The Path to Spiritual Breakthrough

"The Path to Spiritual Breakthrough"

A spiritual breakthrough can be defined:  when God does something significant in your life or through your life, and you know it! 

The path to spiritual breakthrough might take you through the "wilderness." Luke 4:14, "Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region." Where did Jesus return from? Luke 4:1 tells us, "Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness..." We know that Jesus was then tempted by the devil. The "wilderness" can be described as an alone place, a place of testing, a dry and empty place. What you might feel in the  wilderness is "holy" frustration, or discontentment or desperation. If you feel your path has taken you into the wilderness, you are following the steps of some great men:  Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, John the Baptist, Jesus, Simon Peter, Paul, and more! Some went through the wilderness more than once; and some for extended time periods. If you are going through a "spiritual" wilderness today, you may not be so far away from a spiritual breakthrough than you think. You may feel God has left you. You may feel God has forgotten you. You may feel God is finished with you. But the truth is that He is unable to leave you or forsake you! The truth is that God is unable to forget you! The truth is He will finish the GOOD work He began in you until the day Jesus returns. Just as with Jesus, the path to spiritual breakthrough may lead you through the wilderness. But, just as with Jesus, your path through the wilderness will lead you to spiritual breakthrough. When Jesus stepped out of the wilderness He experienced true spiritual breakthrough: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord." Luke 4:18-19. These are spiritual breakthroughs God has planned for you - in you, and through you. He has some amazing spiritual breakthroughs ahead for you, just beyond the wilderness! Don't despise the wilderness. Keep your faith and hope in God. He IS faithful, and His word is true!