The breakthrough is coming.
Strategy. Breaking through hostile situations…
Deb Peacock
Recently the Lord has been talking about breakthrough and he said, “the breakthrough IS coming. You are not out of the woods yet.” He is speaking hope to hold your head up and remind you that you need to stay engaged in the process. Breakthrough will come. This breakthrough is for HOSTILE situations and while walking through the woods of this, each step matters because each step contributes to the direction that this goes in. The Lord has the way forward where you can move confidently and be free from the stress of the potential outcome. Regardless of outcome you can have reconciliation and be free from this and free to move on.
HOLD YOUR POST
The Lord is reminding you in this situation to stand guard and hold your post. Waiting is an engaged action requiring diligence. It is not passive.
I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts: I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint. Then the Lord replied: Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay. Habbakuk 2:1-3
Though you feel tired and worn out in the length of this situation or from the intensity of the situation, take heart that the Lord is an active God, working on your behalf and he wants to work with you. Be ready then, to receive what he will speak and do - wait in anticipation for the Lord to speak and act.
REPENTANCE PRECEEDS FORGIVENESS
To deal with conflict well, we need to run to the Lord first. We need to move to reconciliation in our hearts first. Recently the Lord was showing me that before we look to the pain and offence by the other person/people we need to first repent to the Lord for our part. We need to come and allow him to show us where we have gone wrong, where we are seeing things wrongly, where we have made errors, how we communicated wrongly, how limited we have been in our attitudes and seek God’s grace for us.
Search me, O God and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139 :23-24
Taking this action does not mean that the hurt and offence from the other person does not matter. It simply means you are coming humbly before the Lord, acknowledging you don’t get everything right and seeing your need for God’s grace for you.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
FORGIVENESS OF OTHERS
God was showing that if we repent first and then move to forgive the others, we will be better positioned to choose forgiveness. We can take time to forgive them for the hurt, the offence, and pray blessing over them.
Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. Colossians 3:13
“But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” Matthew 5:44
Once we have forgiven them and received grace for ourselves, coming humbly before the Lord we can see more clearly, hear the Lord more clearly and move forward with more confidence. Rather than interacting with those who are hostile and attacking from a place of blind anger, we can be decisive, offensive and directive.
GOD’S WILL, GOD’S WAY WITH THE OUTCOME IN HIS HANDS
In a hostile situation we need God’s way and we will access God’s way when we position ourselves correctly… at his feet, bowing before his throne, as his child looking up to the Father’s face. Acknowledging our need for him and that we haven’t got this all correct helps us to see the Lord as he truly is: our God, our Father, our Saviour.
God is wanting to help, he wants to be near to you. He wants to be involved. You can come and lay it all down before him and agree to do this his way. Laying it down means following his direction and leaving the outcome in his hands. Letting him hold the outcome. Let him lead you, go where he goes, follow his steps one by one out of the woods and into the clearing.
As you lay it down and let him hold it, you will receive his strength to take the steps and hold your post. He will not only guide you he will strengthen you.
I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things you name and your word. When I call you answered me; you made me bold and stouthearted. Psalm 138:2-3
It is God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect. Psalm 18:32
Blessings as you seek the Lord with all your heart and lean on him through this situation.