In His Covenant with us, GOD shows us His Way to serve Him and communicate with Him. Exodus 25:21-31 (Complete Jewish Bible) states:

²¹ You are to put the ark-cover on top of the ark. “Inside the ark you will put the testimony that I am about to give you. ²² There I will meet with you. I will speak with you from above the ark-cover, from between the two k’ruvim [cherubim] which are on the ark for the testimony, about all the orders I am giving you for the people of Isra’el. ²³ “You are to make a table of acacia-wood three feet long, eighteen inches wide and eighteen inches high. ²⁴ Overlay it with pure gold, and put a molding of gold around the top of it. ²⁵ Make around it a rim a handbreadth wide, and put a molding of gold around the rim. ²⁶ Make four gold rings for it, and attach the rings to the four corners, near its four legs. ²⁷ The rings to hold the poles used to carry the table are to be placed close to the rim. ²⁸ Make the poles of acacia-wood, overlay them with gold, and use them to carry the table. ²⁹ “Make its dishes, pans, bowls and pitchers of pure gold. ³⁰ On the table you are to place the bread of the presence in my presence always. ³¹ “You are to make a menorah of pure gold. It is to be made of hammered work; its base, shaft, cups, ring of outer leaves and petals are to be of one piece with it.

We do not serve GOD according to the thoughts of our hearts. It is rather GOD who reveals Himself to us and shows us what we must do. Unfortunately, today, people serve GOD as they please, according to their character and in their own way. No! That is not normal. Serving GOD is like acting within the framework of a Covenant.  

In this passage from Exodus, it was GOD who showed Moses how to build the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant. Moses did not know what they were; he had no idea. When the children of Israel left Egypt, they did not have in mind to ask the Egyptians to give them gold, silver, etc. It was GOD who told them to ask their neighbors to give them gold, silver, and valuable objects. And GOD touched the hearts of the Egyptians, who gave the children of Israel what they asked for (Exodus 11:2 and 12:35-36). The children of Israel thought that these valuables they were taking were meant for them, but in reality, they belonged to the Lord. Once the children of Israel were in the desert, GOD told Moses to tell them to bring Him an offering. He had brought them out of slavery. God specified that this offering should include gold, bronze, silver, and other valuable goods… in the wilderness (Exodus 25:1-7). These were all the items that God had told them to ask the Egyptians for…

Today, GOD has given some people work, money, health, etc. And these people think they have received all this for themselves. But in reality, it is for GOD.

It is important to note that GOD told the people of Israel to give “wholeheartedly” (Exodus 25:2). Who among you can give with all their heart? Do you remember all that GOD did for Israel through Moses? He performed miracles before Pharaoh. He parted the sea in two. Etc. All GOD asked of the people of Israel was what they had received from the Egyptians when they left Egypt.

Do you want work? GOD gives you work. But know that one day, GOD will come and ask you to give Him something that comes from your work.

We have a brother whom GOD has given a job. When he saw that most of the light bulbs in this church were no longer working, he bought some, brought them to us, and we installed them here. When he received his salary, he came and said to me, “Pastor, here is my tithe.” There are people here whom GOD has given many things, including a job and a salary, but despite all these Blessings from GOD, these people have many problems. They say they have nothing to give to GOD. Whether it’s tithes or offerings, these people always say the same thing: “I have nothing.”

Know that one day, GOD will come to you to ask for His share of all the things He has given you. Whether it be the children He gives you or any other blessing from Him, He will come to ask you to give Him what is His. The only things GOD will never ask you for are those things that do not come from the Blessings He has bestowed upon you.

Let us consider the case of Ishmael. He was Abraham’s eldest son, but GOD did not ask Abraham to give him up because he was not the child of GOD’s Promise. It was Isaac whom GOD promised to Abraham. When Isaac was still a child, GOD said to Abraham, “Abraham, give me your son”… This is in Genesis 22:2: God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love, Yitz’chak [Isaac]; and go to the land of Moriyah. There you are to offer him as a burnt offering on a mountain that I will point out to you”. Abraham could have said, ”But how can You ask this of me? You gave him to me! First, You told me to send Ishmael away, and I have already sent him away; I don’t know where he is! And You told me that my children would be like the stars in the sky… And now You say that I must go and kill him to offer him as a sacrifice to You? But if I give him to You, what will I have left?”

GOD knows very well what He has given you, and so it is He who will ask you to give Him what is His due. And GOD did not ask the children of Israel for just anything! He asked for gold! But that is because it was He who had given them that gold. And it will be the same for you.

If you look at how the Ark of the Covenant was built, you will see the materials used: there was acacia wood, gold, etc. But who provided these materials? It was GOD who created them! And it was GOD who gave them to His people. Then He asked for His share… And GOD asks for all these things to use them for His Glory.

My Sister, my Brother, what if you were in that situation? Four hundred years of slavery. You have never touched gold, and overnight, you find yourself with gold. But then GOD tells you to give him that gold… If you were in the place of the people of Israel, you would already have made your plans, such as trading, preparing for your wedding, or building your house. But GOD tells you, “Give me that.”

In Exodus 25:2, GOD said to Moses: “Tell the people of Isra’el to take up a collection for me — accept a contribution from anyone who wholeheartedly wants to give.” But when He instructed His people to ask the Egyptians to give them these valuable items, He did not tell them to ask those who would willingly give them from a willing heart. No, He said, “Now tell the people that every man is to ask his neighbor and every woman her neighbor for gold and silver jewelry” (Exodus 11:2). It was only when GOD was in need that He asked His people to give Him these goods willingly. But today, people will give you all kinds of reasons not to give to the Lord. 

Let us consider the case of Hannah, wife of Elkanah, a servant of GOD (1 Samuel 1). Hannah had no children, so she said to GOD: “Adonai-Tzva’ot [LORD of Hosts], if you will notice how humiliated your servant is, if you will remember me and not forget your servant but will give your servant a male child, then I will give him to Adonai for as long as he lives; and no razor will ever come on his head” (1 Samuel 1:11). GOD did not refuse to answer her favorably! 

GOD grants people health and family, but they refuse to let their children serve the Lord, and they themselves refuse to serve GOD. Remember: GOD asks us to give Him what He asks of us willingly, not with anger in our hearts, not grudgingly.

GOD gave us an example in the Bible, which states: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only and unique Son, so that everyone who trusts in him may have eternal life, instead of being utterly destroyed” (John 3:16). He had no other Son, and He gave Him to us…

If someone tells you that January is the month of First Fruits, during which you must give your first salary, you will find all sorts of excuses not to do so. Yet JESUS CHRIST told us that there is “more happiness in giving than in receiving” (Acts 20:35). Unfortunately, there are many who only want to receive instead of giving…

You know, the Ark is in Heaven, and the Lord wanted to replicate the same model on Earth. That is why He gave Moses the plan. He said to Moses in Exodus 25:3-20:

³ The contribution you are to take from them is to consist of gold, silver and bronze; ⁴ blue, purple and scarlet yarn; fine linen, goat’s hair, ⁵ tanned ram skins and fine leather; acacia-wood; ⁶ oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; ⁷ onyx stones and other stones to be set, for the ritual vest and breastplate. ⁸ “They are to make me a sanctuary, so that I may live among them. ⁹ You are to make it according to everything I show you — the design of the tabernacle and the design of its furnishings. This is how you are to make it. ¹⁰ “They are to make an ark of acacia-wood three-and-three-quarters feet long, two-and-a-quarter feet wide and two-and-a-quarter feet high. ¹¹ You are to overlay it with pure gold — overlay it both inside and outside — and put a molding of gold around the top of it. ¹² Cast four gold rings for it, and attach them to its four feet, two rings on each side. ¹³ Make poles of acacia-wood, and overlay them with gold. ¹⁴ Put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark; you will use them to carry the ark. ¹⁵ The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they are not to be removed from it. ¹⁶ Into the ark you are to put the testimony which I am about to give you. ¹⁷ “You are to make a cover for the ark out of pure gold; it is to be three-and-three-quarters feet long and two-and-a-quarter feet high. ¹⁸ You are to make two k’ruvim of gold. Make them of hammered work for the two ends of the ark-cover. ¹⁹ Make one keruv [cherub] for one end and one keruv for the other end; make the k’ruvim of one piece with the ark-cover at its two ends. ²⁰ The k’ruvim will have their wings spread out above, so that their wings cover the ark, and their faces are toward each other and toward the ark-cover.

Because of the way the Ark was constructed, anyone looking at it from a distance or up close could not see the acacia wood, but only the gold that covered it. In the same way, let us consider your position before the Lord: Your enemies look at you but do not see you as you are because you are covered with the Glory of CHRIST if you are in Him. You are made of flesh, but GOD has covered you with His Power, His Word. This Power and Strength that characterize you do not come from you but from GOD who has covered you.

In 2 Kings 6, we learn that the king of Syria had sent for the prophet Elisha. When Elisha’s servant saw the king of Syria’s army coming with chariots and horses, he was afraid and said to Elisha, “Oh, my master, this is terrible! What are we going to do” (2 Kings 6:15)? Elisha replied, “Don’t be afraid — those who are with us outnumber those who are with them” (2 Kings 6:16)! Then Elisha prayed for his servant and asked the Lord to open his eyes so that he could see. And indeed, the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, “and he saw: there before him, all around Elisha, the mountain was covered with horses and fiery chariots” (2 Kings 6:17). GOD protected his Servant.

If GOD does not open your eyes, you will not see… Know that you are not alone and that GOD has placed heavenly armies around you. He has covered you.

There is a part of the Ark that the Lord described that is very important: the Mercy Seat. This is where the blood of the sacrificial lamb was poured. The Mercy Seat was placed in the Holy of Holies of the Tabernacle. In GOD’s Plan for the Tabernacle, there were three areas: 1) the Court, 2) the Holy Place, and 3) the Holy of Holies.

In the Holy Place, there was the Table of “the bread of the presence” (Exodus 25:30). Twelve in all. Two rows of six each (Leviticus 24:5-6). And GOD wanted the bread of the presence to be continually before His Face. So it had to be changed every morning. There was also the Altar of Incense (Exodus 30:1-10) and the Menorah of pure gold (Exodus 25:31-40). After these Elements, there was the Veil. And it was only after this Veil that the Most Holy Place was found (Exodus 26:31-35). It was in the Most Holy Place that the Ark of the Covenant (or Ark for the Testimony) was placed. There was only the Ark of the Covenant in the Most Holy Place.

Only the Levites, Aaron, and his sons were allowed to enter the Holy Place to serve the Lord. For example, to change the bread of the presence and offer sacrifices. Every morning and every evening.

On the other hand, only the High Priest could enter the Most Holy Place, and only once a year. He entered with the blood of the lamb offered as a sacrifice to pour it on the Mercy Seat. This action served to atone for the sins of the Jewish nation. The high priest had to place his hand on the sin offering (animal offered as a sacrifice) and confess all the sins of the people. Then he had to slaughter the animal and take its blood to sprinkle on the Mercy Seat. It was this blood that allowed the High Priest to enter the Holy of Holies. Without this blood, he could not enter, otherwise death would strike him. And only the High Priest could enter. Anyone else who attempted to enter was struck dead.

Once the High Priest was inside the Holy of Holies, the people waited outside. And when they saw him come out, everyone shouted for joy. Since no one else could enter the Holy of Holies, the High Priest had bells around the hem of his robe so that those outside could hear the sound of the bells as he moved about performing his duties in the Holy of Holies. This was a sign that the High Priest was alive (Exodus 28:33-35). But if there was silence, it was a sign that the Wrath of GOD had come upon the High Priest and that he was dead…

Likewise, we have three parts within us as children of GOD. Remember 1 Corinthians 6:19, which states that our body is the Temple of the Holy Spirit. So we have within us our flesh, which is like the Court; our soul, which is like the Holy Place; and our spirit, which represents the Most Holy Place.

Therefore, the Ark of the Covenant is in our spirit when we are in CHRIST.

The Word of GOD is in our soul. This Word represents the Bread of the Presence, the Fire of the Spirit of GOD. And this Fire must burn continuously. It must not be extinguished. And the Altar of Incense is there, on which we must burn sacrifices night and day. All this must take place in our soul.

And GOD demands Holiness from us, which is not easy… The Mercy Seat is like the place of Forgiveness that is granted by the Blood. JESUS CHRIST died, shedding His Blood for the Forgiveness of our sins. Giving up sin today is not easy. It can cost us our lives…

Let us read Numbers 7:89: “When Moshe went into the tent of meeting in order to speak with Adonai, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the ark-cover on the ark for the testimony, from between the two k’ruvim; and he spoke to him”.

Where did GOD speak with Moses? In the Tabernacle, from atop the Mercy Seat. In the Holy of Holies, near the Ark. It is not for nothing that JESUS CHRIST told us that if we do not forgive those who have offended us, GOD will not forgive us and He will not answer our prayers…

Today, there are people who live with hatred in their hearts, in sin, doing whatever they want and saying that GOD does not speak to them. No! It is simply because the place where GOD must speak to them is the Holy of Holies, from above the Mercy Seat. To meet GOD, you have to cross three barriers: that of the Court, that of the Holy Place, and that of the Most Holy Place. When you call certain people, for example, they pick up the phone and say, “Wait a minute, I’m praying”… No! Before talking to GOD, before praying to GOD, there are steps to go through…

When a person is in the middle of prayer and you interrupt them, it will not be easy for them to quickly regain their train of thought because there are these three steps to go through before entering into GOD’s Presence again.

Last week, we were praying in this church, and Sister Manuella, who was supposed to give the closing prayer, came up to me and said quietly, “Pastor, there are many manifestations of GOD’s Presence, and people are still praying. What should we do?” I told her, “Let the Spirit guide you.”

When we are in the Presence of GOD, we must not allow ourselves to be distracted, because to be in the Presence of GOD is to be in the Most Holy Place. That is why, sometimes, JESUS CHRIST would withdraw to the desert or to the hill to pray. In this way, He avoided distractions.

If you are praying and you stop to answer your ringing phone and then resume your prayer, my Brother, my Sister, it is because you are still in the courtyards…

Do you know why, when you devote yourself to GOD, you face offenses that are difficult to forgive? It is to deprive you of GOD’s Presence.

And when you say that you cannot forgive those who have hurt you, you block your entry into the Holy of Holies, the Place where GOD speaks…

In the Ark, you also have the Bread Manna (Exodus 16:32-34), the Law, and Aaron’s Rod (Hebrews 9:4, Deuteronomy 31:26).

The Manna reminds us that it is GOD who provides. If you have nothing today, remember that the Manna is always there. So, if you devote yourself to the Lord, He will take care of you. Abraham understood this well. When he left with his son Isaac to sacrifice him, his son asked him: “I see the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering” (Genesis 22:7)? Abraham replied, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son” (Genesis 22:8). GOD does not take care of just anyone! He takes care of those who are consecrated to Him, who have set themselves apart for Him.

Aaron’s staff symbolizes resurrection, miracle. Even if everything before you is dry, from the moment you are in the Covenant of the Lord, He will bring forth before you what you need… Sometimes you are so sick that you are on the verge of death, but GOD brings you back to Life! Because you are in His Covenant. His Glory is in His Covenant.

In the Tabernacle, it was also forbidden to touch the Offering with bare hands. Anyone who did so would die. Only the priests could carry the Ark with carrying-poles (Numbers 4:1-15). If they touched the Ark, they died. That is why GOD said, “Don’t touch my anointed ones or do my prophets harm” (Psalms 105:15)!

When the children of Israel left Egypt, they did not know the way to the land of Canaan. It was the Ark of the Covenant that guided them. And it was GOD who was in that Ark… He had placed His Presence there to guide His people. Do you understand? And so that Ark was the Strength of Israel. The Presence of GOD was their Strength.

Let us read Numbers 7:89 again: “When Moshe went into the tent of meeting in order to speak with Adonai, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the ark-cover on the ark for the testimony, from between the two k’ruvim; and he spoke to him”.

Do you understand why Satan’s main mission now is to defile the names of GOD’s servants? You hear people lying about such a servant, saying that he is a magician, etc. It is a diabolical mission to attack GOD and harm His servants.

When the children of Israel walked with the Ark of the Covenant, they did not have great knowledge, but their strength was the Lord… Likewise, you who are a child of GOD, know that GOD is your Strength and your Help. And it is GOD who fights for you, who protects you. JESUS CHRIST told us, “apart from me you can’t do a thing” (John 15:5).

My Brother, my Sister, if you want to remain in the Presence of GOD, you must live in His Holiness. It is true that this is not easy and that everything will be done to prevent you from doing so, but you must persevere and remember where your strength lies: in GOD. Only the LORD your GOD can help you. Remember, the Bible declares that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19).

The Holy Place is the Place where the Promise is fulfilled. No one can receive positive answers to their prayers if they are not in the Holy Place. This is where Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, was. This is where the Angel Gabriel came to tell him that his wife, Elizabeth, would have a child (Luke 1:5-17).

What does 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 tell us?

³ What God wants is that you be holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality, ⁴ that each of you know how to manage his sexual impulses in a holy and honorable manner, ⁵ without giving in to lustful desires, like the pagans who don’t know God. ⁶ No one should wrong his brother in this matter or take advantage of him, because the Lord punishes all who do such things — as we have explained to you before at length. ⁷ For God did not call us to live an unclean life but a holy one. ⁸ Therefore, whoever rejects this teaching is rejecting not a man but God, indeed, the One who gives you the Ruach HaKodesh [Holy Spirit], which is his.

All GOD wants is your sanctification! Anything that makes you unclean drives GOD’s Presence away from your life. Remember Aaron’s sons in Leviticus 10. They were supposed to serve GOD in the Holy Place, but they abandoned their work and brought “unauthorized fire before Adonai” (Leviticus 10:1). Because of their disobedience to GOD’s instructions, “fire came forth from the presence of Adonai and consumed them” (Leviticus 10:2).

Let’s read 1 Peter 1:15-16: “¹⁵ On the contrary, following the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in

your entire way of life; ¹⁶ since the Tanakh says, “You are to be holy because I am holy.””

Even the Spirit of GOD whom we love so much is called the Holy Spirit… Many like to say, “It was GOD who called me!” But what is this GOD who called you like? Is He angry, a thief, false? No!!! The One who called you is Holy! And you too must be holy in everything you do. Mentally, in your mind, you must be holy. In your soul, you must be holy. In your body, you must be holy. Because the One who called you is Holy. You are forbidden to touch anything that is unclean.

Let us take 1 Peter 2:4-10:

⁴ As you come to him, the living stone, rejected by people but chosen by God and precious to him, ⁵ you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be cohanim [priests] set apart for God to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to him through Yeshua the Messiah. ⁶ This is why the Tanakh says, “Look! I am laying in Tziyon a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and whoever rests his trust on it will certainly not be humiliated.” ⁷ Now to you who keep trusting, he is precious. But to those who are not trusting, “The very stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone”; ⁸ also he is a stone that will make people stumble, a rock over which they will trip. They are stumbling at the Word, disobeying it — as had been planned. ⁹ But you are a chosen people, the King’s cohanim, a holy nation, a people for God to possess! Why? In order for you to declare the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. ¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; before, you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Know that you are stones, precious stones, like diamonds… Unfortunately, today, many fall into bad lives, saying that it is because the flesh is weak. My Brother, my Sister, it is not because of that, it is you who made the  wrong choice! It is not with the flesh that you must serve GOD, it is with the gold that you represent! And gold does not change. Gold is hard! But for some people, their relationship with GOD is changeable. However, you must have a Faith that does not change, a Faith that is stable like gold is stable… Yes, it is true that the flesh is weak, but know that you have been clothed in gold!

It is sad to see that many live in dishonor because of sin, because of wickedness.

If you have accepted JESUS CHRIST into your life as your Only Lord and Savior, He now calls you His Brother or Sister. And you are a chosen Race. He or she who is chosen already has Victory! A child of GOD is not a race that fails but a chosen Race that conquers!

But what do believers say today? “Oh, we are all sinners! Who has never sinned? If you fall into sin, you confess and get back up!” They forget that they are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, that is, the House of GOD…

My Brother, my Sister, how can you continue to smoke? How is it that you continue to quarrel with people in your neighborhood? You are the child of the King of kings, and you quarrel with others? Do you find that normal? No! GOD has given you all the abilities necessary to honor Him in Holiness. It is GOD who set you apart, not you! Nothing that GOD does goes wrong! Rather, it is you who have chosen to lead a bad life… However, when GOD calls you, it is so that you may lead a life of Sanctification. And you are also an Instrument of Peace… Moreover, Honor is yours. GOD said that He honors/respects those who honor/respect Him (1 Samuel 2:30). That is why JESUS CHRIST said in John 10:29, speaking of us, His sheep: “My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no one can snatch them from the Father’s hands.”

One of our Sisters in CHRIST went to buy meat in a neighborhood from a Muslim man who had placed a bag on the table where he displayed the meat he was selling. In this bag were two million CFA francs from the sale of his meat. After cutting the meat for the Sister, the Muslim man put the meat in a bag but added the other bag containing the millions and gave it all to the Sister. Once back home, the Sister opened the bag to retrieve her meat and found the second bag with the bundles of banknotes. Counting it all, she found that there were two million. She told an elder at the church here, who told her to return the money to its owner. When the Sister returned to the place where the Muslim man was selling, she found him sitting on the ground crying. The whole neighborhood was standing around. The sister asked the Muslim man what was wrong, but he just kept crying. Then the people who were there told her that his money had been stolen. The sister said, “Oh! His money hasn’t been stolen!” She took out the bag with the two million and the Muslim man was speechless…

When GOD saved you, He took you out of darkness and brought you into the Light. You became a child of Light! You are in a new environment with a new education, a new character, and a new behavior. Let’s take the case of your birth: GOD brought you out of your mother’s womb, but as you grow up, you act as if you were still a baby in your mother’s womb; this is a sign that you have a real problem! Isn’t that so?

Let us read 1 Thessalonians 4:3 again: “What God wants is that you be holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality”.

That is all GOD wants from you! And the one who is holy is the one who lives without sin…

And 1 Corinthians 1:2 states:

To: God’s Messianic community in Corinth, consisting of those who have been set apart by Yeshua the Messiah and called to be God’s holy people — along with everyone everywhere who calls on the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, their Lord as well as ours

GOD did not call you for nothing, but so that you might be holy! It is a calling. And it concerns us all, women too! We see this in 1 Timothy 2:15: “Nevertheless, the woman will be delivered through childbearing, provided that she continues trusting, loving and living a holy life with modesty”. Even older women, as Titus 2:3-8 tells us:

³ Likewise, tell the older women to behave the way people leading a holy life should. They shouldn’t be slanderers or slaves to excessive drinking. They should teach what is good, ⁴ thus training the younger women to love their husbands and children, ⁵ to be self-controlled and pure, to take good care of their homes and submit to their husbands. In this way, God’s message will not be brought into disgrace. ⁶ Similarly, urge the young men to be self-controlled, ⁷ and in everything set them an example yourself by doing what is good. When you are teaching, have integrity and be serious; ⁸ let everything you say be so wholesome that an opponent will be put to shame because he will have nothing bad to say about us.

Women must have self-control. It is unfortunate that many today get upset at the slightest problem. And for those who have housekeepers to help them, they must first be familiar with household tasks so that they can show their housekeeper what to do and how to do it! Likewise, women must be submissive. But today, if a husband says “a”, his wife says “z”…

Let us move on to Joshua 6:1-6:

¹ Yericho had completely barricaded its gates against the people of Isra’el — no one left, and no one entered. ² Adonai said to Y’hoshua, “I have handed Yericho over to you, including its king and his warriors. ³ You are to encircle the city with all your soldiers and march around it once. Do this for six days. ⁴ Seven cohanim are to carry seven shofars in front of the ark. On the seventh day you are to march around the city seven times, and the cohanim will blow the shofars. ⁵ Then they are to blow a long blast on the shofar. On hearing the sound of the shofar, all the people are to shout as loudly as they can; and the wall of the city will fall down flat. Then the people are to go up into the city, each one straight from where he stands.” ⁶ Y’hoshua the son of Nun called the cohanim and told them, “Take up the ark for the covenant, and have seven cohanim carry seven shofars ahead of the ark of Adonai.”

The fall of Jericho was made possible by the Ark of the Lord and remembrance…

Numbers 10:1-10 tells us about it:

¹ Adonai said to Moshe, ² “Make two trumpets; make them of hammered silver. Use them for summoning the community and for sounding the call to break camp and move on. ³ When they are sounded, the entire community is to assemble before you at the entrance to the tent of meeting. ⁴ If only one is sounded, then just the leaders, the heads of the clans of Isra’el, are to assemble before you. ⁵ “When you sound an alarm, the camps to the east will commence traveling. ⁶ When you sound a second alarm, the camps to the south will set out; they will sound alarms to announce when to travel. ⁷ However, when the community is to be assembled, you are to sound; but don’t sound an alarm. ⁸ It will be the sons of Aharon, the cohanim, who are to sound the trumpets; this will be a permanent regulation for you through all your generations. ⁹ “When you go to war in your land against an adversary who is oppressing you, you are to sound an alarm with the trumpets; then you will be remembered before Adonai your God, and you will be saved from your enemies. ¹⁰ “Also on your days of rejoicing, at your designated times and on Rosh-Hodesh [the first days of your months], you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; these will be your reminder before your God. I am Adonai your God.”

You will be present in the memory of the Lord…

I strongly recommend that you write down somewhere all the good things the Lord has done for you and the problems you have faced so that you can remind Him of them in your prayers, even specifying the years! Then ask your Heavenly Father to grant you a life of holiness, to which we have all been called.

Remember the Wonders of the Lord when the children of Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground thanks to the presence of the Ark of the Covenant that the priests carried (Joshua 3)! Today, you are the Ark! This means that wherever things are going wrong, all you have to do is set foot there for the situation to change, because the Lord works miracles and wonders… That is why David said in Psalm 84:7: “Passing through the [dry] Baka Valley,
they make it a place of springs, and the early rain clothes it

with blessings”. This is the Anointing of Transformation… You can transform situations where things are not working.

Now let us read Psalm 23:1-6: ¹ Adonai is my shepherd; I lack nothing. ² He has me lie down in grassy pastures, he leads me by quiet water, ³ he restores my inner person. He guides me in right paths for the sake of his own name. ⁴ Even if I pass through death-dark ravines, I will fear no disaster; for you are with me; your rod and staff reassure me.⁵ You prepare a table for me, even as my enemies watch; you anoint my head with oil from an overflowing cup. ⁶ Goodness and grace will pursue me every day of my life; and I will live in the house of Adonai for years and years to come.

When I live with GOD, I walk with Happiness and Grace, side by side… Every day! And I dwell in the House of the Lord every day!

Even when you are a hundred years old, Happiness and Grace will accompany you! Every day… Like Companions. You walk with the Shekinah, that is, the Glory of GOD (John 1:14, 2 Chronicles 7:1-3, Exodus 40:34-38, 1 Kings 8:10-13, and Ezekiel 43:7)!

Receive this Word in the Name of JESUS CHRIST!

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