While waiting for a Spiritual Breakthrough…
You want the truth? Here’s the truth.
We are in a battle.
The battle is here, active, and ready to destroy you and me.
Now what are you going to do about it?
What are you going to do when God tells you to wait?
Did you know sometimes in battle sometimes God tells us to be still and just wait?
We don’t understand it, we don’t always know why, and most likely never will but sometimes that is the greatest weapon we have. To be still and wait, in the midst of the battle. To not move or waver. Nor to not become fearful or doubtful but to just wait.
But even in the waiting till the battle is won and over through the mercy and grace of God, there should be movement on our part to show we believe. That we stand strong in what God is doing in the spiritual realm of it all.
“The battle is the Lord’s, but that doesn’t give us permission to stay inactive.”
Staying inactive keeps us away from seeing all that God is doing in the midst of the mess.
Being still and staying inactive are completely different.
Being still is not moving into directions we are not supposed to. Making decisions that can cancel out all that God is working on or even speaking doubt against what we know God has promised.
When my husband and I were buying our first home, the one thing our realtor and banker repeatedly told us was to not touch our bank accounts for forty five days. No movement at all. We withdrew the cash we would need for groceries, gas, and spending money immediately for the next six weeks till our home was closed on.
We had to use wisdom with every penny and decision we made for our future.
The only transactions that were permitted to go through was our monthly bills that were automatically taken out, otherwise we were to just sit still. We had to trust that by doing this the loan would close promptly and in our favor. We were given instructions and all though it seemed uneasy at moments thinking our cash envelope was about to empty with two babies in diapers and unexpected payments coming up; (when buying a house it seems like all of a sudden things from years ago pop when you run credit for your first home), we had to be still.
Many days of frustration came up between us. When one was about to doubt that the home we wanted to raise our children in, the other had to remind them God was in it. When fear was about to overwhelm that we would have no money to help the first few months in the new home, we had to remind each other the transition was in God’s favor which is ultimately in our favor. We grew a lot in our faith during that time of wait.
I think Kristina explains our hope in God so eloquently in her post,
“Your waiting is never wasted. And any time you choose to lean into the Lord, your leaning will give meaning to your season. “
Our time waiting for the Lord to deliver us to our spiritual breakthrough is never wasted.
It is where we gain insight, understanding, endurance, and so much more than we can ever learn without Him.
We build trust, character, and hope to a new level. Our willingness to wait on understanding now grows to wisdom in the Lord.
What can sometimes seem like a long wait to our Spiritual breakthrough, whether it’s asking for healing in our illnesses, comfort to our grief, deliverance from a taunted temptation, or a breakthrough in our marriage, the waiting not wasted. God is not a God of void. He is a God of fulfillment and Faithfulness.
Do you believe this in your waiting for Spiritual Breakthrough?
If you are interested in learning more about what we can do in the waiting for breakthrough, I urge you to check out the Salt & Light Feature: What to do when believing in a breakthrough.
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The other day one of the characters on a show I was watching started dancing around her kitchen cooking breakfast. It made my heart ache. I wanted so badly to be full of life like that, without feeling sick and horrible from my chronic illness.
Then He spoke and said: ‘Write down scenarios of who you want to be when you come out of this.’
So I pictured myself dancing around my kitchen and wrote it down. Singing without a locked up stomach. Running down a trail feeling light and energetic…the list goes on. Then I thought, ‘Will I still run and dance and sing even when the healing doesn’t come the way I want it to?’ …
Friend, sometimes we have to know who we want to be on the mountaintop so that when conflict comes in the valley, we’ll respond like we’re already there. This is how we start BECOMING the person we’ve always wanted to be.
So if you’re in a season of waiting, I want to encourage you today! Who do you want to be when the miracle DOES come? will you be faithful to pull that vision down from your future and into your reality NOW?
‘The one who manages the little he has been given with faithfulness and integrity
will be promoted and considered trustworthy to receive more.’
Luke 16:10
Because waiting on God is leaning into God…it is refined focus. It’s hopeful anticipation.
It is not an activity…it’s PARTICIPATION. And when we actively choose to prepare as if we’ve already stepped into the promise we’re believing for, we invite the Holy Spirit to breathe on our efforts and make them supernaturally effective for the Kingdom.
Your waiting is never wasted. And any time you choose to lean into the Lord, your leaning will give meaning to your season.
Here are a few tips for what to do when you’re believing for breakthrough in the waiting:
Continue Spiritual Breakthrough post here.
I too am waiting. That we don’t get what we ask for instantly, places us in a position of total dependence on God. Though painful. He is teaching and enabling me to be still, trust and wait.
Beautiful Carmen. I am learning this lesson little by little. God has been revealing Himsekf to me layer by layer as I wait for answered prayers in so many areas of my life. Thank you for really digging into the meaning of being still.