IT'S HEAVY, BUT WAIT

For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, though a man's misery weighs heavily upon him. (Ecclesiastes 8:6)

I'm sure many of you are familiar with the book of Ecclesiastes chapter 3 that goes into great depth of how the order of God operates as it relates to seasons and proper timing.  Sometimes we can feel like we are bursting at our seams and wanting so desperately for God to move in our own time.  It's like putting a cake in the oven for 20 minutes but expecting that it will be fully baked throughout, but really it has only begun and the butter and eggs haven't even begun to cook yet.  We are the microwave generation and we want things now and don't want to wait.  We are just itching for God to move and manifest things out of season for us because we want it now.

I was watching a movie on lifetime just the other day and one of the women in the movie decided to date, get engaged and marry a man just because she felt it was the appropriate time for her to do so.  She changed for him, accepted less than she needed or wanted, she adapted herself to accommodate his needs and let her needs go unattended.  It was more important to just find a man and get married to her than it was to marry the right man.  The one who was intended for her.  This movie spoke to me, because women get married for so many different reasons.  We can be attracted to the anointing on someone's life, but not be physically attracted to them.  So, what happens if they backslide, will we still want them?  We can be physically attracted to them, but they are not anointed and have nothing spiritually valuable to add to our lives.  When their looks decline, will we still want them?

What am I saying?  It takes more than just the physical aspect and more than the spiritual aspect to walk in agreement as one.  It's going to take more than just him looking good and more than him preaching good to make and keep you satisfied.  For when God does something he brings the whole measure of who you are and it comes into agreement with the one he has chosen for you.  In other words, God will not give you somebody who does not line up with who you are and can add substance to you as a woman of God both spiritually, emotionally, and physically.  Why would God give you anything less than what you need so that at the end of the day you are satisfied and happy.  Why would God make you wait for your season to be blessed and send you oranges instead of apples, when he knows you need apples.  You get what I'm saying?  He's not going to send you a partial blessing.  Somebody that kind of meets your expected blessing.  He's not going to send you somebody that can only sow into your physically, but cannot sow into you spiritually as well.  You don't even need a man of God for that.  You can take any Joe blow from off the street for that!  I'm just saying.

It's going to take us not having a microwave mentality for God to manifest the thing that we've been waiting on.  Lowering our expectations will not change God's mind about his intended purpose for our lives.  This will result in us deceiving ourselves and not fully walking into the plan he has established for us.  The season of the blessing is not meant for us to call.  But it is God's ordained time for us to attain the blessing.  He gets to make that call, not us.  We can try to manifest it because it feels right, we can fix it up, we cannot say its him when its not.  We're faith people, not flesh people.  We walk by faith, not by sight.  Attraction does not equal the will of God.  I've told you women of God in time's past, I don't care how much you speak in tongues over a thing, if its not God, then it's not.  Stop trying to make a distraction the will of God.  God is not confused about what he said.  He has not suddenly changed his mind. He has not set you on a different path than he set you out on. 

Whatever God is going to do, he is going to do it at the proper time.  Until he decides that its your time for the blessing, the only thing you can do is ensure that you are ready to walk in it when the season arrives.  You're blessing is not what you came out of and it may not be what you are in right now.  But be certain of this one thing, that at his appointed time, it shall manifest.  For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay (Hab 2:3).  Surely, discouragement comes at the delay of God's promises, but delayed blessings are not cancelled blessings, nor are they denyed blessings.  So, though it linger, wait for it.  Don't settle.  Don't get sidetracked by counterfeits.  Don't be deceived by the enemy who appears to be as an angel of light.  God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? (Num 23:19)

Whatever God is going to do, he's going to do it in its season, but be ascertained that he IS going to do it. It doesn't pressure him because you feel weighted in your spirit about the matter now.  I just feel like it's time, well it might be, but wait till you hear God say it.  It is appointed a time and season for things to manifest and reproduce in God's order and timing.  At no time will God act out of character to bring things to past before his appointed just so he can appease us.  If something happens during an off-season, what does the world call it, it's a freak storm.  It's happening at a time it shouldn't happen.  There are no freak storms with God.  God shifts the season at the appointed time so he can produce the blessing.  Yesterday it was summer, but today it's spring because God said it's time.  Remember that.