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In God's Time


We have come to the last month of the year and we give all Glory to God for bringing us this far. If you are like me and you had goals at the beginning of the year that you have not yet accomplished and it looks like another year is ending and you still haven’t ticked it off your checklist do not be discouraged or dismayed because at God’s time those things will be accomplished if we don’t get weary but continue to pray. Philippians 4; 6 be careful for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be known unto God.

Just like Moses we may know that God has called us for a specific purpose but wonder how and when it will come to full manifestation. Moses knew that he was called to rescue the Israelites, he expected his countrymen to understand that God was granting them freedom through him (assuming that they would accept him) but they did not understand Acts 7: 25 (AMP). He knew he was called to rescue Israel even though at that time the Israelites did not know this, but it wasn’t yet time for God to use him because he was still ‘mighty in words and in deed’ Acts 7; 22. He also acted very rashly, when he tried to save his brethren an Israelite who was fighting with an Egyptian, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand thinking no one was watching him (Exodus 2:12). By the time it was time for Moses to rescue his people Israel he had become a stammerer (Exodus 4:10), one who was no longer mighty in words and in deeds. God needed to raise a leader in Moses one who will become the meekest man in the world. (Numbers 12:3)

We must be careful to do God’s work in God’s way, in God’s time, and for God’s reasons. Moses knew he was called to save his people from the Egyptians but he did it the wrong way at first this was when he was 40 years old. Forty years later, by the time Moses was 80 years old he had learnt humility such that he became slow to speak, he was not even sure of himself anymore, when God appeared to him and said he will deliver his people from Egypt, his view of himself had changed such that he realised he was a nobody. Imagine if he had tried to lead his people out of Egypt at age 40 even though that was the call of God upon his life.

God’s time is always the best time, the truth is we are not ready for some of the things that God has called us to do, God knows the best time for everything he has called us to do. Because we cannot see the manifestation of the things he has promised us or spoken about concerning us does not mean that he lied, God can never lie. God is not a man that he should lie; neither the son of man that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? (Numbers 23:19). His word can never return to him void. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. (Habakkuk 2:3)

It’s very important to be able to discern the different seasons of our lives, and to grow to maturity instead of remaining as spiritual babes. Imagine if Moses never wised up and never became humble enough for God to use, or if it took Moses so long to become the man that God could use (it took him 40 years) Israel would have remained in captivity for much longer. Sometimes we delay the manifestations of God’s promises for our lives because we refuse to grow up to maturity, or come to the place that God is calling us to, but unless and until we are determined to be all that God has called us to be we may just know in our inner man that we were called to fulfil a specific purpose but may never attain it because we never grew up and could never discern the seasons of our lives. Except we allow God to truly reign over our lives, purpose to obey him fully, and allow him have full control of our lives we may never truly be able to attain to that height which he has destined for us.

I pray that God will give us all the grace to be fully yielded to him so that we will receive every promise of God for our lives that is left with the remaining part of the year and even beyond in Jesus name. Amen

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