Joshua 6:1-21
1 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
2 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.
3 March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days.
4 Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams' horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets.
5 When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have all the people give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the people will go up, every man straight in."
6 So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant of the LORD and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it."
7 And he ordered the people, "Advance! March around the city, with the armed guard going ahead of the ark of the LORD."
8 When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the LORD went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the Lord's covenant followed them.
9 The armed guard marched ahead of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark. All this time the trumpets were sounding.
10 But Joshua had commanded the people, "Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!"
11 So he had the ark of the LORD carried around the city, circling it once. Then the people returned to camp and spent the night there.
12 Joshua got up early the next morning and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.
13 The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets went forward, marching before the ark of the LORD and blowing the trumpets. The armed men went ahead of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the LORD, while the trumpets kept sounding.
14 So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
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 people, "Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!
17 The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent.
18 But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it.
19 All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the LORD and must go into his treasury."
20 When the trumpets sounded, the people shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the people gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so every man charged straight in, and they took the city.
21 They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it--men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

Joshua made sure that he observed everything God told him. We see him getting up early in the morning to walk around the city of Jericho.

God told him to walk around the city of Jericho, but he did not tell him when. But here we see Joshua did that early in the morning. When God told Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, Abraham set himself out in the early morning. David prepares himself to be with the Lord in the morning (Psam 5:3). Jesus found himself praying to his father in a solitary place early in the morning. When do we find our time with God? In the wee hours of the day or would we postpone praying later? Postpone something tells that we are not interested in that, it is as equal as not doing it.

They marched around the city for six days continuously, with no results as such. Yet they continued faithfully to the seventh time on the seventh day. Sometimes when we tried to help someone to become a disciple, even after trying many ways with no apparent result or change in him, if we continue giving our best, believing that God would do great things, we will see great miracles taking place.

With regard to the things which are devoted to the Lord (often destroyed completely), Joshua warns them not to take anything from it (v18). Things which are to be destroyed, like sin, we should also take a hardline decision in our life. We should not take anything in our heart, in which God is not pleased.

Colossians 3:5-10; God tells us to put to death whatever belongs to the earthly nature. Let’s take a decision to put death whatever belongs to the sinful nature within us.

Prayer idea

Have a time of detailed confession of sins.