Seeking a breakthrough makes the heart wonder if there are signs God is preparing you for a breakthrough. Being children of God is such a beautiful privilege as our father is constantly giving us the opportunity to partake in everything that He has.
This shows how much interested God is in our personal well-being and His burning desire to bless us abundantly. “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us…” Ephesians 3:20(NIV).
While we know what we want, God knows what we need and how much we need it. Therefore, He makes provision for it in the right amount, and oftentimes, it is more than we ever asked or imagined.
Salvation is not the only amazing thing that we can get from walking with God, there is a full package of blessings that comes with it. After becoming born again and receiving Christ, one thing that I have learnt and held on to is that there is more that can be found in Christ.
There is breakthrough, favor, blessings, laughter, and so on. With God, there is no limitation and nothing is impossible. Your primary reason may not be to get blessings or breakthroughs from God but it can serve as a motivation.
No matter how rooted in Christ we are, discouragements would come but knowing that there is more in Christ, we are motivated to keep running the race.
12 Signs God Is Preparing You For A Breakthrough
God is perfect in giving us signs because he does not like to see us go through life blindly and confused. I will share with you the experiences that I have had at different times in my life as a Christian. So, from my experience, here are 12 signs God is preparing you for a breakthrough:
1. Persistent Challenges
As children of God, one important thing to always take note of is that the enemy is constantly trying to steal your testimony from you. Sometimes, this testimony may be pending and not yet in your hands and this is why the enemy would be interested in it.
For “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”John 10:10(NIV). No one, not even the devil will try to steal something that does not look beautiful or possess great value.
So when it seems like the more you pray, the worse the situation gets, that is the time to hold on the most. You see, you may be under so much pressure that you would almost believe that making it through another day would be impossible.
But take it as a sign that God is preparing you for a breakthrough. Don’t forget that Gold goes through so much pressure and heat to become a valuable asset. So also, you go through more because you are called to do more.
Therefore, does it feel like problems are bombarding you and trying to throw you off balance? Are you being swept off your feet and not in the right way? Hold on because God is giving you beauty for ashes in due season.
2. God Takes Some People And Things Away From Your Life
When we are creating space in order to buy new things in our homes, we take out the old ones, right? Great! In the same vein, God takes out the things or people that will not be relevant to us when our breakthrough eventually comes.
He cleanses our systems and circles of negative people and things so that the old may not spoil the new. And when God is taking you through this process, it may hurt but just let Him.
This is because those negative people and things can distract you from recognizing and grabbing your breakthrough when it comes. God knows what is best and He will do it for you gradually.
So thank Him instead of complaining or rebelling because you are about to receive something far better and greater than what you think you have lost.
3. There Is No Evidence To Hold On To
You may have tried every means that there is in order to access a breakthrough but it does not seek forthcoming.
You may have prayed and fasted but still feel like a breakthrough is far from you, but most times, the things we believe are far from us are in fact just within our reach if we can stretch out our arms.
At the moment you may not have any evidence to hold on to, but I tell you that the fact that you are living means that there is great hope that your evidence is around the corner. Believing that you will have an evidence is a sign of faith and faith is one trait that moves God to action.
Hebrews 11:6 (NIV) tells us “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.” As long as you believe and hold on to God, he will reward you at the right time with a breakthrough.
4. Doors Start Closing
On the verge of a breakthrough, it is very common for doors that have been serving you positively to start to close up. When this happens you may begin to feel discouraged because the doors that are closing were the only things you had in hand.
However, this is usually the plan when God is preparing you for something great to hold on to. Believe then that when God opens a door, no one can shut it and when he closes a door, no one can open it.
The Bible says “I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.” Revelation 3:8 (NIV).
So, do not fight with God by holding on to the things of old that He knows you have grown past. Let go of those things and allow the doors to close up in order for new and better doors to open up to you.
5. Impartation Of The Spirit Of Prayer
When you yield yourself to God and become one with him, you become sensitive to the spirit. So much that this becomes a sign God is preparing you for a breakthrough. There are times as believers that we get the irresistible urge to pray.
This urge comes so strong that no matter when or where we are, we begin to pray in the spirit because the spirit is directing us to pray at that moment.
And when you begin to pray, you start sensing that something you cannot explain is changing in your life and environment.
This is a sign God is pushing you into something better- a major season of breakthrough. So do not stop, pray through to your breakthrough!
6. Obstacles Begin To Pile Up
If there is no mountain, then there would be nothing to break down. If there is no ocean, there would be nothing to cross and If there is no obstacle, there would be nothing to break through.
In Joshua 6:1-27, the children of Israel were faced with a major challenge when they planned to conquer Jericho; the walls of Jericho were too high and fortified.
They had no advanced equipment that would be able to bring down the walls of Jericho and this was getting them troubled and discouraged.
However, God intervened and gave them an instruction to walk around the city of Jericho seven times while singing, dancing, and praising God. The children of Israel not only received but also adhered strictly to the directions from above.
On the seventh day, the walls of Jericho that seemed to be unshakable came crumbling down like ordinary sand and the Children of Israel were able to enter the city.
You may have heard this story a thousand times, but I would like you to connect with it. Just before your breakthrough, you will experience walls and dead ends, but I would like you to ask yourself this, “how can a way be made if there is already one?”.
God can only make a way where there is no way and from time immemorial, this has been his specialty. So when obstacles come, thank God because it is a sign God is preparing you for a breakthrough.
7. Instructions Will Come
In the season of your breakthrough, you will receive instructions from God, telling you which way to go and exactly what to do. It is important that you follow these instructions as they come, even to the latter.
I understand that some instructions may not make sense to you, but as one with Christ, know that God works in mysterious and “illogical” ways.
So when he asks you to move even when there is no clear path, as long as you are certain that it is indeed the voice of God, please move. Not everything would make sense at the beginning, but in the end, you would realize how perfectly they fit. You will see that every instruction you were given had a purpose in helping you reach your breakthrough.
Trust God, for: “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.”Psalms 32:8(NIV).
After God has instructed you, he won’t leave you to walk blindly alone, His love will be your resting place and map.
8. You Will Be Mocked
Usually, when God is preparing you for something great, people around you- family friends, or strangers, may not see it and so begin to laugh at you. Sometimes, you may even become the center of their jokes just because some situations seem to be pushing you around.
But do not be weary, remember the story of Job in the Bible. Despite the taunting and mockery, he received from people around him, including his wife, He remained and trusted in God.
“And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.” Job 30:9 (NIV). Job did not let their mockery get to him because he understood the signs that God was testing him for a greater season.
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At the end of Job’s travails, however, he was restored in double fold, and tears were wiped from his eyes completely. He suffered a great deal but it did not last forever.
Dear friend, your breakthrough is coming in the midst of your suffering. Do not worry, God will eventually set a table for you in the presence of your mockers.
9. Distractions Come Up
One common sign God is preparing you for a breakthrough is when distractions begin to flood your environment, physically and spiritually. The enemy is mad when God gives us something good, so he works to take it away before it reaches our hands.
Things you have not experienced in your health, work or business, and so on, will begin to pop up to distract you from your breakthrough. But do not be deceived by the tactics of the enemy.
Distractions come in many ways. Sometimes, it is in the form of warfares that should not concern us normally. Other times, it is in the form of offers that look attractive or even look like what we have been waiting for.
The word of God says in Mark 4:19 (NIV) “but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful.”
The enemy is an author of confusion, so in this time, ask God for the spirit of discernment so that you can recognize the tactics of the enemy and ignore them respectively.
10. You Are Confident About Your Future
You will see a bright future ahead of you no matter how pressed and discouraged you may feel. Somehow, you know within you that this is not the end of your story.
This is God giving you faith and helping you stand strong. He is showing you that you will always be safe with him. There are times when I have felt discouraged and believed that there is nothing good that can come out of the situation and so I plan to give up.
But suddenly, I begin to feel confident over again that something is coming. I may not even have particular expectations at that point but I just feel it somewhere in my heart that something big is coming my way.
I later realized that the strength and confidence that I usually feel in my spirit at my lowest times do not come completely from within me. I found that it comes from God because like He said in His word, He will never leave me nor forsake me.
So also, God will not leave you nor forsake you. Whenever you feel confident in your heart, know it is God that is upholding you for upliftings. This is another sign that God is preparing you for a breakthrough!
11. Relying On God
One interesting sign God is preparing you for a breakthrough is that you find yourself relying completely on God.
Relying on God in the process of telling yourself and God that you don’t have a clue or any answers, therefore, you are committing your ways to Him.
It is a way of trusting that God is able to make a tangible difference in your life. At this point, you have let go of trust in man or any other source to bring you a breakthrough and turned to God solely for rest and help. If you intentionally cast your cares and burdens unto God, He will take it from there and give you the ease you need.
12. People Will Give You Signs
The signs that God is preparing you for a breakthrough can come from mortals like yourself and can serve as confirmations of the word of God in your life. What you cannot see about yourself, God will tell others and they will reveal them to you.
Have you ever had people sincerely call you “big”? Or do people talk about how much they see the glory of God upon you? Or are people asking you for favors and this time, you have nothing in hand? Many of us may have experienced this but probably thought the people were joking or making jest of us.
Thing is, they can already see where God is taking you and God’s plans are always very big. Jeremiah 29:11(NIV) “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
This is God telling you what he has in store for you despite the situation you may be facing at the moment. God will then use people to inform and prepare you for where He is taking you to.
These people don’t just believe in you because they want to, it is because of the light that they see in you. It may have not manifested to you but people honoring you is a sign God is preparing you for a breakthrough.
Scriptures On Breakthrough
There are many bible scriptures that could give you signs God is preparing you for a breakthrough. If you would like to study more on breakthroughs and draw strength from the Bible. Here are some bible verses. Study and stay blessed!
1. Ephesians 6:12 – For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
2. Revelation 1:3 – Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
3. Micah 2:13 – The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.
4. Psalms 100:3 – Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture
5. Hebrews 4:12- For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
6. Isaiah 54:17- No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
7. Isaiah 43:19- Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
8. Proverbs 10:22- The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
9. Hebrews 13:5- Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
10. 2 Corinthians 9:8- And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.
Experiencing some or all of these signs can dampen your faith but I tell you, the storm is more violent when the calm is near. Receive your signs that God is preparing you for a breakthrough and run with it. According to MatshonaDhliwayo, “The rainbow is always inside the storm.”
This means that in those turbulent situations, your answer and breakthrough is laying down somewhere in there and when the storm calms, your rainbow, which is your breakthrough, will rise to the admiration of all who set their eyes upon it.
When God gives you your breakthrough, something moves and it does not stop. God is preparing you for something great, Do not miss your moment!
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