Shades of Breakthrough
Deliverance from the Shattered place
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SHADES OF BREAKTHROUGH is a heart’s cry that the Lord has placed on my heart to write for many years. There were so many things running through my mind and going on in my life when I finally made up my mind to put together not just the pages of this book for publishing, but also the pages of my life. Being the author of the book, Releasing the Power of Relaxation: Unlock Your Door to Peace, left me in a very tight place because while I was releasing the power of relaxation, God was revealing to me that there were things that I had to deal with before I could truly enjoy the benefit of stepping into the door called peace. I realized that relaxation is “rest extended.” You can rest for a moment, a weekend, which is good, but it is not until we enter a place of relaxation that we can really unlock the door to peace. There are very few things in life that is as easy as one, two, three and A, B, C; and peace, rest, and breakthrough are three of those things. This book shares my insights and experiences on a journey to unlock my door to peace. The revelations and lessons found in this book will also shed light on the things that hinders us from moving from the shattered place to embracing the fact that just like rest, there are shades and levels to our breakthrough. I decided to write my book around two words that are very often jumbled together into one mass of mess. I will mostly deal with shattered and breakthrough, but I cannot leave out the in- between broken place that reveals so many shades of breakthrough. So often, we fail to share with others the press and the struggle that we had to endure to get from one place to the other. The road is not always smooth and beautiful. When we wear masks and hide the truth of the struggle and growing pains, we assist in the production and reproduction of people who are fainting under the weight of the process that appeared to be an overnight success from the outside. Each of the two words that I mentioned, Shattered and Breakthrough, makes you want to cry, shout, dance, then cry some more. Why? Because these are words that are deeply linked to our emotions. It is hard to understand that while these words can and are very often linked to one another, they are actually stages in life, and they can act powerfully as an individual entity in our lives. We are often taught and trained to hold back our emotions and wear the game face. Don’t show your feelings. Don’t let them see you cry because they will think you are weak. Big girls don’t cry. Sadly, not everyone can see us in our weakness and shades of getting up and breaking through and still respect us for the strength to press on through the process. As a result, we put up walls, and we take anything that has a connection with our emotions and treat it like leprosy affecting the camp. We internalize what needs to be exposed. We feel like we can’t let anyone know that we’re hurting, wounded, and especially shattered because not everyone can handle our brokenness, and some will even treat it as a contagious disease to be avoided. Our scars and bleeding may also reveal some truth that initiators may not be able to handle. Because of this, we train ourselves to cry in silence. With this book, I want to challenge you. I want you to pull out your mirror and purposely make an effort to find “YOU.” I know this sounds like a bold request, but as you read, you will understand my desire for each person to be at a different and better place as a result of reading this book. This call to action is intended to help bring you, the reader, healing and to bring you closer to a breakthrough in the areas of life that you may be struggling with, whether you are in the shattered place or are pushing through the shades. This is a personal walk and an individual decision to make. I have learned that it is up to each one to be willing to identify their symptoms and be honest enough to admit to any diagnosis God may reveal. Truth can be our hero or our hinderance. It depends on what we choose to do with it. By nature, our first instinct is to defend our flaws and hide our truths. My prayer is that the Spirit of God shows us that getting naked and exposing ourselves, even in front of the mirror, requires a laying down of all pride, total humility, and a surrendered eyesight that is ready to see and accept truth
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Have you found yourself in a shattered place, picking up and putting together pieces of your life only to find that just when you think you have it all together, you discover that something is missing? In the process of reconstructing and mending, you realize that somewhere along the way you have lost parts of you. Like a shattered vase put together by amateur hands, you find there is still some evidence of the breakage and even some gaps that need to be filled to restore your life. You end up believing your breakthrough is in sight, but instead, you take a good look in the mirror and realize that you can no longer identify with the person you see. You try so desperately to quickly repair the shattered pieces that you end up creating a disfigured version of you that looks “normal” on the outside, but the truth is revealed when you come face to face with the man in the mirror, and truth confronts you eye to eye: there is still work that needs to be done. In Shades of Breakthrough: Deliverance from the Shattered Place, you learn that the process of receiving your breakthrough is not an overnight one. In fact, there are many shades of breakthrough, and sometimes, stepping back and looking with new eyes is just what we need to see clearer. Author Yvette M. Brooks invites you to read and experience her journey to breakthrough and prays that you will gain from her experiences, insights, and lessons learned as you also take a personal look at the reflection in your own mirror.