THE RELEVANCE OF PATIENCE IN THE MANIFESTATION OF YOUR BREAKTHROUGH!

Every relationship with God is by FAITH. But because of ignorance of this truth, many Christians fail to receive their breakthroughs because they give up so easily even when their breakthrough is just right at the corner. So today, we are going to look at “The Relevance of Patience in the Manifestation of your Breakthrough!”

Everything in the Kingdom of God operates by FAITH. Just as Dollar is the currency of America, faith is the currency of the Kingdom of God. Without Dollar you can’t buy anything in America. In the same way, without FAITH you can’t obtain anything from Heaven.

Why is faith this important? It is because without faith you cannot please God. Hebrews 11:6 says, “But without faith it is impossible to please Him…”

But faith may not always produce the expected result immediately. So you need patience to wait until that which you believe God for manifests in the physical realm.

The Bible says, “For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward His name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through (1) FAITH AND (2) PATIENCE inherit the promises. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise” (Heb. 6:10-16).

Here is the critical point about faith: The very moment you believe God’s Word with your whole heart (inward man), it is settled in the realm of the spirit. Then the manifestation in the physical follows. The period between the time it was settled in the spirit realm and the time of the manifestation of the expected breakthrough in the physical realm is an undefined period that requires PATIENCE to pull through.

Yes, that promise God made to you in His Word has not yet come to pass in the physical realm, but without fail, it will come to pass at His own time because in His own time He makes all things beautiful (Eccl. 3:11).

Beloved, since you have believed and handed that matter over to God, the manifestation of the promise God made to you in His Word will surely come to pass.

One thing we must remark is that faith works with times and seasons: “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven” (Eccl. 3:1-2).

However, it is not in your place to know the times and the seasons the Father will bring to pass that which He had promised.

In Acts 1:6-7 the Bible says, “When they therefore were come together, they asked of Him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? 7 And Jesus said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power.”

Your own part of the deal is just to believe and then have patience. From the time you believed what God promised concerning your case to the time God brings it to pass in the physical realm may be quite a while. During this period you require “PATIENCE.”

The knowledge of this truth will help you “never to give up” in your situation that appears to have lasted for quite a while.

Faith can get the job done only at God’s own appointed time. There is nothing you can do to force God to change His appointed time.

Habakkuk said, “I will climb up to my watchtower and stand at my guard post. There I will WAIT to see what the LORD will say to me and how He will answer my complaint” (Hab. 2:1-2, NLT).

There is a time God has appointed for the manifestation of your breakthrough. The time and the season for the manifestation of your breakthrough are in the hands of God. That breakthrough is for an appointed time.

“For the vision (the promise) is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry… 4….but the just shall live by his faith” (Hab. 2:3-4, KJV).

Faith can cause the breakthrough to manifest only at the time God has appointed. Therefore, do not draw back in unbelief. Don’t give up. Just be patient! It will surely come to pass!

In Hebrews 10:38-39 God said, “Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.”

Faith speaks at the end. It becomes a substance at the end. It becomes tangible at the end (Hab. 2:3-4).

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb. 11:1).

The blessings of faith come at the end. “Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls” (1 Pet. 1:9).

One of the blessings of faith is that it will make you victorious in all instances (Mk. 4:35-40). Faith will keep your heart at peace in the midst of a storm.

For instance, in the face of danger, Jesus was sleeping. And the same day, when the even was come, Jesus said to His disciples, “Let us pass over unto the other side. 36 And when they had sent away the multitude, they took Him even as He was in the ship. And there were also with Him other little ships. 37 And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full. 38 And Jesus was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake Him, and say unto Him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?

39 And He arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm. 40 And He said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith?” (Mk. 4:35-40)

Here is the point: If you have believed the promise of God concerning that your predicament, you should join Jesus in that sleep.

However, faith alone cannot get the job done. Faith and patience must work together for your breakthrough to materialize in the physical realm. It is only through faith and patience that you can inherit whatever promises God has made concerning your breakthrough (situation).

You must therefore, patiently endure before you can obtain the promise God made to you in His Word concerning a particular issue in your life for which you need a breakthrough.

For instance, by faith Abraham was credited for righteousness because he believed God. But through patience he waited for 25 years before the promise of Isaac came to pass.

Joseph was in prison for 2 years before he eventually came to the palace in Egypt.

Faith instructs the people of God to WAIT on the LORD. “Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD” (Ps. 27:14).

God said, “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint” (Isa. 40:31).

In Psalm 40:1-3 the psalmist said, “I waited patiently for the LORD…”

What does it mean to “wait on the LORD?” Waiting on the Lord is bringing your timetable in sync with His. You try not to rush ahead of Him or linger too far behind Him.

The Psalmist said, “Be still in the presence of the LORD, and wait patiently for Him to act…” (Ps. 37:7).

And you ask, “How long should I wait?” Wait as long as God is working on your case.

“But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you” (1 Pet. 5:10).

What is patience? According to the Bible, patience is a form of perseverance and forbearance that allows you to respond to frustrating circumstances with grace and self-control.

Patience is not merely a personality trait but a by-product of the presence and work of the Holy Spirit in the heart and mind of the believer.

Patience is the capacity to bear pain or trials without complaint, the ability to forbear under severe provocation, and the self-control that keeps one from acting rashly even through suffering opposition or adversity.

Patience is evidence of strength of character. Enduring patience flows from strong character. “Patient endurance is what you need now, so you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that He has promised” (Heb. 10:36).

Patience is not putting up with the trouble. Patience is outlasting the trouble. It is sticking to what you knew before the trial came. Whatever the Word of God you were standing on before the temptation came, keep standing on it until the expected result manifests in the physical. That is PATIENCE!

Don’t let the conditions you are going through change your position concerning the very Word you have been standing on. Your belief and confession should remain the same no matter what.

Your attitude should be, “I have been standing on this very Word, and I will keep standing on it no matter what. My situation can’t change the Word of God. So, if I hold on to the Word of God, it will surely change my situation and put smiles on my face.”

Don’t let what you see or feel change you. Stay on, stick to the truth you already know. Do not let anything influence you otherwise. Do not give up! Your breakthrough is on the way.

Patience will cancel fear from your heart and give peace to your heart (2 Tim. 1:7).

“Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them” (Ps. 119:165).

“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee” (Isa. 26:3).

Patience renews the strength of the people of faith so that they can hope against hope no matter what. Abraham had such an experience.

“As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations, before Him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.

19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: 20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21 And being fully persuaded that, what He had promised, He was able also to perform. 22 And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness” (Rom. 4:17-22).

Therefore, you lady that is saying, “I have reached menopause, how possible is it that I can still have a baby?” I advise you to learn from the case of Sarah and Abraham.

                                                                                     

Patience will protect you from unbelief. Patience will help you reach the end of faith.

Patience will help you possess your soul (blessings, breakthroughs, miracles). “In your patience possess ye your souls” (Lk. 21:19).

Faith unfailingly needs patience to complete your job. Through faith and patience you will receive your breakthroughs.

Sister, through faith and patience you will still marry, etc. Brother, through faith and patience you will still marry.

Through faith and patience that reproach in your life shall be no more (Examples: Hannah, Sarah, Elizabeth).

So, no matter what you are going through, do not give up because it shall be done at God’s own appointed time and God will hasten His Word to make it happen in your case.

If you would remain the same in the midst of trials or while your faith is being tried, you will be complete lacking nothing. Continue to say the same thing. Say, “I have been standing, and I will keep standing.” “I have been believing, and I will keep believing no matter what is happening.”

Hebrews 6:12 says, “That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through (1) faith and (2) patience inherit the promises.”

When you are standing on the promise of God patiently, you stay there forever, because God will never fail you (Heb. 13:5). Patience is out there in the field to ensure that the blessing you are believing God for won’t be lost when it eventually manifests.

You believe God for a new job so that you can also be a blessing. You believe God for healing; you believe God for a husband, a wife, you believe God for the fruit of the womb, you believe God for a breakthrough in a certain area of your life, just be patient with God and stay in faith. Staying in faith is that you stay there believing God one month, 6 months, one year without giving up.

• Your friend, I. I. MADUBUNYI (Head Pastor)                      Feb. 12, 2017.