I was going out with my family to a few stores and I was the first one dressed and ready so I headed downstairs to wait for them. I don’t know about yall, but I do not like sitting once I’m fully dressed unless I’m about to get in the car obviously. So I stood around for a few moments and before I truly realized what I was doing, I was walking in circles around the kitchen, foyer and living room. I lapped those areas so many times and the Lord opened my mind to this.
He said, “Do you remember how they marched around the city [Jericho]? Cry out to me.”
15 On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times. 16 The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city!
20 When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city.
Joshua 6:15-16, 20
Although I didn’t use a verbal voice to shout to God, I began to pray earnestly. I didn’t have a physical city or wall to destroy, but I have some ungodly things I need to come up against and obliterate with prayer. So with each lap I destroyed ungodly spirits, with each step I prayed for anxiety to come crumbling down, with each stride I stomped on intolerance, impatience, worry, obsessive control, cursing, abandonment, rejection, ailments and the list went on and on.
24 Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house.
Once those things crumbled, I prayed for things that God values to be placed within me that can be returned to him and give his name glory. So I kept walking and asked God to help me be bold, helpful, courageous, generous, humble, friendly, wise, etc.
Tomorrow marks a new year! What do you need to destroy that doesn’t bring God the glory? What needs to crumble with the authority of prayer? I know it may feel like the flip of a calendar into a new year may feel like nothing, but it’s HUGE! It’s a new day, with new mercies, a gift to you from God. What will you do with the opportunity?
A Prayer for Your 2024:
Lord,
Whether I leave behind a year of joy or of trials and difficulties, I pause to give thanks.
Thank you for being with me every day of every year.
Thank you for making all things new and for giving me the grace of fresh starts and new beginnings.
Remind me of your presence in the days to come, even when I feel pushed and rushed by busyness.
Be glorified in my life this year.
Amen.
—Heather C King
Happy New Year friends!
See you next week!
Things Above 
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