God called his people to defeat a city by encircling it for seven days.

Nancy Lee DeMoss takes us to that scene.

I can imagine the children of Israel, day four.

We've done this walking around the city thing.

It's not working.

Nothing is happening.

We look really foolish.

And we go back, we resort to our own plans if we don't feel

like God's plan has worked right away. And I talk with people who said, I've done it God's

way. And nothing has happened. Well, you know what the council is there? Keep doing it, God's way.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Thursday, October 2, 2014.

All of us have goals for the future, and all of us face obstacles that threaten those goals.

Nancy will show us how to approach obstacles with God's power and direction, as she continues in the series,

Lessons from the Life of Joshua, Part 9, defeating your Jericho.

How many of you can think of some area of your life where you are currently facing spiritual

opposition? You realize I'm in a spiritual battle, maybe in relation to your marriage or your family

or your church or your workplace or some relationship. It may be a stronghold in your own life, a sin habit that's stubborn and that you're struggling to get victory over.

So within or without, how many of you would say, I'm in some place where there's a spiritual battle going on?

There's spiritual opposition I'm facing.

Okay, virtually every hand is up. And if your hand wasn't

up, it's because I didn't give you long enough to think about it, because we're all in a spiritual

battle. Ephesians 6 tells us that. But as I asked that question, perhaps you're thinking of, and people

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