It’s Time To Breakout!

Satan uses ancient strategies that causes us to trip up, lose momentum or focus and get caught in traps. Jesus identified one of these strategies and provided the solution for it in Matthew 5:23-24 - I call it the getting out of jail card.

Jesus said, “So if when you are offering your gift at the altar you there remember that your brother has any [grievance] against you, Leave your gift at the altar and go. First make peace with your brother, and then come back and present your gift.”

Matthew 5:23-24 AMPC

Here we see that Jesus was not addressing the issues or the confrontation that took place between individuals which created some level of hurt, offense, rejection and pain. He never said one was wrong or right in their behavior towards each other.

He was informing us that the unresolved issue or lack of attempts to reconcile our differences has given the enemy permission to create a barrier or a wedge in the relationship between us and God - yes, between us and God! This is where we are locked out of the realm of answered prayers. To firmly put it we been put in a place of restricted access and the only way out or forward is to provide the password of “obeying God’s kingdom principles and make peace regardless of if the other person receives or rejects it.”

This is good news - we have a choice! Sit in the prison of restricted access where we are governed by Satan using our emotions and pride creating closed heavens or deploy the weapons of forgiveness and reconciliation, breakout and allow our heavens to be open!

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“Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.”

John 15:4-5 NLT

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.”

Proverbs 3:5-6 NLT