Breakthrough feels like it’s never coming. You’ve been praying for years about the same situation with no visible change. The walls haven’t moved. The door remains locked. The problem persists despite your faith, your fasting, and your desperate pleading with God. You’ve watched others get their miracles while you’re still waiting for yours. The temptation to give up intensifies with every passing month, and you wonder if a breakthrough is even possible for your particular impossibility.
But Scripture is full of breakthroughs that came after long delays. The Red Sea didn’t part until the Israelites were trapped with enemies closing in. The walls of Jericho didn’t fall until seven days of marching and waiting. Lazarus wasn’t raised until he’d been dead four days, and hope seemed lost. God specializes in last-minute, impossible, against-all-odds breakthroughs that only He can accomplish. Your breakthrough might be scheduled for the moment when circumstances look most hopeless, precisely so there’s no question about who gets the credit.
These verses reveal that God can do immeasurably more than we imagine, that He makes ways where there are no ways, and that breakthrough often requires persistent faith when everything screams to quit believing.
Bible Verses for Divine Breakthrough
1. Ephesians 3:20 – Able to Do Immeasurably More
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.
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2. Isaiah 43:19 – I Am Making a Way in the Wilderness
See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
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3. Jeremiah 32:27 – Is Anything Too Hard for Me?
I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?
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4. Matthew 19:26 – With God All Things Are Possible
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
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5. 2 Chronicles 20:15 – The Battle Is Not Yours, but God’s
He said: “Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the Lord says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s.'”
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6. Isaiah 45:2 – I Will Go Before You
I will go before you and will level the mountains; I will break down gates of bronze and cut through bars of iron.
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7. Exodus 14:14 – The Lord Will Fight for You
The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.
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8. Zechariah 4:6-7 – Not by Might nor by Power
So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of “God bless it! God bless it!”‘”
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9. Isaiah 40:31 – Those Who Hope in the Lord Will Renew Their Strength
But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
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10. Philippians 4:13 – I Can Do All This Through Him
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
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11. Psalm 107:20 – He Sent Out His Word and Healed Them
He sent out his word and healed them; he rescued them from the grave.
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12. Mark 9:23 – Everything Is Possible for One Who Believes
“‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.”
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13. Joel 2:25 – I Will Repay You for the Years
I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten—the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm—my great army that I sent among you.
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14. Romans 8:31 – If God Is for Us, Who Can Be Against Us?
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
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15. 2 Corinthians 10:4 – They Have Divine Power to Demolish Strongholds
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
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16. Isaiah 54:17 – No Weapon Forged Against You Will Prevail
No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me, declares the Lord.
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17. Psalm 118:5-6 – The Lord Answered Me and Set Me Free
When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord; he brought me into a spacious place. The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?
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18. Jeremiah 29:11 – Plans to Give You Hope and a Future
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
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19. Isaiah 58:8 – Then Your Light Will Break Forth Like the Dawn
Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
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20. Hebrews 11:6 – God Rewards Those Who Earnestly Seek Him
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
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21. Mark 11:24 – Believe That You Have Received It
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
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22. Psalm 126:5-6 – Those Who Sow With Tears Will Reap With Songs of Joy
Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them.
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23. Isaiah 60:1-2 – Arise, Shine, for Your Light Has Come
Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and his glory appears over you.
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24. 1 John 5:4 – This Is the Victory That Has Overcome the World
For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.
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25. Psalm 30:5 – Weeping May Stay for the Night, but Rejoicing Comes in the Morning
For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.
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26. Numbers 23:19 – Does He Speak and Then Not Act?
God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
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27. Isaiah 41:10 – I Will Strengthen You and Help You
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
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28. 2 Corinthians 12:9 – My Power Is Made Perfect in Weakness
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
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29. Habakkuk 2:3 – Though It Linger, Wait for It
For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.
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30. Romans 8:28 – God Works for the Good
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
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31. Psalm 37:5 – Commit Your Way to the Lord
Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this.
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32. Isaiah 61:3 – A Garment of Praise Instead of a Spirit of Despair
And provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendor.
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33. Malachi 3:10 – Pour Out So Much Blessing
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this, says the Lord Almighty, and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
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34. 2 Corinthians 5:17 – The New Creation Has Come
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
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35. Revelation 3:8 – I Have Placed Before You an Open Door
I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
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Our Thoughts On What the Bible Says About Divine Breakthrough
Breakthrough often comes when you’re at the end of yourself. The Israelites didn’t see the Red Sea part until they were trapped with no escape route. Lazarus wasn’t raised until he’d been dead four days. Jesus didn’t calm the storm until the disciples were convinced they were going to drown. God seems to wait until the situation is humanly impossible, so there’s no confusion about who gets the glory for the breakthrough. Your delay might not be denial but divine timing that sets the stage for a miracle only God can accomplish.
Notice that Scripture promises God will make a way in the wilderness, break down gates of bronze, and level mountains before you. But it doesn’t promise these things will happen instantly or according to your preferred timeline. Habakkuk says the vision has an appointed time, and though it lingers, you should wait for it because it will certainly come. Breakthrough requires the kind of persistent faith that keeps believing when circumstances scream to quit, when delays stretch beyond reason, and when logic says it’s over.
The key is positioning yourself for a breakthrough through obedience, prayer, and worship. Joshua’s walls didn’t fall until they’d marched seven days in obedience. Sometimes breakthrough requires action steps that seem irrelevant to the problem. Keep doing what God’s called you to do, even when you can’t see how it connects to your breakthrough. God is working behind the scenes, and your faithfulness in the waiting positions you for the miracle you can’t yet see.
Say This Prayer
Heavenly Father, I desperately need a breakthrough. I’ve been waiting, praying, and believing, but the situation hasn’t changed. The walls remain standing, the door stays locked, and hope is fading. I’m at the end of my resources, my strength, and my ability to keep believing in what looks impossible.
Remind me that You specialize in breakthroughs when circumstances look most hopeless. You’re able to do immeasurably more than I can ask or imagine. Nothing is too hard for You. What looks like a mountain to me is level ground before You. I choose to believe that You’re making a way in this wilderness even though I can’t see it yet.
Give me the faith to keep believing when delays stretch beyond reason. Help me to trust that Your timing is perfect, that this lingering vision has an appointed time, and that it will certainly come. Strengthen me to stay obedient in the waiting, to keep worshiping in the valley, and to maintain hope when everything says to give up.
Fight this battle for me because I’ve run out of strategies. Level the mountains, break down the bronze gates, and cut through the iron bars that block my breakthrough. Let Your power be perfected in my weakness. Do the impossible that only You can do, and get all the glory for the miracle I’m believing will come.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen.