When you've prayed for months without seeing change, when a long-closed door needs to open, when you're stuck and need God to move — these verses are the language of breakthrough. The Bible records God breaking through dead wombs (Sarah, Hannah), shut walls (Jericho), and sealed tombs (the resurrection). What he did, he still does.
“Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.”
God's signature work — making a way where there is no way.
“The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.”
The literal 'breaker' passage. God himself goes before to break the way open.
“And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint.”
The parable of the persistent widow follows. Jesus' instruction for breakthrough seasons: keep praying.
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.”
Breakthrough has an appointed time. Wait — it will come.
“Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”
God's invitation: ask, and he will show what you don't yet know.
“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”
Breakthrough comes 'in due season' to those who don't quit.
“And David came to Baalperazim, and David smote them there, and said, The LORD hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baalperazim.”
'Baal-perazim' means 'Lord of the breakthroughs.' God breaks forth like a flood.
Pray persistently (Luke 18:1). Wait without giving up (Habakkuk 2:3). Ask God specifically (Jeremiah 33:3). And in the long delay, keep doing what God has put in front of you — 'be not weary in well doing' (Galatians 6:9). God's breakthroughs come in his timing, not ours. The vision is for an appointed time.
Isaiah 43:19 — 'I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth... I will even make a way in the wilderness.' Micah 2:13 — 'The breaker is come up before them.' Jeremiah 33:3 — 'Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things.' These are God's breakthrough words.
Jesus taught the parable of the persistent widow (Luke 18:1-8) so 'that men ought always to pray, and not to faint.' Persistence is part of breakthrough prayer. George Müller prayed for one friend's salvation for 52 years; he came to Christ shortly after Müller's death. Habakkuk 2:3 — 'though it tarry, wait for it.' Don't set deadlines on God.
Possible biblical reasons: (1) the appointed time has not arrived (Habakkuk 2:3); (2) God is shaping you in the waiting (Romans 5:3-4); (3) there is hidden sin or unforgiveness blocking prayer (Psalm 66:18; Mark 11:25); (4) what you ask is not God's will (1 John 5:14); (5) breakthrough is being held back to deepen faith (James 1:3-4). Pray, persist, and ask God to show what is needed.
'The breaker' is a Messianic title in Micah 2:13. Hebrew 'happōrēṣ' means 'one who breaks through.' The verse pictures God going before his people, breaking open the gate, and leading them through. Many Christians read this as a picture of Christ — the one who breaks open the way out of sin, death, and every closed door. 'Lord of breakthroughs' (2 Samuel 5:20) is the same idea.