1Kgs 18:44 - Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, "There is a cloud, as small as a man's hand, rising out of the sea!" So he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.' "
Anyone who wants to do business with God must know that things take time. Everything takes time, God’s time. People say “Time is money”, “Time is flying” and “Time waits for no one”. These expressions are true, if all you know and all that you care about is this present world. Often, these expressions lead people to “walk by sight” and not by faith. When you are walking by sight, “Time is money”, “Time is flying” and “Time waits for no one”.
Time is money
It is always difficult to find time for God when you live by the principle that “time is money”. The Bible teaches us that we cannot serve God and money. “Money” is everything that you are able and willing to make time for, no matter how difficult when ordinarily you find it hard to make time for God and meet with Him at the appointed times in your Church. You struggle to attend Church but going to work, going shopping, going on holiday, going for a meal and visiting friends – that’s no problem – no matter how tight you will find time for these things, even at the risk of your life! If someone tells you that you are living according to the wrong priorities in the matter of time, you will argue but does God not see all, does God not know all?
Time is Flying
When you order your life according to the principle that “time is flying”, you often find yourself in a rush through spiritual things. You rush through prayer, you rush through your Bible study, you rush through Church, you rush through your relationship with God at any set time! When you are in Church, you are busy checking your watch, you can’t wait for Church to finish so you can hop out and continue the life of a butterfly – fleeting from one thing to another.
You never really sit down calmly to enjoy God – physically, you are in Church but mentally and emotionally you are far away. Your life with God at any point in time is a brief and fleeting moment – time is always flying and you want to do other things!
Time waits for no-one
The number of “Christians” who follow the principle that time waits for no-one is astonishing. They push, they jostle, they elbow you out, they envy you, they can’t wait to push others down so that they can stay on top, and they can’t wait to push others out so that they can stay in. They backbite, they criticise, they spread malicious talk, they gossip, they lie about others, and they find it easy to quarrel than to make peace!
If someone tells them that they are living according to the wrong priorities in the matter of time, they will argue but the reality is: what we are in life is often shown by the kind of actions and decisions that we take.
Listen, everyone who claims to be a Christian must know that you cannot do business with God according to your own preferences. You cannot rush about with God and succeed in your relationship with Him. If genuinely you have given your life to God and Jesus rules in every part of your life as Lord and Saviour, your time is not your time, it is God’s time. So, ask yourself: what are you doing with God’s time day by day? Is it His or yours really? Everyone that has continuous and unceasing big breakthroughs with God learns that He requires from them times up to the seventh time. The seventh time is the perfect time, the full time, the comprehensive time, the whole time! Can you give God the whole time or is He only good enough for the part time? God always wants the best from us, not the left over!
Anyone who wants to do business with God must know that things take time. Everything takes time, God’s time. People say “Time is money”, “Time is flying” and “Time waits for no one”. These expressions are true, if all you know and all that you care about is this present world. Often, these expressions lead people to “walk by sight” and not by faith. When you are walking by sight, “Time is money”, “Time is flying” and “Time waits for no one”.
Time is money
It is always difficult to find time for God when you live by the principle that “time is money”. The Bible teaches us that we cannot serve God and money. “Money” is everything that you are able and willing to make time for, no matter how difficult when ordinarily you find it hard to make time for God and meet with Him at the appointed times in your Church. You struggle to attend Church but going to work, going shopping, going on holiday, going for a meal and visiting friends – that’s no problem – no matter how tight you will find time for these things, even at the risk of your life! If someone tells you that you are living according to the wrong priorities in the matter of time, you will argue but does God not see all, does God not know all?
Time is Flying
When you order your life according to the principle that “time is flying”, you often find yourself in a rush through spiritual things. You rush through prayer, you rush through your Bible study, you rush through Church, you rush through your relationship with God at any set time! When you are in Church, you are busy checking your watch, you can’t wait for Church to finish so you can hop out and continue the life of a butterfly – fleeting from one thing to another.
You never really sit down calmly to enjoy God – physically, you are in Church but mentally and emotionally you are far away. Your life with God at any point in time is a brief and fleeting moment – time is always flying and you want to do other things!
Time waits for no-one
The number of “Christians” who follow the principle that time waits for no-one is astonishing. They push, they jostle, they elbow you out, they envy you, they can’t wait to push others down so that they can stay on top, and they can’t wait to push others out so that they can stay in. They backbite, they criticise, they spread malicious talk, they gossip, they lie about others, and they find it easy to quarrel than to make peace!
If someone tells them that they are living according to the wrong priorities in the matter of time, they will argue but the reality is: what we are in life is often shown by the kind of actions and decisions that we take.
Listen, everyone who claims to be a Christian must know that you cannot do business with God according to your own preferences. You cannot rush about with God and succeed in your relationship with Him. If genuinely you have given your life to God and Jesus rules in every part of your life as Lord and Saviour, your time is not your time, it is God’s time. So, ask yourself: what are you doing with God’s time day by day? Is it His or yours really? Everyone that has continuous and unceasing big breakthroughs with God learns that He requires from them times up to the seventh time. The seventh time is the perfect time, the full time, the comprehensive time, the whole time! Can you give God the whole time or is He only good enough for the part time? God always wants the best from us, not the left over!
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