BREAKING OUT OF LIMITATION

Breaking Out of Limitation         

Text: Judges 11vs1-11

  

Now ^dJephthah the Gileadite was ^ea mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah. ² And Gilead’s wife also bore him sons. And when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.” ³ Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of ^fTob, and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.

⁴ After a time the Ammonites made war against Israel. ⁵ And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of ^fTob. ⁶ And they said to Jephthah, “Come and be our leader that we may fight against the Ammonites.” ⁷ But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?” ⁸ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the Ammonites and ^hbe our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.” ⁹ Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight against the Ammonites, and the Lord gives them over to me, I will be your head.” ¹⁰ And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, ⁱ“The Lord will be witness between us, if we do not do as you say.” ¹¹ So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people ^jmade him head and leader over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words ^kbefore the Lord at ^lMizpah.

What is LIMITATION? something that limits a quality or achievement, the act of limiting or the condition of being limited.

Limitation is synonymous to constraints, restriction or drawbacks; this are things that prevent us from moving forward or expand our territorial capacity, they constitute struggles and frustration in the life of a man. Limitation does not respect personality; it cannot determine human nature but have capacity to withhold the nature of a man.

Limitation of Jephthah is the genesis of his troubles and this begins with his mother, sometimes our limitations in life are parental while some are individualize. There are several limits that we are battling with right now that the origin is from our parent, it could be background deficiency, financial inadequacy, spiritual incapacitation or educational restriction, in whatever dimension it is, we are more that our limitations. Limitation does not determine our true person. The fact that Jephthah mother is a prostitute creates a very unacceptable atmosphere that makes life a very unbearable and hopeless place for him. His limitation are quite much But his true person cannot be change no matter how much or how big limitation can present itself. Jephthah is a mighty man of warrior, whether his mother was a prostitute or not or he is an illegitimate child or not.

Some of Jephthah limitations are as follows:

1. Illegitimate child 2. Abandoned by mother 3.Mother’s background as prostitute 4.Bitter resentment (thrown out of his father’s house) 5. Injustice over his inheritance 6.Economic recession (mingle with worthless fellows) 7. Rejected by brothers and families 8. Limited by opportunities.

But all this mentioned limitation as we can identify them does not change the eternal composition of Jephthah ability, it does not define who Jephthah is, there is no amount or magnitude of limitations that can change who you are in God. Who you are is divinely composed and cannot be change by earthly designed physical or spiritual limitations. Gods dealing with man is according to who he created him to be not according to his limitation or challenges. Seldom, most deadly limitation that destroy man is internal which is the capacity of the devil to make you believe who you are not..

HOW DO I BREAK OUT OF MY LIMITATIONS

1.  MAKE A CHOICE:Deut30vs19 ^s I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that ^tI have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; Breaking out of Limitation is a personal responsibility, you have to make a decision because breaking out of your limits is not going to be an easy road so you have to determine to fight the battle, your strong conviction of readiness is your strength to overcome. You have to stand to face your limitations, fight it and conquer it. Before you begin to see changes from your outside, you must have win the battle of the inside, the victory over limitation comes within, to break out you have to make a choice.
2. BE A MAN OF FAITH: Heb11vs32-34 And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: ³³ who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, ³⁴ quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. It Pleases God for you to break out of your limitation, after making that decision and choose to break out, the next thing is to increase your faith. You have to come to a level that you entrust your entire life to Jesus, he has capacity to deliver you, and he is our present help in time of need. He is God that is able to change all things and he himself never change.
3. BE A MAN OF PEACE: Judge11vs12-14 “he resolved injustice with forgiveness and blessing, there was no bitterness or strife in his heart. Also ths scripture confirm it by saying follow peace with all men, ps34vs14 God said that we should seek peace and pursuit it,Mk9vs50 God expectation for us is to live in pece with each other,ps37vs37 it is in your peace that your future lies, there is future for a man of peace. If you really want to live or break out of your limitation, you have to be a man of peace.
4. BE A MAN OF POWER: Judges11vs29 identifying your gifting and developing it have capacity of making you a very powerful person, it is essential that you work on your self so that you can become very powerful  in what God has deposited in your life. To break-out of your limitation, you need the spirit of truth and power which is the holy spirit. In breaking out there is disconnection and connection process, you have to disconnect yourself from the lies of the enemy about your limitation and connect to the truth of God for your life.

CONCLUSION:

What could your Limitation be? God is able to empower you to overcome your limitations, what God does is empowerment.Eph3vs20 God is magnificent in power, bigger than limitation, problems or challenges of any kind whatsoever, God’s power is at work in YOU.

UNFOLDING THE ETERNITY IN THE HEART OF MAN

UNFOLDING THE ETERNITY IN THE HEART OF MAN

TEXT: ECC3VS11

NAS: 1 He has made everything ^[a]appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart; ^[b]yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

NKJV: ¹¹ He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.

NIV: He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet^[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

What is eternity?

1. Infinite or unending time.               

  

2. A state to which time has no application; timelessness.

God has finished the work of creation in 6^th days, and since then all things we could ever think or imagine has be made in all. But each of what God has made have time and season to unfolds, it is set to be beautiful at the time of its unfolding. God’s assignment in our life has been finished from the beginning to the end, God is not doing the work of creation in any man’s life anymore, he has finished it from the beginning, that means what you will become or achieve in life has been finished and deposited in you while you are still in your mother’s womb and yet to be born into this world. Whatever comes to you as a desire, expectation or interest has been completely made available to you at the beginning of your life? We cannot fathom the eternity in our heart, we cannot fathom the unending time that has been set in the heart of man. 

Every of our daily activities have been pre-programmed by God, what we do daily as we go by our daily assignment is the unfolding of what has already been pre-programmed by our maker (GOD). God has designed us to have everything we need in our life from the beginning our life is synonymous to a wrapped food that we cannot eat until it is unwrapped, we cannot enjoy what God has already done from the beginning to the end unless we find out how to unwrap the benefits of our existence. Our quest in life is to solve the puzzle of the wrapped food.

Also, all that God has done from the beginning to the end is synonymous to software; software cannot be beneficial to the user if it’s not activated and duly skilled by the user. That is if the user is not adequately skilled on how the software works it will not benefit the user, also if the user knows how it works and not activate it,; it’s still going be of no benefits to the user. God has pre-programmed our life for all the best that our life may require to live to its fullness but we need to be skilled on what god has given to us and also activate it. 

The eternity in the heart of man cannot be fathom because we have not positioned ourselves to be skilled for activation process of what God has done in us from the beginning to the end.

Most believer skills have lost its efficacy, which is why we struggle to unfolds the eternity that has been set in our heart. God will not set an eternity in our heart if he does not want us to unfolds it, Deut29vs29 ²⁹ The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

How can I Sharpen my Believer’s Skill to unfolds eternity that God has set in my Heart

1.Praying Skills: Jer 29vs12-14: ¹² Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.¹³ And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.¹⁴ And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
Prayer is a way offered by the Holy Spirit to reach God.  It is not merely a question or an entreaty. It is a skilled that we need to sharpen so that we unfolds the eternity in our heart, prayer is a strategy to seek and search for the eternity that God has done from the beginning.

Jeremiah 33:3: ³ Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

The eternity in our heart is unknown to us despite the fact it’s in us, but if we sharpen our praying skills, God will show us the unknown within us. Our eternity is great and might, our divine composition is great and mighty but the only way to unfolds this greatness is to sharpen our praying skill…we have to become a praying machine.

2. Praising Skills: Ps78⁴ we will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. Praise, according to the Scriptures, is an act of our will that flows out of an awe and reverence for our Creator. Praise gives glory to God and opens us up to a deeper union with Him. It turns our attention off of our problems and on the nature and character of God Himself.
As we focus our minds on God and proclaim His goodness, we reflect His glory back to Him. The results can fill you with peace and contentment (Isaiah 26:3) and transform your outlook on life. Another skills that we need to sharpen is our praising skills, in praise God reveals himself with clarity, he give us the understanding of thing that has been done that we have not yet seen Ps71⁵ For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.⁶ By thee have I been Holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.⁷ I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge.⁸ Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.

If we must unfolds the eternity in the heart of man, we have to learn to praise the one that set the eternity in our heart so that he can reveal to us what that is done but we are have not known.

3. Learning Skills/Studying Skills: Roman 15vs4: ⁴ For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. We need to deeply involve in study the word of God for us to receive clarity on what God has already been done in our life. The word of God is available for us to learn the proceeds on how eternity can be unfold from us, because everything written is written for our learning. Pss119vs8: ¹⁸ open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from your law.

What studying of God’s word does is to open our insight to the knowledge of God proceedings in unfolding the works of God that has been finished from the beginning in our life.

Conclusion:

The eternity that God has set in our heart is simply our desire to become all that God has made us to be in this life and generation, to be able to come into the fullness of God wondrous works in our life, we have to understand the principle of sharpening our skills. Let work by rules of the software and the user, so that we can live and enjoy our life to fullness.