Today your breakthrough comes! Today God begins to intervene in your circumstances. If God ever intervenes in your life, it will be a day that is called TODAY. You’ve been pushing and today you break through the enemy forces. You’ve got to believe that. If it ever happens, why not today? Why not while you’re reading this? You will walk out of the room you’re in saying, “I have got it!” You will break through because today God will begin to intervene. Today your Goliath comes down. Today you will hear His voice, walk out, and collect the spoils of God’s intervention. If not for you, then for someone you love whom you’ve been praying for. They need a breakthrough in their finances, health, relationship, or deliverance from substance abuse. Today is their day.
It’s happened before in the Bible. That’s why we know it can happen in our lives. That’s why we have a Bible – to tell us what God can do and what He has done for others, and will do for us. God’s intervention is the breakthrough you need as you hear and read this story. As you hear the word of God, faith will rise up in you and you will say, “I’ve got my breakthrough! God has intervened! I believe it!” We don’t wait till we see it to believe it; we believe and then see it. First comes the word, then comes faith, then comes the experience, the victory of God’s intervention.
Do you need God to intervene in your life right now? The answer is yes you do. If not for you then for someone you know. Maybe for a health issue, or for financial help or a relationship problem, or a new or better job, for some addiction you’d like to be free from. God is known to intervene in people’s lives for all those things and more. He is a deliverer, healer, and Savior.
This is one of the many stories in the Bible where people got desperate for a God-intervention, and God did intervene. But He didn’t and doesn’t do so automatically. For a divine intervention it requires action on our part. The Bible is very clear on this. The Bible is full of examples of how people got God to intervene, and full of His promises to intervene in our lives.
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God intervenes when we pray. But sometimes we pray and He does not. Sometimes we don’t get our prayers answered. There is a reason for that and it’s never God’s fault. If we pray His will we find in the Scriptures, in faith, He always intervenes (Jer.33:3). He will step in and save the day. He delights to do this. He delights to intervene. This is the story of the entire Bible.
Take care of the following things and God will intervene. Sometimes God doesn’t intervene because we are too careless or too shallow with our prayers. There’s no passion in our prayers (v.3-4). We don’t pray like blind Bartimaeus prayed, or like Jehoshaphat prayed.
Sometimes people don’t know enough of the word of God to appeal to Him on the basis of His word. When you pray you need to go to Him with a promise He has given. Prayer must be according to the will of God found in His word (1Jn.5:14-15). Look at 2Chron.20:6-9,11,18-19 and you will see that Jehoshaphat knew the word of God and he prayed accordingly. Get a promise from God and pray that promise. He will only intervene according to His will. If you pray the will of God, He will intervene. God intervenes when we pray and begin to praise Him. “When they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushes against the people of Amnon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated.” (v.22)
Sometimes God doesn’t intervene in people’s lives because their lives are not aligned with the purposes of God. This is different from the previous paragraph. You can quote the Bible back to God all day long, but if you ask and do not receive it is because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your own pleasures (Jas.4:4). Look at 2Chron.20:11,15-16. Your prayers are to “consume it on your own lust,” then go on your merry way, why should God intervene? Why should He answer your prayers?
Sometimes we just don’t believe. Jesus said, “Believe that you receive and you shall have whatever you ask.” (Mk.11:24) The prophet said, “Believe and you will prosper.” God will intervene.
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