AT THE PROPER TIME

Galations 6:9 NIV 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

I was reminded this week that one of the biggest tests we all face is not opposition, it’s time. When we keep believing God’s promise when we can’t see anything changing, when we remain faithful if we don’t receive any encouragement, when things look worse and we remain determined to stand on God’s word knowing He cannot lie, we are putting our faith to work.😊

None of us enjoys waiting but when we do, God honours our faith, we’re doing the ‘good’ He talks about in our verse, He’s helping us pass the test of time, to not give up, and to reap the harvest He promised.

Abraham waited decades for his promised son to arrive. Noah built the ark over a hundred years but every day he woke up there was no sign of the promised flood. Nevertheless, he obeyed what God told him to do, despite the mockery, despite his doubts, and he reaped the harvest - his family was rescued. 

Now we don’t have a hundred years to wait, many of us may never see one hundred, but if God has promised us something, it will happen. All He requires of us is to remain in faith, to believe what He has said.😊

When God goes quiet, when we don’t have any further instructions, when we don’t ‘see’ what we’re believing for with our natural eyes, we need to remember our faith is based on the incorruptible written Word of God, and know He is working behind the scenes.

The Holy Spirit’s encouragement to us today is to keep believing, don’t be moved by what you see or feel, but stand on God’s promise and know He will bring your harvest to pass - at the proper time - in His time.😊 Amen.

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WALKING AND WAITING

Lamentations 3:25 The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him.

When we love somebody we like to do things we know will please them. In the same way whatever we do in the Christian life it’s going to involve walking it out by faith because we know that’s what pleases God.(Hebrews 11:6) 😊

We forget sometimes that God lives outside the natural realm, that He is Spirit, not limited by our natural world, by time or space. He is supernatural and He has now made us new creations in Christ which means we’re equipped to walk in the unseen supernatural world as well.

Our finite minds may shy away from the supernatural because it requires us to think outside of the box we are ‘comfortable’ in. Faith walks in the realm where we believe things are changing, even when it doesn’t look like it or feel like it. God is immensely powerful and He has given us His Holy Spirit to enable us to tap into His supernatural ability, to believe for the impossible because nothing is impossible with God.😊

For instance, Jesus told us to speak to our mountains and tell them to be uprooted and cast into the sea. He didn’t tell us to ask God to do it for us. He didn’t tell us to talk about our mountains until they seem insurmountable! Instead Jesus says we’re to talk to our mountains about how big our God is, how powerful He is and in His name we take authority over them and tell them to be uprooted and removed.

It requires us to walk in the Spirit, to seek Him for His way of thinking and doing things. Not everything happens immediately but while we’re waiting for things to change, God is at work in our waiting, and that requires our faith to be active to believe He is working! 

I’ll say it again, ‘God is at work in our waiting”. Now be encouraged and hold on to that knowing our verse reminds us, ‘The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.’😊 Amen.

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