word! Not even a whispering conversation. Why? God knew people default to the negative when they don’t see anything happening. They would say things like, “What in the world are we doing out here – ain’t nothing happening. These wall are never going to fall, they’ve been here forever. I am hot. I am hungry. This place is too dusty.

          There are times our lives are difficult to be positive and that is true. So when that time comes, just stay silent.

          Ill. Everyday so to speak you are walking around some walls you have prayed will fall down. Your mind may begin to say, “I’ve had this addiction all my life – nothing is going to change.” Or “I’ll never be able to get out of debt.” Or “I am not getting any better but worse.”

          God is talking to us today as He did to the Israelites. “If you can’t say anything positive and in faith – then at least don’t say anything.”