Breakthrough

As I was walking on our prayer walk and talking to the Lord, the spirit of the Lord was imparting to me. My body began to feel tired but my spirit was willing (the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Matt 26:41b) He brought to mind the song we sing at church "You are Lord of a breakthrough" and He began to reveal what a breakthrough actually is. When do we get a breakthrough? After we have pushed through past the barrier into uncharted territory

So often in life, as on the walk, you feel like giving up because you become tired, and the enemy will give you a million excuses why you can just give up, BUT we will not experience a breakthrough until we push forward.

There was a woman in the bible who had a problem with her body for many years, (Mark 5) and when she saw Jesus she resolved in herself that she needed to reach Him. She had a number of things against her, she was not supposed to be there. She was not supposed to come close to people because of her condition. She had spent all her money on trying to cure herself but found no relief.

If she allowed these thoughts and her circumstance to consume her, she would not have moved, but she saw an opportunity to breakthrough into a place she believed existed in Christ but had not seen in the natural. She pushed past the crowd and got her breakthrough! The bible says she touched the hem of his garment. I believe the reason she touched his hem was because she was on her hands and knees, she was probably stepped on and kicked and cursed at, but she had her eyes on the prize and she did not let anything distract her from her goal!

I like what the dictionary gives as a definition of a breakthrough: a military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defence.

And this is the impression God pressed into me, we have to push through the enemy's defence, even when there is pain or the feeling of complacency. We must not allow our feelings to circumvent our victory. If you need a breakthrough you need to push past the obstacles. Another definition is
an act or instance of removing or surpassing an obstruction or restriction; the overcoming of a stalemate

The walls of Jericho was an obstacle that the children of Israel could not go through, They needed a breakthrough to get into Jericho. In the natural there was no way to get into Jericho. God said continue to walk around.. The first six days nothing happened. No cracks in the wall appeared, no stones crumbled. There was nothing that they could see in the natural that was changed. Their enemy probably mocked them as they walked around the walls and called them names. Then on the seventh day, after the seventh round there was an advancement all the way past the enemy's defences. The original text in Aramic does not just say the wall fell down but it literally sank into the ground! That was a mighty breakthrough!
What had happened? The enemies position was moved back and he lost territory! We see the power of what was already done in the spirit manifest in the natural. It took some effort. It took some faith, it took some pain, but had they stopped on the sixth day because they did not see anything happen in the natural, they would have not experienced what they did.

That is why on my the seventh time around my territory God said don’t pray but Praise! I began to praise God and give him thanks for the victory! And in the spirit He allowed me to see the neighbourhood from above. Around the blocks where we walked I saw trails of light, like a jet leaves in the sky. Light trails that went around the blocks we had walked. Where his children walked they left a trail of light!

In the word in Isa 9:2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

His light is shining through us, and we beginning to push the enemy back. In our community, our neighbourhoods, our streets and highways, the victory will come forth, but we need to push through, past the enemies defences and take his territory.. But we must push till we see the walls of the enemy come down before us!