Breakthrough

Text: Mark 2:1-12
More Lessons: Psa.40:1-4
Bible Reading in One Year: Jeremiah 13-16

Unlimited blessings and all-round fruitfulness are the will of God for all His children. But by experience, it is clear that it does not just happen. An advancement or recovery in life depends largely on how you handle your troubles and failures. The world looks like a thicket of troubles and uncertainties and finding one's way in it requires certain things.

Breakthrough is one of the things that cannot be achieved or sought for casually, but by continual strong desire and labour. But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint: Isa.40:31. In other words, for believers in Christ Jesus, breakthrough and success come by our relationship with God and what we do with the opportunities He creates for us. When you have an opportunity to serve, breakthrough comes. When people struggle and manage in life, it is because they are yet to break through. May you have breakthrough in all your endeavours, in Jesus' name. When you have a desire, you must make a decision. To overcome obstacles of life; strong decisions must follow the desire to have breakthrough.

There are vital lessons of life from what the friends of the man attacked with palsy did. First, if the door is shut against you, you can create your own way (v .4). Sometimes you have problems getting to what you want because there is no access through the generally known way. The men in our text removed the roof (v.4). If you want to have breakthrough, you must be ready to go contrary to the normal; do the unpopular and unusual to find a way where others cannot. Second, be ready to let go something in order to break through, …and when they had broken it up,….v4. For the people to have access to Jesus they broke the roof; that is, confront the obstacles to your desire for the joy of fulfilment; be ready to sacrifice something. Third, to have a breakthrough you must recognise opportunities and take advantage of them. Fourth, v5 of our text says, When Jesus saw their faith…. This means it is the labour as a result of faith that can bring breakthrough.

A Christian shows his faith by his works; For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also: Jam.2:26. God always wants you to wrestle and not turn away when you are confronted with obstacles, so He invites you to bring your strong reasons. Jacob was a good example, he had to wrestle to win. (Gen. 32:24 - 28). Here, Jacob prevailed and broke through. You also will prevail and break through all troubles and hindrances, in Jesus' name.

Prayer / Action
* Oh Lord, open my eyes to the ways and agents of my breakthrough, in Jesus' name.
* Lord, I receive the power to wrestle in the process of breakthrough, in Jesus' name.
* I prophesy that I will break through as Jacob did.

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