7 Areas of Breakthrough

2. Mentality Breakthrough

Mentality Breakthroughs – One who has the ability to live outside of his or her belief system or traditions.
Ephesians 3:20
20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above ass that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.
I Corinthians 2:9-16
9 “But as it is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man. The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of this world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.
16 For “ who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Ephesians 4:17-24
17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;
19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20 But you have not so learned Christ,
21 If indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 That you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,
23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24 And that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Mentality breakthrough is the ability to think beyond ones own giftings and learned skills. One who is able to think and live outside of the box. Our thought patterns are the software that goes into our souls and minds, which will literally create or re-create our lives (Romans 12:2).
An average mentality will take you only as far as your thought life will let it. This mentality sets the boundary for all of your actions and reactions. It is not adventurous and does not allow you to live outside of it’s jurisdiction. When you try to live by faith you feel uncomfortable and you have a fear that you are doing something wrong because you have never done this before. Remember, the just shall live by faith. That means that those who are justified by Christ, walk by faith and not by sight. If you walk by sight, your mind must be able to comprehend everything on the path and that will determine the level that you can go. Remember, as a man thinks so is he. As God touches your mind, it will begin to aid you in what He reveals to you rather than hinder you.
For example, I have a friend who owns a music store. He also does sound for concerts as well as renting out music instruments and equipment. When I first met him, he was all about business business busy-ness! He loved the Lord, but he was going to do what he had to do. He would get so frustrated and angry if he didn’t get business that he knew he was the best man for. He would see money going out of the window. “Why didn’t they call me?” We be like “dude chill.” He say “man I’m Italian and you don’t do that, especially when you have a working relationship.” In the natural, I have to agree 100%. However, sometimes God wants to do something different.
Around this same time, God had called a group of us to come together to pray at least 3 to 4 times a week. We would eat dinner together and then go to work. As we did this, all of us began to really change in certain areas of our lives. God was working the process of making us into His image. One of the words God said to my friend was that he was going to teach him to be led by the spirit. Not just in ministry, but in business as well. God began to call him to do things outside of his business that would, almost every time, conflict with his schedule. At first he would say that he couldn’t do it. All of us knew God was messing with him. One of these times he finally said, I’m going to walk by faith and do what God is telling me too. Not that he was a disobedient child; he was living within his belief system. He would rearrange his schedule or find one of his employees to cover him. It was tough for him at first, but I give him all the credit in the world, he made up his mind to change and even through the pain of it, he did. This is the process God used to help him change his mindset; now this son of God doesn’t even get bothered when he doesn’t get the business he should have. He says God has something else for me to do. I tell you, we are so proud of him, God allowed us to see him change right before our eyes. God is teaching him how to even be anointed in business. We cannot wait to see the results of his new walk of faith. Nor can we wait to see yours.