THE LINE

Breaking Through by Praying Through

Why is it important to pray

1.)  Man is God’s prize ____________

 Genesis 1:24-26

²⁴ Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. ²⁵ And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

²⁶ Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over ^[g]all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” ²⁷ So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. ²⁸ Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that ^[h]moves on the earth.

2.)  Being ____________ to the way that he will have you to go.

James 4:7

⁷ Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Genesis 2:18

⁵ And the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

¹⁶ And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

¹⁷ But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Breaking Through by Praying Through

OCTOBER THE MONTH OF BREAKTHROUGH

OCTOBER THE TENTH MONTH

THE BIBLCAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NUMBER TEN

 The biblical meaning of number 10 is completed course of time or completeness in divine order.  Number 10 is the symbol of matter in harmony.

The 10 Commandments

God gave us the 10 Commandments that were a reflection of His expectations of mankind and as a way to represent His holiness.    Why not 15 or 20?   The number 10 reflects God’s authority or God’s governmental rule over the affairs of mankind.  This is seen elsewhere as in the 10 elders that were placed in most of the city gates of Israel (Ruth 4:2) so the number 10 also seems to represent man’s responsibility of obedience to God

The 10 Toes and Horns of Daniel and Revelation

As 10 represented God’s governmental rule, so does the number 10 represent the rule of mankind but also the Evil One behind man’s government as we see in the 10 toes of Daniel 2 and in Revelation chapter’s 13 and 17 of the beast with the 10 horns.    The beast has 10 toes and 10 diadems (Rev 13:1) and the beast’s 10 horns represented 10 kings (Rev 17:12).

The 10 of Genesis

The phrase “God said” appears 10 times in the creation week of Genesis 1.  I don’t believe in coincidences so the fact that “God said” is mentioned 10 times may be His way of saying that there is completeness in all of God’s creation and in all that God says.   I find it interesting that humans, who were created in the image of God (Gen 1:27), have 10 fingers and ten toes.

The 10 Plagues

When God punished Egypt for not letting Israel Go, there were 10 plagues which are reflective of the completeness of God’s judgment. 

The Passover Lamb

The Passover lamb was to be sacrificed on the 10^th day of the first month (Ex 12:3) which was symbolic of the true Passover Lamb, Jesus Christ which John the Baptist noticed when He saw Christ and said “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29b).  Since Jesus was the atonement provided for sinners, the Day of Atonement was on the 10^th day of the 7^th month.

Ten Generations

There were exactly 10 generations that lived up to the flood of Noah’s day when the flood of God’s judgment on sinful mankind overwhelmed all those who refused to repent.   Noah was the 10^th patriarch and after this generation, God’s judgment fell on mankind because “The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  And the Lord regretted that he had made a man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.  So the Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, man and animals and creeping things and birds of the heavens, for I am sorry that I have made them.”  But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord” (Gen 6:5-8).  Abraham, the father of the faithful, was the 10^th generation from Shem, the son of Noah (Gen 11:10-26).

The Tithe

The tithe which is 10% of what Israel gained was holy unto the Lord.  This tithe was compulsory and was said to belong to the Lord, therefore it was holy.  Today, we are not under the Old Covenant, but many still believe in tithing while some are not able to give that much but those who have been blessed are able to give more than a 10^th.

• Jesus’ Use of 10
• Jesus loved to use the number 10 in many of His sayings, particularly His parable:
• There were 10 virgins (Matt 25:1-13).
• There were 10 lepers (Luke 17:11-19).
• There were 10 talents (Matt 25:14-30).
• There were 10 minas (Luke 19:12-27).
• There were exactly 10 “I AM’s” spoken by Jesus in the Gospel of John.

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1 Thessalonians 5:17

                                           
¹⁴Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. ¹⁵See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men. ¹⁶Rejoice evermore. ¹⁷Pray without ceasing. ¹⁸In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. ¹⁹Quench, not the Spirit. ²⁰Despise, not prophesyings.

James 5:16 

¹⁶ Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

TAKING YOUR BREAKTHROUGH TO ANOTHER LEVEL

¹⁴ And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,

¹⁵ Lord, have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water.

¹⁶ And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.

¹⁷ Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.

¹⁸ And Jesus rebuked the devil, and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.

¹⁹ Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?

²⁰ And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible unto you.

²¹ Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.