“My times are in Your hands; deliver me from the hands of my foes and those who pursue me and persecute me.” Psalm 31:15 (AMPC)
Did you look at your watch? Or look at the calendar?
That’s what most of us do when we’re asked what’s the time ?.
We are all familiar with chronological time. This is time measured on our watches and our calendars. Chronological time is linear: past, present, and future. It is one-way time. We cannot go back in time, except in the movies. The present is always before us, sometimes tantalizingly uncertain.
The Bible uses the word Chronos for this kind of time.
The Bible is a book about chronological time, but it also speaks of another kind of time,
Kairos time.
Jesus on one occasion said His time had not come. (John 7:6)
The Gospels refer to the fullness of time. Kairos time has to do with fulfilling and completing.
This is God’s view of time, and it is different from ours.
God is concerned for the time you are ready for Him
Or the time at which the meaning of His assignment for your life can be understood, or when His Word gives you adequate knowledge about your identity and destiny.
Revelation!!!
God’s time takes place against the backdrop of eternity.
Kairos time is God’s time, not ours.
Watches are not ideal for telling this kind of time.
What is your time in God’s timing?
Where are you in the program of God for your purposeful life?
Today can you say as David said in our text
“My life, my every moment, my destiny—
It’s all in your hands. So I know you can deliver me
from those who persecute me relentlessly.” Psalm 31:15 The (TPT)
If you don’t know your Time and Purpose, you might be sitting, wining and dining with the enemy
“They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.” Matthew 25:1-13 (KJV)
What race of life are you running?
Do you appear prepared or are you really ready?
Are you just putting up motions or are you really in the life’s assignment for your purposeful life?
The five foolish virgins thought they were heading for the same goal like their other five wise counterparts, but they allowed procrastination and assumptions to kill their destiny.
Do what you need to do today, don’t put off what should be done today for tomorrow.
Others always help?
Have you really asked them for help or you are assuming that because you hang out with them, they will really help you in your hour of need?
Don’t just mouth and mentally note the parable of the five foolish virgins
Examine yourself.
“Examine and test and evaluate your own selves to see whether you are holding to your faith and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves not Christ]. Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?” 2 Corinthians 13:5(AMPC)
Don’t just be full of activities make sure you know the required dimensions of your calling.
“May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;” Ephesians 3:18 (KJV)
The five foolish virgins did not honestly know
The Breadth
The Length
The Depth
The Height
Of their purpose in life.
Do You?
It’s not too late to change and get oil in your lamp today and be daily ready for your purposeful life.
“Teaching them the decrees and laws, showing them the way they must walk and the work they must do.” Exodus 18:20 (AMPC)
The work they must do?
Does a relationship with God requires work?
Yes.
You must work to sustain and continuously maintain your relationship with God.
Jethro Moses’s father-in-law in giving the counsel above enumerated that every child of God has the doing part they must do in oiling their relationship with God.
Christianity is not just faith it and claim it, it requires work.
Many are only taught today that all you need to do is just pray and believe God for miracles.
Great. Prayers and Faith are essential ingredients, but there is still the work you have to do.
However, the works you have to do are “not hard labor work,”
There are always practical steps you have to take on your side as God does his own side of the bargain.
“What is the use (profit), my brethren, for anyone to profess to have faith if he has no [good] works [to show for it]? Can [such] faith save [his soul]?” James 2:14 AMPC)
Apostle Paul clearly states that your work and faith should be evident.
“But someone might object and say, “One person has faith, and another person has worked.” Go ahead then and prove to me that you have faith without works and I will show you faith by my works as proof that I believe.” James 2:18 (TPT)
As you lay claim to the promises of God and confess them, please find out also what is required of you to bring your dreams to reality successfully.
“True love for God means obeying his commands, and his commands don’t weigh us down as heavy burdens.” 1 John 5:3 (TPT)
Relationship with God requires your own work to do.
A lazy person cannot enjoy a good relationship with God.
Indeed Jesus paid it all with His life, but it is delivered to you with your willing and joyful, active participation.
What to do?
“…..Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”Philippians 2:12 (KJV)
Find out from God what you need to do to actualize your dreams and be a fulfilled child of God.
“And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.” Genesis 50:24 (KJV)
Joseph spoke so confidently to his brethren that God will certainly visit them and take them to the promise land.
It Happened.
He spoke from an inner assurance that God’s promise to Abraham that HE will give his descendants the land he has promised them
“And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years” Genesis 15:13 (KJV)
Whatsoever God has told you based on His Word will undoubtedly come to pass.
“And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.” Genesis 18:10 (KJV)
Abraham had a son Isaac precisely as God promised.
Joseph in our text knew from his personal experiences that God honors His Word because all the dreams HE gave him as a child were fulfilled in his lifetime.
God cannot lie.
“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” Numbers 23:19 (KJV)
Apostle Paul like Joseph of old too could say confidently that God keeps to his Word.
“The confidence of my calling enables me to overcome every difficulty without shame, for I have an intimate revelation of this God. And my faith in him convinces me that he is more than able to keep all that I’ve placed in his hands safe and secure until the fullness of his appearing.” 2 Timothy 1:12 (TPT)
God will surely bring to pass what He has promised you.
“Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.” (2 Timothy 4:8) (KJV)
How many times do we desire something, pursue it with determination for a while, and later feel as if such desires were phantoms that it would never come to pass?
How often have we felt as if something has passed us by, and perhaps, it would never come our way again?
Apostle Paul in our text knew that there is a crown of achievement for promises that God made to him.
Hence he consistently believed and saw the manifestation.
“For all of God’s promises find their “yes” of fulfillment in him. And as his “yes” and our “amen” ascend to God, we bring him glory!” 2 Corinthians 1:20 (TPT)
You are created for excellence.
Excellence is everyone’s heritage, as long as you are in Christ Jesus.
Sometimes The process of attainment could be stressful and tasking, but certainly, the promise is guaranteed in Christ Jesus
Once His Word backs up your promise there is always the Grace to get there.
It does not matter the situation you presently contend with, let your hope be in Christ Jesus, and hold fast to him as an Anchor.
Jesus Christ never bows to situations, but situations must always bow.
“The authority of the name of Jesus causes every knee to bow in reverence! Everything and everyone will one day submit to this name—in the heavenly realm, in the earthly realm, and in the demonic realm.” Philippians 2:10 (TPT)
Your situation will give way and bow in total defeat.
Don’t give up. It’s never too late for a miracle.
There is a crown for you too in overcoming this particular challenge.
The same star they had seen in the East reappeared!
“And so they left, and on their way to Bethlehem, suddenly the same star they had seen in the East reappeared! Amazed, they watched as it went ahead of them and stopped directly over the place where the child was. And when they saw the star, they were so ecstatic that they shouted and celebrated with unrestrained joy.” Matthew 2:9-10 (TPT)
The wise men initially saw the star, which led them up to a point in their search for the baby Jesus.
They took their eyes off it and started asking around from “people who should know” including Herod who had an ulterior motive in what they were searching for.
Thank God for His intervention the star reappeared.
What did God tell you initially?
Having started with God don’t take your eyes of God.
Don’t follow the protocol that will lead you to the Herod that will want to destroy your dream.
As you trace your way back to Bethel God will reappear again in your circumstances.
““Then Jacob made a vow, saying, If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and will give me food to eat and clothing to wear, So that I may come again to my father’s house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God;” Genesis 28:20-21 (AMPC)
God kept to His promise and reappeared to him again and again in Genesis 31
God is the Alpha and Omega.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, says the Lord God, He Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty (the Ruler of all).” Revelation1: 8 (AMPC)
Keep your Eyes, Ears, and Heart on Him.
He will guide you successfully to the end.
“ For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide [even] until death.” Psalm 48:14 (AMPC)
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