Standing on the Edge of a Breakthrough!

Many of you are standing on the edge of a breakthrough right now, but you can't see it because you have been blinded by circumstance. I want you to understand that the darkness, anguish and pain that is in your life right now is real, but it is not your final reality. God is working in the midst of the darkness, heartache, and struggle to shape His masterpiece in your life. He is perfecting you through your pain. He is building spiritual aptitude through your anguish. He is developing character as you traverse the enigmatic conundrums that seem to plague your life. He is perfecting love through your loneliness (I know this one is a hard one to accept; trust me).

Make no mistake about it my friends, there can be no attainment of the promise without there first being an endurance of the process. The thing is not to become discouraged in the process, but to engage it with hope; understanding that God is about to perform a supernatural transformation in your life.

My great-grandfather was an uneducated man, at least by our standards; however, when it came to wisdom, it literally seethed from the pours of his skin. My geat-grandparents adopted as an infant and reared me in the Christian way, so in truth and in heart, they are my parents. When I evaluate all of the wisdom that my grandfather imparted into my life, the greatest piece of advice he ever gave me was simple. As we sat on the front porch, he said, "Son, as you engage life you will find yourself in one of three places; going into a storm, in a storm, or coming out of a storm...your responsibility while in the storm is simple, come out of the storm a better man than when you went in."

Well, how do you come out of the storm better than when you went in? You do it by surrendering to the movement of God as he shapes you through the hurt. By acquiescing to His will while He refines you through the heat of the purifying flame of distress. You come out better by resisting the seed of bitterness and anger. You come out better by understanding that many have traveled this road to greatness: 12 Beloved, do not be amazed and bewildered at the fiery ordeal which is taking place to test your quality, as though something strange (unusual and alien to you and your position) were befalling you.
13 But insofar as you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that when His glory [full of radiance and splendor] is revealed, you may also rejoice with triumph [exultantly]. (1 Pet. 4:12-13, AMP). This is simply the pathway to fulfilling your God-ordained destiny.

Yes, my friend you are at a "not so comfortable" place in your life, but do not despair, the God you serve specializes in the impossible and He is working your moment out for your blessing. ¹¹ For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome.~ Dr. Rick Wallace