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Title: Where There’s A Wall, There’s A Way

Key Scriptures: Isaiah 49:16, 60:18

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Isaiah 49:16 Thy walls are continually before Me.

Isaiah 60:18 Thou shalt call thy walls Salvation.

There is a well-known phrase that states, where there’s a will, there’s a way. From these scriptures, we know we can change just one of the letters and say, where there’s a wall, there’s a way!

Do you have any walls in your life? Do you have things in your life that you just can't seem to get over?  Do you have things in your life that keep you out or hold you back?

In a world full of broken dreams, broken hearts and broken lives, where can you turn?  Is life a series of heartaches, rejection and failure and then we die?  Or is there something else?

Joseph had walls in his life that tried to hold him back from his dreams.  His family despised him, they threw him in a pit, sold him as a slave, and he went to prison for something he did not do.

In prison the Lord was with Joseph.  (Genesis 39:20, 21).  Our walls are continually before the Lord.  He knows what we are going through.

God used the prison experience to promote Joseph to second in command of Egypt!  It was this position that allowed the family of Joseph to be fed during a time of great famine.  Without the pit and the prison, Joseph would have never been in the palace and he and his family would have perished in the famine.

God used those trying times to save Joseph and his household.  If you are going through trying times - keep on trying!

God turned the walls of Joseph into salvation.  He would say to his brothers, "ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive."  (Genesis 50:20)

In Enterprise, Alabama they have the only monument honoring a pest.  This monument recognized the great boll weevil, a small grayish, long-snouted beetle with destructive larvae.  By 1915, this dreaded pest had devastated their cotton fields.  The town was left in ruins.  This tragic event forced them to diversify and shortly thereafter their peanut crop was booming.  They built the monument to the boll weevil to thank them for all the destruction that blessed them abundantly. It reads, “in profound appreciation of the Boll Weevil and what it has done as the herald of prosperity, this monument is erected by the citizens of Enterprise -- December 11, 1919.”

Where there's a wall, there's a way.  Your walls are continually before the Lord.  He is using them to save you and to bless you.

Romans 8:28   And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to [His] purpose.

Romans 8:31   What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?

Go ahead… call your walls salvation.  Thank God for the pits and the boll weevils in your life.

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