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Spring Newsletter 2023

“The Walls of Jericho”

By McKade Marshall

When Israel was headed into their Promised Land, the first city God had them capture was Jericho. Winning the battle of Jericho was a paramount victory for the once enslaved Hebrew people. Jericho was strategically located in the lower Jordan valley as a border city, controlling migration routes in virtually every direction. Furthermore, Jericho was a rich, fertile oasis in the midst of desert land. All of Israel’s surrounding enemies knew the Israeli God meant business when He supernaturally demolished Jericho’s high walls at the blast of trumpets and shouting - no wrecking ball needed. A once dynamite, secure fortress was suddenly exposed to an army being led by God’s holy warring angels.

Joshua 5:13-15 (BSB) says, “Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, ‘Are You for us or for our enemies?’ ‘Neither,’ He replied. ‘I have now come as Commander of the LORD’s army.’ Then Joshua fell facedown in reverence and asked Him, ‘What does my Lord have to say to His servant?’ The Commander of the LORD’s army replied, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.’ And Joshua did so.”

The way in which Israel defeated Jericho is astounding and supernatural. 

The angel gives Joshua specific instructions on what he must do to conquer Jericho. He tells Joshua to have the army walk around the walls of the city once each day for six days in silence while seven priests blow trumpets in front of the ark. On the seventh day the army was to march around the walls seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets as before. However, at Joshua’s command the army was to finally shout a loud war cry and take the city after circling the fortified walls seven times the final day. The Israeli army obeys, and everything the angel said would happen happened.

Joshua 6:20 (NIV) testifies to this wartime miracle, which says, “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.” The walls of Jericho falling in an instant is an incredible story demonstrating God’s power and teaches us the importance of obeying God’s instructions. The tribes of Israel were “in” once they conquered Jericho. They had acquired part of their inheritance. They were inside the land which flows with milk and honey (see Exodus 3:8).

Because of their obedience, Israel conquered a seemingly immovable fortress.

When I began to ask God if I had a soulmate about this time last year, I was praying for God to do something seemingly impossible in my life. Since I was very young I have always wanted to get married, have a family, be a husband and father, and do all the things that one could hope for in this life. However, not everything went according to my adolescent plans. I became well-educated. I could check that box. I’ve written books. Another box checked. I’ve traveled to some incredible places around the world. Check. However, after being hurt, or “burned” as they say, I completely turned away from ever dating or pursuing marriage again - or planned to at least hold off until I was older, much older.

You might say the walls of Jericho in my heart were extremely fortified and incredibly tall when it came to finding my one true love. The idea of getting married had been demolished for over a decade. Instead, I exchanged the deepest desire of my heart for work. I put my head down, grabbed hold of the plow (figuratively speaking), and I worked. Worked, worked, worked. I’ve written four books. I’ve come out of debt and started investing. While my peers grew their families, enjoyed date nights, took weekend getaways, and went on long summer vacations, I - you guessed it - worked. I don’t regret working so hard. It has delivered me from the land of Egypt, so to speak. I’m no longer held down by tremendous financial pressure like I had been for virtually my whole life.

But something was missing in my life.

I began to feel a void in my soul. I had felt it before, but it was ignored for years, as this void was a touchy subject and a sore spot. This time it was different. God’s heavenly army had arrived, and they were marching around the walls of my heart. The desire to get married was finally resurrected. Waking up to this dream that was seemingly impossible to achieve was not pretty. For starters, I’m incredibly picky when it comes to dating. I had bitterness. I had a stony, stubborn heart when it came to marriage. I had become skeptical. I did not trust. The walls of Jericho in my heart were impenetrable - so I thought. For those of you who have read my past three newsletters, you know much more of the story. God showed me detailed things about my future wife. The church leaders prophesied specifics concerning what she was like.

The visions kept coming, and the signs and wonders kept flowing. The walls of Jericho in my heart began to fall. Getting married (and not when I was ninety!) was all of the sudden back on the table. God had conquered my heart to the idea of getting married. My walls were finally down. The Spirit of God had invaded my heart so I could finally see what God had planned for me. Then one day I met her. Indeed, my soulmate did exist. She was the same beautiful, funny, spunky woman of my dreams and prophecies, “coincidences” far beyond anything that could ever have been planned by the human mind or will.

Clearly, this was the hand of God.

What I did not fully realize at the time of meeting my soulmate is there is a process and order to things. Like me, she had the walls of Jericho around her heart. She has been hurt. She has been through trauma from childhood like me. She has a difficult time trusting others. She is strong-willed, well-educated, work-driven, and the free-spirited female version of me. Scary, I know. Shortly after we met, I quickly realized I was running into a wall. I knew immediately what that wall was because I had had one for many years. She had the walls of Jericho fortifying her heart. Immediately after meeting, she began to dodge me. Of course my initial response was, “See God! I told You. Getting married is impossible.”

Looking back, I wonder how many people I’ve dodged that were interested in me. My eyes were glued shut. Perhaps God was just preserving me for the real thing after all these years. As I slowly began to build a line of communication with my soulmate, it became obvious that I’m the talker. She can talk, but she can also be silent towards me. For those of you who know me personally, it’s rare that I’m not talking. As a writer, I am merely a talker who puts words on paper. Good communication is key to a healthy relationship. Instead of talking back and forth with her like normal people, I’ve had to learn to see in the Spirit and listen to what God is telling me concerning this soulmate of mine.

Everything God has told me about her so far after all these years has been 100% true.

Discovering who this beautiful woman is after actually meeting her has been a profound nine month journey. It’s incredible that as I learn more and more about her that I realize she has fulfilled visions I’ve had of her all the way back from when I was in high school and college many moons ago. Her hair color, her personality, even her teeth, are all attributes of her that I have seen in the Spirit of my future wife. Personal preferences I had for what I wanted in a girl - she has them all. Friends, God pays attention to details. God pays attention to the desires of your heart. When we entrust something, especially something as precious as a soulmate, to our Creator, He will not disappoint.

The walls of Jericho have begun to come down in my soulmate’s heart. God gave me a timeframe after I first met my “Rose” (the name I call her in the movie I’m writing). He showed me nine months, like the terms of a pregnancy, in our relationship. At the end of nine months, something was to happen. That something is the walls of Jericho in her heart were to begin to come down. For nine months, I have circled her heart through prayer, by sending her special gifts, and by giving her words of affirmation, love, and encouragement. For nine months, she’s upheld her walls. Building her trust has taken time and patience. It hasn’t been a cake walk, for sure.

The Lord told me almost a year ago that I was entering into a season of romance and screenwriting for film. I have already been prepared for what is happening now in the natural world. In the Spirit, God already showed me glimpses of what is coming. As the Scriptures say in 1 Corinthians 13:9 (NLT), “Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!” The bits and pieces of her and my story are still coming together. The mystery is slowly being uncovered in real time. One might say I am entering into my personal Promised Land of marriage and movie making - the two greatest desires I’ve ever had, to God be the glory!

The first city God has had me capture in this spiritual journey is her heart.

My soulmate’s heart is like the story of Jericho with its great walls. She conquered my heart the moment I saw her and formally met her for the first time. I’ll never forget that day. Granted, I had a little help getting my walls down in the weeks leading up to our divinely appointed encounter. By the grace of God and through the incredible gift of prophecy (that all believers have access to in Christ), I’ve seen the end result from the beginning. She’s still learning and experiencing what I already know by the Spirit. The Lord told me the first stop in this journey of marriage and movies is Jericho. The walls of Jericho must fall. Trust must be built. Real love must be shown and grown (like the picture of a beautiful sunflower my friend Lee sent me the night before I met my “Rose” and told me my wife was near).

Shortly after she and I first met, God showed me in a vision my body being let down the side of the walls of Jericho as one of the spies (see Joshua 2). In that moment, the Lord told me the walls around her heart are about to fall like Jericho. It was to be an invasion of love that would ravish her heart! It had already been ordained - written in the books of Heaven. Boy, how much I have loved loving on her! Giving is one of my strongest love languages. I have told her early on that she might as well get used to me spoiling her. She has had to learn to trust me, as I give because I want to and not because there are strings attached to the gift that I can pull. Control and manipulation is a fleshly, carnal activity. The root of it is demonic. Love is unconditional. There are no strings attached.

We are in a season of God tearing down walls and removing the strings of the enemy.

Like the unrelenting and non-controlling love I am learning to show my soulmate regardless of her response, you are learning to both receive and give away God’s pure, unconditional love. As you learn to love the way God loves you, you are marching around the walls of Jericho in people’s hearts. People you thought would never come to know Christ, people you thought would never break the addiction or come to church, are going to have a walls of Jericho encounter. The love you show them is going to cause those walls around their heart to come crashing down.

God is causing the walls in your heart to come crashing down this spring.

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I declare this spring you are seeing the walls of Jericho in your life crumble. The city, the dream, the one you are praying for, is going to have a supernatural Jericho encounter. God is opening up new doors of opportunity to bring your dreams to life. He is softening the hearts of your loved ones to receive His unfailing love. On the seventh day, on the seventh lap around the walls, the trumpets shall sound, the angels shall shout, and the supernatural breakthrough you have believed for is going to happen. You are going to fulfill your divine assignments this spring. With the Lord’s help, there is nothing you cannot accomplish! I love you so much, and I am praying for you every single day.

McKade “Levi” Marshall

Author of "Why I Stand With Israel", “Finding Your Keys”, “BREATHE”, and “Tasting the Goodness of God”

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