Where is the Breakthrough?

On a online forum recently a sister wrote, “Where is the breakthrough?” I hear you sister I’m waiting for my breakthrough too. We are wondering what is going on? How long will we wait. God has sent me out, without a purse, extra cloak, etc., as he sent the 12 & 72 in the Gospels, and He has told me to go on in faith and I did. I’m still out here, waiting on Him, like a waiter, serving Him. He gave me instructions and tightened me up even more over the last few weeks, that I should write children stories and keep writing. And as a pastor said recently, I’ve been "writing with one hand and doing spiritual warfare with the other".

But I felt for this sister who was so frustrated because the breakthrough was not coming. What I saw from the exchange in that forum, is that people don’t have patience anymore with a whole lot of words, they want some action. All kind of talking is just tiring us out. We want some action like Jesus talked about – go into all the world preaching the gospel, healing the sick and casting out demons. We’ve grown up in church that harps on going into all the world preaching the gospel, but very little miracles or spiritual warfare. We’re annoyed with our ‘shepherds’ and ourselves and now we want real answers when things don’t work out.

The only One who can give us real answers is the Holy Spirit. He’s here now. He’s here to teach us. He’s available to us and we have to reach in to Him and give up trying to figure it out and stop expecting Him to be on our timeline. When is it going to come!!!! How long should I wait? Am I doing the wrong thing? I must be wrong, ‘cos God’s not wrong. What spiritual warfare should I be involved in?

What I’ve found when I get into this whirlpool of thought, is to look up and start praising God. Even though I can feel the frustration of my sister, I am grateful she came out and expressed herself, because it sounded so much like me, that I was riveted. Those whirlpool moments do stop but it’s not over. They stop and then when I think I’m pretty well stable in faith, they hit me again when I least expect it.

One assurance I have from God is that He will not disgrace me. That I will not regret following Him. The lack that I’m experiencing now is just a hit at my pride, because I have to stay with friends and family and they have to supply all my needs. So I am taken care of, just like God said, but not the way I want or expected. I am grateful, however, for friends and family and that my lot was not to have to live in a homeless shelter, which two women of God that I know, had to go through.

I see that there are so many of us so frustrated that the Lord is going to have to use all kinds of ways to keep us on track and on our way to victory. Buckle up kids, it’s going to be like a Get Smart movie!!! Don’t miss it ‘by that much'.

Hold it, hold it!

A friend put a word up on my Facebook wall. It was to the effect, don't be in such a hurry to get out of 2009 and jump into 2010 because this year has been so hard. Hold it, hold it, these last few days of 2009 may be where your breakthrough is.

Do you know that our God is mighty? Do you realize that He is right here now looking at us? Does it cause you to stop for a minute and contemplate how present He is. He is not absent or away on business or too busy for each and every one of us. He is here. The way you've behaved this morning; have you recognized that He is standing there watching you with love?

I'm telling you, this year for some of us, it has been such that we could have been tempted to believe God had left. That somehow He had got tired and taken Himself off the job. After all, this is His ministry and He should be able to shut it down whenever He wants to. Well, He hasn't. No matter how dragged in the mud we feel. No matter how hurt by family and friends. No matter how humiliated we've been in 2009. He, God the Most High, is still watching. He's intent on everyday of your life. 2009, 2010 it doesn't matter to Him - He's looking at you. He's watching you with His eye. Loving you, protecting you, molding you into the best you you'll allow Him to do.

My friend's words about not being so intent on Jan. 1st 2010 meant so much to me because Holy Spirit had just said something similar weeks before. I was jumping for joy as I thought of this year coming to an end. I was thinking about January 3rd, being the day I started moving from house to house, having no home of my own and now as it's comes around again in 2010, hopefully this year would be OVER! Holy Spirit cautioned me not to look at Jan 3rd, for the breakthrough my be any moment now, and my firm belief in that one date, may push my blessing further along.

Look up folks! Your redemption draweth near.

March!!! The Breakthrough Month

March was a the Breakthrough month. Many of us following the Lord Jesus have found ourselves in almost impossible situations these past few years and we have wondered when it was coming to an end. Things didn't work out as we expected, but God has seen us through and God has given us the strength we need each step of the way. I am so grateful. How 'bout you?

Has it been rough? Can't see any breakthrough? Look back again, just to March 1st and then follow the days. Sometimes it's hidden in the manusha of our lives and the onslaught from the evil one. But it was there. Breakthrough. Maybe it doesn't look like what we want but it's there.

For me it was an attitude change. The stopping of feeling sorry for myself, because I choose to follow what God told me to do, and yet the harvest hasn't burst out of the windows of Heaven like I expected. And yet there was abundance, because I ate everyday. Everyday I had water to drink and didn't have to hike to a river and carry it back on my head. Yep, I could turn on the tap and take safe, clear, clean, cool water and drink. I am grateful, because some are in the hospital right now and they are not able to drink anything. It's all going in through a tube.

I wanted a change from my position walking on the water and there was a shift. Not out of the water yet, but I think further down the rolling river. I'm still blogging...see, even though the devil wanted me to stop and sent distractions so I wouldn't do what God said. God assures me that even though I may have to expose myself on these blogs, there are some of you out there that need to read that someone else is going through a situation and is still hanging on. Praise His Name!

Our Abba Father is something else. Is anybody else reading The Shack? It's a great analogy of what a character our God is. He isn't the meany, the Bible, church and Christians try to portray Him. Why, He is Love. How do we juxtapose such Love with being mean and judgemental. My Father in heaven loves me. His Son Jesus Christ is going to be married to us the Bride. Warrior brides we are and hence our constant fight on Earth. Really the battle of the mind. Not letting our traditions and family and religious beliefs cut us off from the happy, abundant, glorious lives we are supposed to be living down here until Christ comes again.

O.k. that may be enough for the day. Remember you are not alone and the Spirit has tens of thousands of us who are listening and obeying only Him, who are going through struggles right now. Know that we have the victory every day, claim it and walk around like you've got it!Princess Ayo