Finally........ Breakthrough!.......I should have prepared.

  

"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 of many 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 what a breakthrough is, I want us to put aside the 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.

Well, 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, and it is setting up those folks 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 now before your breakthrough to ensure you'll never experience your disliked situations again?

The truth is if you've never had a plan before your breakthrough, then chances are you'll return to your present condition probably 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 have a 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 being in debt all over again. I am sure this was not their plan. So what does this tells 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 it is the lack of planning that has placed us in our current rough position. People who plan have made up in their minds not to travel that same 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 any different from your present?

Is money your area of breakthrough that you're waiting on? Well, if you didn't have a plan before your breakthrough. Then money will only accelerate what you always did before your breakthrough. It is a must that I add here, folks; a breakthrough does not make you any more intelligent than you were before it arrived. 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, when this should have been 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.

Question! Could it be possible you're experiencing your breakthrough right now, but your chronic complaining has blinded you to be aware of it?

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 forth out of Egypt" (Ex. 14:11).

As you have read, folks, unprepared breakthroughs almost always make you revert to what you always did. Only this time, you have the resources to do it at a faster pace. 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 reading this article right now can identify with this. God has set you free already; you are actually in your breakthrough. However, your mindset has yet to catch up with what God has already done. Simply because you've never prepared mentally for what you were praying to see physically, God gave you a good husband/wife, but you are still fooling around with Mr. /Ms. Bad News. God gave you that promotion, but you still don't know how to treat people. You finally got that transportation you've been praying for but just look at you, passing your neighbor walking down that same road you once walked praying for someone to give you a ride.

What about you, who have never dealt with that hate, bitterness, and your inability to forgive others. Do you think your breakthrough will change all of that? No! It won't; you have made perfect what you have practiced during your time of waiting. May I suggest that the worse kind of blindness is not physical blindness but blinded by the demons of hate, bitterness, and the inability to forgive others? This type of behavior by the waiters of their breakthroughs will blindly guide them right back to the very place they detested and prayed to be released from. All because they failed to change mentally before their physical change.

In closing, 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 are taught that change comes when the breakthrough comes, and 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 likes what you'll do when that million-dollar comes, that husband/wife, that new car. Because if you are not making the changes now, prepare to repeat going around this same old mountain again.

Heavenly Father, I thank you for everyone that took the time to read this article. I am convinced, Father, that you have positioned them to be a partaker of your truth on this day, for 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 the knowledge of you so that the eyes of their understanding will be enlightened to not only recognize but prepare well in advance of their breakthroughs in Jesus' name. Amen!

Written By: Kevin L A Ewing

kevinewing@coralwave.com
kevinlaewing.blogspot.com