God Encounters pt. 3, Scott Howard

God Encounters pt 3
Revelation Breakthrough, Radical Breakthroughs
Sunday, July 18, 2021
Scott 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 Jesus
provided for us. It is possible to come to church week after week and remain totally unaware of
who 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 still
defeated 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 the
most 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 the
barriers we face…
*Basic…who is Paul praying for…The Ephesians 1 prayer is not for heathens or sinners. Paul
was praying for people who had been filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues and
had seen God move…
*Acts 19: 11 tells us that God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul in Ephesus. They
even 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 thousand
people! 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 to
see what God sees. He prayed that we would see different scenery by the spirit of wisdom and
revelation. He prayed that we would have a revolutionary revelation— that we would see things
so 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 an
elephant. One held the tail and said an elephant was like a rope. One held the leg and said an
elephant was like a tree. One held the trunk and said an elephant was like a snake. One felt the
side of the elephant and said he was like a wall. Each man’s revelation was limited to the part
he experienced. Many of us are like that today with our relationship with God. God wants to
open our eyes to see the whole elephant. There is more that God has for us. Revelation opens
God’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 give
unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18  The eyes of your
understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and
what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19  And what is the exceeding
greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty
power, 20  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his
own 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 which
is to come: 22  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all
things 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 beginning
of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent

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