Breakthrough 2009

This is the outline from the worship teams devotion Thursday night. I believe we are going to see God's people move to a different level this year in relationship with Jesus Christ.

We all have spirits that we battle with. God says despite what we fight with we have the victory in Christ. Rom 8: 36-37

1 John 5:3-5 Loving God means keeping his commandments. His commandments are not burdensome. For every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith. And who can win this battle against the world? Only those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God.

• Deut 30:15-18
  
  
  BREAKTHROUGH: (1)AN ACT OR INSTANCE OF BREAKING THROUGH AN OBSTRUCTION OR DEFENSIVE LINE; (2) A SUDDEN ADVANCE IN KNOWLEDGE OR TECHNIQUE. (Football illustration)
  
  
• We all have walls that have been built over the years that keep us from reaching the potential God knows we have.
  
  
  Some WALLS we need to breakthrough:
  
• Pride(Prov 13:10) “Its more about ME than GOD or ANYONE ELSE”
  The desire to be more attractive or important than others.
  
• Lust “My heart and mind is wrapped around ________”
  1. Excessive love or desire for someone or something else, to the point that God is rendered second in your heart.
  
• Fear (Heb 13:6) “They will hurt me”
  
• Envy “I want what he has”
  2. Desiring what someone else has. A perversion of this desire to the point that you have sorrow when other people experience good.
  
• Laziness “ Someone else will do it”
  3. An unwillingness to care. Apathy. The opposite of zeal, and this can be seen in the way we care about things that matter to God- basically an unwillingness to act.
  (Prov 13:4, 12:27, 18:9, 20:4 Rom 12:11)
  
  
  
  
  Jeremiah 29:11-14, “For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for Me wholeheartedly, you will find Me. I will be found by you,” says the Lord. “I will end your captivity and restore your fortunes. I will gather you out of the nations where I sent you and will bring you home again to your own land.”
  
  
  Two ways that I can breakthrough is:
  
• Pray(29:12)
  
• Seek(29:13)
  

God will….

• Restore to me what was taken from me (John 10:10)
  
• Set me free