Answered Prayers Hebrews 11:6 Without faith its impossible to Please HIM. Jericho barred the way into Canaan. It was a massive fortress standing squarely astride the entrance into the Promised Land and blocking any advance. It was Satan’s device for keeping the children of Israel from entering into their possession. It was a formidable obstacle and would have been so to a well-equipped, highly trained, and well-seasoned army of Roman legionnaires, let alone to the Hebrews who were barely more than novices in the art of war. Human wisdom would have advocated the purchase of slings and catapults and the amassing of huge stockpiles of stones for ammunition. Human wisdom would have suggested digging trenches to enable sappers to creep up to the walls and undermine them. Human wisdom would have called for starving the people of Jericho into submission. But faith had a better way. Faith does not oppose Satan’s devices with human devices. The natural man bases his conclusions on that which seems rational to him. The believer rests his convictions on that which has been revealed to him. The believer goes beyond the natural to the supernatural, to God. There are a lot of Moms and Dads, Brothers and sisters that are Dead, but still speaking! Do you want your life to count in this life and even count when your life has ended? If so, let me remind you that all that matters are pleasing God and having His commendation. It is all that matters for the conclusion of life and the continuation of life. It is the secret to being dead, but still speaking!