God's timing is rarely our timing which is why one of the most frequent cries in the Psalms is
how long how long why not now God what possible reason could you have for making this
protracted suffering even longer
faith is at least in part the ability to trust that if you knew everything God knew and if you
understood everything God understood and if you could see everything God sees
you would say that's right it takes faith to believe that because our vision is so limited
and our pain can seem so long but if we knew what God knew and could see what God sees we would say
of course of course I see why that had to happen to him and to them and to her into
that country and that people and that decision and that thing God knew what he was doing
I love what the commentator Victor Hamilton says God's delays are not necessarily God's denials
and as some of you endure what seems like a long period of God's
delay delay delay know that it is not necessarily his denial when thoughts tell you it's too late
it's never going to happen now let that go in one ear and out the other
God is faithful what he promised you is still in route you may not see any sign of it
every circumstance says there's no way things are happening that you can't see in the unseen realm
God is moving the wrong people out of the way lining up the healing the favor the good breaks
they're already on your schedule but here's the key if you could see how it was going to happen
that wouldn't take any faith God can use anything and anybody to get you where he wants to take you
and so I just came to tell somebody who came in here feeling for your sorry for yourself and came
in here just feeling woe is me never nothing good ever happens to me I'm never I'm always the last
one hired in the first one fired I'm always and you and you got your little sad song that you've
loved uh uh to sing I came to tell you pick up the needle put on a new song I am who God said I am
time for you to quit disqualifying yourself some of us disqualify ourselves for we ever show up
I serve a God who can give me a job I'm not technically qualified for but because I'm in his
bloodline if he wills me to work there he's going to put me there no matter how he gets me there
but sometimes your plan and God's plan are two different things oh I came to tell you you got
don't worry about your plan when yours falls apart that just means it wasn't God's that's
all it means somebody needs to take that with you when it doesn't work out the way you thought it
would work out that just means that wasn't God's way that's all it means don't get desperate don't
get frustrated don't certainly don't get mad at God he didn't give you the plan you had the plan
sometimes we give God our deadlines and get mad when he doesn't meet him
oh but God does things in his own way his ways are not our ways his thoughts are not our thoughts and
so you got to learn to walk by faith promises that you've given up on dreams you've let go of
you've accepted it's too late to accomplish that goal too late to break the addiction too
late to have a baby that may be true looking at a normal schedule you don't see it on there but
God is saying it's still on my schedule I still have a way to bring it to pass I wouldn't have
promised it if I wasn't going to do it now all through the day father thank you that what you
started in my life you're going to finish it may seem too late for me but I know it's not too late
for you thank you for these unscheduled blessings blessings out of season I came to tell you your
timeline is in the hand of your God he knows what he started in your life he knows where he's taking
you and you gotta walk by faith and not by sight and stop getting mad at all the people around you
it's not their job to elevate your life God is the one who will exalt you in good time humble
yourself under the mighty hand of God in due season when the time is right he will exalt you
Don't ever mistake your feeling of urgency don't ever mistake your feeling of urgency
for purpose from God your urgency your sense of having to do something should can deceive
you into thinking that your purpose from God I've got to do this right now but here's the thing you
feel urgency and I feel urgency but God does not it doesn't mean that your urgency is felt by God
God may put something urgent in your life but here's the reality your urgency doesn't mean
that God also feels it when we handle things ourselves and don't trust in God's timing
we always make things worse right isn't that what we do we help things along we try to find a way
to get the ball rolling I you know I know God spoke this but you know it seems like
God needs a little help so you know lean in and get the ball rolling come up with some solutions
we don't understand how God could do something but remember he's God he works in supernatural ways
often using natural systems but he does things above creation is anything too hard for the
Lord is there anything too hard for the Lord just because it seems like God is too late
doesn't mean that he's not going to come through don't be fooled by the circumstances
you may not see anything the odds are against you the experts say it's not going to work out
God controls the universe don't be impatient for him to act keep believing keep praying and
every blessing that belongs to you will show up you won't have to go after it
it's going to come to you it's going to happen at the time God has planned have you given up hope
have you given up hope did God speak something to you and you look at it and say there is
no physical real way that this could happen scientifically emotionally whatever there's no way
this could happen this word of God that was given to me there's no way it could happen you're in the
perfect place for God to show up and speak into your desolation the word that he has which is hope
that his word never returns void that his purposes and his plans for you will not be thwarted
he is God and when he speaks it it is so just check out the first narrative
of scripture in the creation of all things he spoke it when God speaks it comes to be
but we are limited by time and we look at it and we know that time matters to us it matters we are
looking at time linearly I do not believe that God does God looks in from eternity time is something
God created he's not subservient to it he uses it he gave us all the numerology that's in the bible
the seven days being so significant six days in a rest and the whole like rhythm
of the earth and its seasons God of course uses time but God is not subservient to it
God is eternal he is the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end he was he is and he
will be he is outside of time he is God so remind yourself that when God speaks it will come to be
but it doesn't mean that it will happen tomorrow God doesn't do things on a normal schedule
a normal time frame he has some unscheduled blessings for you things that are out of season
out of the ordinary that shouldn't happen now the medical report says it's too late
the financial experts say things should be down that's when God steps in and says let me show
you who I am I'm not limited by time I'm not affected by the economy I'm not restricted by
your age your background the opposition by how long it's been I control the universe
when I speak wombs come back to life when I speak red seas part when I speak sicknesses leave
when I speak addictions are broken marriages are restored opportunities show up remember
every calling every pull into something is a journey of faith based on his timing not yours we
cannot engineer a life of faith hear that church you cannot engineer a life of faithful obedience
you can only live into it trust him when you don't see anything happening believe
when heaven is silent he's working behind the scenes every blessing that has your name on it
if you will be patient it's not only going to find you it's going to be much better than you think
friends know this your life is purposeful but we have to wait on his perfect timing we may
not understand God's timing but we can trust his character will we be courageously obedient
even when we have to wait and here's the thing if you won't say yes to it you'll
never get to see the fulfillment of God you will have to wait in courageous obedience
for the word of the Lord to come to pass he works out his plans and purposes in us nothing
I want I want this to be the final words you hear nothing is wasted when we trust in God's timing
he is the God who says I will give you beauty for ashes I will give you the oil of joy
in your time of mourning and grief only God can do that only God can redeem time spent waiting
time spent hopeless God is the God who invites us to believe in his character above and beyond our
circumstances nothing is wasted when we wait on our faithful God's timing to reach its fulfillment