Breakaway
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Breakaway to our breakthrough
What is a breakaway?
Basketball: Rebound the ball and throw it ahead of the defense
Sebastian Vargas: a sudden acceleration by one or more runners to pull away from the pack in a race.
I can ‘t stand losing. I hate losing more than I love winning. Let that sink in. Dysfunctional? Maybe. Well it would rare it’s ugly head even playing candy land with my girls when they were young. I would take me a couple days to recoup from a candy land beat down from my 5 year old.
God put me to the ultimate test one year when my daughter Kristen decided she wanted to play AYSO soccer. She was still at that age where most of the girls did not know how to spread out and they would cluster around the ball and kick each other’s shines to kingdom come.
We our daughter got put on our best friends daughters team it made us super happy. But as luck would have it we did not win one single game all year. God, Tammy and our best friends will testify, what I am about to share next is not fake news.
The last game of the year was at hand. I was praising God that my torture as an dysfunctional achiever was coming to an end. My daughters team had not only not one one game… but we never scored one goal.
There was minutes left in the last game of the season and I yelled out to my daughter and our friends daughter if either one of you scores a goal before the end of the game I will take both to go see the Jonas Brothers in concert. Years ago that was a big deal.
Well the ball ended up on our side of the field and guess what happened? The cluster of little girls crushing each others shins pursued like usual. But my daughter was not in all the chaos. She was off to the side near the goal. Then it looked like God’s hand squirted the ball right out as a gift to my daughter. It was like right out of a movie. She grab the ball turned and headed toward the goal. She had a breakaway! I screamed like a banshee.... shooooooot!
Her little leg cocked back and shot. In slow mo the ball went right past the goal keeper. Goalllllllllllll! I ran onto the field pick my daughter and hosted her up above my head and swung her around in the air screaming YESSSS!
The ref came up to me and said coach you need to get off the field. I was not the coach and I had signed a doc with AYSO stating that I would stay off the field at all times as a parent. Ops.
So she won the game? Oh no. This is what we call a moral victory. Moral victory: a defeat that can be interpreted as a victory on moral terms. We finally scored. So Jonas Brothers? Yes like two years later. They were so hot back then that their concerts tickets we sold out for two years. But we eventually went.
Some of us need a breakaway to get to our breakthrough. We need God to answer our prayer we have been seeking and pleading with Him for.
Like the season my daughters soccer team had. Some of us had a season or two of no wins and not even one score.
Could there be something that is hindering our prayers? Like the ball that is being hindered from getting out from the cluster of little girls soccer cleats.
Could there be something in our life hindering our breakaway on the way to our breakthrough?
Do you mean that we could be fasting and praying and hindering God moving on our behalf?
Let’s go over somethings that may be hindering God giving you your breakaway for you breakthrough.
1. Living in unrepentant sin.
Unrepentant: not sorry for having done wrong / have not asked for forgiveness for doing wrong in God’s eyes.
Like some faith systems who confess their sins to a priest in confessional, then go right our and do it again.
18 If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened;
1 Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
In middle school if one of the girls was mad at you and you tried to talk to them they would say “talk to the hand”.
10 For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech. 11 They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
God’s ears are attentive to those that live right and honor His ways.
7 The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
2. Ignoring God’s Word.
14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
How does one learn God’s will? By learning God’s word.
3. Doubting God’s generosity and ability to answer prayer.
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
Do you sometimes ask God to give you a breakaway for your breakthrough then doubt He can or will do it?
21 Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has he been like this?” “From childhood,” he answered. 22 “It has often thrown him into fire or water to kill him. But if you can do anything, take pity on us and help us.” 23 “ ‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.” 24 Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!”
As we seek after God for our breakaway to our breakthrough when we start to doubt we need to ask God to help us with our unbelief.
6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
4. Asking with wrong motives.
3 And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.
Tim Keller in his book on prayer writes, “If we are living lives in which God does not have our highest allegiance, then we will use prayer instrumentally, selfishly, simply to try to get the things that may be already ruining our lives”.
5. Not honoring and respecting you spouse.
7 Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
6. Giving up and stop praying.
1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’ 4 “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, 5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’ ” 6 And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? 8 I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”
Justice: make things right.
In the coming weeks as we seek God for our breakaway to our breakthrough, we need go to our heavenly Father consistently, expectantly, reverently, and press on towards the place where prayer becomes a most precious pastime.
