GOD SHOULD BE GIVEN AN AWARD FOR HIS TARDINESS

After my service year, I didn’t sit around for long before landing a good job offer. The interviews I attended weren’t overwhelming, but God did it.

In contrast, Yemi reached out to me one month before celebrating our one-year anniversary after service, and she still hadn’t gotten even a second-stage interview. She contacted me in tears and asked the very common question: "Has God abandoned me?"

Yemi, with her qualifications and burning heart for God and service, was stuck in this exhausting moment of life.

But have we really paused to ask, "God, what do You have for me to do in this season?"

The discerning spirit is crucial for a child of God. No season is the same, and for everything, there is a time.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV): "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens."

Knowing what to do at the right time is very important. You must be able to discern the times:

KNOW WHEN TO START, 

WHEN TO HOLD ON, 

WHEN TO WALK AWAY, 

WHEN TO RUN. 

I have come to the realization that timing is crucial for success in business, career, family, ministry, and relationships. Time and chance happen to everyone, allowing positive responses to occur.

In God's perfect timing, everything comes together for the best.

We all have our time zones. Just because God has called you to something or told you that you will achieve something doesn’t mean it is time yet. Wait and be discerning of the set time.

1 Chronicles 12:32 says, "Men of Issachar, who understood the times and knew what Israel should do, 200 chiefs, with all their relatives under their command."

David was anointed as king in 2 Samuel 5:3, but he did not become king until the set time came.

Ecclesiastes 9:11 notes: "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither bread to the wise."

Your ability to discern the times comes with a feeling of ease. You can’t force things to happen outside of God's time. Doing things in God's timing comes with ease, and everything needed to bring it to pass is put in place by God.

God is preparing us for the different seasons in our lives. There are times when He sends us to the wilderness, leaves us there, and deals with things we never knew we had. He broods over us and brings the perfect opportunity. Just like David He brings out.

Seasons bring change, so be discerning of when the spotlight comes.

Prepare ahead and be sure that the odds are for you, not against you. So, when God's time presents the opportunity, you won’t be caught off guard.

Remember, all things work together for those who love him, and He will make everything beautiful in its time.

REVIVE!