God meets you at the level of your expectations. If you expect nothing, you’re going to receive nothing. But when you’re thirsty, you say, “God, I don’t see how, but I know You can do exceedingly, abundantly above all I can ask or think.”
The Scripture says, “When you’re good to your enemies, it’s like heaping coals of fire on their head.” When you’re good to those who are not good to you, not only will you rise higher, but God will deal with those who are not treating you right.
You may be in a difficult season now. You don’t see how it can ever work out, but don’t ever rule out the God of the breakthrough. One touch of His favor. One good break, one contract, one Goliath you defeat, and you’re catapulted to a new level.
One of the things that really strengthened my relationship with Jesus was realizing that, while everyone else came and went, He stayed.
He always stayed.
The pressure in your life is not there to defeat you; it’s there to propel you. You’re feeling the weight, the worry, the forces trying to stop you, but that pressure is a sign that something is shifting, favor is building, healing is coming, vindication is releasing, doors are opening.
You may have things that look immovable in your life today: a sickness, an addiction, trouble with a child. It seems permanent. But when the God of the breakthrough shows up, those things don’t stand a chance. Like a flood, God’s power will move anything in its path.
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Turn your pressure into praise. Turn your worry into worship. Instead of complaining about what didn’t work out and feeling overwhelmed by what’s not changing, why don’t you thank God that He’s fighting your battles, that nothing can stand against Him, that what He started He will finish in your life.
You’re not supposed to fight every battle. If you let your emotions rule and you get upset, then you’re doing it in your own strength. There’s no grace for it. But if you’ll start inquiring of the Lord, “God, what do You want me to do? God, I need Your wisdom, Your strength, Your power.” When you show your dependency on God, He knows you’re relying on Him, then He’ll help you fight those battles. He’ll empower you to defeat giants, to break addictions, to overcome what should have stopped you.
A breakthrough is a sudden burst of God’s favor. It’s a flood of His goodness that thrusts you ahead. For where God is taking you, the dreams He’s put in your heart, the giants that will be in your path, it’s not going to all be gradual, little by little, a process that you can see. He has some of these breakthrough moments that you can’t explain, that will catapult you into your destiny.
You have to give yourself permission to rest. This takes all the pressure off. God’s in control. You keep honoring Him, being your best and God will take care of those weeds. He’ll open the right doors.