Something Has to Break: 52 - Week Devotional

By Melissa Pearcy

Whether you are living in a place or have lived in a place of captivity; experienced feelings of worthlessness, guilt, or shame; felt unloved, abused, or unseen, and the list goes on, God sees you! He wants to set you free! I can truly say that He loves you and wants the best for you! I am living proof.

I have poured out my life onto the pages that are in this book, believing that it will help encourage your heart and for you to know you are not alone. I believe that when we bring what the enemy wants to keep in the dark into the light of Jesus, strongholds will break, and you will no longer be held captive but set free!

Dear sweet soul, you have been prayed over, and it is not by accident that you have this fifty-two-week devotional. I am sure that a new thing is being done in you as you read, pray, and seek God for healing this new year.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9798888513354

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Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

About the Author

From the Author

How to Use This Book

Revelation: An Open Heart

An Open Heart

Week 1: Confess Unforgiveness (Proverbs 28:13 NLT, James 5:16 NLT)

Week 2: Anger (James 1:19 NLT)

Week 3: Myself (Psalm 138:8 ESV)

Week 4: Unexpected Blessings (Joel 2:25 HCSB)

Week 5: Restoration (Psalm 51:12 ESV)

Week 6: Contentment (1 Timothy 6:10 TPT, Psalm 34:10 ESV, Jeremiah 29:13 HCSB)

Week 7: Insecure Mess (Psalm 139:13–18 TPT)

Week 8: Too Many Mistakes (Philippians 3:12–14 NLT)

Week 9: What Am I Attached To? (Revelation 14:11 TPT)

Week 10: Stinky Girl (Deuteronomy 3:18 HCSB)

Week 11: Singing over Me (Zephaniah 3:17 CSB)

Week 12: Heavy Expectations (1 Peter 5:6 NASB)

Week 13: Scared to Get Close (Deuteronomy 31:8 TPT)

Week 14: Lonely (Psalm 46:1 NLT)

Week 15: Best Present Ever (Romans 12:10 NIV)

Week 16: My Best Friend (Proverbs 18:24 HCSB)

Week 17: Small Groups (Proverbs 27:9 ESV)

Week 18: Fight or Flight (Ephesians 6:12–24 HCSB)

Week 19: Triggers (John 10:10 HCSB)

Week 20: Emotional Abuse (James 3:10 MSG)

Week 21: Physical Abuse (Psalm 34:18 MSG)

Week 22: Spiritual Abuse (1 Corinthians 3:16–17 MSG)

Week 23: Therapy (Romans 8:28 NLT)

Week 24: What Does It Mean to S.T.A.N.D? (Mark 11:23 NLT)

Week 25: STAND: Be Still (Psalm 46:10 NLT)

Week 26: STAND: Trust (Proverbs 3:5–6 NLT)

Week 27: STAND: Accept (Romans 12:12 NLT)

Week 28: STAND: Need (Hebrews 4:14–16 NLT)

Week 29: STAND: Deliverance (2 Chronicles 20:17)

Week 30: STAND (Exodus 3:5–6 NLT)

Week 31: Humility (Luke 14:11 NLT)

Week 32: Insecurity (Matthew 5:16 HCSB)

Week 33: Offended (Ecclesiastes 7:21–22 NLT)

Week 34: Forgiveness (Ephesians 4:31–32 NLT)

Week 35: Make Room (Revelation 3:20 NLT)

Week 36: Hurt (Psalm 34:18 NLT)

Week 37: Doubt (James 1:6–8, 12 NLT)

Week 38: Hard Feelings (Mathew 5:44 ESV)

Week 39: Dreams (James 1:5 ESV)

Week 40: Fear (2 Timothy 1:7 NLT)

Week 41: Anxiety (Philippians 4:6–8 NLT)

Week 42: Depression (Isaiah 43:18–19 ESV)

Week 43: Stress (Psalm 55 ESV)

Week 44: Healing (Isaiah 38:16–17 NLT)

Week 45: Dating (1 John 4:16 NLT)

Week 46: Codependent (Hebrews 12:2 NLT)

Week 47: Unequally Yoked (2 Corinthians 6:14–18 MSG)

Week 48: Emasculate (1 Corinthians 13:3–7 MSG)

Week 49: Renounce and Declare (Proverbs 18:21 ESV)

Redemption

A Fresh Start

Week 50: Speak the Name (Ephesians 1:18 NLT)

Week 51: His Compassion (Luke 7:13 NLT)

Week 52: Come Away with Me (Mark 6:31 NLT)

Notes

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Something Has to Break

52 - Week Devotional

Melissa Pearcy

ISBN 979-8-88851-334-7 (Paperback)

ISBN 979-8-88851-335-4 (Digital)

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To my husband, who has encouraged me to write this book and prayed over me so that God would pour out on these pages what He wants written. Thank you for being my biggest fan.

To my boys—Tanner, Tate, and Jake—who, without them knowing, have been my inspiration for some of the pages in this book.

To my parents, thank you for always being there for me and praying through some of the darkest times of my life.

To my mentors and friends who over the years have poured into me, prayed over me, and encouraged me in some of my darkest times. Jennifer, Tina, and Mary, you are so very cherished in my heart.

To my friend Amy for being my voice of reason, never judging me, and loving me unconditionally.

I ask God to bless this book. I dedicate it to Him because He is the reason I could pour it all out. He is the reason I am here today. Something had to break, and it wasn't me. It was all the strongholds in my life. He equipped me to write what I had no idea could be done. He is the one who set me free!

About the Author

Melissa was raised in church. She invited Jesus into her heart at the age of thirteen. She has always loved the Lord but never really understood His love for her. She grew up believing that God was always looking down, ready to strike when she got out of line. She did not know what having freedom in Christ meant. In her struggle to live a good life, she became discouraged and just did not feel good enough anymore. This striving to be a good Christian led to many choices that would have lasting effects on her as well as her family. She began looking for love in other ways and went down a very long and dark path. Her choices led to many failures, a lack of self-worth, and confusion about who God really was. God, in His mercy, has used her bad choices and failures to show her who He is. Her walk with the Lord has been mostly uphill because of so many strongholds in her life. She looks back on her life and wishes that she had someone to speak the truth into her life at a younger age.

This book was birthed in 2022 with much weeping, prayer, and surrender to the Lord. She has opened up and made herself vulnerable to allow others to see through a small window into her life in hopes that it will speak life to each sweet soul who reads this book. She has prayed for you! She has gone to the Lord on your behalf to intercede and see strongholds broken for you to experience the love of God like you never have before. She believes that you will have a breakthrough!

She was almost broken by the enemy and knows what that dark road looks like, but God—in His power, love, grace, and mercy—picked her up, dusted her off, and has been with her every step of the way! Something had to break, and it was not her. It was the strongholds that held her captive. She is no longer in captivity but walks in the freedom that Christ is with her.

Sweet friend, today is the day to allow the Lord to pick you up, dust you off, and break you out of captivity! Something has to break, and it is not going to be you, by the grace of God! Will you surrender it over to Him?

From the Author

I just came out of a seven-month spiritual struggle all because the enemy placed one simple question in my mind. This question became a catalyst that sent me into a place of oppression. Jesus would remind me of the scriptures, but then Satan would twist them. And when he twisted them, he tagged them to an unanswered prayer or a situation that was hurtful and would prove his point to the initial question. This one question soon became a paragraph of doubting God, His Word, and His truth. Soon depression, anxiety, fear, anger, lack of self-worth, and even thoughts of suicide filled my head. I was in spiritual warfare, loving God but now believing that He didn't love me. I was His least favorite. The enemy used my insecurities and struggles and planted one small seed that turned into a root of many weeds that began to choke me out. I was not praying or in God's Word, but I still went to church. But I did so with a broken heart, and I was doubting anything sang or spoken. My question was Why does God look past me? I felt even more invisible and unloved. My mind focused on everything that was bad about me, thus proving I once again was God's least favorite. So how did I get out of this oppression?

In church one Sunday, during worship, I felt a tugging on my heart. God was convicting me heavily but not in a condemning way. He was calling me back to Him. I was miserable, and everything from worship to the sermon was just for me. After the service, the Lord told me to get prayer. I fought Him on this step by step as I made my way to exit the church. I had almost made it to the door and saw a friend who I had previously shared my spiritual struggle with. I completely broke down; she hugged me and gathered a group of strong, godly women; and they prayed over me. Peace immediately came, and the burden was lifted. I left there feeling better than when I came in.

The next week, I was still not where I needed or wanted to be. But the oppression had lifted.

The next Sunday, I was back at church; and as soon as worship started, I felt the Holy Spirit tug my heart to get prayer again at the end of the service. Again I fought, but this time it wasn't as bad. I went to the prayer team and asked them to pray for my anxiety because it was overcoming my daily life. They prayed over me, and I asked them to pray for me to find a mentor. I had been praying for a mentor for six years, and I was still waiting. (This unanswered prayer was one of those things the enemy had previously used to cause my doubt.) The woman who I had praying over me for this is the very lady that God had been putting in my heart and mind to be my mentor. I did not know her, but I believed that this was who God wanted for me. After she prayed over me, before I even knew what was coming out of my mouth, I asked her if she would be willing to be my mentor. Her reply was yes! Later, she told me that when she was praying, the Lord told her that she should be my mentor and that was why she said yes so quickly.

Fast forward to the present, and we have been meeting now for about three months. She is so near and dear to my heart, and she is becoming a safe and loyal friend to me.

One day, Mary (mentor/friend) mentioned that she counseled with inner healing, and I told her that I wanted to do that. I felt that there were still unhealed things from my past that were holding me back in my spiritual and mental health,