I have been blogging about breakthrough.  This past two weeks we are seeing much more progress on our financing than we have seen for quite a while.   I believe this is because so many of you are praying for breakthrough!  Your prayers are making a difference.  Keep praying!!

If you are going through adversity, God could be preparing you for breakthrough in some area of your life.  Your Breakdowns Can Precede Your Breakthroughs!

Sometimes your breakdowns become the seed for the beginning of your breakthroughs. The adversity becomes the advancement and preparation needed for your transformation. Without breakthroughs in revelation and passion for what you are about to do, anything can hinder you. All breakthroughs begin to shift your perceptions, and fuel your passionate resolve. You are now passionately empowered to take risks, jump over hurdles, and break through the walls that would otherwise stop you or slow you down.

I feel that the adversity we have faced as we worked through our entitlement process has prepared us for the needed breakthrough in the area of financing.   The opposition has only served to strengthen our resolve.   We are at the moment of breakthrough!  

Josh 1:9: Yes, be bold and strong! Banish fear and doubt! For remember, the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” (TLB)

What an incredible statement this is! Be bold and strong! Banish fear and doubt. This is the statement God spoke to Joshua after the death of Moses. God was calling Joshua to be bold and strong and to enter the promises of God. Evidently, Joshua was walking in fear and doubt: fear of all the problems that were before him; fear and doubt of the battles that were ahead of him. Have you ever had fear, and then so much doubt that you could not make a simple decision? I think all of us have had this problem from time to time. Fear is the beginning of doubt, and doubt is the beginning of confusion. How can we conquer fear and doubt? What is required for breakthrough!

In the scripture above, God tells Joshua to “be” so he can “do”. We first must “be what we are to be” before we can “do what we need to do”.    There is no breakthrough without first being bold and strong, and then we can banish fear and doubt.

If I will allow it I will lose my hopes, my dreams, and my joy. They can be banished: they can be destroyed by two enemies called “fear” and “doubt”.  These enemies want to place me in a state of confusion, which would ultimately lead me into depression. 

To banish someone or something is to require them, by authority, to leave a country. This truth is unbelievable!  To be in agreement with fear and doubt is to speak death to our hopes and dreams. Instead of our hopes and dreams being “banished” from the country of our lives, we must banish fear and doubt from our borders.

We must be bold and strong. God is giving us revelation, and then permission, to do this. We are to walk in our authority to banish “fear” and “doubt” and say, “Be gone ‘fear’ and ‘doubt’ by the authority that has been given to me in the name of Jesus Christ.” Then, let’s use this same authority and say, “Hopes and dreams, be alive in my life. I refuse to be robbed of them. Fill the borders of my life from coast to coast: from the top of my head to the bottom of my soul.”

After Joshua banished fear and doubt, he was reminded that the Lord God was going to be with him wherever he went. Yes, Joshua was going into the land that God had promised, but he did not have to go before God was with him.  On the door of my office someone posted the verse Joshua 1:3 “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you.”

We need to banish fear and doubt.   We need to be bold and strong!   We are at the moment of breakthrough!!    Do not let go of your hopes and dreams, for God will accomplish His will in His time.

Be ready, He is speaking. Listen, He has a more excellent way for all of us, and His Kingdom will surely come, and will be done, through our lives, and to the glory of God.  2012 is the “Year of Opportunity”.