We can usually recognize God working in the new beginnings, and later, in the fruits of our labors. But what about the time in between? How should we handle those long waits when we don’t know God’s schedule?
our challenge as people of faith is to
synchronize our faith with God’s
schedule that’s the challenge would not
be a challenge would not it would not be
a challenge if God would mark harvest
season on your schedule would not be a
challenge wouldn’t be a challenge
because you could keep yourself occupied
until that point don’t even worry about
it you’ll be married by 27 well then I’m
good I’ll just enjoy myself till 27 and
then my man will show up is it October
of 2020 I want God because Lord we could
be ready with the sickle if you would
let us see the schedule talk to me
people if they talk to me men and women
of God of great faith I could be ready
with the sickle if you would synchronize
in our office my schedule is
synchronized and they synchronize my
schedule – Holly schedule – my assistant
schedule is helpful because now she can
know where I’m going to be and what I’ve
got to do and she can she can keep a
surveillance system on my schedule to
kind of know what she needs to pray
about me with and when i’ma be in a bad
mood because I had to meet with drunks
and uh I’m just kidding shun she’s
amazing but she’s she’s good
she’s got all that on her schedule and
it helps us to be in the same flow when
we’re on the same schedule so let me ask
you a question how did you relate to a
God in patients who won’t show you the
schedule he’s working off of me because
this scripture says that the man
scatters the seed on the ground and the
seed sprouts and grows but watch this
the real tests of the seed and this is
my message is my message this one
message all others someone might send my
message the real test of the
it is can it survive the soil so he says
that the seed is scattered and you can
see that right you can see the beginning
of the thing it might not be easy I got
a long way to go and my muscles might be
sore at the end of the day from the
sewing process but at least I can see
that the ground is being broken up I can
see it I can see it and well the harvest
season is a season of joy because I’m
going to be eating from the field that
I’m working in real soon but he says
that the seed sprouts and grows because
of the work of the soil I think that’s
where most dreams die in the soil in the
soil I think that’s where most marriages
fail in the soil I think that’s where
most good intentions give way to apathy
in the soil in the soil I think I think
it’s aw I think it’s somewhere between
changing diapers and sending them off to
college that most parents wonder did
anything that I taught you take root in
your heart hello
I mean is one thing to be the farmer in
this passage he had to sew the seat and
he had to reap to see but what about the
times where you’re not the farmer but
you’re the see can I preach this like I
gave it to me I hope you’ll understand
that sometimes you’re going to feel like
that seed that goes down into the soil
and the soil is a very strange place to
because when the seed is in the soil it
cannot see the intention of the one who
sowed it when the seed is in the soil
there are times where it feels like it’s
not going to get enough oxygen or water
to make it I know that I’m personifying
in an intimate object but you know your
life is a seed
your dream is a see your vision is a
seed your purpose is a see we talked
about it last week it seems
insignificant and it takes a lot of
faith to see the purpose is what seems
insignificant but you know what takes
even more faith to believe that the
purpose is still working when the
process is invisible in the soil stage
yes it takes faith to soul and yes it
takes faith to reap but what takes the
most pain is to be buried in the soil of
uncertainty and keep growing but that’s
exactly what you’ve got to do the
kingdom of heaven is like a sea the man
scattered it and it went in the soil and
it stayed in the soil and it stayed in
the soil and it stayed in the soil and
it stayed in the soil and it stayed in
the soil every stage of things I find
myself to be pretty pretty proficient in
at this point in walking with God I
don’t mind sowing I don’t mind working
I don’t mind writing a song I don’t mind
writing a sermon I don’t mind
ministering to somebody I don’t mind
sewing I certainly don’t mind reaping I
don’t mind reaping a bit problem is I
don’t know what tool to use in the soil
stage talk to me talk to me when I’m
sewing
I need belief then it could become
something when I’m reaping I need the
strength to go out and act on what I’ve
initiated there are some stages of faith
but there’s not a thing you can do just
takes time
um I’m believing for something I can’t
see anymore
sowing a seed means releasing it
that means you you’ve got to let it go
for a while you got to just step back
and the seed is in the soil to die the
farmer is telling you yeah man I
scattered to see and I woke up and I saw
the ear and I saw the head and I took my
sickle and I had a sandwich it was the
most amazing thing to see this going can
I speak I went down in that soil and I
was down in that soil so long I thought
I was about to die in the soil I was
gasping for breath in the soil I didn’t
know if I had been forgotten I felt like
the farmer didn’t love me anymore I
didn’t even know what I was going
through then all of a sudden I started
to change shapes and everything was
unfamiliar but I was still down in the
soil didn’t even know if anybody
remember they had put me there can I
hear somebody shout because you know
what it feels like the VFC for my
preaching too I know this message is
personal for somebody and and the seed
is in in the ground but the scripture
says don’t get it twisted the seed is
still on schedule this is where I want
to encourage you if you feel like a seed
that is in the ground of uncertainty the
ground of this appointment the ground of
doubt I know God’s going to fill in the
blank for what you need because you know
what your seed is and if I asked you you
wouldn’t say the real thing that’s
working in your life you would say the
church Allah acceptable thing the
spiritually acceptable thing you
wouldn’t talk about the real dirt that
your life is in you wouldn’t talk about
the real
assess that you’re trapped in you
wouldn’t talk about the real thought
patterns so you just substitute whatever
you need proceed okay and God knows what
it is and you know what it is and I want
to preach about that see because one
thing I found out about the sea is that
the seed is protected I need you to know
when you’re in a soil season in your
life in a season where you can’t see
anything happening see God knew that the
seed would need to survive a period of
vulnerability so every seed is wrapped
in a hard protective coating the seed is
wrapped in a hard protective coating so
that until it produces what it’s meant
to produce nothing’s going to be able to
get what’s inside of the seed I see
Moses in a basket trying to kill off all
the Hebrew children but until the seed
was ready to be released the seat was in
a basket floating down a river to
protect it but three people say I’m
protective I need you to know that I’m
protected I need you to know that God
has covered me I need you to know that
God has wrapped me up I need you to know
that God didn’t just put purpose inside
of me he put protection all around me
and until it comes to pass I need you to
know I’m protected the devil could try
to snatch me up
but I’ll protect it the rain can fall
really hard or I can go through a dry
seasons without protective coating I got
something on the outside protecting
what’s on the inside
if God’s got me covered and it shall
come forth protected I’m protected God
said to tell somebody your child is
protected you’re praying about them but
while you’re praying about them you need
to know that God already wrapped them
there are some things in life you can’t
do for your child but how many are
grateful when the seed leaves your hands
it never leaves God’s eyes is
is awesome Pharaoh and he’s got your
baby it’s protected its protected and
the scene is in a stage right now where
it doesn’t have the roots to be able to
get the nutrients from the soil and it
doesn’t have the ability through
photosynthesis would think I was in
agricultural horticultural expertise in
the sermon I got excited about the seed
and I discovered that the seed has its
own food supply
until the time that it is able to derive
the nutrients from another source what
am I trying to say the seed has not only
protection but the seed has provision
help me preach everything I need for
life and godliness is inside of me and
what I take it from others in the soil
stage God will give it to me from the
inside I’ll paint myself love myself
help myself
bless myself encourage myself the stuff
that the seed needs is already in the
seeds only worry about it because it’s
protection protection and provision if
you’re looking at somebody who’s
shouting right now and you don’t
understand their enthusiasm the reason
they’re shouting is they’ve got some
stuff in the ground
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they got some dreams in the cloud
they’ve got some potential in the ground
and when it rains farmers don’t get
annoyed when it rains everybody who has
something in the ground reaches up to
receive I hear a sound of an abundance
of rain in the house today
come on you matter spreading Texas rain
you better catch it so the protection is
on the seed the provision is in the seed
and it’s just a matter of time before
the potential is released from the sea
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