Don’t Quit Before the Breakthrough

• By candidasullivan
• August 30, 2025
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Truth be told, I’d love to be sitting on my porch right now. As the sunshine and silence beckon to me, I feel the pull of letting go of all my responsibilities and just following what I want to do in this moment.

Oh, how the enemy loves it when I have these thoughts. He pounces on my moment of hesitation and tries to turn it into a real consideration. He whispers, “Take a week off. No one reads your words anyway”.

But as the enemy tried to lure me away from writing with God, I felt the pull from God to write with Him. It’s in these moments that we decide who we will follow and serve.

Sometimes we give up right before the breakthrough.

When we feel resistance, the enemy tells us to give up. He can be really convincing, and even have us thinking that giving up is the better option. However, if we continue to press on, God will help us.

We get so tripped up on thinking that things are supposed to be easy, and then when they’re not, we want to give up. When we have this feeling about something important, then we should write it out and pray about it.

The voice screaming at you to quit is the voice of your adversary. So often, if we would learn to pause during these times and think about why we started and what we hope to accomplish, then we will be able to look at it with new understanding, and ultimately persevere.

The enemy wants us to give up on the things that we love, get mad at our loved ones, act in anger, overeat, overspend, and waste our time. He can’t actually defeat us. All he can do is talk us into defeating ourselves. We do this when we give in to his urges.

I’m learning to observe the situation when it starts happening. I usually struggle when it’s time to write. Yesterday, I sat down to write, and the moment that the thoughts started coming to me, the urge to eat was overwhelming. When I ignored that urge, a new one surfaced, and then I needed something to drink.

By stepping back from the situation for a moment, I was able to observe it and see that the enemy was trying to distract me so that I wouldn’t write the words on my heart. He wanted to distract me with simple pleasures until I forgot about writing.

I can’t even tell you how many times a day he does this to me. I have been allowing it to happen because I didn’t realize it was him. Now, I’m learning to pause and think about the situation for a moment and recognize his ways.

So when we feel that feeling, we just need to pause and ignore the enemy. If the feeling is too strong for us to overcome, then we need to pray and ask God to help us. He will. Every time we resist, we grow stronger in Him.

1 Peter 5:8 (KJV)
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: