We love our tangents in America. All week long I have heard about 11 footballs being one pound of air too low for NFL standards. People have even said that's why the Patriot's won the games over the Ravens and the Colts. It appears to me the better team just won both games.
However, we love our rants. We get on a mad and we keep running with it, hoping that if we make enough noise it will keep everyone focused on it until we get our justice or at least our day in the sun. It's sad that life in America has come to this. We get focused on something that means very little and make such a commotion that nobody really even cares if it's true or not. It sounds good, it makes us feel better, but it probably does more damage than it does good.
That's why breakthrough is stalled in so many churches today. We want control, we want power, and we want our way has become the rule of the day in most churches big or small. Instead of praying, "Lord, have your way", we try to find something out about someone or we state our opinion as fact and cause more junk than we every thought possible. Then we try and spend as much time as we can diverting people from realizing we started it in the first place.
It could be because you're a pound off. LOL! The whole sports media has been enslaved to one pound of air this week. Not two, but one pound. Stupid isn't it. You can't see air, you just know it's there. And honestly how can you tell if it's one pound too little. It would take a very unusual expert to do that. We have found out that all you need is somebody to tip somebody off or someone to spread gossip and now an amazing victory looks like a tainted game.
How many of us want a breakthrough, but we are one pound off from getting there because of something we've said or something we've done and like a steamroller it just keeps on going. Believe me, if you let the air out of something, somebody's going to say or do something that you can't even begin to imagine. People get hurt, spiritual lives get derailed, and churches suffer.
Mark 3:25 says, "And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand." The key to breakthrough is unity. We may not agree with everything that goes one, but we refuse to let our differences of opinion separate us from our main objective, which is growing the kingdom of God.
So friend, if you want breakthrough, don't ride your hobby horse or pout if you don't get your way. If you're not happy where you are in the Spirit, then move closer to Jesus. If you're not happy at the church you attend and are going to cause trouble, just pack up and go some where that you can be happy. Don't ride a tangent or rant, but seek God before you act or speak. If it causes division it isn't of God. Don't let that come between you and a breakthrough.
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