The World’s Gone Crazy. How Can I Prevail?
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I sense that some of you need to hear a word the Lord gave me that both inspired and caused me to stand in awe of His sovereignty. I felt both comforted and admonished. Opening your heart to the admonishment could change your mind-set about today.
Winter, spring, summer, fall, we know Earth seasons. A time to dance or mourn, a time to build up or tear down… these seasons of life are spelled out in Ecclesiastes 3. Yet certain season are strictly on God’s timeline in Heaven, and we don’t get even a peek.
In these hidden seasons, God comes like a thief at night. Ready or not, here He comes. Of the 10 virgins, only 5 were ready. Both in Scripture and in the natural, God gives hints into His ways. The question is what are we thinking, saying, and doing while the “eternal clock” is ticking? (yes, I know eternal clock is an oxymoron, but it makes the point.)
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Ask yourself:
- Am I hiding, afraid to speak out or do anything that might stir the already toxic waters of culture?
- Am I ranting on social media, airing my discontent and judgments toward people?
- Am I shutting out everything that’s going on in the nation and just trying to do the best I can?
- Am I actively waiting through intentional worship and regular prayer?
- Is my self-talk and public speech showing agreement with a pastor, the media, our family, our neighbors… or God’s Word?
I’ll sum up those question into one: As you endure this dark, harsh season, what are your thoughts and actions sowing, both eternally and naturally? We must ask ourselves those hard questions if we want to reap a good harvest. He’s coming for your harvest!
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From the beginning…
In the Garden of Eden, Adam was commissioned to tend the garden the Lord planted so He could reap a harvest. Why else plant? And from that point forward, God has been periodically harvesting crops according to His perfect timing. He is the Master of the house who returns home to see how His servants spent their talents, or their inheritance. He is the Master of every harvest.
“In due season you will reap if you do not grow weary.” Your life is all about reaping and sowing. What you sow during a dark harsh season you will reap when iniquities of wicked men are complete and God sends His harvesting angels to remove the tares and the wicked, and to reward those of integrity who fought well, to bring justice to earth and eradicate wickedness. Remember the Great Flood, Tower of Babel, the Egyptians in the Red Sea, Sodom & Gomorrah… WWII Jews freed & the Nuremberg trials … all times of harvest on God’s hidden timeline.
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Which seasons carry harvest potential?
- Marriage, waiting for a spouse.
- Raising children, waiting to conceive.
- Job promotions, layoffs, firing and hiring.
- Sabbaths and sabbaticals.
- Poverty and prosperity.
- Divorce, new beginnings.
- Sickness and health.
- Death of loved ones, son- and daughter-in-laws.
- ______ Insert your own current season then ask yourself what you’ve spent time and energy sowing.
The season most pressing today is 2020/21. As God sought out Adam in the Garden, asking, Where are you?, He asks you today: Emotionally, mentally, spiritually, where are you and what are you sowing? Sow to please the flesh and of the flesh you will reap corruption, destruction and rottenness. But sow to the Spirit and of the Spirit you will reap everlasting life that even manifests in the natural (Galatians 6:7-9). God is never mocked by our words or actions.
These seasons have always been and still are on God’s timeline, and no one but the Master knows His timing for each one; He alone is the One who rightly judges the hearts of all men.
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Ready in season and out…
The part of each season that we rarely get to see until it passes (if then), is the harvest — therefore sow diligently! God is coming for His crop. He is separating the wheat from the tares, the light from the dark, the sheep and the goats. 2020/21 harvest is merely a foreshadowing of the end “crop” when we stand before Him to give account for everything we sowed, in season and out. Everything.
So let us live as sons and daughters who fear God’s opinions more than man’s. Be prepared in season and out, showing complete patience toward all people, knowing that they too are processing through the same season.
Sowing seeds of Bravery to Be Prepared
