Taking Your #Breakthrough Experience into 2013

Push past the distractions, find a quiet afternoon, get still, and focus on some personal 'housecleaning' so that you are ready for 2013's adventures. 

1) Make a list of the negatives of 2012. What mistakes did you make? What did you learn from them? What can you do to avoid them in the future? Which projects or relationships in your life need a different perspective or approach? Is there anyone you need to forgive (possibly yourself)? Is there anything you need to release and not carry with you into the new year?

2) Make a list of the positives of 2012. What goals were you able to accomplish? What did you learn along the way? What worked well for you? In what areas did you experience breakthrough (emotional, educational, physical, business or work, financial, mental, spiritual)? Did you receive answers to prayer?  What are you grateful for?

3) Change. What would you like to accomplish in 2013? List the areas of your life that you would like to change, and list some steps--even tiny advances you can take under each one--to make them happen. What areas of your character need overhaul, tweaking, strengthening, or polishing?

4) Listen to your dreams. Ask the Lord to release more dreams to you about your purpose and destiny. And, ask for the dream interpretations as well. Write them down and pay attention. If you kept a dream journal, go back to analyze 2012's dreams. You may begin to realize that you are being called to pull off feats way beyond your own abilities. Exploits that will require supernatural involvement to make them happen. Dream Big!

What is one simple step you can do TODAY to launch with power into 2013?  Your season of unanswered prayer is here, it's time to BREAK IT OUT!

Keys to Your Breakthrough: Worship

He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this!” (Mark 2:12)  

Worship is the key note of Destiny!  Worship creates the atmosphere for hearing God's voice.  Worship opens the eyes and the ears of the heart to hear God's voice.

Keys to Your Breakthrough: Refuse to Be Denied

Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. (Mark 2:4)

Rather than to be inconvenienced by a situation and be complacent with the circumstances, move in faith and receive your miracle.  Get up!  Look up! and Rise up!

Keys to Your Breakthrough: Be in the Right Company

Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. (Mark 2:3)

His friends were NOT skeptics... they had faith!  Don't allow people to impose human limitations.  Surround yourself with people of faith, and an even greater faith than you possess!

Keys to Your Breakthrough: Overcome Your Paralysis

Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. (Mark 2:3)

The crippled man did not have a "defeated mentality."  Don't be paralyzed by a condemning past, chronic fears or habitual sins.  Pick yourself up and make your way to the Lord of the BREAKTHROUGH!

Keys to Your Breakthrough: Make Room For Jesus

A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. (Mark 2:1-2)

When His presence is here, there's no need for advertisement.  The house will be full!

Walking in the Right Direction of Breakthrough Anointing

When you walk in the anointing God directs you.  That's why David later could write in Psalms 37:23, "The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord..."  David did not go to God with plans, he went to God FOR plans.  David Remembered his source. He called upon God with very specific questions. "Should I go out to fight the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?"  It is interesting to see what David did in the face of opposition - he went to the source of the anointing!  So it is with us!  If we want to experience Breakthrough Anointing, we must go to the source of our anointing for direction in how to break through.