We often think we need to wait for breakthrough, when it often requires us to be active and believe what God has spoken over us.
I want you to read this word from Danielle Dixon, with key insight in how to see breakthrough happen in your life. There are very practical ways we can step out as we believe in faith for breakthrough in our lives. (To Subscribe to the Elijah List subscribe here.)
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The Lord has been speaking encouragement to me regarding those in the Body who are facing impossible situations in their lives and are seeking breakthrough.
Perhaps you're facing a significant barrier in your life or ministry right now and you feel stuck. It could be financial lack, a lie you have believed, a painful event, a disappointment or a challenging work environment. Regardless of what it is, we desperately need God to dramatically break through in every area of our lives.
To have breakthrough you have to break through something.
Break through: "To make or force a way through."
I have often found that it's not demons and demonic attacks that stop us; it has more to do with breaking through our own restricted mindsets or wrong ways of thinking. Expanding our thinking is often a process of continually chipping away at built-up walls and barriers that we have used as protection and for survival.
Perseverance and Weighing the Cost
We need to know that breakthrough is not always something we're waiting for. God wants us to respond to what He has already commanded and already promised, and breakthrough will follow.
Breakthrough costs something; if you have ever broken through in an area, you know this is true. Breakthrough doesn't always just happen, we need to take a risk to see things change. But God is not asking us to go at it alone. He puts people around us who are like-minded to stand with us to see breakthrough.
Again, if you have ever labored to see breakthrough in your life or in other people's lives, you will know it costs something. We have to realize that we don't always get what we want when we want it. Most worthwhile things require persistence, particularly breakthrough.
If we want to see breakthrough, it's important to persevere when things get hard. Perseverance is one of the keys to breakthrough.
Are You Believing?
So many people in the Body are not believing for breakthrough – they are just waiting for breakthrough in their families, marriages, finances, health, etc. Are we believing or just waiting?
We are co-creators commissioned to bring what we see in the spirit realm to pass, but if we can't see it, we won't have it. Believing is active, not passive.
"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him." (Hebrews 11:6)
One of the barriers to break through is unbelief that God has good plans for your life. He is a rewarder, and we must believe in God's goodness in every situation. God has already authorized the breakthrough for your life!
He broke through (even Hell) for us to have breakthrough. Take the first step by believing that breakthrough is for you, your region or nation. Make a decision not to settle with "normal Christian life"; desire everything God has got you.
When God Speaks, He Creates
One of the barriers that can also block breakthrough in our lives is what we say. Words have the power to shape the course of your life. If you want breakthrough to come in an area of your life you have been praying for, speak the right words and declare the promises of God, no matter what your life or situation looks like right now.
God's words have the power and the DNA to change situations and circumstances that in the natural cannot be changed. So it's important that we are releasing our breakthrough.
Man is so unique; he is filled with the breath of God, therefore he carries the DNA of God.
The Hebrew word for "speak" is "'amar." It means "to command, to promise, declare, appoint." So when God said, "Let there be light," He spoke words that caused light to manifest immediately.
Helping Others Break Through
There is another insight to breakthrough that is not spoken of often. I believe, personally, that breakthrough is accelerated in our lives through helping someone else break through.
"And if you are not faithful with other people's things, why should you be trusted with things of your own?" (Luke 16:12)
As we stand with others, as we turn our attention to another's needs, we are making inroads to our own breakthrough.
We learn from standing with others. We learn as we watch their faith, their mistakes, their determination, their endurance. We were created to stand as a family, to receive the anointing for our breakthrough by being around people who have already broken through in that area.
The fastest way to break through things in your life is being faithful with another man's breakthrough, then God will trust us with our own.
I am praying for your breakthrough today!
"Lord, You are my secret hiding place, protecting me from these troubles, surrounding me with songs of gladness! Your joyous shouts of rescue release my breakthrough." (Psalm 32:7)
Danielle Dixon
Ark MinistriesÂ
Email:Â danielle@arkministries.com.au
Website:Â www.danielledixonministries.com.au
Pastor Danielle Dixon has a passion to see the "captives set free." Having overcome obstacles and bondages in her own life, she shares her life experiences to encourage others to believe that with God all things are possible. Danielle and her husband Massey Dixon are senior pastors of ARK Ministries, a church they planted 19 years ago in Queensland, Australia. Their vision is to embrace people with love, hope and the goodness of God. God has used her prophetic gift to encourage many people in church settings and the marketplace over the past 25 years of ministry.
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