This Sunday, we continue our stewardship series with the message Devotion in Motion Brings Down Walls. Throughout this series, we are examining how our membership vows of prayer, presence, gifts, service, and witness guide us in living a life of faithful stewardship. This week, our focus is on how prayer and presence help us steward our spiritual life through our rule of life, our devotion to God.
This first sermon in our stewardship series centers on the theme “Devotion in Motion Brings Down Walls” from Joshua 6, which reminds us that devotion is not a feeling we keep hidden. It is an active way of life. Devotion is how we love God and how that love moves outward in worship. True stewardship is more than financial giving. It is putting our devotion in motion so that every block in the wall of our life becomes an offering to God. This message encourages us to see that a life of devotion is the foundation of stewardship, the very foundation that God is building in us.
In the story of Jericho, the people of God marched around the city walls once a day for six days and seven times on the seventh day. From the outside, it must have looked strange or even foolish, but they were doing what God asked. Their devotion was not quiet or still. It was devotion in motion.
Sometimes God calls us to keep walking when we cannot see what He is doing. He calls us to move forward in faith even when the walls before us seem too strong to fall. Like the people of Israel, we are reminded that obedience often comes before understanding. The walls fall after we walk, not before.
For many of us, the walls we face are not made of stone. They might be fear, pride, bitterness, grief, or doubt. They can be walls of injustice in our community or walls of division within our own hearts. Yet God still calls us to trust, to march, to pray, and to shout in faith that He is working even when we do not see the results.
True devotion is not something we feel once in a while. It is a steady movement of the heart that carries us closer to God each day. It is love that takes action, faith that keeps walking, and hope that refuses to give up.
This week, let your devotion move. Pray when it feels quiet. Show up and be present when it feels easier to stay away. Serve when it feels slow. Give when it feels costly. Keep walking in faith. God is still in the business of bringing walls down.
When our devotion is in motion, we will see His power at work in ways that bring down walls and rebuild a foundation that leaves no doubt that the victory belongs to God!