I thought that today might be a good time to re-post this set of notes. This year has been a time of living this one out. I hope that this next year is a great one for you and your family. Mark
Ecclesiastes 3:1, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
Seasons = a set time, an appointed time.
- Childhood is a season.
- School is a season.
- Raising children is a season.
TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON!
There is a reason for every season.
- Seasons of training can last until we learn the lessons.
- Other seasons will pass us by regardless.
- Understand the times and seasons.
Just as there are natural seasons there are parallel spiritual seasons.
- God will put you in specific situations for seasons of time.
- It could be geographical, relationships, spiritual emphasis…
Winter, spring, summer and fall.
- There are trees that stay green all winter.
- A time to sit by the fire and learn.
- A lot of bugs die in the winter.
- Summer we are growing and producing fruit that will not grow without HEAT!
- It takes heat to temper steel.
- Heat causes seeds to activate.
TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON!
People who understand the seasons will be blessed in all of them!
Each season is different.
- There are seasons of activity and seasons of inactivity.
- There are seasons to learn and seasons to teach.
Each season is preparation for the next season.
- You must discern what God wants to teach you in your present season.
- You will be equipped for the next season only if you are faithful in the present season.
If you don’t understand anything else, get this: SEASONS CHANGE!
1 Samuel 16:1, “And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.”
- Not all seasons are the same in length.
- There are long seasons and short seasons.
- How you leave one season determines how you will enter the next.
It is highly important to be faithful in each season.
Luke 16:10, “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.”
Luke 16:12, “And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?”
REMEMBER: TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON!
Be faithful where you are with what you have been given and you will thrive regardless of season, circumstance or situation.
God bless you! And, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
