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DEVOTIONS WITH PASTOR BOB 6 Practices in Our Christian Life # 1 Trust in God’s Timing (lesson 3)

DEVOTIONS WITH PASTOR BOB

6 Practices in Our Christian Life

# 1 Trust in God’s Timing (lesson 3)

I Need You (Live) feat. Mercy Mushaisano & Joshua Marshall

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FROM SEEDTIME TO HARVEST

Ecclesiastes 3:1 tells us:

“To everything there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven.”

We don't all live in the same season, at the same time.

We are all at different stages in our spiritual growth.

We should never be jealous of someone who is enjoying a harvest, while we are still in the planting season.

Remember, they had to go through a season of planting, just as you are now.

Seeing their results, that they are enjoying, should be an encouragement to us who aren’t there yet.

Understand and trust that God is doing the very best for each one of us in our present season.

SEEDTIME REPRESENTS LEARNING THE WILL OF GOD

Each time we choose God's will instead of our own, we are planting a good seed that will eventually bring a harvest into our lives.

If we want to be victorious, we cannot afford to get pulled into the world's system of doing what we feel like doing, instead of doing what God has instructed us to do.

James 1:21 tells us what we should do,

^“So, get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives, and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts, for it has the power to save your souls.”

It is important to understand that our “soul” is our mind, our will, and our emotions.

When the Word of God gets rooted in us then;

The Word begins to change the way we think.

Then it will also begin to bring healing our emotions.

The Word of God will turn our will away from self-will, and into doing the will of God.

LIVING OUT OF ONE'S OWN SOUL, IS EQUIVALENT TO STAYING IN THE WILDERNESS.

When we get to the point where we make God the ruler of our souls, then we go into the promise land.

WHAT IS THE PROMISED LAND?

It is knowing who we are in Christ.

It is knowing how to fellowship with Him.

It is enjoying His presence in our lives.

It is having the peace of Christ, which brings contentment and joy.

BETWEEN SEEDTIME AND HARVEST COMES A TIME OF WAITING

After a seed is planted, the heat, the moisture, and pressure of the ground finally cause the outer hull of the seed to crack open.

Then roots shoot down, digging their way into the ground.

It takes time for this to happen, and it takes place in under-ground.

Above the ground, we can't tell anything is happening with the seed.

After we plant seeds of obedience, we feel like nothing is happening, but all kinds of things are happening inside where we can't see.

And like the seed that finally bursts through the ground, with a beautiful green shoot, our seeds of obedience will finally break forth into a beautiful manifestation of God in our lives.

IN HARVEST TIME;

We will hear from God.

We will enjoy His presence.

We will be led by the Holy Spirit.

Blessings will begin to chase us down the street.

Joy and a calm delight will become our normal mood.

HOW ABOUT YOU?

Are you tired of waiting for the harvest time in your life?

Are you frustrated, crying out, "when, God, when?"

Then you need to understand that God's timing is often a mystery.

He doesn't do things on our timetable.

Yet His Word promises that He will not be late, not one single day.

He will not be early either.

Habakkuk 2:3 (NLT)

‘This vision is for a future time.

It describes the end, and it will be fulfilled.

If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place.

It will not be delayed.”

GOD CAUSES THINGS TO HAPPEN AT EXACTLY AT THE RIGHT TIME!

Our job is not to figure out when, but to make up our minds that we won't give up until we cross the finish line and are living in the radical, outrageous blessings of God!