The First Step to Breakthrough, Part 1

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

What situation in your life looks insurmountable right now? A marriage heading for the rocks? A child breaking your heart? A doctor’s report with the word “Cancer” written on it? What circumstance in your life is so big, so overwhelming, so difficult that it looks impossible to conquer? Chip helps us discover how to unleash God’s power into our impossible situations.

Five questions about breakthrough:

1. What is a breakthrough?

Three key definitions:

An offensive thrust that penetrates and carries beyond a defensive line in warfare.
An act or instance of breaking through a barrier.
A sudden advance.

2. Is there a biblical pattern for breakthrough?

Great need
Great sin
Great bondage
God's compassion
God's judgment
God delivers

3. How did Jesus teach His disciples to experience and be agents of breakthrough?

Announce the “Good News!” -Mark 1
Defeat evil
Bring healing
Lead by example

4. Is there historical precedent that breakthrough can happen in our day?

The entire book of Acts
List of Church-Age believers

5. How do you experience the first step of breakthrough?

BELIEVE that God is good.
EMBRACE that it’s God’s will to do the impossible in you and through you.

Assignment:

Read over Psalm 23, inserting your name in the blanks, at least once each day this week.

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0:00.0	Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.
0:14.5	What circumstance in your life is so big, so overwhelming, so difficult that it looks impossible to conquer. God wants you to know that you can
0:22.8	experience his power like never before, that there is a breakthrough in situations as you learn
0:28.3	to trust him for hope and for healing. Today, we begin a journey, how to unleash God's
0:34.8	supernatural power into your impossible situation. Stay with me.
0:40.2	What impossible situation are you facing right now? Maybe it's a broken relationship, a health
0:45.6	crisis, or a problem that seems too big to solve. Well, today on Living on the Edge, we begin
0:51.4	our series Experience Breakthrough, learning how to stop feeling confined
0:55.7	by life's biggest barriers.
0:57.9	Chip Ingram launches a new series on Unleashing God's Power into Impossible Situations.
1:03.4	From the opening pages of Scripture to the life of Jesus, we'll discover that God
1:07.9	specializes in doing the impossible.
1:10.3	He hasn't changed. The same God
1:12.6	who parted the Red Sea wants to work powerfully in your life today. Chip titled today's message,
1:18.4	the first step to break through. I was in a town in West Virginia where my wife grew up,
1:24.9	and I won't mention the town in case they ever hear this.
1:28.4	Of course, they would know who it is.
1:29.9	But it's a place that, you know, in its prime was maybe 300 people, and maybe it's down to 50
1:35.3	people.
1:36.8	And probably 90% of the people are unemployed, and there's house and shack, and it is just, it is the most depressing place I've
1:46.9	ever been in my life.
1:49.3	There's so much junk, and they've seen it so long, they don't even notice it anymore.
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