Lord of the Breakthrough: Partnering with His Power

Still waiting on your breakthrough? Discover the purpose in the pause and your role in the process.

Have you ever felt stuck in a season where breakthrough feels just out of reach—despite all your prayers, faith, and worship? In this powerful episode of The Higher Pursuit Podcast, host Cecily Lachapelle dives into the tension between believing for breakthrough and living in the waiting. She unpacks the threefold purpose of breakthrough—for your personal freedom, your family’s future, and God's glory—and shares how to partner with God even when the answers seem delayed. If you’ve been asking “What’s my part?” or “Why hasn’t it happened yet?”—this episode will stir your faith, sharpen your focus, and give you fresh hope for the journey.

Takeaways: 

• Breakthrough has a divine purpose—it's personal, generational, and for God's glory.
• Waiting builds character, positions us for greater impact, and aligns us with God's perfect timing.
• Breakthrough requires both intimacy with God and obedient action on our part.

Chapters

00:00 The Journey of Breakthrough

11:04 Understanding God's Purpose in Waiting

28:34 Your Role in the Breakthrough Process

36:22 Personal Reflection and Application

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Chapters

• 0:00 he Journey of Breakthrough
• 11:04 Understanding God's Purpose in Waiting
• 28:34 Your Role in the Breakthrough Process
• 36:22 Personal Reflection and Application

Transcript

Cecily Lachapelle (00:45.368)
Hey there, friend. Welcome back to the Higher Pursuit Podcast. I'm your host, Cecily Lachapelle, and I am so glad that you're joining me today. Have you ever felt like you've prayed, you've fasted, you've worshiped, and still nothing seems to move? Maybe your season of waiting feels more like breakdowns than breakthroughs. You're not alone. You know, we talk a lot about breakthrough in the church.

I feel like we sing about it, we shout about it, but many of us are still waiting for it. And in that waiting, I don't know about you, but for me, questions can start to bubble up. Like, God, is there a purpose in this waiting? And what's my part in the breakthrough? I mean, am I missing something that I should be doing or not doing? And then I also can ask myself sometimes,

Why doesn't breakthrough happen the minute that I pray in faith or the minute that I take a step of faith? If those questions resonate with you, then stick with me because God has got a word for you today. Let's pray. Father, we come before you acknowledging that you are the God of the breakthrough. You never meant for us to live in captivity. You created us in your image.

to walk in freedom and victory. And in this moment, open our ears to hear your voice, ignite our faith to receive your strategy and prepare our hearts to partner with your power in Jesus' name, amen. Well, all right, friends, we're gonna talk about breakthrough today. And at creation, God said to Adam and Eve, be fruitful, multiply.

subdue the earth and overcome. So we can see right from the beginning, we were made to be overcomers. Adam and Eve were made to be overcomers. They were to be the subduers, not the subdued. Yet we know that they sold us out and they gave up their dominion over the earth. And after the fall, now we find ourselves wrestling with containment.

Cecily Lachapelle (03:13.504)
oppression and strongholds. But thanks be to Jesus, because when He rose up from the grave, He took captivity captive according to Ephesians four, eight through 10. Scripture tells us that we are now seated with Christ in heavenly places above every ruler and authority. In Christ, we're no longer under anything except his authority, but our feelings don't-

often line up with that truth. Isn't that right? mean, John 10, 10 reminds us that the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. And Jesus said, I came that you would have life and have it more abundantly. So what is Jesus telling us there? Jesus is saying that if something is being stolen, killed, or destroyed, if we are not living in the abundant life,

that He came to give us, then we need to realize there's probably a satanic plan and strategy behind that. And God also has plans and purposes for us. He has a plan and a purpose in allowing seasons of waiting before breakthrough. And a lot of times we wonder, what is the purpose in this waiting? Lord, you seem silent. I'm in this.

time where I need a breakthrough in my emotions. I need a breakthrough in my health. I need a breakthrough in relationships or in finding a job or whatever that area is. And we wonder, God, is my life important enough? Do you have an actual God purpose for my breakthrough? And I wanna tell you today that yes.

God does have a purpose for your breakthrough. In fact, it's a threefold purpose. And I feel like the story in Exodus beautifully illustrates God's threefold purpose for our deliverance. The first purpose for our breakthrough is personal deliverance. Imagine the Hebrews in Egypt. They were in slave labor.

Cecily Lachapelle (05:37.57)
They were experiencing brutality. Their children, their babies were murdered right after they were born because Pharaoh was concerned about their population growth. So He used infanticide as population control. That's trauma. So these people were experiencing trauma and the hopelessness that

they would never be able to deliver themselves or get themselves out of slavery. Then one night, God sends Moses and they experience Passover.

Cecily Lachapelle (06:23.522)
then God sends Moses and after a series of plagues and a series of signs and wonders, there comes the final plague, the final judgment of God, and it's the night of Passover. And the next morning, the children of Israel walked out of bondage. They walked out of Egypt, not just as free people, but they walked out.

with all the gold and the silver of Egypt given to them by their Egyptian neighbors. So one day they are slaves, the next day they're walking out of Egypt. That...

That was an epic 180 degree personal breakthrough. So our key takeaway from that is that the first purpose of breakthrough is for you. That you would experience dramatic life-changing turnaround from slavery to freedom. God wants to do that in your life. He wants to do that in your marriage.

in your finances, in your vocation, in your ministry. God loves you and He has already given us all that we need for life and godliness. So again, we might start wondering, then why am I not experiencing breakthrough and does God have a purpose in it? So let's talk about the second purpose of breakthrough. And that is generational inheritance.

The children of Israel didn't stop with Moses and that generation. Here's the interesting thing. The children that, the people that walked out of Egypt were the first generation. So their breakthrough.

Cecily Lachapelle (08:27.116)
We can see with the children of Israel that walked out of Egypt that their personal breakthrough brought freedom and liberation from captivity, but it didn't end with them. Their children never knew the taskmaster's whip. They never knew the trauma of slavery. They never knew the brutality that their parents had experienced. So their parents' inheritance of freedom became a family legacy. It became an inheritance.

So think about it for you, breakthrough isn't just for you, it's for those who come after you, whether it is your biological children, whether it's spiritual children or those that you impact, your victory becomes other people's inheritance. And now let's talk about the third purpose for breakthrough, and that is for God's glory. I love how Psalm 106,

Verse eight says that it says, saved them, the children of Israel, for the sake of his name, that He might make his power known. When God brought the people of Israel out of Egypt, Egypt was the greatest nation in the world at that time. There was no stronger power. And when God demonstrated that He was stronger than the army,

of Egypt, then the Pharaoh of Egypt, then the gods of Egypt. His name and his fame went everywhere. For us, we can realize that every breakthrough is a megaphone for God's greatness. When you walk out of bondage, people see his name lifted high. When you are healed, people see his power made manifest. Breakthrough is personal.

It's generational and it's eternal. I liken it to ripples from a rock in a pond. Where the rock drops into the pond and makes that first ripple, that's where breakthrough starts with you. But then as you know, the ripples keep going out and that's the impact of your breakthrough extending out to those people that you impact, whether it's future generations.

Cecily Lachapelle (10:51.884)
whether it's people who are watching your life, but then it doesn't even stop there. It continues to echo for eternity, for God's glory. Because you know, the results of the breakthrough in your life, the praise and the glory of God that He receives from everything that He does in our life, no matter how small or how big, will never go away.

praise will resound in the heavenlies and on the earth forever and ever. Our lives may change, our lives will change, but the glory of God and the praise of God will never disappear. So now let's talk about your part in breakthrough. Because a lot of us have that question. You know, God, I'm not experiencing breakthrough. So what is my part?

Is it all God and I just wait for something to happen? Just be still and know that He is God and do nothing? Or do I have a part to play and I've got to go out and get after it and God's waiting for me to do it all? So for the answer to that, I want you to turn with me to 2 Samuel 5, 17 to 25, if you have your Bible or a Bible app handy. And if not, I'll recap it for you. So.

This is a story that is one of my favorites in the Bible. It's kind of Lord of the Rings-y in how it plays out. But this is an actual account of something that happened in David's life, King David's life, and it's amazing. So at this point in David's life, He's just been anointed king, literally just been anointed king. And the scripture tells us that the Philistines come up in the valley,

assemble their armies in the Valley of Rephaim and they are coming up to attack David. So when it says they spread themselves out, the enemy always targets new anointing. David's been king for five minutes and the enemy is already attacking. Our takeaway from that is that the moment we step our big toe across the line of our destiny,

Cecily Lachapelle (13:16.206)
of our purpose of that next that God has for us, the enemy is going to be right there trying to stop the word from manifesting in this world because He is afraid of the anointing that you carry. He is very afraid of what God wants to do through you. And so He will be right there to attack it. So the other thing that we need to know is that

Cecily Lachapelle (13:50.04)
So now let's tackle the second question that we often ask ourselves when we're waiting for our breakthrough. And that is, what is our part in all of this? Do we just be still and know that He is God and just wait for God to do something? Or is it on us? Has God given us our assignment and now He's waiting for us to go get after it and do it so it all depends on us?

What is our part? So for a perfect example of this, I think in the Bible, we're gonna, so for my favorite example of this, we're gonna find it in 2 Samuel 5, 17 to 25. This is a story about David, King David, right after He's been anointed king, and the Philistines come up against him. I love this story because it's just,

So crazy that if it wasn't in the Bible, you would think it was mythology. It has kind of a Lord of the Rings-y feel to it. So I'm going to read some of the scripture for us in case you don't have your Bible. And again, it's 2 Samuel 5, 17 to 25. So starting in verse 17, I'm reading from the ESV. When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David.

Let me ask you a question. Do you think that these Philistines are coming up to search for David to congratulate him? No. Do you think that the Philistines are coming up to search for David to say, hey, David, we remember what you did with Goliath and that really didn't go well for us. and I mean, you were a man of war then and you've only continued to become a better man of war to the point that.

People make up songs and sing songs about how many thousands of people you've killed. So we're going to do the wise thing and we're going to make an allegiance with you. No, that's not what they were coming up for at all. They were coming up to attack David. It says the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.

Cecily Lachapelle (16:17.422)
So let's frame this out for a second. David has been walking for 14 or 15 years in a prophetic word, waiting for the breakthrough, waiting for God to finally put him in the place of being king over Israel that was prophesied to him as a teenager. The moment that word came forth, you probably know there was nothing but assault by the enemy using Saul to...

combat and come against that word from ever coming to pass. And so now He's actually finally been anointed as King and here comes the enemy ready to come up against him to squelch that to squelch his purpose from coming to pass. You know what we can learn from that is that the moment

We cross our big toe across the line of something that God has told us belongs to us, our land of promise, our inheritance, whatever that looks like. We can expect that the enemy is not going to roll out the red carpet for us. He is going to target that anointing and He's going to go after it with all that he can. And that's exactly what is happening to David.

So what is David's response? He goes down to the stronghold. It's interesting. It doesn't even say that David prayed first. It says that He went down to the stronghold. What's our takeaway from that? That behind every attack of the enemy, there is a strong man and there is a stronghold. David went down to a physical, literal stronghold. But for us in prayer, we go...

to strongholds that are in the spirit. Some of those strongholds could be mindsets. They could be generational patterns. They could be fears. But we have to understand that behind the attacks, there is a stronghold and a strong man. So going on, David goes down to the stronghold and then He says to the Lord, and this is in verse 19.

Cecily Lachapelle (18:43.808)
Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand? And the Lord said to David, go up, for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand. Our takeaway from that is that breakthrough always begins with hearing God's voice. We cannot take it for granted and assume that we know how we're going to fight any battle.

how we're going to have any breakthrough. David was a very successful man of war. He had been successful in fighting the Philistines in the past. So even though He had been successful, He did not assume even from all of his past victories that He knew exactly how He was gonna win this one. He didn't even assume it was his fight. He asks God, do I go up against them?

So He's asking the Lord, who's fighting here? You, me? Is this a fight? And the Lord said, go up, for I will surely give them into your hand. So He does, and the enemy is defeated, and David is rejoicing. He is kind of like a, I don't know, an elevation worship or Maverick City praise party, and He praises God in that place, and He names that place Baal Paratim.

which the Bible interprets for us as Lord of the breakthroughs. Now, if you didn't really enjoy reading the Bible in its original language, for instance, this scripture would be the original language is Hebrew, then you wouldn't understand just how cool that scripture is that David named that place. I'm actually going to read that scripture. It is.

In verse 20, it said, came to Baal-Pera-Tzim and David defeated them there. And He said, the Lord has broken through my enemies before me like a breaking flood. Therefore the name of the place is called Baal-Pera-Tzim. And the Philistines left their idols there and David carried them away. So.

Cecily Lachapelle (21:03.306)
Unless you are reading the scripture and you can see how this is all spelled, the name of the place is called Baal, B-A-A-L. We pronounce that as Baal in English and Peratzim, P-E-R-A-Z-I-M. And unless you were reading that scripture in the original language in Hebrew, you wouldn't understand just how cool it is.

Because in that verse, God uses one word four times. And it's the word paratts, P-A-R-A-T-S. Parattsim is the plural of it. And that word means to break out, to break over, or to break through. And occasionally that word parattsim is used in the term to burst through, like childbirth, in the way that

the baby, when the child is coming, will burst through the amniotic sac and what happens? There's a flood of water. A woman says, my water just broke. What do you know about the child coming? When she says, my water broke, you know it's not gonna be long. Nobody can tell this woman, it's only gonna be 20 minutes or it's gonna be two hours, but one thing you can tell her for sure, the child is coming. Your baby is on its way.

And that's what David is praising God as, as the burst through. He said, my God has broken out over my enemy like a bursting flood. He's saying you broke out, you broke over and you burst through my enemies like a flood. The very thing that the enemy has tried to stop, the thing that the prophetic destiny that God birthed on the inside of David.

that has just been born, God has burst through and said, David, you have waited, you have waited, and you have waited, but now is the season of breakthrough, and God brought the breakthrough. So David is just praising God for that. But then let's continue because something interesting happens. In verse 23, it says, and when David inquired of the Lord, so,

Cecily Lachapelle (23:29.816)
Sorry, I have to go back to verse 22. And the Philistines came up yet again and spread out in the valley of Rephaim. And when David inquired of the Lord, the Lord said, you shall not go up, go around to their rear and come against them opposite the balsam trees. And when you hear the sound of marching in the top of the balsam trees, then rouse yourself.

For then the Lord has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines. So what is happening here? 1st 22 says, the Philistines came up against David again. What? I thought that God said, go up against them. I'm gonna defeat them in the first battle. And He did defeat them. He had the praise party. I thought this was signed, sealed and delivered.

Why is the enemy coming up again? This is the big takeaway for us in the area of breakthrough is that when we have a victory, that might not be the last battle we fight. The enemy isn't gonna just roll over and say, well, I guess it's all over. He's gonna come up again because He wants to see, can He discourage you? Can He defeat you this time?

Can He catch you off guard? Can He try to get you to start speaking things out of your mouth like, I guess I wasn't healed. Or I guess my son will never get off drugs. Or I guess I'll never change. I guess I'll just always be oppressed or depressed. That's what the enemy wants. When He comes back at you,

He wants you to start speaking death all over your situation. But David doesn't do that. David doesn't get discouraged. In fact, He doesn't even really seem shocked. He goes back to God and asks for another strategy. I love this. I love this so much because I'll be honest, if it was me, I probably would have said to myself, well, God gave me the strategy.

Cecily Lachapelle (25:51.33)
When the Philistines came up last time, He said, go up against them, like go straight at them and defeat them. So obviously I must not have done that right. So I'll just go do it again. And this time, hopefully I'll do it right. I'll get it right. Use your error. But that's not at all what David was thinking. David was thinking, God, you might have a completely different strategy. And I want to know what is the strategy

for this battle. David was so wise because God's strategy this time was totally different. He said, this time you're not gonna go straight at them. You're going to go around to their rear. He said, you know, I've got something up my sleeve. It's a sneak attack. But not only are you going to do a sneak attack from the rear, but you hold up David and wait for the sound of my army that you're gonna hear.

walking on the tops of the mulberry trees, my army going out ahead of you. And when you hear that sound of my army walking in the heavenlies on the top of the trees, then you follow them. That is absolutely incredible. Can you imagine David and his men? They're just kind of standing there. And his men are thinking, well, David,

When are you gonna give the sign? Aren't we supposed to just go at the enemy? I mean, they did it. They're lined up in the Valley of Refayim exactly as they were before. Last time we went at them and we defeated them. So are we going again? And David is thinking, He's saying to his guys, hold up guys, wait for it. Just wait. And they're thinking, wait for what?

until all of a sudden they hear the sound of the army of the Lord walking on the tops of the mulberry trees, the balsam trees. And David said, that's what we were waiting for. Go, go and follow that sound. It's absolutely incredible. So what is our part in this victory? Our part is to hear the voice of the Lord, to get a strategy.

Cecily Lachapelle (28:17.088)
and to walk in obedience to that and then to allow God to do his part. It's so incredible. I love this. In verse 25 where it says, David did as the Lord commanded him and struck down the Philistines. Hang on a second. Who struck down the Philistines? I am pretty sure He had help. But yet, even though

God came in with his heavenly army and fought that battle with and for David. David gets all the credit. That's the beauty of the partnership that we have in breakthrough, where we have our part. Our part is to seek the Lord, to listen for his voice, to hear the strategy, to obey what we hear, and even when it does not make sense.

to do what we have heard the Lord tell us. But then God has his part and his part is to lead. His part is to download that strategy when we seek it. His part is to come in with grace, giving us the desire and the ability to do our part. His part is to sustain us and to bring the victory. And yet, even in this beautiful dance where God is leading,

and we're following, we still get a W in our win column. It's absolutely incredible. It is a beautiful lifestyle of intimacy and dependence where we identify the strongholds, we inquire of God, and we obey his strategy. We obey and we follow his leading.

So now let's go to the third question that many of us ask when breakthrough seems to be elusive. And that is, why doesn't breakthrough happen immediately? If God answers faith, if He loves faith, and if He says, whatever you ask in my name, know that you have what you asked of me, then why doesn't breakthrough happen right when we pray?

Cecily Lachapelle (30:42.086)
Or when we take a step of faith, either we give a sacrificial financial gift or we, I don't know, step out of a corporate job to pursue ministry like I did, or we say we're gonna write the book that we were supposed to write, or start the ministry, or we're going to start serving somewhere and we're waiting for a breakthrough and it's not happening.

are some reasons why God sometimes allows us to wait. First of all, it's to develop perseverance and character on the inside of us. He's building endurance. So when the breakthrough comes, it won't crush us. Think about someone who is training for a marathon. They don't jump up the first day of training and run 25 miles. They run three.

and then five, and then 10, and then 15. They build and they build. And every time they add miles, every time they start pushing their pace, they feel like they're gonna die. But then they adapt to that new level of pushing themselves, that new pace, that new length, the new mileage, until they can run that marathon.

at a pace that they think will help them win. So God does that with us. He doesn't throw the whole race at us all at once. He allows us to build endurance and strength to be able to learn how to keep up the pace so that when that breakthrough comes, it won't crush us. Second of all, He is positioning us. And He's not just positioning us.

For our breakthrough, a lot of times, He has to bring a lot of pieces into alignment. And He's lining up every piece. Just like when Joseph was in prison, He was in prison for 14 years. And think about it, Pharaoh's cup bearer has a dream and Joseph says, you're gonna be restored to your position. I just asked that you would remember me to Pharaoh when you are restored.

Cecily Lachapelle (33:11.118)
Bearer completely forgets about him for two more years until Pharaoh has a dream that his soothsayers can't interpret. And the cup bearer has one of those, I should have had a V8 moment. And He says, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my gosh, Pharaoh, there's this guy. Yeah, He was in prison with me. And He actually interpreted the dream I had that.

told me I was going to be restored to my position and I was, I really think He can help you. Well, if Joseph was not in that prison at that moment when Pharaoh had that dream, if Joseph had actually weaseled his way out of prison, which who knows, maybe He could have. He had so much favor with the jailer that the jailer put him in charge of all the prisoners. He made him like the prison warden.

and He was one of the prisoners. So if Joseph had not been exactly in that spot the day that Pharaoh called for him, then none of all the transpired after could have or would have happened. The entire nation of Egypt would not have been saved from famine and his own family at that time living in Israel would also have died in the famine. And from Joseph's family came the Messiah.

So God was working all of these pieces, weather, climate, Pharaoh being in the right place to be able to have this dream. The cup bearer being in the right place to be able to tell Pharaoh about Joseph. It's hard for us though, when we're in those times and we don't see all that from our side of things, right? We don't know any of the things. We're wondering if God is doing anything.

And the enemy would love us to question that. But God is working. There's a song called Waymaker, and I love the part of the bridge where it says, even when I can't see it, you're moving. Even when I can't feel it, you're moving. We have to believe that. So then the other reason that we might have to wait for our breakthrough is the magnitude of the breakthrough. The bigger the breakthrough,

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the longer the preparation. Joseph's breakthrough was huge. It propelled him to the second highest position in all of Egypt, the greatest nation at the time. It also saved his family and saved the entire nation of Egypt. That was an enormous breakthrough. And so He had to be prepared for the weight of that assignment.

to be able to carry it. You know, I've heard it said that mommy elephants are pregnant for two years. They're pregnant for between 10 and 11 months. No, the opposite. They're pregnant for two years. The human gestation period is nine to 10 months. Why? Because elephants are birthing

an enormous mammal. So the bigger the breakthrough that's gonna come through your life, the longer you're gonna be pregnant with it. And then also, there's proper timing. We learn to hold the promises with open hands and humble hearts and not entitlement when our breakthrough is delayed.

We have to understand that for everything there is a season. So yes, while we go to God in faith, and we know that when we pray in faith, we have what we ask of Him, there needs to be that surrender, that release to say, God, I know that you're going to do this, but I release control of the how and the when to you.

Joseph's journey from the pit to the palace teaches us to cling to the God of the dreams, even when our circumstances look backward, even when it looks like nothing is happening, even when it looks like we are working our way farther and farther and farther backward from what God has promised us, from the inner witness, that dream that we've had inside our heart.

Cecily Lachapelle (38:02.018)
For years, we have to trust that God is holding our dream and that He is working and we will have our breakthrough in His time and in His way. So now let's talk about the personal application. In your personal time with the Lord this week, I want you to think about where you are at

in three important areas. Rate yourself and then journal about it. Ask the Lord where you're at. First of all, in pressing in, in receiving clarity in your waiting. Are you pressing in with peace, pressing in with confidence and boldness? Or are you pressing towards God out of fear or in control?

or manipulation, trying to make something happen in your own strength because you feel that the weight of your life is on you. Are you acting like an orphan or are you acting like a son, a son of God, knowing that the entire inheritance is yours, but that the father in his wisdom knows how and when to release each aspect of inheritance to us.

He knows when we're ready. And where are you at contending for your breakthrough?

Are you allowing the Lord to develop strength and endurance? Or are you beating the air with frantic prayers, with frantic intercession, not really allowing God's Holy Spirit to do his work on the inside of you? Are you flailing like a drowning person, just pushing yourself further under the waves of concern and

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and worry and anxiety. And then where are you at in the area of receiving, understanding that this is a dance. This is a dance of intimacy and dependence on the Lord. Are you able to rest? Are you able to release the care and the concern, the timing of this breakthrough to the Lord?

Are you in a place of intimacy with him where when He gives you strategy, you step out and follow his lead in obedience and dependence?

So as I close in prayer, I want you to consider where you're at in those areas regarding breakthrough. Let me pray for you. Father, I thank you that you've shown us that our breakthrough is three things. It's personal, it's generational, and it's for your glory. We ask for clarity of purpose in the waiting. Breathe fresh strength and endurance into every weary soul.

That is listening. Teach us to depend on you as David did and not make any assumptions about our own wisdom, our own strength, any assumptions about how our breakthrough is going to come and what we're gonna do. Help us to become so intimately entwined with you that we follow your lead. We obey you in faith, even when we don't understand.

and we relish our dependence on your Holy Spirit. Father, break every generational stronghold and release legacy blessings on our children's children. Lord, as we prepare, I invite your Holy Spirit to move in this place, to move through this podcast, staking your claim on every promise that you have ever spoken.

Cecily Lachapelle (42:21.235)
over us. I decree and declare that Jehovah Paratim, God of the breakthrough, is moving in our hearts and minds, bringing clarity, bringing intimacy, pouring out grace for vision and endurance, grace to get back in our race

If we allow discouragement to pull us out, grace to put your word in our mouth so that we are speaking your word and not our own words or worse yet, the devil's words over our life and our circumstances. I decree and declare that grace upon grace is being poured out upon your people today in the name of Jesus.

So friends, if you sense that the Lord is speaking something to you, maybe it is the confirmation of a promise or a strategy for your next step or a fresh impartation of faith. Write that down as soon as you can. Record it in your phone. Just declare it. Speak those things over yourself and over your lives, over your family.

and watch what God will do. And I prophesied that breakthrough is coming. I prophesied that chains are breaking, strongholds are falling, and a new wave of God's power is birthing vision inside of you. You are not alone. You are seated with Christ in heavenly places, far above. All power, all principality, all rule, every name that is named.

God has given you breakthrough in Christ. So go forth in obedience, partner with his power and watch him do the miraculous. Amen, amen. So right now I just prophesy over anyone who is facing that stronghold of depression. I just sense that there's someone who's watching here.

Cecily Lachapelle (44:46.52)
where you have been fighting against depression. You have sought counselors. You have sought pharmaceuticals. You have sought even new age practices for relaxation. And nothing has broken down that stronghold of depression. And you are feeling defeated. And the Lord wants you to know right now that He is sending a grace for breakthrough.

over you, breakthrough in your mind, even breakthrough in the chemicals in your brain. He is bringing alignment to how your brain fires. And He is burning. He is just cauterizing certain neural synapses that always fire, that always speak a depression word to you. And He is opening new pathways, new vision.

A new light is coming into your heart, into your thoughts, and into your life. And I just want to encourage you right now, don't fight it. You are so unaccustomed to joy that it is almost going to feel silly when it starts to bubble up on the inside of you. But don't fight it. Don't shut it down. This is God. When positive thoughts and positive words start bubbling up on the inside of you, don't shut it down.

because you've become so accustomed to thinking that negative words are actually logical and reasonable. And you feel like looking at something positively is just silly and frivolous. No, no, God is breaking off of you a generational stronghold of depression right now. So cooperate with it and obey him when He prompts you.

to speak something positive and life-giving over yourself. I see you looking in the mirror at yourself and the Holy Spirit prompting you to say nice things to the reflection you see. And you are gonna feel so silly, but don't. Do it, obey, because God is breaking that depression off you. He is breaking the self-loathing off of you, the feelings of worthlessness.

Cecily Lachapelle (47:15.916)
He's breaking that off of you, so cooperate with him. Get in the dance and let him lead. I just bless you, and I hope that you will communicate with me and tell me about the changes that God is bringing because I'm really excited for you. And for the rest of you, thank you for listening to the Higher Pursuit podcast. If any of this word has encouraged you at all, please share it with a friend. And I will see you.

in the next podcast as we keep pressing on in our higher pursuit of Jesus.