WEDNESDAY'S WORD - BREAKTHROUGH - Sadell Bradley - 08/05/2020

WEDNESDAY'S WORD

BREAKTHROUGH

Sadell Bradley

08/05/2020

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of, 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough." - Marissa Mayer - Businesswoman

A BREAKTHROUGH is a sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development; or an instance of achieving in a particular sphere or activity. Generally, a breakthrough infers that there has been a wall of resistance, a barrier, a length of time of stagnation or some other impediment to moving forward, getting a release, or arriving at success. People usually desire or pray for breakthroughs when they've invested a lot of time and effort to see a given result to no avail. Alexander Graham Bell had 9,999 unsuccessful tries at making the light bulb before he experienced a breakthrough on the 10,000th try. WD-40 has it's name because the first 39 formulas didn't work. Some of us are at the point of our lives where incremental change is not enough...we need an unanticipated, substantial, and measurable breakthrough in our situation.

LORD OF THE BREAKTHROUGH In 1 Chronicles 14, David was anointed king over Israel. He is  celebrating while his enemies, the Philistines, are plotting against him. I love that David is so aware of His need to have the LORD with him in battle. He would ask God whether or not he should fight and what strategy the LORD wanted him to employ. God tells David to go, and He will deliver his enemies into his hands. (vs.10) The bible recounts, "11So they came up to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there; and David said, “God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like the breakthrough of waters.” Therefore they named that place Baal-perazim. 12They abandoned their gods there; so David gave the order and they were burned with fire." The Philistines tried yet another time. David asked the LORD again and God gave him a different strategy to defeat them. (vs. 13-16) Israel's armies struck them down, and Scripture says, "17Then the fame of David went out into all the lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him on all the nations."(NASB)

DON'T GIVE UP!

Joyce Meyer asked a poignant question, "I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success?" It seems like nothing has changed. We've continued to hit the same wall so many times for so long. Even the best of us can get weary in well doing. It becomes hard to imagine that the wall will ever fall or that God will grant the quantum leap that gets us to our goals. But giants do fall, Jericho walls do come down...and our breakthrough is coming after all!