REALIZE IN EVERY PROMISE OF GOD IS THE SEED FOR YOUR BREAKTHROUGH!

Today, we want to look at the second principle to receiving your BREAKTHROUGH - “REALIZE THAT IN EVERY PROMISE OF GOD IS THE SEED FOR YOUR BREAKTHROUGH!”

One of the reasons why many people do not experience breakthroughs in their lives is because they don’t know that the Word of God is the seed for the breakthrough they need. The truth is that breakthroughs are based on God’s Word. In times of need, if you will cling tightly to the Word of God, you will experience great breakthroughs in your life.

When we talk about the Word of God, we are talking about (i) The written Word which is the Logos found on the pages of the Scriptures, and (ii) The Living Word, Jesus of Nazareth. The Living Word is the Word made flesh. It is the Logos putting on human flesh (Jn. 1:1, 14).

In the written Word, God reveals His great love for you and His desire to meet to all your needs. In His written Word, God has given you many promises which cover every aspect of your life. These promises are His “breakthrough provisions” for you.

Through these breakthrough provisions, God has provided for the healing of your body (Isa. 53:4-5; 1 Pet. 2:24); finances – He has promised to supply all your need accord to His riches in glory, and to open the windows of Heaven and pour out a blessing on you (Mal. 3:10; Phil. 4:19; Lk. 6:38; 2 Cor. 9:6); family (Ps. 112:1-3); when you are lonely, fearful or discouraged (Heb. 13:5-6; Isa. 41:10); when you are faced on every side by problems and there seems to be no way out and no hope in sight  (Matt. 21:21-22).

In the Living Word, God reveals Himself. Colossians 1:15 says, “Jesus is the image of the invisible God.”

Hebrews 1:3 says, “Jesus is the express image of His Person.”

The power for the fulfillment of your breakthrough is not in you, or in the preacher, or in anyone else. It is contained in the promises that God has made to you in His Word. When you receive this revelation into your spirit-man, believe it, and act on it, your story will surely change.

God has a purpose for every Word He speaks. And He has already spoken the Word to meet to all your predicaments.

Within every one of these promises is the power for its own fulfillment. The same creative power that made the heavens and the earth is contained in every promise God has given to you in His Word. This is what makes the Word of God the most powerful force upon the face of the earth. Its power cannot be limited by anything.

The power that makes God to be God is contained in His Word. (1) This power is GREAT (Acts 4:33); (2) This power is MIGHTY (Eph. 1:19); (3) This power is EXCEEDING GREAT (Eph. 1:19); (4) This power is EXCELLENT (2 Cor. 4:7); (5) This power is ETERNAL (Rom. 1:20); (6) This power is GLORIOUS (Col. 1:11); (7) This power is DIVINE (2 Pet. 1:3), and (8) This power is UNLIMITED (Lk. 1:37).

God’s Word is the only thing in the entire universe that is not subject to change. Your circumstances are subject to change. But God does not change (Mal. 3:6; Heb. 13:8). God’s Word has no margin for error. It is “infallible.”

A typical example of the efficacy of the Word is seen in the problems Elisha faced during the terrible famine in Samaria (2 Ki. 6:24-33).

To the natural eye Elisha’s predicament was impossible, yet he faced the terrible conditions of the famine, and the king’s messenger who came to cut off his head, with a Word from God (2 Ki. 7:1-2).

Elisha faced his predicament with courage, confidence, and a simple loyalty to God and His Word. He knew that the power for the breakthrough he needed was contained in God’s Word concerning his predicament.

What was the very Word God gave to Elisha to meet to his predicament? In 2 Kings 7:1 Elisha said, “...Thus saith the Lord, Tomorrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.”

These words coming from God through the lips of His servant, Elisha, challenged the existing circumstances.

Today, the Word of God will challenge that sickness in your body. It will challenge that poverty in your life. It will challenge that reproach in your life. It will challenge that stagnation in your business or career.  It will challenge whatever mountain you are facing right now.

In Mark 11:23 Jesus said, “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.”

These Words were not based on presumption, hope, Elisha’s intuition, or his ability. The Word was not based on anything Elisha had seen with his natural eyes. The circumstances were still the same; people were still starving and dying.

But here is the point: Elisha spoke forth the Word based on his confidence in the miracle-working God. He knew that what he was saying sounded ridiculous to the king and his men. But Elisha also knew that whatever God promised would come to pass because if God said it that settles it (Ps. 119:89; Isa. 55:11).

Just as God’s Word came forth to meet the needs of the people of Samaria, that same Word is coming forth to meet to your needs today, in Jesus’ Name. His Word is full of His promises to you. Therefore, regardless of how distressing or how impossible your situation may seem, there is a particular Word from God to challenge that your need.

The Words of God that came out through the mouth of Elisha had the power for its own fulfillment. They were not Elisha’s words. They were words from God. Elisha was just a vessel God used to speak forth His Word to meet to the needs the king and the people of Samaria were facing.

The fulfillment of the words Elisha spoke did not depend on the ability of the king to believe or even Elisha’s great faith. The Word from God possessed enough power within itself to produce the breakthrough that was needed.

Here was a great need that could not be met by natural means. It required a miracle, a supernatural intervention from God. God gave Elisha a word to meet to (challenge) that predicament. Elisha spoke forth the word and the result was a breakthrough.

Therefore, if you have a need that cannot be met by natural means, God has a spoken Word to challenge that very need and all He wants you to do is to believe that He is not a liar (Num. 23:19) – that what He has spoken will come to pass.

In Isaiah 55:11 God said, “So shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth: it shall not return unto Me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.”

Psalm 107:20 says, “He sent His Word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.”

So, all you need to do in your situation is to take that very Word God has spoken concerning your predicament, and with simple loyalty to God, speak forth that Word, and your breakthrough will show up. Right here you are acknowledging that if God has spoken a Word, it will surely come to pass.

God’s promises are not dependent on your ability to believe. If you don’t have faith to believe, that does not affect the efficacy of God’s Word in any way (Rom. 3:3-4). The only thing is that your lack of faith will hinder the anointing you need for your situation from flowing in your direction. So, it is not that the Word of God is not powerful, but your unbelief has stopped it from doing what it is meant to do in your life.

Do you think that the king of Samaria had the faith to believe that in a city where people had resorted to cannibalism because of the severe famine that was in the land, that the very next day somehow they would have enough grain to be selling it in the gate of Samaria? Of course not! Yet God’s promise came to pass precisely on schedule.

The same creative power that enabled God to say, “Let there be light and there was light,” that same creative power is still in His Word. That is why when God’s promise is received by a person who is bound by a crippling disease on a wheelchair, there is creative power in that promise to straighten out his limbs and enable him to jump out of that wheelchair completely healed.

That is why when a deaf person receives God’s promise into his heart, the creative power of the Almighty God is there to create new ear drums if necessary to restore his hearing.

That is why when a blind person receives God’s promise of healing into his heart, that omnipotent power in that Word can create new eyes, or repair the damaged parts.

That was why when Mary received God’s promise concerning Jesus in her heart she said, “Be it unto me according to Your Word.”

When she said this, the creative power in that Word caused that Word to fertilize the ovum in her fallopian tube and conception took place immediately.

Just like Virgin Mary, as you receive the promise of God concerning your finances, health etc. in your spirit, the creative power that is resident in that Word will cause that Word to fertilize your finances, health etc. and cause to come into manifestation the desired results.

When the Word of God takes root within your spirit-man, the faith and power are released and the promise of God is fulfilled in your life.

As in the story of Elisha and the people of Samaria, or the story of Virgin Mary, the breakthrough was within the power of the Word itself. It was in, “Thus says the Lord.” It was in, “It is written.”

Mary simply yielded herself to God and said to the angel, “Though I do not understand it, though I cannot comprehend it, be it unto me even as thou has spoken” (Lk. 1:38).

Therefore, no matter what your need may be, just stand firm on God’s promise to you and you will see the Word come to pass right before your very eyes.

 

Watch out for the next edition of Good News from the Pulpit!

·         Your friend, I .I. MADUBUNYI (Senior Pastor, HOG).                           22.01.2017