On The Verge

So here you are on the brink of stepping further into God's greatness. You are both nervous and excited because you're truly on the verge of a spiritual breakthrough. It's at this precise point, all hell seems to break loose.

You go from nervous excitement and happy expectation into fear. Suddenly you are filled with self-doubt. The choice that seemed so bold and true yesterday suddenly needs to be re-examined. You procrastinate on taking action. You talk your plans over incessantly with your friends, trying to find reassurance, and you pray, pray, pray.

Meanwhile, stuff happens in your life. Your job suddenly becomes unreasonable. There’s an emergency at home involving the plumbing. Your children get in trouble. Your fridge and stove become oddly unreliable. The car starts acting up. You are ready to tear our hair out and just give up because nothing's working right since you declared your breakthrough.

So how does this add up to a spiritual breakthrough?

Living on the verge of a spiritual breakthrough is not a comfortable place to be. It feels messy. You try to straddle old and new areas with absolutely no success and self-doubt makes taking action difficult. What happened to all your excitement? All that expansion has disintegrated into confusion.

Times like these are huge opportunities. When the devil seems to conspire against you immediately after you've decided on a bold new path, you know for sure you're on the right track. On the other side of your discomfort is tremendous growth. All you have to do is take just one more step, usually an “action” step, and suddenly, you find yourself in a new place of supernatural anointing.

Just one more step-what’s yours?

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God. Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field. Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways. And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord ; and they shall be afraid of thee. And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee. The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them: And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them. (Deuteronomy 28:1-14 KJV)