Mensa Otabil - Leap Over Walls
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Welcome to day number 19 of our 40 days of power. Psalm 18, verses 28 and 29: «For You light my lamp; the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness. For by You I can run against a troop; by my God I can leap over a wall.»
The introduction of Psalm 18, if you read the top line of it, states that David wrote this psalm when the Lord had delivered him from all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. So this is probably a psalm that was written after David had been made king. David recounts the many adversities he faced and how God came through for him. Thus, Psalm 18 is the testimony psalm of David. There are three highlights that I will bring to your attention from the verses we read.
First, David says, «The Lord enlightens my darkness.» David recognized the Lord as the one who brings light to him. When he’s surrounded by darkness all around him, the Lord will come and dispel the darkness of his life. We see that when we are also surrounded by darkness, the Lord will enlighten our darkness. He’ll dispel the darkness. I don’t know what dark force has come against you; God will dispel it, and He will send it away.
The second thing David says is that he ran against a troop. A troop refers to a band of warriors. In ancient warfare, the armies stood on different sides: one army would arrange themselves on one side, and the other army would be on the opposite end arranged. The strategy is that you should be able to go through your enemy’s arrangement and break through it. That is how you get the victory. David said that when he came into battles where people were arrayed against him, through the help of the Lord, he was able to run through a troop, go through the troop, and scatter them.
Now, you and I may not be fighting enemies like David did, who come to us that way, but we have enemies of our own in all kinds of forms. They could come in the form of problems, challenges, and threats that arrange themselves against us, threatening us, our survival, and our peace. But like David, we will also run through the troop. I don’t know what troop of problems stands in your way, but you’re going to run through it because by the same God we worship that David worshipped, we run through troops.
The third thing David says is, «I leap over a wall.» In the days of David, cities were normally surrounded by walls. If you were going to fight an opponent, you had to find a way to scale over the walls. David states that through the help of God, when he came into places where there was a wall, God gave him the ability to go over the wall of the enemy and defeat the enemy.
Now, we may not engage in a similar battle like David, but there are also walls that prevent us from reaching the places God wants us to get to. A wall is a resistance. Sometimes it’s a valley; sometimes it’s a mountain; sometimes it’s a river. If you look at it in our lives, it could be mountain debts or it could be some group that has come against you or something that tells you that you can never accomplish something. It’s a wall -a wall of racial discrimination, a wall of some form of discrimination that socially marginalizes you, telling you that you come from the wrong tribe or gender. But by our God, whatever wall has been erected against us, we’re going to leap over it.
And today, I pray that you will leap over walls. Whatever wall tells you that you can’t do it, can’t make it, can’t achieve it, or can never arrive there, you’re going to rise above those walls and win that battle. The Lord is our light; He lightens our darkness. Every darkness is dispelled. The Lord helps us to run through troops; everything that has arranged itself against you, you’re coming through it. The Lord helps us to go over the walls; every enemy wall will be scaled. You’re going to come over it. In the battle against Jericho, the walls came down. But in the battles David describes, the walls don’t come down; we go over them. God is going to give you the power to go over walls.
Let’s pray. Say with me, «Heavenly Father, You are my light. By Your power, I will run through enemy barriers, and I will leap over every obstacle in Jesus' name. Amen and amen.»