Stomp Your Foot!

Last week I had a dream of a huge banquet table.  The table was so huge that I only saw a small section of it, but I knew that it went on and on much farther than I could see.  It was filled with food and drink and lined with people who were eating and talking happily. 

Then I noticed an unfortunate damper to this amazing party.  Names were being called over a loudspeaker, and after the name there was an announcement of an emergency that had just happened in that person’s life.   As each name was called, that person would get up and anxiously run out of the room to tend to the crisis.

The loudspeaker never stopped calling names, and so the flow of people running away in distress was constant. 

One person didn’t run, though.  When her name was called, she stood up from the table and stomped her foot on the ground and yelled, “no!”  As she stomped, an invisible wave radiated out from her foot and I knew that there was power there – in her foot and in the wave – to break the curse, to put a stop to the crisis.

As I watched her retake her seat at the table, I thought of the verse, “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given you.”  (Joshua 1:3 KJV)

The next morning, I found these interesting verses about the soles of our feet:

Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.

There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the Lord your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.  (Deuteronomy 11:24-25 KJV)

This was exciting to me; I felt as though I discovered a new weapon of spiritual warfare:  stomping my foot and saying, “no devil, you can’t have my ______.” 

Not quite finished with my treasure hunt yet, I was curious what the original Hebrew meaning of “sole” was.  When I pulled out my Strongs Concordance, I had an even bigger surprise.  In Hebrew, one of the meanings of the word “sole” is “power.”  (Strongs 1983)

 

Reference:

Strong, James. Strongs Exhaustive Concordance: Showing Every Word of the Text of the Common English Version of the Canonical Books, and Every Occurrence of Each Word in Regular Order, Together with Dictionaries of the Hebrew and Greek Words of the Original, with References to the English Words. Baker Book House, 1983.