It's about TIME
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The anointing fall on me
Yes Lord
Prayer
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.”
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.”
It’s about time!!!
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.
My brothers and sisters there is always something that find cery different when I attend a funeral and go to the burial..the tomb is set up and it has your birthday a dash and then your dare that deceased passed.
One thing I always ask myself is what will you do with your dash.
If your still here is a sign that God has a purpose for your life. I remember just a couple of weeks ago Ineas driving and I saw a bumper sticker that stated “but did you die” and I know that come from a movie, 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 Indint 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.
Went through the accident but still here
Went through divorce but still here
Went through battling depression but still here
Went through battling anxiety but still
Went through the breakup but 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: that states
11 For I know the plans(A) I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper(B) you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
God has a plan. We just can’t miss it. 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,
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.
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.
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 stayes the same but he changes yesterday unto today, and he changes today to tommorow.
So he shifts times, and seasons in our life.
He gives us seasons for a reason, We have learned to adjust naturally to the seasons, In winter we dress for the season when we wear jackets hats. In the summer we dress for the season when we wear shorts and tank tops ahang out at the beach, etc, We have learn how to adjust to the season naturally but can we adjust to the seasons of our life spiritually.
When thing about time is it always moves forward…Someone said if I can turn back the hands of time. We have to understand that I’m this season we have to have forward progress.
Sometimes my brothers and sister God won’t turn back hand of times but he’ll restore the years.
Joel 2:25 records And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
Iam a firm believer that God does everything in his time, I believe that we are to somewhat creatures of time. 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 don’t know what your dealing with but God told me to tell you to give it time.
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 now 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.
My brothers and sisters the beauty of time is that time 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, however, is unexplained, unimagined and incapable to figure out.
It was 12 years for the woman with the issue of blood.
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. Form the earth from voidness and create everything beautiful, Genesis says every give 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)
So, God had to give us a measurement of time.
In the physical world its four known dimensions, which require measurement, We measure length, measure the width, we measure height and God has created a measurement of time.
However, God gives us these measurements of time.He himself dwells in the spiritual realm which does not operate in our time.
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.
n the New Testament Time was considered as space for the historical Acts of God.
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.
I’m not going to ask you your age but 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.
That’s why we can’t get frustrated when things are not working out at the age or time when we think they should work out 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.
That’s why in the body of Christ we should every day, every hour, every second is important because the bible said no man knows the day or the hour that he is coming back.
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.
My brothers and sister when we understand that timing of God it decreases, stress, depression, and worry,
We have to be careful Because of the restraint of time, Because of the scarcity of time Because of the constant change of time that we don’t allow our hearts to be consumed with the issues of the times
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. Look at somebody and say please be patient with me because God is not through with me, when God get through with me Ill be what he want me to be.
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-
The woman with the issue of blood had to have a discernement of the time.
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 he told you,
If you could do 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 yiu trying to figure it out. God already worked it out.
The mystery of sickness
The mystery of divorce.
The mystery of family
Etc.
He said come onto me all he who are weary and baby laden and I’ll give you rest.
Closing:
So my brothers and sisters we find in Mathew 5th a very familiar scripture