Understanding Times and Seasons

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven…” (Eccl. 3:1-8)

Just as there is a time and season for everything under heaven, there is an appointed time for the fulfillment of your destiny. The appointed time may not be the one you choose for yourself. Sometimes, things may not go the way you plan. Circumstances may arise that will either shorten or prolong the time of accomplishment of your goal.

This goes to show that aside your choice of time to fulfill your heart’s desire, there is an appointed time to fulfill your destiny. And until that time comes, all your efforts may be of no avail. When you understand that there is a time and season for everything under the heaven, you will not be puzzled by the vicissitudes of life.

People who understand times and seasons are never puzzled when they fail to fulfill their dreams at their own appointed time. They are aware that there are times of prosperity and there are times of adversity.

The fact about life is that life is never constant. What this implies is that things will not go well or bad with you all the time. No matter how long a particular circumstance – positive or negative – lasts, there will come a turnaround. If you are expecting that things will go well with you all the time, you may be kidding.

Beware of Vulnerable Times

Vulnerable times are times when things don’t go the way you want. They are times when you pray and the answers seem not forthcoming. They are times you work, work and work with little results to show for it. They are times you look for a job but you can’t find any. They are times you do all the adverts, marketing, promos and employ your salesmanship skills but only get low or no patronage.

Those times are delicate times indeed. They are delicate times because they are the times you fall prey to all sorts of negative thoughts from you and from others.

Beware of Negative Suggestions

Vulnerable times are times when your faith in God will be tested to the core. They are times when the amount of negative suggestions around you supersedes the amount of positive suggestions. At such times, if your faith is not deeply rooted in God, you would be swept away by the flood of negativity.

Vulnerable times are times when people fall prey to false prophets. They fall prey easily because they are desperate for quick solution. False prophets would brainwash them to the extent that they become zombie, not able to think and act on their own except what the false prophets instruct them to do and believe.

False prophets would give them a thousand and one causes of their problem without leading them to God. False prophets would assure them that they have solution to their problems, but alas, they end up worsening their situation. No wonder, Almighty God said: “Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departheth from the Lord…” (Jer. 17:5-6).

When you start trusting in man instead of God, it is an indication that you have taken the path of doom. No man can help you more than God. In fact, no man can help you unless God raises him up to help you. You have equal access to God like any person. Some are brainwashed and made to believe that without a particular man or woman, they cannot access the throne of grace. This is absolute falsehood.

God is no respecter of persons. He does not turn away any person that comes to Him. The problem we have is impatience. We don’t want to wait for God’s time. We are made to believe that if we do not succeed at the same time with others, it is a curse.

Understand the Working of God’s Plan for Your Life

We are not ignorant of the activities of the devil and his cohorts in causing misfortunes and delays in people’s lives. Many lives have been ruined by misfortunes and delays caused by the devil and his cohorts.

People who choose to trust men instead of God, will always fall prey to the onslaught of the devil and his cohorts. Such people will keep ascribing more powers to the devil than to God. But those who trust God know that nothing can happen to them without God’s permission. They know that everything that happens to them is part of God’s plan for their lives.

Romans 8: 28 says: “All things work together for good to them that love God who are the called according to His purpose.” Note that the verse says: “ALL THINGS.” Not “some things,” not “good things only,” not “bad things only,” but “ALL THINGS” the good, the bad and the ugly!

If you are expecting that everything must go well with you all the time, or that because you believe in God, you will never have problems, it may be that you have not fully understood times and seasons of life. Whether we believe in God or not, we will have our fair share of problems. And these problems confront us, not necessarily because of our sins, the sins of our ancestors, or because of our unbelief.

I think the better explanation is that WE ARE HAVING PROBLEMS BECAUSE PROBLEMS ARE PART OF LIFE. Eccl. 7:14 says: “In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after Him.” This implies that God permits both prosperity and adversity to exist and it is our responsibility to take both in our strides.

The path to victorious living is believing that ALL THINGS – the good, the bad and the ugly, work together for our good. Life may not be a bed of roses, but you can be victorious over challenges. You can go through life with your head held high, without being beaten and battered. You can triumph over adversities. The secret is in trusting God. Jeremiah 17: 7-8 says: “Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when the heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.”

As you walk through life with faith in God and with full understanding of the times and seasons of life, you will never fall prey to the enemies, but will be victorious now and always!   

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