GOD'S TIME OR YOURS?? - Open heavens devotional by Pastor E. A Adeboye

BIBLE IN A YEAR: Isa 64-66
GOD’S TIME OR YOURS? Sunday, August 22, 2010
MEMORIZE: “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” (Eccl. 3:1) READ: Ecclesiastes 3:1-5 One challenge believer’s face which is not limited to any generation is reconciling our time with God’s time over various issues. Even when people generally say, ‘God’s time is the best’, not many are ready to wait for it. A brother was planning to go for a two-year post-graduate studies when God specifically instructed him to marry and settle down. Marriage was not the most important event to him at that time but to God, it was. So he obeyed. Meanwhile, there are many who are fasting and praying regularly so that they would know their spouses and settle down in marriage yet, God appears too slow in answering their prayers. One reason for such delay could be that it is not yet time for them to marry according to God’s timetable. One prayer point you must regularly take is, ‘Father, in doing Your will in any area of my life, let me never jump the gun or come behind Your perfect timing’. In understanding God and His timing, you need to know that God calls non existent things as though they already existed. In Romans 4:17, while speaking to barren Abraham, He called him a father of many nations. God’s language conflicts with our understanding on the use of English yet, if God calls you a multimillionaire when you are indeed very poor, drop your poverty mentality, believe Him and hold fast to that Word. Find out what He expects you to do and comply fully and it will surely manifest. Another thing about God’s timing is that He operates a different calender from ours. Although He established a system whereby time can be measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years, yet God lives in eternity and therefore cannot be tied to our time. According to 2 Peter 3:8, a thousand years in human calendar makes a day to God. Ecclesiastes 3:1 says God has a set time for everything on earth. It is possible you have attended several church meetings without a positive change. This does not mean that you are forgotten, but that God has already appointed a time for your desired blessing to be delivered to you. Your day of upliftment has a time attached. Your day of breakthrough has a fixed day. Your day will not pass you unannounced. ACTION POINT: When the day you fixed for something conflicts with God’s date for the same matter, let His will prevail.