Breaking down ancient walls

It takes courage to be hopeful. Hopeful of change, hopeful of breakthrough, hopeful of fulfilled expectations. It’s painful when your excitement is quenched and the glimmer of hope extinguished. But to the courageous will their joy be made full, when at the end their loftiest dreams are superseded.

The virtue of faith is cultivated. It requires destruction and rebuilding, enhancing and pruning. The brighter days seem a distant memory, when life was much easier and pressures less intense.

“But the path of the just is like the shining sun, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.”-‭‭ Proverbs‬ ‭4‬:‭18‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

The days when anticipation takes up most of the excitement, the action or the thing itself failing to live up to its billing. But His Word says;

“Now to Him who is able to do so much more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”‭‭- Ephesians‬ ‭3‬:‭20‬-‭21‬ ‭BSB‬‬

Lest we forget the context, the preceding verses speak of the internal strengthening of the Spirit, such that we can comprehend the completeness of God’s love in order that we may be filled with His fullness. Insofar as we have that grounding, the glory of God will be with His people who enjoy the supernatural blessings of His riches.

To dare to dream, to break down ancient walls. To be content in all situations yet believe for the best. To outlast all afflictions, to focus on the grandest visions.

Breaking down ancient walls- breaking through the strongman’s door.

“Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.”- Matthew‬ ‭12‬:‭29‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”- 2 Corinthians‬ ‭10‬:‭4‬-‭5‬ ‭BSB‬‬