Tag: God’s time

Posted in Wait for the Lord

WAIT PATIENTLY ON THE LORD

Posted on by Uplifting Christ

20121001-110426.jpgThis 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. (Habakkuk 2:3, NLT)

God has set time for every activity under heaven. There is time to sow, and time to reap. There is time to get pregnant, and time to give birth. The truth is God’s calendar doesn’t work like ours. He waits for the right time to supply our needs. He doesn’t work because you are in a hurry to receive. He is always on time.

It could be that you have been praying for something and nothing seems to happen. Be encouraged that so long as you keep doing your best each day, God will push things to your direction at the right time.

All you need to do is to WAIT PATIENTLY ON THE LORD. The scripture says God has made everything beautiful for its own time (Ecclesiastes 3:11).

In the scriptures, Elijah sent message to King Ahab that he should ran because the rain was coming. King Ahab took the lead on his chariot but when Elijah started to run, he outran King Ahab who was on his chariot. This tells us that the world around us may be moving fast but with the help of the Holy Spirit, we can do things faster.

Notice king Ahab had chariot, and he took the lead. He was moving fast. Yet Elijah got to the destination before he did.

People around you may be rushing to get things done but when you wait for the Lord, He will give you strength to outrun those who have taken the lead. It doesn’t matter if they are ten years, or five years, or one year, or one month ahead. God can thrust you years ahead with one idea or one opportunity when the time is right.

Wait patiently on the Lord.

Posted in SOUL FOOD

HE IS ALWAYS ON TIME

Posted on by Uplifting Christ

Most of us would want God to answer us and do as we bid immediately we call on Him. Yet, God doesn’t always fix our problems as soon as we press His door bell in prayer. In fact, many Christians may have wondered whether God is mindful of time and season as they wait for what seems to them like eternity for Him to grant their requests.

Actually, no one keeps to time like God. But, God doesn’t fix or reckon with time the way we do. So, our sense and appreciation of time differ from His. He hath made everything beautiful in his time, the scripture declares, and added that His thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways… For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts Ecclesiastes 3:11; Isaiah 55:8, 9.

There is no variation in God’s timing, unlike ours. His watch or calendar is set with divine precision such that He can neither act too late nor too early. Consequently, those that come to God for help must be ready to calmly wait for His own time not theirs.

We feel God is too late for our comfort and cautiously blame Him for slowness because we don’t understand His nature in this regard. The divine concept of time isn’t about the ticking of the clock or the rolling up of a calendar. It is about precise implementation of God’s programme and purpose for His creatures. Yes, God does have a time-frame for all His actions; but He doesn’t use the human watch or calendar. Beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day 2 peter 3:8. Thus, when we will have started to feel that God is behind schedule, the loving Father smiles and says “No child, I’m right on time.”

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