Breakthrough, Breakout
Do you know anyone that is a clean freak? Well, I wasn't born that way, but have become that way in certain aspects. See, one does not become a leader in the kingdom of God without first becoming a servant. As a young minister one of my responsibilities was to assure the floor was always clean. My Pastor at that time was very serious regarding the sanctuary being perfect, so I had to become intense about it since it was my responsibility. So because of this experience dirty rugs kind of bother me.
Have you ever tried to clean a rug and the vacuum was plugged up? It can be so difficult and time consuming to unplug the stuff stuck in the hose. I bought a more expensive vacuum hoping to avoid this and it's been even more difficult, especially unplugging Christmas tree pine needles.
"God has called us to be holy as He is holy, for we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus." He is serious about us having pure hearts and clean hands. When we have un confessed sin or un forgiveness in our hearts we are plugged up and Heaven can't flow through us. God is creating a new earth and we are His cleaning agents. But we must be cleaned out first. You can't clean a surface with a dirty rag. For the bible says, "Our righteousness is as dirty rags."
As the church we must create a culture of transparency, where confession is a normal practice. For in James 5:16 it says "confess your sins among one another and you will be healed." It starts with leadership first setting the example and the people will then feel the freedom to do the same. The degree of God's manifest presence is determined by the degree of transparency in the lives of the people present at hand.
See God works through His body which is a multi unit channel, one channel is only capable of so much, for we have all been given a measure of faith. So depending upon how open earth's channels are will determine the amount of Heaven's release. So before God can breakout into our communities we must first allow Him access to breakthrough within.
"This work is not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit, says The Lord." The Word is the tool the Spirit uses to work. So I am going to use two passages of scripture that I believe the Holy Spirit will use to breakthrough and breakout. The first is in 2 Samuel.
David had finally become king of Israel. His biggest enemy was the Philistines, they personally knew what a mighty warrior he is, so before he could become strong and established they tried to strike against him, David's response was to inquire of The Lord?"
Which is something we must always learn to do before facing challenges.
2 Samuel 5:20-21
"The Lord said go up for I will give the Philistines into your hand." David defeated them and he said "The Lord has broken through my enemies before me like the breakthrough of waters. Therefore he named that place Baal-perazim. They abandoned their idols there, so David and his men carried them away."
David's natural rule is a shadow of our supernatural rule in Christ. Just as David wiped out the enemies of Israel so are we to wipe out the enemies of God. "Now our battle is not with flesh and blood but principalities, powers, rulers of spiritual darkness in high places...." "Our weapons are not carnal but spiritual for the pulling down of strongholds."
Now that the Philistines witnessed the power of God they abandoned their idols for they recognized that God is above all.
God wants to breakthrough our lives so He can breakout into our communities. Proving that He is Lord of all as people begin to cast down their idols. Before we can prove God is above all to non believers He must be Lord of all in our personal lives.
Can we say today that Jesus is Lord? Have we surrendered all?
God moves through His body, what we can experience individually depends somewhat on our spiritual condition corporately. God's gifts are without repentance so He can still heal and deliver, but what impacts a community the most is transformed lives, we the church being formed into the image of Jesus Christ, and each of us doing our part in the advancement of His kingdom.
Have you ever started watching a movie and thought this is not appropriate I shouldn't be watching it, but being intrigued you watched it anyway?
Well, the bible is full of stories that would not be appropriate if made into a movie. Well I'm going to share the rated "r" version of Genesis 38, the story of Judah and Tamar.
Judah in rebellion left his family to live elsewhere so he can do his own thing. He married a Canaanite which in their family would be forbidden. Judah got a wife for his son Er named Tamar. Er, offended God, so God took his life. A widow in those times without a son was destitute for a woman's worth was in their offspring. So to be childless was disgraceful. So Judah had his son Onan sleep with Tamar, but since the child would not be his he made sure she did not get pregnant. Judah's next plan was for Tamar to live with him until his youngest child Shelah grew up. Judah felt this would end in tragedy as well so she moved in with her father. Tamar was told her father-in-law was nearby to shear his sheep. Knowing how he operates, she dressed up as a prostitute, he slept with her, and she became pregnant. It was told later to Judah that Tamar had become pregnant while being a prostitute. Judah said "bring her out here, and have her burnt up." She having Judah's possession told her Father in law I am pregnant by the person owning these things, which of course was him. Judah now said she is in the right I am in the wrong. Tamar while giving birth to twins had one child put his hand out first, but the other then popped himself out first, which Tamar called the son Perez which means "Breakout." Followed by the other son Zerah meaning Bright.
So what is the moral of the story.
Well we see in Matthew 1 the name Perez listed in the lineage of Jesus. Judah upon being exposed and found guilty gave room for Tamar to no longer live in shame and enjoy the delivery of her two sons.
God desires to birth Perez, He wants to breakout. What is prolonging delivery is unconfessed sin. Until we repent by openly confessing our sins in all humility, what God has spoken prophetically will continue to be delayed.
But if this day we do not harden our hearts but obey the word of The Lord, a mighty breakthrough will transpire, and Jesus will breakout of our lives and His glory will shine bright, bringing forth a new day in South Jersey. No longer will this place be full of shame but God will use us to spread revival and transformation to the world. This region will no longer be a place people come to sin but rather it will fit it's destiny as a spiritual retreat center to help believers overcome sin and live victorious lives.
Have you ever tried to clean a rug and the vacuum was plugged up? It can be so difficult and time consuming to unplug the stuff stuck in the hose. I bought a more expensive vacuum hoping to avoid this and it's been even more difficult, especially unplugging Christmas tree pine needles.
"God has called us to be holy as He is holy, for we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus." He is serious about us having pure hearts and clean hands. When we have un confessed sin or un forgiveness in our hearts we are plugged up and Heaven can't flow through us. God is creating a new earth and we are His cleaning agents. But we must be cleaned out first. You can't clean a surface with a dirty rag. For the bible says, "Our righteousness is as dirty rags."
As the church we must create a culture of transparency, where confession is a normal practice. For in James 5:16 it says "confess your sins among one another and you will be healed." It starts with leadership first setting the example and the people will then feel the freedom to do the same. The degree of God's manifest presence is determined by the degree of transparency in the lives of the people present at hand.
See God works through His body which is a multi unit channel, one channel is only capable of so much, for we have all been given a measure of faith. So depending upon how open earth's channels are will determine the amount of Heaven's release. So before God can breakout into our communities we must first allow Him access to breakthrough within.
"This work is not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit, says The Lord." The Word is the tool the Spirit uses to work. So I am going to use two passages of scripture that I believe the Holy Spirit will use to breakthrough and breakout. The first is in 2 Samuel.
David had finally become king of Israel. His biggest enemy was the Philistines, they personally knew what a mighty warrior he is, so before he could become strong and established they tried to strike against him, David's response was to inquire of The Lord?"
Which is something we must always learn to do before facing challenges.
2 Samuel 5:20-21
"The Lord said go up for I will give the Philistines into your hand." David defeated them and he said "The Lord has broken through my enemies before me like the breakthrough of waters. Therefore he named that place Baal-perazim. They abandoned their idols there, so David and his men carried them away."
David's natural rule is a shadow of our supernatural rule in Christ. Just as David wiped out the enemies of Israel so are we to wipe out the enemies of God. "Now our battle is not with flesh and blood but principalities, powers, rulers of spiritual darkness in high places...." "Our weapons are not carnal but spiritual for the pulling down of strongholds."
Now that the Philistines witnessed the power of God they abandoned their idols for they recognized that God is above all.
God wants to breakthrough our lives so He can breakout into our communities. Proving that He is Lord of all as people begin to cast down their idols. Before we can prove God is above all to non believers He must be Lord of all in our personal lives.
Can we say today that Jesus is Lord? Have we surrendered all?
God moves through His body, what we can experience individually depends somewhat on our spiritual condition corporately. God's gifts are without repentance so He can still heal and deliver, but what impacts a community the most is transformed lives, we the church being formed into the image of Jesus Christ, and each of us doing our part in the advancement of His kingdom.
Have you ever started watching a movie and thought this is not appropriate I shouldn't be watching it, but being intrigued you watched it anyway?
Well, the bible is full of stories that would not be appropriate if made into a movie. Well I'm going to share the rated "r" version of Genesis 38, the story of Judah and Tamar.
Judah in rebellion left his family to live elsewhere so he can do his own thing. He married a Canaanite which in their family would be forbidden. Judah got a wife for his son Er named Tamar. Er, offended God, so God took his life. A widow in those times without a son was destitute for a woman's worth was in their offspring. So to be childless was disgraceful. So Judah had his son Onan sleep with Tamar, but since the child would not be his he made sure she did not get pregnant. Judah's next plan was for Tamar to live with him until his youngest child Shelah grew up. Judah felt this would end in tragedy as well so she moved in with her father. Tamar was told her father-in-law was nearby to shear his sheep. Knowing how he operates, she dressed up as a prostitute, he slept with her, and she became pregnant. It was told later to Judah that Tamar had become pregnant while being a prostitute. Judah said "bring her out here, and have her burnt up." She having Judah's possession told her Father in law I am pregnant by the person owning these things, which of course was him. Judah now said she is in the right I am in the wrong. Tamar while giving birth to twins had one child put his hand out first, but the other then popped himself out first, which Tamar called the son Perez which means "Breakout." Followed by the other son Zerah meaning Bright.
So what is the moral of the story.
Well we see in Matthew 1 the name Perez listed in the lineage of Jesus. Judah upon being exposed and found guilty gave room for Tamar to no longer live in shame and enjoy the delivery of her two sons.
God desires to birth Perez, He wants to breakout. What is prolonging delivery is unconfessed sin. Until we repent by openly confessing our sins in all humility, what God has spoken prophetically will continue to be delayed.
But if this day we do not harden our hearts but obey the word of The Lord, a mighty breakthrough will transpire, and Jesus will breakout of our lives and His glory will shine bright, bringing forth a new day in South Jersey. No longer will this place be full of shame but God will use us to spread revival and transformation to the world. This region will no longer be a place people come to sin but rather it will fit it's destiny as a spiritual retreat center to help believers overcome sin and live victorious lives.
No comments:
Post a Comment