Breakthrough- The holiday has gone all the formalities and falsities and pretending is done. Today we are back to being us, those of us who are walking around miserable and don't know why, there are some of us walking around so elated because we know we are one lap away from a breakthrough. The last few days God has given me the word Broken today though the word is still there but He has given me a ray of hope assuring me the process wasn't in vain it's time for the BREAKTHROUGH. While I should be over here excited turning cartwheels, well I'm not. You may think well if she is one lap away from her breakthrough why is she not happy what cares could she have. I'll tell you when you love someone and you know you have but one choice and that is to step out the way and watch God break them it's not easy.
Today as you go about the busy routine of black Friday shopping some spending money they don't have to impress people they don't know people who don't even like you, then I pray you get the revelation to ask God to go ahead and break you. God is about to step in do it if you don't and WOE is you/them. I am bittersweet about what they are going to go through. To have God step in and break you because your pride wouldn't allow you to surrender to His will and way for your life. To have God break you because you run to church Sunday after Sunday, you are an usher, a choir member, a greeter, you are on the pastor aide and any other committee you think you are right and there is no need are room to be broken. Well hold on.
Your breaking is going to be hard I pray God gives you the good sense to pray through it to look at your life and ask Him to remove what really hurts, what is really causing you and your life not to be pleasing to Him. Let me give you a few hints, if you are in the church building but don't have a relationship with God, ask Him to break you. Sitting in a church being on every committee and board doesn't make you a christian any more than standing in the kitchen all day is going to make you a refrigerator. If you are watching your brothers and sisters knowingly do wrong things and your take is I'm going to be quiet because they are grown, or they are going to be mad at me, then you need to be broken so you can get a breakthrough.
Let me give you an example of why it's your business when Jesus went to the well the woman from Samaria was there and Jesus asked her for a drink of water He opened the dialog as to who she was and what she was doing in her life. When she admitted she didn't have a husband Jesus told her you are right and the one you have now is not yours. Now this offended her a bit but Jesus didn't care He loved her enough to tell her she was wrong, and watch her get her breakthrough.
Today if you can and you know someone who needs to be broken help them ask. If you are the person get on your knees and ask. Because you love them you want to see them get their breakthrough. Now Jesus doesn't need you to play Jr. Holy Spirit but let him use how He wants to and move out of His way. I pray you get the courage to say God break me so I can get my breakthrough. I want to you see on the other side so as I take my last lap to get to my breakthrough I pray you soon join me in that place the place of breakthrough.
Allow them Lord to lay down pride, lay down guilt and foolishness and ask to be broken. I know they won't like it but they are going to bask in the the breakthrough. I know I can't wait.
Blessed to Be a Blessing,
Shon Garner Cole you can follow me at realtalkwithshon@blogspot.com
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If we are in search of a spiritual breakthrough, we have two options. First, we can choose to be broken. We can say, "Lord, I want a blessing and a breakthrough. Please break me - strip me of my sinfulness and destructive independence. I'm scared, but I trust that You love me enough to know what I can handle."
The second option is that God will break us without our permission. This option takes a lot longer, and it usually hurts a lot deeper. This delays the blessing and the breakthrough, and it will ultimately be more painful. God did not redeem us to leave us alone and let us miss all of His blessings. He loves us too much for that. There is a new, wonderful life He placed inside of us - and He wants to sanctify us and make us more like His Son so that we may experience it to the fullest.
Many of us want to simply audit the Christian life - like a college course that a person sits in on but is not required to do work and is never graded. We don't want to do all the hard work that it requires. But if Christ is truly Lord of our lives, there will be work to show that we are serving Him. There will be evidence that we are taking the course He is teaching, and it's making an impact on our life. Brokenness is one of the lessons we must go through in order to gain greater spiritual maturity and in order for Christ to be made known in our lives.
It's important to remember that the God who breaks us is also our Father. He is our Lord. He loves us. There are a million ways He can teach us what we need to know. There are different ways that He will break us down and strip us of our pride in order to teach us that we can trust Him. God is God, and He has the right to strip us of everything in us that is not like Him so that He can transform us into His image. He wants to give us blessings, but He wants to change us in the process.
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