Hungering for A Breakthrough

When was the last time you had a breakthrough of God in your life? I mean a true holy ghost filled breakthrough. The type of breakthrough that brings about revival in your own heart.

I think so many times we get used to the idea of treading water every single Sunday that we become accustomed to that way of life in the ministry. We get comfortable treading water and we never really launch out into the deep waters. By continuing to tread water, we never really experience the deep things of God and never really see God truly work in our lives.

When was the last time you have seen a person cry out to the Lord in your church, weeping and wailing at the altar?

When was the last time you have seen anybody saved in your church?

When was the last time you have had a good, old-fashioned, spirit-filled talk with the Lord?

How many times have you preached about the Power of the Word and the Spirit but never really seeing it or experiencing always hoping and praying in the back of your heart and mind that God will move?

Our communities are littered with families torn apart by heroine, meth, alcohol, adultery. This is tough to explain to a lot of people but my burden for revival and to see the church wake up has never been more urgent. But whenever I am at a family gathering, at work, my mind always seems to be wandering and never really focused. Even sometimes going through the motions on a Sunday morning which seems to be happening more often than not lately, I’m just being honest.

I think back to what the preacher said:

“I despaired at the thought that my life might slip by without seeing God show himself mightily on our behalf….I longed and cried out for God to change everything- me, the church, our passion for people, our praying. I abhorred the thought of just having church services. I hungered for God to break through in our lives and in our ministry.” -Jim Cymbala, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

Many Christians are satisfied with just treading water, coming in to church on Sunday morning, picking up a hymnal, if your church still uses hymnals, singing a few songs, shaking a few hands and hugging a few necks, I know its COVID season but yes we can still do those things, listening to the preacher give the word, all while never really launching out into the deep, without ever really experiencing God, satisfied with just going through the motions, justifying this empty, mechanical, robotic kind of worship.

Many will never launch out into the deep because God always expects something of us when we step out. We will never make a lot of money but then money is never the driving force in ministry. God will supply us with what we need and more.

If we are going to see our churches revived, our communities changed, experience God work in our lives we cannot continue treading water. I can clearly see that COVID-19 has not woken up the church, we just want things to go back to normal preacher, we just want things to get back to the way they were, we want our programs back, our cantatas, our plays, our routine, our structures. If we go back to normal the church here in America will die.

Understand the true Church of Jesus Christ that was bought by His blood will never die but the church in America is asleep. They say she is a sleeping giant but I say she is just dead asleep on the verge of death.

Do you hunger for a breakthrough?

Do you hunger to break out of the routine of worship?

Do you hunger to see lives changed and churches revived?

Then be who God has called you to be! God can only use Nick Eanes the way that he is. If you want a breakthrough, its time to trust God, and let Him use your own personality that He has given you as He has made us all unique in His image. Be natural. Be sincere.

It was during my early days as a very young pastor where I had to go to the school of hard knocks and learn that I couldn’t Pastor the church like the previous Pastor. I couldn’t preach like anybody else but how God has intended for me to deliver the message. I couldn’t minister like anybody else but me. I was trying to be somebody that I wasn’t. I was trying to be something that I am not.

What good what I be? How effective could I truly be if I was living this way. This is one of the many areas in which I failed when I pastored down in Arkansas. In the time that I have stepped down from Pastoring that church to now I have had to find my own style using my own personality all the while having an open heart and mind to what God wants to do in my own life. God wants me to be simply be me and depend fully on Him. I have always looked at my introverted personality as a weakness that God cannot possibly use in the ministry.

God whispered something into my ear: “When you are weak, I am strong.”

When we are weak, it allows God to move in and take over and show us just who He is! He shows us His power, His grace, His mercy, His love.

Don’t look at your personality as a weakness but a tool, an instrument to be used of God!

There will be those that tell you how you need to preach, how you need to act, or say preacher you need to settle down, you cant just lay the message out there like that, you need to be a little quieter so people can listen, you need to be a little louder so people can listen, you don’t need to wear that suit and tie, you need to get more excited, you need to not be as excited. You will have all sorts of people tell you how you need to worship and deliver the message but friend, you just be you and deliver the message how God intended you to deliver it and worship how God intended you to worship Him and stop worrying about what others think.

Do you want to keep treading water or launch out into the deep and truly experience God?