1 Corinthians 16:9 ESV
Pentecost, 9 for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
Breakthrough is the sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development of a situation and the sudden change in circumstances.
Breakthrough is a process, they don’t just happen, nor be manipulated to happen, but for a breakthrough to happen, there must first be a need and an opportunity. The process for a breakthrough is not always obvious and they are exceedingly difficult times to go through.
Breakthroughs do not begin when they are manifested, they begin at the point where we set ourselves to seek the Lord through extended, intensive prayer and need.
A great effectual door is opened. A great and energetic door of opportunities is opened to us; God has made a grand opening for us in many places, and many adversaries will oppose us. The breakthrough process implies labour. The door often signifies occasion or opportunity.
Jeremiah 33:3 says call upon God to receive breakthrough. He promises that when we call, He will not only answer us but will show us things that we won’t otherwise have known had we not called because He alone gives breakthroughs and reveals what the future holds.
Just as it is in the natural world, so it is in the Spiritual realm. The darkest time is right before the dawn according to Psalm 30:5b, the battle usually rages at its highest, right before the victorious breakthrough.
So, if you are in a battle this morning -fighting and believing for your breakthrough, expect your breakthrough to come at dawn.
Sometimes we may find ourselves in situations that make us think there’s no hope (I have been in so many) and we feel like our prayers are getting nowhere. Now, what do we do when we have prayed about it and the situation stays the same: we wait for the Lord to turn things around.
The first breakthrough is recorded in Colossians 1:13, where God delivered us from the power of darkness. And the apostle intimates here that nothing less than the power of God can redeem a man from this darkness, or prince of darkness, who, through sin and unbelief, keeps men in ignorance, vice, and misery.
The Lord is always delivering us, drawing us out of the control and dominion of darkness, and transferring us into the kingdom of the Son.
Everyone desires a breakthrough in one area of life or another, it could be in health, finance, marital or spiritual, but the first step to breakthrough is to seek and ask the Lord as stipulated in James 4:2. How much of the presence and power of God are we enjoying and experiencing for breakthroughs or how much are we missing out on because we do not ask God for what we desire and for breakthroughs?
Breakthrough is certain for us because we are of God and are under the influence of the Divine Spirit of breakthrough to overcome every hopeless situation because greater is the Holy Spirit, who is in us than the spirit of afflictions which is in the world declares 1 John 4:4.
Whatever breakthrough you are seeking and waiting for, do not allow adversities, afflictions and distractions to stop you from going through the open door of breakthrough. Step out and in with boldness and courage. Your breakthrough is on the way!
Shalom