October 22nd, 2026
Can you imagine having major surgery, getting up the next morning, walking out the door, going back to work, and acting like nothing happened? They could have just taken out half your organs, but you’re going to get up and go about your life like everything is normal. Of course not. After a major surgery, there is a recovery process. Your body has been through something significant, and sometimes you have to learn how to do things again that once came naturally. The same thing can happen after we receive a breakthrough from the Lord.
We love the moment of breakthrough. We love when God touches us and something changes instantly. Those are my favorite kind of miracles. But what happens the next morning? What happens when you’re no longer standing in a church service surrounded by people who are believing with you? What happens when you wake up and your body says something different, an old thought returns, or the circumstances around you begin trying to convince you that nothing really changed?
There is no point in getting a breakthrough and then walking right back out of it. We have to learn how to walk in what God has given us.
After I had brain surgery in 2014, I had to learn how to walk again. I could stand up, but then I would fall over. For weeks, one of the only things that made me feel normal was when Aaron would put a belt around my waist and walk with me down our driveway. I would ask him, “Will you take me for a walk?” He would put that belt around me, stay right beside me, and we would walk down the driveway and back. Without that belt and without him beside me, I didn’t have the capacity yet to walk by myself.
I think there is a picture in that of what happens spiritually after a breakthrough. Sometimes God does something significant in our lives, but now we have to learn how to walk in it. Jesus is right there to help us. The Holy Spirit is there to strengthen us. We have the Word of God to hold onto, but we still have to take the steps.
This is also why continuing to gather with other believers matters. There is a blessing in being part of the body of Christ and being surrounded by people who will believe the Word with you. But there will also be times when you are by yourself. Eventually, you have to go home. Eventually, Monday morning comes. You have to know how to continue standing when no one else is standing beside you.
I have received many healings throughout my life. Some were instantaneous, where the Lord touched me and it was simply done. Like I said, those are my favorite. But there have been other healings that I had to walk out. There were mornings when I woke up after knowing the Lord had touched me and everything in my body hurt. What do you do then?
You have to decide whether what you feel has more authority than what God has said.
We are creatures of habit. I sit in the same chair every morning with the Lord, under my blanket, drinking out of the same cup. We all develop patterns. We develop physical habits, but we also develop habits in the way we think. If you have lived with something for a long time, you can become accustomed to responding to it in the same way. So when something comes against the breakthrough you have received, doubt may try to come right back with it.
That is when 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 becomes so important:
“For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.”
You have to take the thought captive. When the thought comes, “Maybe nothing really happened,” you don’t have to accept it. When your body says, “You’re right back where you started,” you don’t have to agree with it. When the relationship hits another difficult moment and your mind immediately says, “See, nothing changed,” you don’t have to allow that thought to stay. You take it captive and bring it into obedience to Christ.
There have been mornings when I have awakened and my body was telling me one thing, and I had to tell it something completely different. I’m not going to act like I wake up feeling great every day. I’m still walking things out. But I have learned that I don’t have to bow my knee to what my body tells me.
I can say, “No, I don’t receive that. I am healed. Jesus healed me. Jesus is my healer. I thank You, Lord, for my healing.”
I am a spirit living in this body. If I bow my knee to everything happening in this body, then I am allowing something inferior to determine what I believe. But if I bow my knee to the Word of God, then I am submitting myself to something greater than what I see or feel.
Everything God says is true.
I have decided that I believe His Word. I believe every word in it. It is what I stand on, and that isn’t theory for me. The Word of God is the reason I am standing before people today doing things doctors said I would never do.
I was completely disabled for four years. Doctors eventually told me there was nothing else they could do for me. They told me, “We fixed you.”
I said, “You did not fix me. You stopped me from dying, but you left me more broken than when I started.”
Aaron brought me the Word, and at first I got angry because I knew those Scriptures. I had experienced healing before. I could tell you what the Bible said. But knowing a Scripture and allowing that Scripture to become the foundation you live on are not always the same thing. One day, I got it.
The more I stayed in the Word, the more my body responded to the Word. Today, I’m doing things doctors said I would never do. You wouldn’t know by looking at me that I was completely disabled for four years. That is the testimony.
Where my spirit goes, my body has to follow. I have learned to tell my body how it will respond, how it will react, and how it will revive. There is power in standing on the Word, and there is power in speaking what God has said.
Jesus says in Mark 11:23-24, “Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
Notice that Jesus says to believe that you have received it. That means there may be a period of time when you believe you have received before everything around you looks the way you expect it to look. That is where you have to learn to walk it out.
This applies to more than physical healing. Maybe God has brought restoration to a relationship, but then you have a difficult day and old patterns try to return. Maybe you have experienced financial breakthrough, but then an unexpected bill arrives. Maybe God has delivered you from something that controlled your life, and suddenly the temptation comes back.
What are you going to do when something challenges your breakthrough?
You have to make a decision about what you will allow to remain in your heart and what you will reject. You cannot stop every thought from coming, but you can decide whether you are going to give that thought a place to live. Keep spending time in His presence. Keep putting the Word in your heart. Keep thanking Him for what He has done. Keep taking thoughts captive. Keep speaking what you believe. And keep walking.
There were days after my brain surgery when I needed that belt around my waist and Aaron beside me just to walk down the driveway. But I didn’t stay there forever. I kept walking.
Maybe you are still taking your first few steps in something God has done in your life. Don’t become discouraged because you haven’t reached the end of the driveway yet. Take the next step. Then take another one. And while you’re walking it out, don’t keep your testimony to yourself.
Revelation 12:11 says,
“And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.”
There is power in your testimony.
If you get saved, tell people you got saved. If you get healed, tell people you got healed. If God restores something that was broken, tell people what He did. Don’t spend all of your time talking about what the enemy did before your breakthrough. Start talking about what Jesus did. Your testimony reminds you of what God has done while declaring to everyone around you that He is still faithful.
You may have to walk some things out. I certainly have. But walking something out does not mean God didn’t touch you. Having a thought come against your breakthrough doesn’t mean you have to receive that thought. Having a difficult day doesn’t erase what God has done.
Take the thought captive. Stand on the Word. Thank Him for what He has done. Speak your testimony. And then take another step. You received the breakthrough. Now learn to walk in it.
We love the moment of breakthrough. We love when God touches us and something changes instantly. Those are my favorite kind of miracles. But what happens the next morning? What happens when you’re no longer standing in a church service surrounded by people who are believing with you? What happens when you wake up and your body says something different, an old thought returns, or the circumstances around you begin trying to convince you that nothing really changed?
There is no point in getting a breakthrough and then walking right back out of it. We have to learn how to walk in what God has given us.
After I had brain surgery in 2014, I had to learn how to walk again. I could stand up, but then I would fall over. For weeks, one of the only things that made me feel normal was when Aaron would put a belt around my waist and walk with me down our driveway. I would ask him, “Will you take me for a walk?” He would put that belt around me, stay right beside me, and we would walk down the driveway and back. Without that belt and without him beside me, I didn’t have the capacity yet to walk by myself.
I think there is a picture in that of what happens spiritually after a breakthrough. Sometimes God does something significant in our lives, but now we have to learn how to walk in it. Jesus is right there to help us. The Holy Spirit is there to strengthen us. We have the Word of God to hold onto, but we still have to take the steps.
This is also why continuing to gather with other believers matters. There is a blessing in being part of the body of Christ and being surrounded by people who will believe the Word with you. But there will also be times when you are by yourself. Eventually, you have to go home. Eventually, Monday morning comes. You have to know how to continue standing when no one else is standing beside you.
I have received many healings throughout my life. Some were instantaneous, where the Lord touched me and it was simply done. Like I said, those are my favorite. But there have been other healings that I had to walk out. There were mornings when I woke up after knowing the Lord had touched me and everything in my body hurt. What do you do then?
You have to decide whether what you feel has more authority than what God has said.
We are creatures of habit. I sit in the same chair every morning with the Lord, under my blanket, drinking out of the same cup. We all develop patterns. We develop physical habits, but we also develop habits in the way we think. If you have lived with something for a long time, you can become accustomed to responding to it in the same way. So when something comes against the breakthrough you have received, doubt may try to come right back with it.
That is when 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 becomes so important:
“For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.”
You have to take the thought captive. When the thought comes, “Maybe nothing really happened,” you don’t have to accept it. When your body says, “You’re right back where you started,” you don’t have to agree with it. When the relationship hits another difficult moment and your mind immediately says, “See, nothing changed,” you don’t have to allow that thought to stay. You take it captive and bring it into obedience to Christ.
There have been mornings when I have awakened and my body was telling me one thing, and I had to tell it something completely different. I’m not going to act like I wake up feeling great every day. I’m still walking things out. But I have learned that I don’t have to bow my knee to what my body tells me.
I can say, “No, I don’t receive that. I am healed. Jesus healed me. Jesus is my healer. I thank You, Lord, for my healing.”
I am a spirit living in this body. If I bow my knee to everything happening in this body, then I am allowing something inferior to determine what I believe. But if I bow my knee to the Word of God, then I am submitting myself to something greater than what I see or feel.
Everything God says is true.
I have decided that I believe His Word. I believe every word in it. It is what I stand on, and that isn’t theory for me. The Word of God is the reason I am standing before people today doing things doctors said I would never do.
I was completely disabled for four years. Doctors eventually told me there was nothing else they could do for me. They told me, “We fixed you.”
I said, “You did not fix me. You stopped me from dying, but you left me more broken than when I started.”
Aaron brought me the Word, and at first I got angry because I knew those Scriptures. I had experienced healing before. I could tell you what the Bible said. But knowing a Scripture and allowing that Scripture to become the foundation you live on are not always the same thing. One day, I got it.
The more I stayed in the Word, the more my body responded to the Word. Today, I’m doing things doctors said I would never do. You wouldn’t know by looking at me that I was completely disabled for four years. That is the testimony.
Where my spirit goes, my body has to follow. I have learned to tell my body how it will respond, how it will react, and how it will revive. There is power in standing on the Word, and there is power in speaking what God has said.
Jesus says in Mark 11:23-24, “Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
Notice that Jesus says to believe that you have received it. That means there may be a period of time when you believe you have received before everything around you looks the way you expect it to look. That is where you have to learn to walk it out.
This applies to more than physical healing. Maybe God has brought restoration to a relationship, but then you have a difficult day and old patterns try to return. Maybe you have experienced financial breakthrough, but then an unexpected bill arrives. Maybe God has delivered you from something that controlled your life, and suddenly the temptation comes back.
What are you going to do when something challenges your breakthrough?
You have to make a decision about what you will allow to remain in your heart and what you will reject. You cannot stop every thought from coming, but you can decide whether you are going to give that thought a place to live. Keep spending time in His presence. Keep putting the Word in your heart. Keep thanking Him for what He has done. Keep taking thoughts captive. Keep speaking what you believe. And keep walking.
There were days after my brain surgery when I needed that belt around my waist and Aaron beside me just to walk down the driveway. But I didn’t stay there forever. I kept walking.
Maybe you are still taking your first few steps in something God has done in your life. Don’t become discouraged because you haven’t reached the end of the driveway yet. Take the next step. Then take another one. And while you’re walking it out, don’t keep your testimony to yourself.
Revelation 12:11 says,
“And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.”
There is power in your testimony.
If you get saved, tell people you got saved. If you get healed, tell people you got healed. If God restores something that was broken, tell people what He did. Don’t spend all of your time talking about what the enemy did before your breakthrough. Start talking about what Jesus did. Your testimony reminds you of what God has done while declaring to everyone around you that He is still faithful.
You may have to walk some things out. I certainly have. But walking something out does not mean God didn’t touch you. Having a thought come against your breakthrough doesn’t mean you have to receive that thought. Having a difficult day doesn’t erase what God has done.
Take the thought captive. Stand on the Word. Thank Him for what He has done. Speak your testimony. And then take another step. You received the breakthrough. Now learn to walk in it.
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