WALLS AREN’T WASTED

Walls Aren’t Wasted

So the ark of the Lord was carried around the city, circling it once. They returned to the camp and spent the night there. — Joshua 6:11

“The wall is not resistance. It’s revelation.” — PG

Let me talk to the person who did exactly what God said, and it still is not working the way you thought it would. You prayed, you obeyed, you stepped out, and instead of breakthrough, you hit resistance. You finally got clarity, and then came confusion. You stepped into promise, and then met a wall. It is frustrating when you know you are in God’s will, but your progress feels blocked. It is exhausting when you are moving, but not advancing. Walking, but not conquering. Circling, but not possessing.

The tension is real. If God brought me here, why is it shut up? If I heard Him correctly, why is it blocked? Some of you are not doubting the promise. You are doubting the process. You are wondering if you missed God somewhere along the way. But what if the wall is not proof you missed Him? What if the wall is proof you found exactly where He wants you? Because God will bring you into promise, and then confront you with something that requires His presence.

Jericho was not just a city. It was a system of resistance. It was the first city in the Promised Land, completely fortified, shut up tight, with no one going in and no one coming out. It was built to keep people out, block access, and resist advancement. That is what walls represent in your life. Anything that stands between you and what God said. Anything that resists your forward progress. Anything that makes you question whether you can really possess what He promised. But here is the revelation. God did not bring them to Jericho to stop them. He brought them there to show them that when His presence comes, barriers do not stand. They surrender.

So what do you do when you clearly run into something that will not move? Something bigger than you, beyond your ability, designed to intimidate you and make you quit? You take His presence to the wall. Israel did not just stare at Jericho and measure how impossible it looked. They brought the Ark of the Covenant. His presence led the process. This was never about Israel fighting for victory. It was about Israel walking with Him. Some walls are not waiting on your effort. They are waiting on His presence. The wall will get real small if He is there with you. You do not just need God after the breakthrough. You need Him at the barrier. You were never meant to face what God allowed without God involved.

“Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.” — Oswald Chambers

And if you have to walk it, do not walk it without Him. Israel walked around that wall once a day for six days. No visible progress. No immediate breakthrough. No sign that anything was changing. Just obedience. And obedience is never a waste of time. We tend to think if it is repetitive, it must be pointless. But there is revelation in the routine. If you are stuck in it, make sure He is in it with you. You do not get to walk in His promises doing it your way. You trust Him enough to keep moving even when nothing looks like it is moving. Walking is not weakness. Obedience is not passive. If God told you to do it, it takes more strength to obey than to rebel.

At some point, you have to decide that you still want what is behind the wall. Because resistance has a way of rewriting desire. You start off convinced, then the wall shows up and you begin to negotiate with disappointment. Maybe this is enough. Maybe I should move on. Maybe I misunderstood. But Joshua 6:2 says God had already handed them the city before the wall ever fell. It belonged to them before they touched it. The wall did not cancel the promise. It confirmed it. Easy is not always God. Promise is. If He said it is yours, do not settle for being around it. Barriers only stop people who have already decided to settle.

“God is not looking for strength. He is looking for surrender, because surrender invites His power.” — Charles Spurgeon

Then came the moment that changed everything. They shouted before the wall fell. Not after, before. Because faith praises God for what it cannot produce on its own. There are some things you will never break through by effort alone. You need God to do what you cannot do. Your praise invites His presence, and His presence does what your effort cannot. What obedience starts, praise finishes.

And when the wall fell, it did not just fall. It collapsed. Completely. What looked like a barrier became a bridge. They did not have to climb over what used to stop them. They walked straight in on it. What was built to block them became the very thing that carried them into the promise. God will never waste a wall. What the enemy designed to stop you, God will use to move you.

So do not quit at the wall. Do not settle around the promise. Do not stop circling because you cannot see progress yet. If you cannot break it, bless Him in front of it. Because when His presence comes, walls are not wasted. They become your way into what He has for you.

Live This Out Loud:

Turn On: “Never Lost” by Elevation Worship and proceed through the rest of this blog.

Name the wall you have been facing out loud. 

Call out all of the ways this barrier is effecting you. Insecurity, settling, intimidation, makes you second guessing, etc.

Take the wall you are facing into prayer every day this week. Do not just think about it, measure it, or complain about it. Bring His presence to it.

Choose obedience even when you do not see immediate progress. Repetitive faith is still faith, and God does not waste steps taken in obedience.

Praise before the breakthrough. Let your worship become proof that you trust God while the wall is still standing.

My Prayer:

Holy Spirit, I come to You in the name of Jesus,

and You ask you to strengthen my faith when I am facing walls I cannot move. Teach me to bring Your presence to every barrier and to keep walking in obedience when I cannot see progress. Release courage in me to refuse settling for less than what You promised. Stir praise in my heart before the wall falls, and help me trust that You will never waste what I had to walk through.

Amen.

May the Lord, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times and bless you as He has promised. — Deuteronomy 1:11

Marked By His Presence,

-PG