Take Advantage of Your Season

I've often heard it said that as Christians we serve a God of time and season. Though the LORD lives outside of time and in eternity, He has preordained and predestined a timeline of events leading up to the end of time when He comes back for His bride to judge the world. His plan is so intricate and detailed that He has set aside specific seasons for us as individuals to prosper, to endure suffering, to practice patience and experience every facet of life that we find ourselves in. This plan is so complex that He has granted us a sense of freewill, yet even that He is in control of. As sons and daugters of God it is up to us to recognize the season we are in and act accordingly. For some it may be a season to reap, for others a season to sow. There is an appointed time to speak, as well as a time to hold your peace. For some it may be a time of heavy warfare, yet for others a time of focused intercession. Every promise of God has a season where it will manifest, but in order to receive your promise you must be in position.

Jeremiah 5:24
...Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

Galatians 6:9
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Sometimes what we receive in our season is conditional. In Jeremiah 5:24 the LORD said that if we as God's people fear Him, we will receive a harvest in the appointed season (in this context the LORD is using Jeremiah to rebuke the people of Israel for not fearing Him saying what their attitude should have been). In Galatians 6:9, Paul writes that if we do not become weary in well doing we will reap a harvest. Many promises are conditional, and God gives each of us an opportunity to receive the fullness of His blessings if we only trust and obey.

Solomon is an example of how being out of position can cause you to miss your season (1 Kings 9:2-7). God told Solomon that if he walks in integrity, obeys His statutes and does not serve other gods He will establish Solomon's name in Israel forever. The LORD then told Solomon that if he or his children act in disobedience and serve other gods, He will cut them off from the promised land and take away the temple (His house). Solomon disobeyed and missed his blessing by serving other gods (1 Kings 11). All of Israel was then cut off from his rule (other than Judah) and God gave Solomon's kingdom (the rest of Israel) to his servant Jeroboam. After Solomon passed, his son Rehoboam became king of Judah in his stead, but should have inherited the entire kingdom of Israel (all 12 tribes) were it not for Solomon's disobedience. Many years later, the Kingdom of Judah lost their land and were exiled during the Babylonian captivity of the 6th century BC as noted in Daniel, Jeremiah, 2nd Chronicles and 2nd Kings under the reigns of King Jehoikim, Jehoiachin and Zedekiah (the last king). King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon not only took the people of Judah captive, but is recorded to have raided Solomon's Temple twice, afterwhich he burned it down and took all of its treasures back to Babylon (See Biblical References). The Kingdom of Israel was also taken captive and destroyed by the Assyrian Empire 200 years earlier around the 8th century BC under the rule of it's last king Hoshea who reigned in Samaria (2 Kings 17:6-24).

Don't miss your season. Walk uprightly before the LORD and you will receive every promise of God in due season. For the promises of God are yea and amen and if you are not in position in the appointed season, He will move someone else into your place who will walk in your promise.

Ecclesiates 3:1
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.