Getting to your breakthrough......
So i got to work on Wednesday on time, as usual, and my friend called me to tell me about a very rough workout with her personal trainer from the day before. It was a workout that became very real, very spiritual. Let me tell you just a little about my friend. She is petite, but strong. Single mom, but not incapable. Loving, but also no one to play with. LOL! So she began her story by telling me about how she had to pull her trainer, who is not a small man in the least, 10 steps. My friend is about 120-130 lbs max. He was sitting on something and she had to pull him. Obviously, it was very difficult. But around step 8/9, he really began to get in her head. You know how trainers talk. Don't Give Up. You're Almost There. But he spoke deep. And since he has known her for many years, it was very personal. He related this pull and that she could not give up to different parts of her life.From her career aspirations. To her challenges being a single mom. To her frustrations dealing with the father of her beautiful girls. And everything he was saying to her in order to keep her motivated for those last couple of steps, she was feeling the exact opposite. She wanted to just drop the ropes that she was holding to pull him and quit! He was too heavy. It was too much. She couldn't pull him. But he didn't let her stop. She told me about how tears started to stream down her face, but she was still holding back emotion. She felt the lump in her throat and could do nothing about it. By the time the workout was over, she had tears and she was pretty mad at her trainer. For getting in her head. For telling her about the reality of her feelings. Really, she was pulling her card. I imagine it would be uncomfortable for anyone. I know if it was me, I would have been boo-hooing away. For the physical AND the emotional side of it.
Immediately, I knew that she was on the verge of a breakthrough. She had so much going on with the father of her children. Her own career aspirations that were not lining up the way she thought. Figuring out what was going on with one of her children having hard fears lately. Just so many things all at once. I kept trying to tell her, there is something big about to happen, and all she had to do was find that one step that she needed to take in order to release that blessing! I had no worry or sadness in me! I only had a great excitement and expectation to see when the breakthrough was going to happen! I think my own excitement, actually got her a little more excited also. We talked for a while and as God spoke to me, i'd relay those messages to her. The one that popped up most was when she was talking about these things that worry her to much. And you could tell in her voice that she was nervous, fearful, anxious, everything. And I heard God say "Fear/Worry can't live with Faith" So in the middle of her words, I just spit that out. She asked Huh? Like she didn't catch all i said since i said it so abruptly. And i repeated it. And she says, "Well, it's not fear though. It's more of an anxiety!" and all i could say was "Girl! Same thing! It still can't live with Faith! And i'm only telling you what God told me to tell you! You can't argue with Him!" and we giggled, and she tried to get around the statement once more before saying "Girl i can't stand you!" and we laughed more. She began to understand what God was trying to say. We ended up having to get off the phone, we were both AT WORK of course. But throughout the day, we would text and message each other and I really had so much excitement in me that i even had to take a quick lap around the cubes in my work area! I just couldn't stop giggling with excitement! I would send her messages from church to keep her inspired and focused to be able to get to her breakthrough. I prayed for her. (We couldn't pray together because we work in different cities.) The next day, she was still feeling the same. We went through the day, and she was starting go get down on herself about WHEN. When would God handle all her worries. When would she see some relief in her life. When, When, When.... and all i heard was "Suddenly". All i could tell her was "Suddenly Girl. It will all begin to happen. Suddenly." For the rest of the day, I would send her messages from my church on MP 3. We listened to our gospel music (we both love music). And made it through another day. On Friday morning, I accidentally slept in later than my normal. I woke up at 6 instead of 530 am. So i missed my personal prayer/worship time. I was feeding my dog, and i got on my computer to open up my YouTube page and run my list of worship songs. I figured that I can at least have my worship time while i feed my dog. When i got my laptop up, i realized i had kept my email open the night before. For some reason i didn't close it, i just opened another tab for the YouTube. So i did, and as i was walking to the other side of the room to check on my dog, i heard a "Ping" on my laptop. It was my friend. She was up very early and apparently she was reading. She emailed me something that was so great to wake up to:
Immediately, I knew that she was on the verge of a breakthrough. She had so much going on with the father of her children. Her own career aspirations that were not lining up the way she thought. Figuring out what was going on with one of her children having hard fears lately. Just so many things all at once. I kept trying to tell her, there is something big about to happen, and all she had to do was find that one step that she needed to take in order to release that blessing! I had no worry or sadness in me! I only had a great excitement and expectation to see when the breakthrough was going to happen! I think my own excitement, actually got her a little more excited also. We talked for a while and as God spoke to me, i'd relay those messages to her. The one that popped up most was when she was talking about these things that worry her to much. And you could tell in her voice that she was nervous, fearful, anxious, everything. And I heard God say "Fear/Worry can't live with Faith" So in the middle of her words, I just spit that out. She asked Huh? Like she didn't catch all i said since i said it so abruptly. And i repeated it. And she says, "Well, it's not fear though. It's more of an anxiety!" and all i could say was "Girl! Same thing! It still can't live with Faith! And i'm only telling you what God told me to tell you! You can't argue with Him!" and we giggled, and she tried to get around the statement once more before saying "Girl i can't stand you!" and we laughed more. She began to understand what God was trying to say. We ended up having to get off the phone, we were both AT WORK of course. But throughout the day, we would text and message each other and I really had so much excitement in me that i even had to take a quick lap around the cubes in my work area! I just couldn't stop giggling with excitement! I would send her messages from church to keep her inspired and focused to be able to get to her breakthrough. I prayed for her. (We couldn't pray together because we work in different cities.) The next day, she was still feeling the same. We went through the day, and she was starting go get down on herself about WHEN. When would God handle all her worries. When would she see some relief in her life. When, When, When.... and all i heard was "Suddenly". All i could tell her was "Suddenly Girl. It will all begin to happen. Suddenly." For the rest of the day, I would send her messages from my church on MP 3. We listened to our gospel music (we both love music). And made it through another day. On Friday morning, I accidentally slept in later than my normal. I woke up at 6 instead of 530 am. So i missed my personal prayer/worship time. I was feeding my dog, and i got on my computer to open up my YouTube page and run my list of worship songs. I figured that I can at least have my worship time while i feed my dog. When i got my laptop up, i realized i had kept my email open the night before. For some reason i didn't close it, i just opened another tab for the YouTube. So i did, and as i was walking to the other side of the room to check on my dog, i heard a "Ping" on my laptop. It was my friend. She was up very early and apparently she was reading. She emailed me something that was so great to wake up to:
Jesus Turns Your ‘Hopeless End’ into ‘Endless Hope’
In whatever situation you find yourself right now, what are you expecting God to do? Some of you aren’t expecting him to do anything. But God works in your life according to your expectation. That’s called faith!
Paul knew this. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 1:9-10, “This happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us … and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us” (NIV).
This is phase 6: deliverance.
The purpose of the dead-end is to teach you to trust in God. Why does God let things get so bad and so out of control? So he can force you to learn to trust in him instead of trusting in your own ingenuity and cleverness.
What’s the promise when you trust God? He has delivered you, he will deliver you, and he will continue to deliver you. When God delivers you in this last phase, he uses three different kinds of deliverance:
1. God uses circumstantial deliverance. Sometimes God miraculously alters the circumstance, and the Red Sea splits. That will happen many times in your life, but it’s not going to happen all the time.
2. God uses personal deliverance. Instead of changing the circumstance, God changes you from the inside. You get a new dream, a new vision, a new attitude, and a new perspective.
3. God’s ultimate deliverance is Heaven. God has not promised to remove all of your pain in this world or solve every one of your problems. Because we are on Earth, there is pain and sorrow and suffering. The ultimate deliverance will be one day in Heaven where there will be no pain, no sorrow, no suffering, and no heartache.
There is only one way to get to Heaven. Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). When you’re at a dead-end, Jesus can take that hopeless end and turn it into an endless hope.
Are you at a dead-end? I invite you to take that problem, that situation, and your own life and give them to Jesus Christ.
In whatever situation you find yourself right now, what are you expecting God to do? Some of you aren’t expecting him to do anything. But God works in your life according to your expectation. That’s called faith!
Paul knew this. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 1:9-10, “This happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us … and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us” (NIV).
This is phase 6: deliverance.
The purpose of the dead-end is to teach you to trust in God. Why does God let things get so bad and so out of control? So he can force you to learn to trust in him instead of trusting in your own ingenuity and cleverness.
What’s the promise when you trust God? He has delivered you, he will deliver you, and he will continue to deliver you. When God delivers you in this last phase, he uses three different kinds of deliverance:
1. God uses circumstantial deliverance. Sometimes God miraculously alters the circumstance, and the Red Sea splits. That will happen many times in your life, but it’s not going to happen all the time.
2. God uses personal deliverance. Instead of changing the circumstance, God changes you from the inside. You get a new dream, a new vision, a new attitude, and a new perspective.
3. God’s ultimate deliverance is Heaven. God has not promised to remove all of your pain in this world or solve every one of your problems. Because we are on Earth, there is pain and sorrow and suffering. The ultimate deliverance will be one day in Heaven where there will be no pain, no sorrow, no suffering, and no heartache.
There is only one way to get to Heaven. Jesus said, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). When you’re at a dead-end, Jesus can take that hopeless end and turn it into an endless hope.
Are you at a dead-end? I invite you to take that problem, that situation, and your own life and give them to Jesus Christ.
--This is what I read this morning. If this hasn't been God, I don't know what has
So it really spoke to her. When we got to work, she had messaged me (well, idk if i messaged her first, or she messaged me first) and we were talking about how she woke up early and just prayed and worshiped God. And how she really felt good. And she was able to find a little peace and make a decision regarding one of her daughters. We eventually were talking about music for a minute. She was telling me about how she couldn't find a certain song by Mali Music. But that Travis Greene kept coming up. I asked her "You talking about the song Intentional?" She said yea who sings that?? I said Travis Greene. She said that the song had been in her head since she woke up and she just couldn't get it out of her head. So we searched and found a good copy for her to listen to. Well, long story short, we make it through what to me felt like a VERY LONG Friday. LOL! After work, I did my usual, turned up my gospel music as i drive through the parking garage. I always figure if God can speak through music, this is one place that really needs him, so i blast it. :-) I drove to my daughters daycare to pick her up and went home. I was home about 5 or 6 minutes when my cell phone rings and I see that it was my friend. We don't get a chance to talk very much over the phone off work hours because our lives get pretty busy after work. So i was a little surprised when i saw her picture ringer pop up on my phone. Apparently she got her breakthrough!!!!! She was late leaving her office and it just so happened that she received a phone call at her office that she was NOT expecting just yet! She had some drama happen between her and the father of her children and he was insisting that charges be brought to her, and the whole ordeal was another problem weighing heavily on her mind and heart. Well, after court 2 months ago, she was given probation but she had to check in in 2 months. That would have been this month. She couldn't come to court, so she already had it arranged for her attorney to come to court for her. Well it was her attorney calling to let her know that all her charges were dismissed!!!!! She was so shocked in that phone call that she couldn't figure out what the word "Dismissed" meant in this situation!!! She kept asking "OK, so when do i have to come to court again??" and her attorney was proud to tell her "NEVER! You are done! This doesn't exist for you! It was all dismissed!!" and when she told me all this i thought i was about to explode!!! All i could do was yell "Praise God Girl! There's Your Breakthrough! Doesn't My God Pull Through For You!!!! Look At HIM Working For You Girl!!!!" Neither of us could stop laughing and praising Him! It was just so awesome!!!! And she says "You were right! There was a breakthrough there and I just had to stop and let God handle it! I just needed to ask for HIS help!". What an amazing breakthrough. I still am smiling.
The point of this entry is to let everyone know. Sometimes you are going through a lot. You feel like Job. "What else can happen to me?" And you always hear people tell you "He will never give you more than you can bear." and it really does sound to cliche. You've heard it a million times. But sometimes, those struggles are allowed because he is looking for something from you. You're world will not implode. He will not allow it. He is looking for something from you. Can be a special prayer. A Sacrificial Fast. Maybe even your most special and/or intimate worship. But you may be at the Point of a Breakthrough. You don't know what's on the other side of that breakthrough, but i promise that when you make it through, you will be so much better and stronger, and prayerfully Spiritually Stronger in Faith, than you were before.
I pray a Blessed Blessed Day full of love for all of you.....
CG
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