"Glory to God! Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus! Finally, it's my season! God is good all the time, all the time God is good". These are just a few phrases one would hear when others or themselves would have experienced a breakthrough.
Just imagine, for a brief moment, for years, you've waited patiently for a turnaround in your marriage, finances, family, or promotion on your job. During this wait, you've experienced shame, embarrassment, pain, tears, and not to mention being the topic of many conversations about whether or not you've missed God, there is sin in your life, or you're simply cursed.
Before we proceed any further, let us define the term breakthrough so that we'll all be on the same page and not assume its meaning. Breakthrough is defined as breaking the invisible walls and cages of delay, hindrances, denials, repeat missed opportunities, and disappointments.
Being clear on the above understanding of a breakthrough, I want us to put aside our religious mindsets for a few minutes and look at the reality of a genuine, successful breakthrough. I have decided to take this approach because when some religious folks hear the term breakthrough, they immediately condense it to mean no work from their end. In fact, they're convinced that waiting on their breakthrough suggests that they should continue doing things as usual, and at God's set time, everything will change, and there will be no more problems, or at least not that present problem anymore.
To the contrary, my friends, a genuine breakthrough requires quite a bit from your end. Many religious leaders have misled their congregation into believing that those waiting on their breakthrough have no part to play before their breakthrough other than simply waiting on God. This is, at best, false teaching, setting those folks up for significant disappointment.
In providing evidence that this type of instruction is erroneous and dangerous, my question to you, my readers, is, what are you doing differently before your breakthrough to ensure you'll never experience your disliked situations again?
If you've never had a plan before your breakthrough, chances are you'll return to your present condition sooner than later. Your current circumstances ought to make you despise what has caused you to be in this disliked position in the first place. That can only happen if you plan to never pass this way again before your breakthrough.
Some folks won the lottery, winning millions of dollars. After a few years, they're back to where they originally started in debt. I am sure this differed from their plan after having so much money. So what does this tell us who are waiting for our breakthrough? Well, it says that if we FAIL TO PLAN, THEN WE ARE, IN FACT, PLANNING TO FAIL. Again, the need for more planning has placed us in our current rough position. People who plan have decided not to travel that old defeated road any longer. In fact, their goal is to keep them off of that path altogether. Yet again, I ask. What are you doing now that will make your future different from your present?
Is money the area of breakthrough that you're waiting on? Well, if you didn't have a plan before your breakthrough, money will only accelerate what you always did before your breakthrough. "A breakthrough does not make you more intelligent than you were before it occurred.". IT IS THE PLANS/CHANGES THAT YOU HAD IN PLACE Before THAT BREAKTHROUGH THAT WILL SUSTAIN AND MAINTAIN THAT BREAKTHROUGH.
News flash breakthroughs DO NOT ADD WISDOM TO YOU. IT IS WHAT YOU'RE LEARNING NOW IN YOUR SEASON OF DELAYS, HINDRANCES, DENIALS, AND DISAPPOINTMENTS THAT OUGHT TO BE PREPARING YOU FOR THE BREAKTHROUGH. AGAIN, YOUR SITUATION SHOULD BE EDUCATING AND PREPARING YOU FOR YOUR FUTURE BREAKTHROUGH.
So, STOP COMPLAINING AND MURMURING ABOUT YOUR NOW AND GLEAN FROM IT WHAT IS NECESSARY SO YOU WON'T REPEAT IT DURING YOUR TIME OF BREAKTHROUGH!
When Moses brought the children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage (Ex 14:10-15), they began to complain and murmur. Why, you may ask, shouldn't it be a time of rejoicing and excitement? Well, the truth is they never prepared mentally to be freed, so amazingly, during their breakthrough, they did what they always do: complain and murmur even while they were smack dab amid their breakthrough.
Could it be your constant complaining that's preventing you from recognizing your breakthrough?
The children of Israel could not comprehend the term "GO FORWARD" because I am sure they spoke of freedom daily and complained to one another about being held captive against their will. They became pretty comfortable being slaves to their Egyptian masters for four hundred years. You see, even though they spoke freely, they never took freedom seriously mentally, thus mentally accepting their way of life even though they complained verbally.
Take note of what they said after being freed from their masters, and the Egyptian army pursued them. "And they said unto Moses because there were no graves in Egypt, thou has taken us away to die in the wilderness? Wherefore has thou dealt thus with us, to carry us out of Egypt" (Ex. 14:11).
As you have read, those who were unprepared for their breakthroughs almost always reverted to what they always did and returned to where they initially began. Only this time, they have the resources to do it faster. These people were physically freed, but mentally, they were still enslaved, always willing and able to be ruled by their oppressors, the very people they complained about.
Many of you who are currently reading this article can relate to this. God has already set you free, and you are actually experiencing your breakthrough. However, your mindset may not have caught up with what God has already accomplished. This is simply because you may not have prepared yourself mentally for what you had been praying to see physically.
You've been blessed with a spouse you've prayed for, but here you are cheating on them. You've been granted that promotion you've prayed and worked so hard for, yet you oppress your colleagues the way you were once oppressed. You've finally got the vehicle you've prayed for, but you now ignore your neighbor walking on the same road you once did, hoping for a ride. These are all clear examples of when a "MINDSET" refuses to merge with the individual season of breakthrough.
Let's try self-introspection. Have you dealt with hate, bitterness, and your inability to forgive others? Do you think your breakthrough will change all of that? No! It won't; you have perfected what you have practiced while waiting. "May I suggest that the worst kind of blindness is not physical, but rather being blinded by hate, bitterness, and an inability to forgive others? This behavior can lead people to repeat the same mistakes and return where they started despite their efforts to move forward. It's important to mentally prepare ourselves to accommodate the changes we seek, rather than just focusing on the physical aspects of the situation."
I am told that insanity is doing the same thing the same way all the time and expecting a different result. In some of our local churches, we believe change comes when the breakthrough comes. I beg to differ; change should have been the prerequisite to change. So, please discontinue the self-deception by telling friends, family, co-workers, and the like what you'll do when that million-dollar comes, that husband/wife, that new car, when the reality is you are not making the changes now, to accommodate your expectations in terms of your breakthrough.
Heavenly Father, I am convinced that those reading this article, you have positioned them to be a partaker of your truth. Your word is the truth. I pray that this read would have provoked change. May you give them the spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge so that the eyes of their understanding will be enlightened to recognize and prepare well in advance of their breakthroughs in Jesus' name. Amen!
Kevin L A Ewing
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It is natural for individuals to long for a significant breakthrough in their lives and resorts to prayer to obtain it. However, one may question whether prayer alone is sufficient for God to fulfill their request.
