MY FRIENDS, ARE WE JUST ONE PRAISE AWAY FROM OUR BREAKTHROUGH?

Oct. 3, 2016

MY FRIENDS, ARE WE JUST ONE PRAISE AWAY FROM OUR BREAKTHROUGH?

“I am just one praise from my breakthrough I’m just one praise away from my blessing. So I must reach down inside to the depths of my soul and bring forth a right now praise that’s already in me. For it’s my praise that produces fresh oil. And it’s the oil of the anointing that destroys every yoke [that so easily besets me”] (Jonathan Nelson, Right Now Praise) So daily we must praise God because His anointing Is already in us. And at times we are on the rough side of the mountain. But, through our faith and endurance, we are only one breakthrough away from our blessing.

And the god of this world, with all of his arsenal of mass destruction is trying to get us to fall, but “it’s the oil of the anointing that destroys every yoke” and through our faith gives us the strength and the endurance to overcome him because “He who is in you [and I] is greater than he who is in the world.” 1 John 4:4 (NKJV) So we must endure my friends.

The prize of life eternal only goes to the one who endures to the end and though we are driven to a point we have never been before or ever thought we would be at, here we are. So we must make split second decision while remaining focused on the journey as we move from one destination to the next as our strength is renewed daily in the love grace and mercies of God.

In Joshua 2:1-15 (NKJV) Moses is now dead, and God has chosen a new leader Joshua, who sends out two spies to “go, view the land, especially Jericho.” Which is their entry into the promise land. But it must be conquered first by human might, along with the help of God’s Spirit because “faith without works is dead,” So they went and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab, and lodged there.”

She tells them “I know that the Lord has given you the land, terror has fallen on us, and all the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of you. For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt and how you destroyed the kings on the other side of the Jordan.

She pleads; swear to me by the Lord, since I have shown you kindness, that you also will show kindness to me and my father’s house,…and spare my family and deliver us from death.” Her request was granted and from the rough side of the mountain as a harlot and on the brink of being annihilated by the Israeli army, to being of the ancestry of Jesus Christ Himself. Oh the goodness of God.

My friends, when those Spies came to her house, at that moment she was just “one praise away from a breakthrough.” A harlot is not an easy life to live. She had heard of the living God and knew she wanted herself and her family to be a-part of what Israel had and because she was sincere, God granted her request which then allowed “His anointing to destroy every yoke” that had become a part of her life.

My friends, God knocks, He pleads as that still small voice tells us, that same anointing of His Spirit will also destroy every yoke of sin that “so easily besets us.” But time is running out, and God will say it is finished. And He will enter the clouds above and His reward will be with Him, “and He will give to each person according to what they have done. [Or not done]” Rev. 22:12 (NIV)