Personal Breakthrough

Galatians 1:10New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁰ For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.

For many of us who are perfectionist and have small bouts of anxiety when things don’t go right or approached with things that are foreign to us, we struggle with the idea of pleasing man more so than God.

What keeps us trapped is our need to please everyone around us and not mess up, to avoid disappointing others and fearing that they will look down on you.

Personal breakthrough is next to impossible when we are focused on pleasing anyone other than God. The pressure of not being able to conquer a fear that everyone knows you have prevents us from reaching our full potential.

For years I haven’t been able to drive on the freeway after having two nerve-wrecking experiences. I allowed other’s fears and horrible experiences overlap my fears from being inexperienced and thus “crippling” myself in that area. I noticed that if I allowed that “crippling” process to happen-fear overlapping other’s negative experiences- I would continue to be wrapped up in self-inflicted bondage.

It wasn’t until I finally got so wrapped up in bondage that my physical and mental body turned on me and ended up on bed rest from a stress/worry induced neck injury. It wasn’t until I gradually let go of the worries I had and the self-inflicted need to have to get everything done and done right-right away, that I was able to breakthrough each chain that had bound me.

I finally made up my mind that I was going to get on the freeway and gave up every worry/anxious thought up to the Lord for Him to handle. That was when I felt the biggest breakthrough in entire life-it was a supernatural release that allowed me to break that final chain.

You can breakthrough any chains in your life, if you make up your mind and give it all to Him!