THE BREAKTHROUGH, Part 1

1 Chronicles 14:11 (NLT) tells how David and his troops defeated the Philistines. What was David’s confession?

“‘God did it!’” David exclaimed. ‘He used me to burst through my enemies like a raging flood!’” So they named that place Baal-perazim (which means ‘the Lord who bursts through’).”

Evidently, the breakthrough God gave to David against the Philistines was like a major bursting forth through a breach in the wall of a large dam. God burst forth upon David’s enemies in some way that resembled the mighty gushing forth of waters.

David uses the words “by my hand (KJV).” Obviously God used the hand of David to accomplish this miracle.

I believe God loves to bring breakthroughs through the hands of His people. Yes, God can intervene on our behalf with His own arm. However, He loves to exercise His power through His chosen people. And David was that man.

We, God’s creation, also have the privilege of working with God to deal with our enemies who are also God’s enemies.

When God has a problem with this world He looks for a man through whom He can exercise His judgment, His rule, and His power. If He can’t find a man, then as a last resort, He makes bare His own holy right arm.

When God looked down from Heaven upon the great oppression of the children of Israel in Egypt, He found a man called Moses through whom He could work.

Ezekiel 22:30 says: “And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: BUT I FOUND NONE. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them: I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God.”

I believe it is wrong for us to not offer ourselves to God, that He, by His grace would use us in some way to get the needed breakthrough that we so desperately need.

To be continued.

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell