Breaking Through

Breaking Through!

I had no Idea what I was going to write here in this blog.

I sat here staring at the title the Lord gave me for a few minutes before I got this parable in my head.

A man and his family were kidnapped and locked in an all brick room(with exception for the ceiling) in the middle of a plenteous city.

The man understood that on the other side of this brick wall was a marketplace full of food, bathhouses, and warm places to sleep.

The man knew that he had to get out to save his and his families life.

So he tried to climb over the top, but slipped back down and could not get any footing.

So he then tried to dig underneath, but came to a place where he could dig no further down quite quickly.

He then got desperate and began calling out to see if anyone would hear him.

The response was utter silence.

The sun had gone down and the room got dark.

He then did the only thing he knew how to do.

He began clawing through the brick, picking it out with his nails and bare hands chip by chip.

He kept crying out "if anyone's out there, save us, we need somebody to help!!".

Just then over the top of the wall some bread came down.

He yelled thank you, and kept crying out for help, reminding whoever threw that bread that he was still stuck in there.

For the next week all he got was bread and water bottles thrown over the wall, as he continued to chip away to very little avail at the brick wall. His hands had become a bloody mess.

He had worn the nails off his hands and his skin was numb on his fingertips.

The next morning, he found a miniature pick ax lying next to him. 

He used it to chip through the other 75% of the brick wall and reach His arm out.

The man on the other side, who had been throwing them bread and water, and threw them the pick ax, grabbed his arm, pulled enough bricks away, and helped him out of the prison.

The Parable means this.

We sometimes get stuck into situations, where God seems silent and we seem stuck.

And all he seems to throw us, is daily bread, that doesn't seem like enough to break through a wall.

But the bread helps us survive, and is what gives the strength to chip at that wall.

But God never intends for you to break through on your own.

The pick ax is the holy ghost, and it is the only way to finally make it through.

God is going to allow you to ware yourself out with prayer, ware yourself out with fasting, ware yourself out with worship.

You feel like God's not there, like you're praying to a brick wall, but yet there seems to be that evidence, that daily bread, thats enough to survive, that you know you didn't get on your own.

And just when all that attempting to break through gets you to the point of desperation, to where you feel like a bloodied up spiritual mess, you realize you need the Holy Ghost to get through it, and you are endued with a much more effective tool to break through the wall of doubt, addiction, fear, pride, or sin. Endued with a power from on high, just when you realize there is no way out.

Because if you make it through when you still have the strength, it's no testimony, but when you know

I surely would have died if it had not been for the Lord.

Im talking about somebody's whose testimony is if it had not been for the Lord who is on our side!!

Somebody who says he rescued me outta the snare of the fowler.

When all hope seemed gone, He came through right on time! 

2 Timothy 4: 

¹⁷ But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that the message might be preached fully through me, and that all the Gentiles might hear. Also I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. ¹⁸ And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen!