Revelation Breakthroughs pt. 2, Scott Howard

God Encounters pt 3Revelation Breakthroughs pt. 2Sunday, July 18, 2021Scott Howard*God wants you to have more than one breakthrough in your life…*It is possible to be saved and filled with the Holy Spirit and not walk in the abundance Jesusprovided for us. It is possible to come to church week after week and remain totally unaware ofwho we are and what we have in Christ. It is possible to run around the church and shout“Hallelujah!” with tears rolling down our cheeks, and go home sick, depressed, poor, and stilldefeated in life.*Let’s all make some room in our lives for God to increase us...*Every believer will face challenges and barriers to the will of God in their lives…but even themost difficult barriers can be broken, and we can go to places in God we have never been before.*Paul’s prayer in Ephesians 1 contains the necessary ingredients for breakthrough to thebarriers we face…*Basic…who is Paul praying for…The Ephesians 1 prayer is not for heathens or sinners. Paulwas praying for people who had been filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues andhad seen God move…*Acts 19: 11 tells us that God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul in Ephesus. Theyeven experienced tremendous revival and phenomenal miracles in their lives and in their church.Historical records even say that the church at Ephesus grew to more than one hundred thousandpeople! These believers were on fire and within two years all of Asia heard the Word of God(Acts 19: 10). Yet, Paul wrote to them and said, “I’m praying for you.”*Most believers never progress beyond their initial revelation of God.*God wants us to have ever-increasing breakthroughs in revelation…Paul prayed for believers tosee what God sees. He prayed that we would see different scenery by the spirit of wisdom andrevelation. He prayed that we would have a revolutionary revelation— that we would see thingsso differently that it would totally change the course of our lives.See what God sees; say what God says; do what God does.*I remember a story of the four blind men that were each holding on to a different part of anelephant. One held the tail and said an elephant was like a rope. One held the leg and said anelephant was like a tree. One held the trunk and said an elephant was like a snake. One felt theside of the elephant and said he was like a wall. Each man’s revelation was limited to the parthe experienced. Many of us are like that today with our relationship with God. God wants toopen our eyes to see the whole elephant. There is more that God has for us. Revelation opensGod’s goodness and power to us and through us!Ephesians 1:17-23… “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may giveunto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18  The eyes of yourunderstanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, andwhat the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19  And what is the exceedinggreatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mightypower, 20  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at hisown right hand in the heavenly places, 21  Far above all principality, and power, and might,and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that whichis to come: 22  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over allthings to the church, 23  Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.”“And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginningof the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent2that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly plCheck out our app, Life Church Live:Available on Google Play & App StoresGiving: life-church.org/givingBaptism: https://www.life-church.org/ihavedecidedYouTube ChannelMobile Campus FacebookHurley Campus FacebookInstagram