Breakthrough Faith

UV 763/10,000 Breakthrough Faith One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. The king will pass through before them, the Lord at their head. Micah 2 v 13 It is the Lord who gives us one breakthrough after another in different areas of our lives. Even if the obstacles in our way are like bronzen gates, He will create an opening for us. He is the path breaker. We only need to follow Him, to lean on Him for wisdom and understanding. The young David might have seemed impudent and imprudent to offer to fight Goliath. But, he knew that he was not fighting alone. He had joined the winning side. He went out against Goliath with faith in the God of Israel. His experience of killing a lion and a bear as he attended his duties as a shepherd, produced the confidence and courage that he can face a foe that is stronger and more powerful. His natural courage produced faith and His faith produced wisdom. He listened to the Lord’s counsel not to fight Goliath with sword and armour. The Lord goes ahead of us to clear the way. The enemy of our souls should not get a foothold in our minds. The first strongholds He breaks down are the ones inside us –our own entrenched attitudes. Even as He dealt powerfully to break the yoke of slavery of the Egyptians over Israel, He also spent considerable time and effort to deal with the faithless attitudes of the Israelites, to wean them away from their weaknesses, to deal with their fears and lust. Other leaders on account of their fear of death always sent people ahead of them to clear the way for them. Jesus is the only One who went up before us to prepare the way for us to enter the Kingdom of God. He took the narrow way and broke through the narrow gate of death and provided the way of salvation for all mankind. He released us from the captivity of death, the grave and the clutches of sin. We are no longer slaves of death and sinful desire but we share His kingly power and authority in this life as in the life to come. This is the ultimate breakthrough that we need. The other breakthroughs, achievements, successes, hopes that we long for are minor and incidental issues in comparison with eternal life. We can combat a legion of uncertainties with the one certainty that Christ died for us and rose again in order to ransom us from the wages of sin-death. As we acknowledge the headship of Jesus, He will give us success and breakthroughs in the issues we face in this lifetime. We need not panic when things seem to be going wrong. We need not be in awe of the dimensions of the problems and challenges we are currently facing. The Lord is not only going ahead of us to pilot us on the paths of life and salvation, He is also holding up the rear. He has boxed us in like in a Roman phalanx with His care and protection. No strategy of the enemy can make headway against us. When he attacks us in one direction, the Lord will make him flee in seven directions. No arrow can penetrate the shield of our faith. No weapon can blunt the edges of our sword, the Word in our hand. Truly, the odds cannot be against us when God is with us. Prateep V Philip