Don't Quit Now: Why The Enemy Attacks Right Before Your Breakthrough

Have you ever noticed that your biggest battles happen right before your biggest victory? There's a spiritual reason for that. There is a force that is unseen that would do anything and everything to make sure that you do not accomplish what God created you to accomplish. Today, I wanna give you six things that you need to pay attention to. If you're gonna get the breakthrough that you desire, if you're gonna get the breakthrough that you've been praying for, regardless of what obstacles that you're facing today, if you would listen to these six things, you're going to see a major transformation that begins to happen in your life today. Now a lot of people sometimes don't understand that there are spiritual forces that are at work twenty four seven and they will try to do anything, everything to oppose you in any and which way possible. Sometimes that means they come through your business, through your relationships, through your careers, through your friends, through your families, and several different method. Whatever works, that is what they're going to use against you. But I wanna give you hope. If you're going through a dark season in your life, if you're going through a time when it seems like God doesn't make any sense, if you have been broken, if you have been dealing with a time when you're saying, why is this happening to me? What did I do to deserve this? Now as human beings, those are all the questions that we ask when things get rough. You know, when when your back is up against the wall, you sometimes blame yourself, but I wanna help you to understand that there is something greater than what you're looking at. That what if this whole time you have been focusing on the wrong thing? I wanna help you to understand and pinpoint exactly what is this one thing that is hindering me from getting the breakthrough that I've been praying for, that I've been working hard for, that I am believing for. There's a major shift that is happening in your life that if you will only just allow God to lead you, you're going to enter into a new season. Now, a lot of times when we talk about new season, people don't understand what a new season means. A new season doesn't mean that the problems stop. A new season doesn't mean that the pain stops. A new season doesn't mean that you're not going to hurt, that you're not going to cry, that you're not going to go through pain and hardships and frustration. But a new season means that God is going to give you new strength, God is going to build you up, God is going to position and reposition the right relationships in your life. And that is what matters because whenever you're going into a new season, you have to learn how to make the right adjustments. So today I wanna give you six things that you need to pay attention to. If you're gonna get the breakthrough that you desire, if you're gonna get the breakthrough that you've been praying for, regardless of what obstacles that you're facing today, if you would listen to these six things, you're going to see a major transformation that begins to happen in your life today. In the Old Testament, we see a prime example of Moses going to deliver the children of Israel from Egypt. He went to Pharaoh and said, hey, God said let my people go. And the Pharaoh said, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do it. Moses had to perform through the Lord 10 different miracles before the children of Israel were released. And Moses had his time of frustration. As a matter of fact, the primary reason why Moses did not enter the promised land, even though he saw the promised land, was because Moses had over 3,000,000 people that were always complaining, that always, you know, when things didn't go how they wanted it to go, well Moses, you took us out of Egypt to bring us back in this desert, there's nothing here and they did nothing but complain. So when the Lord told Moses to speak to the rock, out of what I believe is frustration, out of so much pressure, Moses hit the rock. And because of that, God said to Moses, look, you see the promised land, but you're not going in it. Now the reason I share that story is that you're gonna deal with pressure, you have to get accustomed to dealing with pressure in life. Everything is not always going to be smooth. Now, there's gonna be times when things that happen in your life, that will stop you dead in your tracks. You just it'll freeze you. If you've never been through anything, that freezes you in life. Keep living, you're gonna deal with some of that. So you have to always expect that things will not go according to plan, right? But that doesn't stop you from preparing. Moses faced opposition, David faced opposition with Goliath, Daniel faced opposition, Daniel had to serve under four different kings, and throughout the entire time when Daniel was serving under four kings, Daniel was dealing with constant and imminent danger, you know, he was dealing with a lot of pressure, Daniel was dealing with a lot of spiritual warfare. He was dealing with the highest level of witchcraft, which was part of the government, and he was a government official. So you have to understand that these spiritual forces, they have attacked others before. Now, you need to know that your bloodline matters, that is why you have to know your family history, who dealt with what, who overcame what, who didn't overcome what. And whatever they did not overcome, then you're gonna deal with the same thing. The enemy always intensify attack when you're close to your destiny. Why does this seem like the attacks in your life get intensified when you're closer to your destiny, when you're closer to something great? That is because the enemy doesn't know everything. He's not omniscient. So, based off of the decisions that you make, he can say, okay, based off of the decisions that your family made, your mother made, your father made, your brothers made, based on the decision that, look, every family have a certain pattern of how to make decisions. If you look at it, every single family, they have a systematic way, good or bad, of how to make decisions. And they usually follow through the same mindset, follow the entire family. So the enemy will use use that. What is the mindset that your father had or your mother had or your your parents had or other family members have, right, that right there, he can attack that because he knows that you too are gonna follow suit, you're gonna follow the same exact way of making decisions. And when you're closer to something, he intensifies that pressure, he intensifies because if he can he can't stop certain things, right? The enemy is not that powerful to stop your destiny. Now, what he can do, he'll find a way to have you abort your destiny. He'll put enough pressure on you to give up on certain things. He'll put enough pressure to you to stop believing in God, to stop praying. If he can put enough pressure on you for that, then that's half the battle already won. The more opposition that you're facing when you are in alignment with God's will for your life, that is to let you know you are closer to something that he doesn't want you to get closer to. You are so close to the edge, that means that you've tapped into something that he didn't want you to tap into. Now, all that you gotta do, all that you gotta do is just to continue on. And one of the things that the enemy attacks is your prayer life, right? When you're going through things, I don't know about you, but I know I can speak for me, when you're going through obstacles, you're going through challenges, you're going through frustrations sometimes, you don't always wanna pray because the thinking is prayer's not gonna do anything. You know, if I pray now it was gonna change, nothing is going to change. But you gotta push the urge and you gotta fight that. And you have to recognize that when you're going into a pre breakthrough season, what is a pre breakthrough season? A pre breakthrough season is when you understand the patterns in your life, and I talk about this all the time, you need to understand the pattern in your life because your life is based off of patterns, right, just like we have the different seasons. You need to know, okay, based off of where I'm at, I'm coming into a season, I'm coming into a pattern of whatever it is. There's some seasons in your life where you you realize that you're financially, like, the money just begin to flow from all over the place, money just come like, you don't even work hard for it that much, it just comes to you easily. And then there are seasons and times when it's something like you have to fight so hard just to make money, like you have to hustle, hustle, you have to work hard, you have to do so many different things, sometimes you gotta get multiple jobs, you gotta go back and forth, and it's it's a fight. You need to read and understand the seasons and the times of your life, how patterns work. If you can know how patterns work in your life, not only can you predict those patterns, but you can create them. That is where mastery comes in. You elevate to a different level in your life when you begin to not just recognize the patterns in your life, but you begin to create the patterns in your life. I was listening to someone talking and they say something that was so vital, they said this, when you're in summer, don't just think about summer, you have to think winter is coming. So during your summer months, you have to begin to think about the winter season, what preparation do you need to do for the winter season, what adjustments do you need to do for the winter seasons. The same thing to when winter is there, you have to think about summer's coming, what adjustments do you have to make? Now, and summer might just symbolize the seasons and the natural, but I'm talking about in life. You have to look at your life. I can guarantee you this, when you look at your life every summer, the pattern that happened last summer is repeating this summer again. The pattern that happened last winter is repeating this winter again. The challenges that you faced last summer, you're facing the same challenges and even worse this summer. Right? The adjustments that you made last summer, you didn't make, whatever, you notice that those patterns are repeating again and you have to make a change about it. If not, you go in that same cycle over and over again. The enemy isn't random in his attacks. He is very strategic. That is what people don't really understand is that the enemy just doesn't attack you just because it feels like attacking you. There is a strategy for everything that he does, right? Ecclesiastes three talks about it, right? It says there's a time and a season for everything under the sun. The same thing too with God. God never do anything without purpose. God is not gonna just do things just for amusement's sake, right? God always have a purpose behind everything that he does in your life. And there's two different types of warfare that you're going to face. You have what I call a normal spiritual warfare and then you have what I call a breakthrough warfare. The levels of those are two different things, right? A normal spiritual warfare is just things that you have to deal with on a regular basis, just just life. Right? You have to make sure that you're praying, you have to be able to watch where you're going, you have to pay attention to your surroundings. Right? Those are just normal things, you know, the people that you deal with, you have to be watchful, you know, those, right? And then you get to a place where a breakthrough warfare, it happens more so in the spirit realm than in the physical realm. A breakthrough means that there are forces that are conspiring you, whether they're witches, they're wizards, they're warlocks, there are people, agents of darkness, human agents of darkness that the enemy uses, excuse me, that the enemy uses to find some way to infiltrate your life, to send the wrong connections to you. I remember there was one time when a lady had joined a small prayer meeting that we're having, and when she joined us, we prayed, something crazy began to happen. She began to try to astral project, and someone caught it during that time, and we began to pray against it. Now this someone who professed to be a Christian, come to find out later on that she was a witch that was sent to destroy the ministry, right? So there's certain attacks that if you don't pay attention to, and these type of deeper attacks, they're usually bloodline related because again, the forces of darkness can see that your father struggled with this, or your mother or some ancestor of yours gave permission, they dealt with some type of struggle that because they never overcame that, that opened up their legal grounds for them to be able to get access to you, to your kids, your grandkids, and so on and so forth until someone recognizes that pattern and they break it once and for all. And I believe that you are that one person that is going to break that pattern, you are that one person that is going to demolish that, you're going to sever every ties with the kingdom of darkness. And the enemy also uses doubt. Oh, don't believe God, that's not gonna happen. Don't trust God. You know, God is not gonna do anything, you know, you've believed before but nothing happened, what makes you think that believing now again, something's gonna happen this time? So he is always going to use doubt as a method and as a way. Now, there are five signs that reveal that you're under pre breakthrough attack. I wanna give you these five signs, so when you begin to notice that you're experiencing any one of these, that is a warning to you that you gotta get back in your prayer closet, you gotta get back on your knees and say, I'm under attack. I need help. I'm under attack. Sign number one, increase resistance in your business, in your ministry, in your organization, in your calling, you go through a season where there is increased resistance. Now you know what I'm talking about. There are times when it's something like you can't catch a at all, you fight this, it's like one battle after another battle, and it sounds like you can't get a break, right? Just when you think you've defeated one battle, another one is just waiting for you. Just you think, as you're finishing the other battle, something else, attack after attack after attack, that is a sign to let you know that you are approaching something, you have tapped into something, you are getting ready to unlock something, and because you are getting ready to unlock something, the enemy will do anything, he will use anybody to stop that. Sign number two, dreams and vision become more vivid, both good and bad. Now, talk about this a lot, having dreams. The most impactful way that God speaks to me is through dreams and visions. When I'm trying to figure things out, I'm not really sure what's going on sometimes. Oh, I love to go to sleep. I said, Lord, there's something that's happened, and there are times that I can tell that God wants to speak to me through a dream. I can feel it in my spirit, even before I go to bed, and when I notice that, I always have my phone, I tell you guys, get a phone next to you, get a phone, I have this recording app, right? The second I lay down, I have a dream and I can record it. So when you begin to see dreams and you begin to see visions, sometimes the dreams are warning dreams, God will let you know be careful about this, sometimes it's directional dreams, I need you to go in this direction, sometimes it's wisdom. You're gonna be faced with certain decisions and you need God to give you wisdom and give you guidance, so he does that. Sign number three, relationship faced unusual strain or opposition. When you begin to realize that your relationships are falling apart and there's nothing that you're doing now, there are times when people do things, right, but I'm talking about your relationships are falling apart left and right and you're like, what is happening? That is to let you know that the enemy understands the currency of relationships. If he can move and remove the right people in your life, he is going to try to introduce the wrong people in your life. Sign number four, physical and mental fatigue without clear cause. You just feel tired all the time, you feel burned out, you feel overwhelmed all the time. And you're like, what is going on? Why do I always feel so overwhelmed? Why do I always feel so tired? Why am I always so drained and I haven't done anything that caused me to be this drained? That is another sign that you gotta pay attention to. Sign number five, the temptation to quit or compromise increases dramatically. The enemy begin to present you with certain things for you to compromise your faith, for you to compromise your standards, for you to compromise your beliefs, for you to compromise that some things you said, you know what, I will never do this. But because the enemy sees something great is gonna happen, he introduces you to things that will get you to compromise. When you begin to see those five signs, that is to let you know. If you notice those things are happening to you, don't ignore those. That is the time you get on your knees and say, Lord, things are shifting in my life. I don't know all that's happening, but I know things are shifting. Give me wisdom, show me the way, connect me with the right relationships, connect me with the right people. Number four, and I wanna help you now through the breakthrough preparation process, okay? God uses pre breakthrough warfare to prepare you, so that way, whatever's coming, because if you're gonna get what God has for you, he needs to prepare you, so all these challenges that you're going through, it hurts. It is painful, it's not funny, it's like, Lord, I don't wanna go through this again. But it is to prepare you for something that's coming, your next level spiritually. So when God is getting ready to elevate you to the next level, he gotta make sure that you're you're you're fine tuned. You know, the bible says, iron sharpens iron. So in that time in your life, in that season, God will begin to put people that will refine you. What does refining you means? Refine you means God will put people that will give you constructive criticism, people that will let you know, hey, you know, what about this? Have you thought about doing things this way? People that will help refine your gift, people that'll bring they'll bring more clarity to the direction that you're going than confusion because the bible says that God is not the author of confusion. And this is the time to why your character must match your calling, preparation through pressure. Look, there's something that pressure does to you, right? Pressure can either break you or it can make you. Based on where you are mentally, and there's so many people that deal with pressure today that they get broken and they give up. If you have been through intense pressure, that is to let you know that there's something inside of you that God wants to bring out more. It's not to hurt you or not to destroy you, right? But it's to break you so that he can mold you. That is what I call the refining fire. It removes what will serve your breakthrough. There's certain relationships in your life that have to die in order for the right ones to come in. There's certain people that need to leave you, God needs to remove. Sometimes you gotta leave certain jobs, you gotta leave certain cities, you gotta leave certain ministries or churches or businesses or whatever. Sometimes, you have to leave to find what God has for you. Now, leaving doesn't always necessarily mean you travel to another country, even though sometimes that's the case. Sometimes leaving could just mean you set certain boundaries that says, you know what, these are the boundaries that I'm not gonna let anybody pass, nobody's gonna push these boundaries. And the difference begin to show, right, is building unshakable faith through the testing process. Unshakable faith. It's not easy, but you need to go through that little tension sometimes. You go through the tension as hard, as painful, but you stick through it all. You stay with the Lord. Now, there's one thing that I can say that I thank God for. Regardless of what I go through in life, I always get back on my knees. Regardless of the obstacles that I face, abandonment, frustration, whatever comes my way, the one secret that I have learned in my forty one years of living is that no matter what I go through, the best place for me to always be is back on my knees and back in the presence of the Lord. Because that is where you get clarity, that is where you get strength, that is where you get direction, that is where you get encouragement, and that is where you find your purpose and yourself again. The mistake most people make, they're going through hard times, they're going through challenging times that they don't understand, so they stop dealing with the Lord. They just they just backslide. You know what? This God thing, I'm done with it. This church thing, I'm done with it. That is exactly what the enemy wants you to do. Gotta use dreams to help you to understand and bring clarity. He wants to He want you to build a strong support system. You need to build a strong support system that will save you from so many unnecessary battles. When you build a strong support system, you don't know everything. There are people that God, if you allow them now, let me say this, there are people that if you allow them that God sends into your life, they will be that support system that you need. But sometimes pride comes in the way, oh, I don't need anybody, I can be a lone wolf, I can be a lone warrior, I can be an island. You can never survive or thrive as an island. We're not designed that way, we're designed for relationships. So, that's what the enemy wants to do. He wants to remove the right relationships in your life, so he can bring the wrong ones. And the final thing that you need to understand for your break is that your mindset matters. Romans says that, do not be conformed to this world, but what? Be you transformed by the renewing of your mind. Your mindset matters more than your prayers. Let me say it again, your mindset matters more than your prayers. Your mindset will override your prayers. So that is why you have to shift it. You have to shift it from asking questions like, you know, why is this happening to me to what is God preparing me for? Lord, what do you you gotta be you gotta have something so great for me that you're allowing me to go through this hardship. You're allowing me to go through this trial. What are you preparing me for? You gotta be excited about what is to come because God is doing something. And you gotta be able to speak life over yourself. When you're going through challenges, don't say things like, oh man, you know, it's so hard, oh, it's so hard, oh, I hate this, I can't stand this. Nothing ever works out for me. Oh, this is the story of my life. You know, everybody does this to me. Nothing good happens to me. Your life become words. Your your I mean, your words become life. So when you speak those things, you're releasing them in the atmosphere, you're releasing that energy. I learned something key about energy that changed the way that I do things. Energy never dies, it just changes form. You have kinetic energy that is always moving or you have a stable energy that just stays in the same place, doesn't move. So when you begin to say things like, oh, I hate this, oh, I'm sick of this, oh, man, I'm always broke, I never have anything. You won't have anything, you're always gonna be broke, you're always gonna be frustrated, but you gotta switch. Oh, I am blessed. Today is the best day of my life. Man, I'm connected with the right relationships today. Father, I thank you that you're connecting me with the right people in my life. Man, God, you're so good. Speak the opposite of every negative thing you feel and the more you do that, you're gonna realize that your life begin to change for the better. And you have to learn to maintain hope when everything else looks impossible. You gotta learn to maintain hope when it seems like nothing is working, everything is falling apart, you gotta have hope, you gotta believe, you can't just give up. There are times when you're gonna be going through so much hardship. The only thing that will keep you going is hope Because everything around you is falling apart. But just the thought of, you know what, things can change. Things must change. Things will change. Just the thought of that will keep you going. Take small steps. Sometimes we wanna take this massive, gigantic steps. Celebrate the small victories that you have. If you have a rough week and let's say out of seven days, maybe five of those days, you know, you could barely get out of bed, but two of those days you're able to get out of bed and have some type of energy, positivity, outlook, celebrate those two days because that is what is gonna keep you going. That is what is gonna keep you moving. And create accountability and celebration systems. Create accountability, you need to be accountable to someone, right, someone that you can talk to, you can run things by, someone that has sound wisdom, not just anybody, because the wrong person talking in your air during your season of hardship, that will cause you so much more pain. There are people, I've spoken to so many people that regret. They regret who they listen to when they were going through hard times. They regret who they listened to when they couldn't figure life out. They regret who they were listening to because the people that they were listening to, they were doing nothing but getting them in more trouble, they were giving them wrong advice, they were giving them wrong counsel, that at the moment, at that specific time, it sounded good, it sounded wonderful, but two years later, five years later, that caused nothing but, you know, nonsense. It caused nothing but pain in their lives. It caused nothing but setbacks in their lives. And two years later, five years later, sometimes ten years later, they look back and they go, oh man, I should not have listened to those people or to that person. I shouldn't have listened to them. And that's how it always ends up, but not for you, because it's gonna change for the better for you today.