8 Ways to Hear from God 7 - Seasons
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7 – SEASONAL Word - God speaks through the TIMES
7 – SEASONAL Word - God speaks through the TIMES
A season for everything – a purpose for everything.
A season for everything – a purpose for everything.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
1 For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.
CURRENT Seasons and Times
· Timely Word – present tense
Word in due season
Proverbs 15:23
23 Everyone enjoys a fitting reply; it is wonderful to say the right thing at the right time!
Proverbs 15:23 (NKJV)
23 A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, And a word spoken in due season, how good it is!
· Is YOUR season due?
· Are you ready to hear what God has for you NOW?
PERSONAL Seasons
PERSONAL Seasons
· Seasons represent periods of time in her life.
· Examples are childhood
· When I was a child I thought as a child, then I put those things behind me.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
· Cyclical – repetitive – goes around comes around
Examples - Election cycles
Types of Personal Seasons
· Marriage as a season to show and to hear God‘s relationship between Christ and the church.
· Children or a season so we can hear God of how he relates to us as a father to his children.
· After the children leave, or season of empty nesting draws us even closer to God.
· Career – – promotion puts you at the bottom of a NEW ladder – still have to work up… prove yourself again, just on a higher level.
NATURAL Seasons
NATURAL Seasons
Psalm 19:1
1 The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship.
Without Excuse
Romans 1:20
20 For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
· The heavens declare gods glory so manners without excuse.
· Even if someone never set foot in a church, or here’s a sermon, God make sure that nature reveals God‘s nature.
· Illustration of Africans to see the ocean for the first time, their first instinct was to worship at it at its vastness.
· Heavens and the earth. With all of man’s searching in space, he will realize that mankind is exceptional and realize God’s intelligent design.
· And realize that we are fearfully and wonderfully made and created, not evolved.
· All of these things will end itself to the acknowledgment, recognition of God and surrendering of hearts and minds of man to our loving heavenly Father.
SPIRITUAL Seasons
SPIRITUAL Seasons
Look at the TIMES you are living in
Luke 12:54–56
54 Then Jesus turned to the crowd and said, “When you see clouds beginning to form in the west, you say, ‘Here comes a shower.’ And you are right.
55 When the south wind blows, you say, ‘Today will be a scorcher.’ And it is.
56 You fools! You know how to interpret the weather signs of the earth and sky, but you don’t know how to interpret the present times.
· 1/4 of the Bible is prophecy, so it is very important to God.
· Jesus rebuked the Jews because they could predict the weather, but they do not know the signs of the times prophetically.
· There are signs of prophecy all around us. The 6 o’clock news shows us extreme weather patterns, wars, pestilence, political unrest.
· All of these things point the end of the world as we know it. The challenge to us all is to reevaluate our life with God and get right with him.
Issachar
1 Chronicles 12:32
32 From the tribe of Issachar, there were 200 leaders of the tribe with their relatives. All these men understood the signs of the times and knew the best course for Israel to take.
Personal Challenge: Do you know what you are supposed to do during this season of your life?