Hoping for a Season of Breakthroughs (1 Ch 14:8-17)

by Pastor Cesar Crisostomo |  August 5, 2018

1 Chronicles 14:8-17

What situation in your life looks so big, so overwhelming, so difficult that it looks impossible to conquer? What circumstances in your life that you are hoping for a breakthrough? When we talk about breakthrough, it means a time of moving beyond and penetrating an obstacle. It is an event that helps to improve a situation or provide an answer to a problem. For many of us, it is seeing a promise of God in our lives come to pass and receiving an answer to our prayers. A time when God Himself brings the breakthrough in areas we have been believing for and trusting God for a time. Familia, we need to come to genuinely believing that God desires and is willing to unleash power and bring breakthroughs into our impossible situations. Understand that life will test all of us and hopefully we begin to discover that the barriers we face will require the help of God. Help in an ongoing struggle, unresolved conflicts, physical ailments, addictions that you want to get free from, maybe even in your spiritual walk with God, or in your prayer life. Truly, we need to realize the things we are facing that is insurmountable will require God’s intervention in our lives.

What is it that brings about breakthroughs? What is it that causes God to move and do something that we believe for Him to do?

1. To experience the breakthrough in life, we need to have a desire and a passion for things to change. Remember that miracles don’t happen without desire and without obedience. And for change to happen, there is always something God will give for us to do. Often there are areas in our lives that we want God to bring the breakthrough, but we don’t want to do what He is requiring of us. We don’t want to change, or we think we don’t need to change.
2. To experience the breakthrough in life, we need to embrace a persevering spirit. There needs to be a determination to endure, be patient, wait on the Lord and not just quit. Whatever it takes, no matter the cost we need to hang on and be determined and resolute to our faith in God.

· Would you do anything to receive the breakthrough?
· Keep living for God. Keep serving and don’t quit. Be careful not to take on an offense because it is somehow easier to take on an offense, use it as an excuse and quit instead of persevering.
3. When it comes to God breaking through in our lives there must be the acceptance of personal weakness. It is coming and admitting to God the personal weakness in our lives and telling Him that we are incapable of breakthrough on our own. We need to stop trying and appearing as if we got it all together. Let God know that we are incapable of bringing the result we desire. When you confess this and say that you can’t breakthrough on your own and that you need God’s help, then you instantly connect to His power.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10, “9 But He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

• Admitting our weakness is not a weakness in itself. Admitting our weakness, I believe is a guaranty of God’s help. Remember that God gives grace to the humble. He comes along side of us and helps.

◦ James 4:6 “But He gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

• I also think that admitting our weakness prevents arrogance because we are depending and trusting on God.
• Admitting our weakness brings about ministry when you share your testimony to something God has done.

4. In experiencing breakthrough in our lives, we need to learn to come into the presence of God in persistent prayer. It is our time of coming to Jesus, seeking His face and calling upon His Name.

• Luke 18:1-8, the parable of the persistent widow.
• Before you do anything or make any decision, pray. The temptation often is we set our own goals, make our own plans, but wise people, they pray.
• Why should I pray?

◦ Prayer reveals my need for help.
◦ Prayer lightens our load. He takes the weight that I am carrying. He takes it off from me and He bears it Himself.

Isaiah 40:31, “But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

· Isaiah 41:10, “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
· Matthew 11:28-30, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
◦ Prayer releases God’s power. “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know (Jeremiah 33:3).”