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Today's Devotion
From Dr. David Jeremiah
The World’s Quietest Room
November 25, 2025
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days.
Hebrews 11:30
Recommended Reading:
Joshua 6:12-1912 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. 13 Then seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually and blew with the trumpets. And the armed men went before them. But the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, while the priests continued blowing the trumpets. 14 And the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. So they did six days.15 But it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early, about the dawning of the day, and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. On that day only they marched around the city seven times. 16 And the seventh time it happened, when the priests blew the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people: “Shout, for the Lord has given you the city! 17 Now the city shall be doomed by the Lord to destruction, it and all who are in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. 18 And you, by all means abstain from the accursed things, lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. 19 But all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are consecrated to the Lord; they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.”
Joshua 6:12-19
If you want peace and quiet, you might visit the anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota. It’s designed to be silent—so silent that background noise is measured in negative decibels below the threshold of human hearing. It’s one of the quietest rooms in the world, and visitors report it’s so still they can hear the sound of blood pumping in their heads or passing through their veins.
We all need a reasonable facsimile of that room in our lives. Our world is loud and noisy, and it’s difficult to find stillness. Can you imagine what it was like for Joshua and the people of Israel to march around the walls of Jericho for six days in utter silence? But God was teaching them, and being alone with God in the quiet is important.
Make time today to go somewhere quiet with no distractions. Be still and know that He is God. As you do so, the Lord will enable you to encircle your problems in prayer like the Israelites did to Jericho.
When you are praying, let there be intervals of silence, reverent stillness of soul, in which you yield yourself to God, in case He may have aught He wishes to teach you.
Andrew Murray
