This document discusses how, throughout the Bible, people's weaknesses and limitations had to be "broken" in order for God's power to be revealed through them. It argues we are in a season where our own "pitchers" or limitations need to be broken so God's power can be fully released. Some key figures mentioned who had to experience breaking before stepping into their purpose are Moses, Gideon, Samuel, and Paul. The document encourages readers to look less to themselves and more to God, and to willingly break their own limitations like the pitcher so God's power is what shines forth.

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Break the Pitcher; Release the Power
Background Scripture
2 Corinthians 4: 7-9
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the
power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard pressed on every side,
yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not
forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed-- 10 always carrying about in the
body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be
manifested in our body.
Just before Moses walked into his calling as the
deliverer, his excuses had to be broken.
Just before Gideon became a great judge in Israel, his
fear had to be broken.
Just before Samuel became the answer to Hannah’s
prayer, her wavering had to be broken.
Before Paul became a chief apostle, his arrogance had
to be broken.
Just before Job could step into twice what he had, his
religious nature had to be broken.

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We have stepped into a season of transformation whereby
Matthew 16: 18 is being revealed. In it the verse says:
“And on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not
prevail against it.” This verse suggests that the church will
constantly suffer attacks that are all a part of God’s
classroom. Life is a teaching institution with on the
job training. Pride will attack the heart. Deception
will attack the mind. Confusion will attack the soul.
Fear will attack our faith. Slow progress will attack
our hope. And rejection will attack our love.
The verse says that there is a supernatural building
inside this natural building that Jesus Himself is
working on. The treasure is hidden from satan. The
treasure is a mystery to satan. He doesn’t understand
how strength came from abandonment or how faith grew
out of isolation or how love came from rejection or how
confidence came from a small beginning. John 5: 17
says: “But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until
now, and I have been working." Jesus continues to build His
church into a confidence and a glory that will release
the power of heaven through the surrendered and
sacrificial lives of His people.
Pray with us as we share: “Break the Pitcher; Release
the Power.”

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We are reaching the stage of prosperity in our souls
whereby we know the difference between a challenge and
a channel. We are seeing the difference between an
obstacle and an opportunity. It’s simply an issue of
what we really see behind the scenes of natural life!
In 1 Corinthians 16: 8-9 Paul says: “But I will tarry in
Ephesus until Pentecost. For a great and effective door has opened to me,
and there are many adversaries.”
What did he just say? (paraphrased) “I have found
discouragement to be a door. I have found resistance to
be a road. I have found struggles to be a street that
motivates and transforms me into what God commands of
me right now!”
There is a prophetic word God has already spoken
through us to reveal the excellence of God and the road
map concerning our lives. In John 6: 63 Jesus speaks
and says: “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The
words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” Every word God
has spoken over us and to us is designed to raise us up
into the power of His Spirit and out of the weakness of
the flesh. Break the pitcher and release the power.
Moses already meant “savior” and “drawn out of the
water.” His stuttering tongue was too small against the

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Spirit of a Deliverer in him. Hannah already meant
“grace.” Her closed womb was too small to separate her
from the magnitude of God’s saving and sanctifying
grace. Paul already meant “small;” so his arrogance in
his flesh was too small to hide the power of humility
in his spirit. David’s name already meant “beloved.” He
was only going to run from King Saul but so far and but
so long before he stepped into his place as a beloved
king over all of Israel. While Gideon’s flesh was
hiding from his enemies, heaven was calling him a
“mighty man of valor.” The name, Gideon, already meant
“feller of trees and powerful warrior.” His flesh was
only going to hide for but so long before it had to be
broken and the excellence of God’s promise had to be
revealed!
The task of every moment is to look less and less like
us, to live less like a human, to lean less on our own
understanding, to have fewer human reactions, to make
fewer human mistakes, to see fewer things with human
eyesight. Psalm 19: 2 says: “Day unto day utters speech, and
night unto night reveals knowledge.” This verse declares that
each day speaks and teaches a confidence and a strength
that build our internal posture to meet and prosper in
the next day. Then the verse goes on to say that it
will be the night seasons where it is revealed what we
know concerning Jesus Christ. Paul said (paraphrased):

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“I have learned that pressure can’t crush me.
Confusions can’t confuse me. In persecutions, God can’t
leave me. And abuses can’t destroy me. This body may
get cornered but the bigger me is reaching and moving
into its season of purpose and full strength. I seem to
only go from strength to strength, faith to faith, and
glory to glory. God is releasing who He has become in
me. Break the pitcher; release the power.”
Recall Judges 7. God had just done three important
things by verse 15.
1. God minimized Gideon’s physical presence from
32,000 men to 300 men. In this season of revealed
purpose, God will minimize your physical presence
and your flesh nature. 2 Peter 1: 5-8 says that the
only way God will allow us to increase ourselves is
by adding virtue to faith, adding knowledge to your
virtue, self-control to your knowledge,
perseverance to your self-control, godliness to
your perseverance, brotherly kindness to your
godliness, and love to your brotherly kindness. At
this point, God will release His power and His
fullness and we will walk in a state of complete
order in the will of God.
2. God made Gideon his enemies’ worst nightmare. Never
underestimate God. He is not only working

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everything for good towards those that love Him but
He is also working your enemy! God worked Pharaoh
before he let His people go! God worked the
Midianites before Gideon got there! Satan already
knows he’s limited. Your enemies already know when
God is for you!
3. Gideon moved into the place of worship! Worship
says: “God, You first! God, You speak first. God,
You move first. God, You work first.”
In Judges 7: 13, one of Gideon’s enemies had a dream.
“He said, “I have had a dream: To my surprise, a loaf
of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian; it
came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and
overturned, and the tent collapsed.”
Barley is the cheap bread. Barley is the inexpensive
bread. Barley is traditionally thought of as the “poor
people’s” bread— small in stature, unrecognized in
influence, and not looked upon as significant. Do you
recall the five biscuits that fed over 5000 people
(John 6: 9)? It was barley! There is “mega” in the
small things. There is power in the remnant. God
minimizes us that He might expand Himself in us!
Perhaps the greatest transformation necessary in this
season is that we cannot get occupied with the human

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instrument; but become fully preoccupied with the power
and glory and greatness of God. That is the excellence
of the power waiting to be released through the broken
and frail, but willing and obedient vessels of God.
In Judges 7: 19 Gideon and his 300 men encamped around
the enemy with a trumpet in their right hands and a
pitcher with a lit torch in it in their left hands! The
verse goes on to say that at about 10pm--the beginning
of the middle watch—they blew their trumpets and “broke
the pitchers that were in their hands!” That’s when the
light shown forth. That’s when the enemy ran because
the light looked like heavenly power!
God did not come down and break the pitchers for Gideon
and his army! And He is speaking that you and I will
have to break our own pitchers to reveal that the
excellence of the power is of God and not of us. That’s
why Paul says in 1 Corinthians 9: 27: “But I discipline my
body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I
myself should become disqualified.”
The full effect of the church, the full magnitude of
heaven working through the church, the full personality
of Jesus in His church come when the treasure of God’s
word is revealed in our character and in our actions.
Break the pitcher; release the power.