Do You Need Breakthrough?
We all feel like we need a breakthrough. So we ask God for breakthrough and then wait for Him to do something.
What if the breakthrough is already there included in our redemption in Christ, and while we are waiting on Him, He is waiting on us?
Maybe we need to press on through opposition (inside of ourselves as well as outward circumstances).
Maybe we need to press on to lay hold of, grasp, and make our own that for which Christ Jesus has called us to. Maybe we need to strain forward to what lies ahead and press towards the goal to win. This is a mature attitude. If you don’t have this attitude, God will reveal it to you – at least if you are open to see things differently. (Philippians 3:12-15)
We are told to FIGHT the good fight of faith to LAY HOLD of the eternal life to which we are called (1 Timothy 6:12). God has already given us all things we need for life and godliness. Where is it? It comes through the promises of God and the knowledge of them. (2 Peter 1:2-4)
2 Samuel 5:19-21 – David inquired of the Lord, saying, shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand? And the Lord said to David, go up, for I will surely deliver [them] into your hand. And David came to Baal-perazim, and he smote them there, and said, the Lord has broken through my enemies before me, like the bursting out of great waters. So he called the name of that place Baal-perazim [Lord of breaking through]. There the Philistines left their images, and David and his men took them away.
This is the scripture many quote on breakthrough.
V. 20 – The Lord has broken through my enemies before me like the breakthrough of waters. Therefore, he named that place, master of breakthrough.
1 Chronicles 14:8-11 – When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up in search of David; and David heard of it and went out against them. Now the Philistines had come and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim. David inquired of God, saying, shall I go up against the Philistines? And will You give them into my hand? Then the Lord said to him, go up, for I will give them into your hand. So they came up to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there; and David said, “God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like the breakthrough of waters.” Therefore they named that place Baal-perazim.
But notice how it started. David asked the Lord, shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You give them into my hand? The Lord said, go up for I will give them into your hand. And David defeated them. He said, God has broken through my enemies by my hand.
Who defeated them? David defeated them – but in the strength and ability of the Lord. though David fought the battle, He attributed the victory to the Lord.
So, “think about this, “what if you need to fight and press and strain forward into your breakthrough and not just wait on God for your breakthrough?”
If you continue to wait on God. hoping He will do what He has already done or what He wants you to do, you will not get to experience consistent breakthrough.
Lord, open our eyes to understand and see how to cooperate with you to walk into the greater victories and breakthroughs you have for us.