"It's your time to experience Grace"

Ecclesiastes 3:11

“He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”

He hath made everything Beautiful during his time. Also, he had set the world in that so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

Mark 5:25-27, 29-34 KJV

“And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, when she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.”

Those that know me know that I’m very big on football. Tell somebody you can love football and Jesus. Last Saturday I was sitting there watching the game between FSU and Clemson, The first half many of y’all watched it was a great game. We were all on the edge of sit watching looking for FSU to pull off an upset, but in the second half as time begin to past. FSU had couple of turnovers and could not bounce back Not saying that FSU is not a good team. However “FSU was not able to bounce back from the turnovers and mistakes.

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Well we can gather that fact that winning is not necasarily based on our ability to perfect but its rather on our ability bounce back after we have made a mistake. You’re not necessarily going to win because you did not make a mistake, but you are going to win because you were able to bounce back from the turnover, your going to win because you were able to stand the test and trials of times.

Ecclesiastes 9:11 confirms thatThe race is not given to the swift nor to the strong but, he that endureth until the end shall be saved.

Every breath you breath is a is inhale and exhale of God’s grace, its a public display of God’s underserving favor. It’s God giving us another opportunity for us to win.

If we are looking for a reason to thank God for his Grace, inhale. If we are looking for reason thank God for his mercy exhale.

Because the truth of the matter is there are somethings that I’ve done that if it was up to man. I would been out a long time ago. But God let me continue to experience his grace.

My brothers and sisters there is always something that find very interesting when a visit the tombs is it has their birthday a dash and then their deceased date

One thing I always ask myself is what will you do with your dash.

What are you going to do with the years you have left.

If your still here it is a sign that God has a purpose for your life. I remember just a couple of weeks ago I was driving and I saw a bumper sticker that stated “but did you die” and I know that come from a movie(THE HANGOVER)rated pg 13. and one of the characters speaks about he was having a bad day and he explains that he got shot. Mr. Chow response was, but did you die. , but as I read it I thought about all the trials I went through and asked myself “but did you die”

You ought to look back over your life and don’t tell everybody your business once you look back say neighbor I dont know what you been though. “But did you die.”

If your still here God still has a plan and a call for your life.

He’s still working in your dash.

Yes, we know youWent through the accident but you are still here.

Yes, I know Went through divorce but still you are still here.

Yes, I know your grieving, but you are still here.

Yes I know you Went through battling depression but you are still here.

Yes I know you Went through battling anxiety but you are still here.

you Went through the breakup but you are still here.

If I’m still here God is still working and he’s making it all beautiful when it comes together in his time.

It was Jeremiah 29:11 that states

 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.

God has a plan. We just can’t miss it. Just because he has not came through when we think we should, how we think he should where we think he should does not mean that he will not come through. He may not come when we want him to come but he’ll be there right on in time.

Come here Dottie peoples..He’s an on time God yes he is.

When God shows up he shows up on time and its important for us to understand that we may not know when he’s going to show up but he’s going to show up. However my brothers and sister its possible for him to finally show up to our situation and we not even know he is there.

My brothers and sisters in the body of Christ we often make references to waiting on God, We use the scripture that they that wait on the lord shall renew their strength they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint they shall mount up with wings as eagles.

We use scriptures as in Wait I say on the Lord. My brothers and sister by no means am I telling you not to wait on God. Ill be the first to tell you to wait on the lord and be of courage. Ill be the first to tell you to that patience is a virtue. However, I think just as waiting on God is important its equally important to know when God is shifting some things in your favor, Just as waiting on God is important it is equally important to know when God is shifting your seasons. To often my brothers and sister we spend our life waiting and Weiss the train because we are operating and moving on our times.

To often we miss our moments because we are not able to shift with the timing of God. My brothers and sisters, true enough God doesn’t change, but time does.

There was a story of a man who had to catch an 8:01 train. He runs up to the train station and speaks with the staff a the station and asked the staff when does the 8:01 train leave? The worker with a grin on her face gently replied at 8:01. The man said well the clock on the wall says 7:57, and my watch says 7:59. The man replied which time am I going by, The worker replied neither because the 8:01 train has already left.

Yes, he is the same today yesterday and forevermore, but look at somebody and say but yesterday ain’t today, (You will catch it when you get home)

He’s the same but he changes time yesterday unto today, and he changes today to tommorow.

So he shifts times, and seasons in our life.

We live this life in seasons, often we have good seasons, sometimes we have not so good seasons, someone once said that, that’s why we should let our highs get to high or our lows to be to low, Because God in an instance has the power to change your situation. You can be up today and down tomorrow, You can be down today and up tomorrow. You can be weeping today and have joy tomorrow.

I heard the song writer Veshawn Mitchell sing a song that it wont always be like the lord will perfect that which concerneth you, and sooner or later things will turn in your favor.

Do I have anyone can agree that God can turn something’s around your favor, not tomorrow, not next week, but right today.

I don’t know what it is that you’re dealing with, But why don’t you open your mouth with a voice of triumph and cry do it GOD.

God has a way of shifting things in our life when the time is right.

My brothers and sisters the beauty of God’s time is that it has a way of talking without speaking, Time has a way of revealing with showing. Time has a way of showing without telling. There is an old saying that time will tell. That’s why we have to stop wasting time trying to prove ourselves to people who don’t see your value. Stop wasting your energy on folk who can’t see the call and the anointing on your life. Because time will show that even when they misused you, your heart was right, time has a way of showing what we cant gather the words to say.

God’s timing, is unexplained, unimagined and incapable to figure out.

It was 40 years for the children of Israel

It was 38 years for the man who sat at the pool of Bethesda.

Abrahams was a 100 and Sarah was 90 before God gave them what he promised.

When we are on God’s time we can’t become impatient or forceful . We have to be sure that we don’t interrupt what God is doing but let everything happen on Gods time.

The older saints said it like this. He may not come when you want him to come but he will be there right on time…

It is remarkable how God can start from scratch and create the heavens and the earth then form the earth from voidness and create everything beautiful, Genesis says he gave light to the earth after he formed it name the light day and name the darkness night. Put a name on 12:01 am and call it morning, figure out when it's 12:01 pm and call it afternoon, realize the sun is going down and call it an evening.

My dear friends, God is the master of creation and although he gives us time. He is not bound by time or controlled by time because he is the creator of it. He creates time, not for his sake but for our sake, yes believe it or not God knew some of us are likely to be late, God knew he had to give some of us time because we would just show up when we wanted to.(Like Some of us did today lol)

Time creates order

If there is no time there is no order..

That’s why we have a time on our work schedule because if they didn’t give us a time we’ll just show up when we want to there will be no order.

Even in the service on tonight…the first thing was asked was what time.

Because once you place it in order as to your schedule.

So when things are done in God’s timing it’s done in order he is a God of order.

So when things don’t happen in your time God is just making sure it’s in order.

He placing it in order and when it’s your time it’s your time.

You don’t have to worry about doubters and haters if it’s your time it your time and God is going to love how he wants to move in your life.

Psalm 90:4, Moses used a simple yet profound analogy in describing the timelessness of God: When he says “For a thousand years in Your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.”

The eternity of God is contrasted with the temporality of man. Our lives are short and frail, but God does not weaken or fail with time.

The Greek word Kairos and Chronos are often translated as time in the New Testament

Kairos which means an appointed time

Chronos which referees to a duration of time….

In the New Testament, the word ʿôlām is used to describe age which refers to “extended time.

As Christians, we have to learn master all three.

Because we don't know when God is going to come through

The duration of time because we don't know how long God will keep us in somethings

And extended time because we don't know how much time God gives us

For the Bible says no man knows the day or the hour he's coming back

It goes to say he is coming back for a church Without a spot or a wrinkle.

So in reality when we were born we were introduced to time, and every day from that point on is extended time.

Is there anyone here that looks back over your life and say, I’m glad God extended my time? It was no goodness of my own but when I didn’t deserve it, he gave me extra time. It was not the best of my own but because of his grace and mercy, we are not consumed.

Although things dont always happen when we think they should work out it’s because God has a time and season for everything under the sun.

David used the time to reference his sorrow when he said weeping may only endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Paul got a little geeky when he said I reckon, that the suffering of this present time is not able to be compared to the glory that will be revealed.

My brothers and sister if one was to ask what is the most precious gift to life, I would have to say time. Why do you ask? Because time is the only thing that once it is lost can’t be recovered.

when we understand that timing of God it decreases, stress, depression, and worry,

God’s timing requires-

God’s timing requires endurance-

Galatians 6:9, Don’t grow weary in well doing in due season we shall reap if faint not.

Ecclesiastes 9:11 ~ The race is not given to the swift or to the strong but to the one who endures to the end...

God’s timing requires patience-

Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.

Proverbs 14:29wisdomunderstandinganger

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.Ephesians 4:2lovehumility

Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one who takes a city.

Proverbs 16:32peaceself-control

Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

Psalm 27:14trustcourage

The Lord is patient with us-

The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:9salvation

The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

Psalm 103:8

My brothers and sisters not only should we be patient with God but we must also be patient with people, Because God was faithful to us

God’s timing requires discipline-

Proverbs 12:1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

1 Corinthians 9:27 But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. 2 Timothy 1:7 For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

God’s timing requires discernment-

Closing:

The last part of Romans 3:11 states that he creates things in the beauty of his time that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.”

He makes somethings a mystery because he can’t do the miraculous and he makes something mysterious.

The mystery sets you up for the miracle.

The song say I don’t know how, I don’t know when. But I know God is going to do it.

If you could do it yourself you wouldn’t need God.

Something’s require the mysteriousness of God.

I decree and declare.

The thing that has been a mystery is about to turn into a miracle.

Look at somebody and Say God is about turn your mystery into a miracle.

While you trying to figure it out. God already worked it out.

There is not issue in your life that can out run Grace.

There is Grace for it.

There is grace for sickness.

There is grace for family issues.

There is grace for sickness.

There is grace depression.

There is grace for stress.

There is grace for worry.

I came to tell you that its your time to experience grace for whatever you going through.

It was Daniel that found grace in the lions den.

It was shadrach, and abednego that found grace in the fire furnace.

but the beauty of God’s time turned it into a miracle.

It was Jonah that found grace in the belly of sheol, when the whale had to spit him up.

When your operating with the beauty of God’s timing, the lions cant eat you, the fire cant burn you, the whale cant swallow you. Worry cant consumed.

Your graced for this.

Its your time to experience Grace.

We find in Mark

Mark is a story line of Jesus moving with grace

The seas are settled is stilled

Cast out demons into the swine

Jairus’s daughter healed

He arrived at the woman with the issue of blood a women who had not experienced much grace in her time. She was often pushed to the side. She was misused abused and confused. Mark describes a woman with a hermitage Had spent all she had from doctors to doctor She was considered unclean. She Was not allowed to participate in ceremonial feasts and sacrifices. She was an outcast from society. No one showed her grace. On top of that she became financially distressed because she spent all she had on her healing that she didn’t get. She did not get better but only grew worse

For 12 years she suffered from this horrible disease. I believed she had heard of the healing of Jairus’s daughter. I believe she heard of the demons being cast out. I believe sh had heard of the miracles before and decided she would press to experience the healing grace of Jesus. She did not miss the miracle of the moment. We have to learn to catch the grace of the time because there’s a miracle when the beauty of God’s timing meats Grace.

Question to ask the text:

How many people did she see healed in the 12 years

How many times did she think about giving up in those 12 years.

How many people left out of her life in those 12 years

How many people gave up on her in those 12 years

But it took 12 years

12 years In perspective

12 years agi

12 years ago the iPhone 4 was released

12 years ago the first iPad was released

12 years ago Uber went live for the first time

12 years ago Lebron left he cavs and went to the heat

12 years ago instagram launched

Is there anyone in here that can say. I refused to let all these things things change in 12 years and I remain the same.

I decree and declare that it’s my time for grace.

She had to press herself to grace.

She has to move around the crowd to get to grace.

Whatever you got to do…don’t miss grace

She did not let it pass by. She said if I could just touch the hem of his garment I will be made whole.

She made up in her mind it was her time to experience grace.

I came to encourage you that its your ti

Hebrews 4:16

(A)Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

It was Jesus that died and was taken to the grave, he stayed there one day, he stayed there two days, but the beauty of God’s timing is that he early the third day morning he got up with all power in his hands.

Etc.

He said come onto me all he who are weary and baby laden and I’ll give you rest.