The Two Things that Will Bring You Into a NEW SEASON

Ecclesiates 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Most of us understand there are seasons to our lives.  One of the harshest things in life is to go through a tough season.  Whatever season you are in things won't change much until your season changes.   What most people don't understand is the things you do today are the things that determine your NEXT season.   People get discouraged and give up.  Why?  It is because they are hoping the good they do today will impact their lives tomorrow, a quick turn around.    I have counselled people who spent their whole lives making bad decisions, going in and out of jail, not fully serving the Lord when released from jail, yet because they prayed to God they are upset that their circumstances haven't changed in the past few days since they prayed.     Wouldn't it be wonderful to do whatever and live however and then say a prayer and all the circumstances of whatever and however would just leave over night?   This SELDOM happens.   God set up the world to operate on seed time and harvest.  That isn't just for farmers, that is for everything you do in life.   For example, If you study hard in middle school this is going to  help you later attend College.  And attending College may help you get a better paying job.  A better paying job may mean less financial struggles for you in life.   So what if the cycle is broken.  What if  you goofed off in school, don't consider yourself college material and you are having trouble finding a good job with the pay scale you like, what are your options?    To find a better paying job may not be in the options for you right now.  Going back to school may increase you pay, in the future, in another season of your life but it will be a process.   This is right where many people find themselves.   What they did a few years ago has got them in the mess they are in today.  There is a Scripture that I use to my advantage all the time, but for most people it is a verse of scripture that is bad news.  

Galations 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

For those of you that have sowed to the good, and reaped the opposite, just keep sowing and moving forward.  The enemy cannot mock God forever.  Eventually the enemy will have to flee and you will enjoy reaping what you have sowed.  But for those who sow to the flesh and the world, this Scripture is bad news for you.  The Karma bus is coming my friend, God will not be mocked.  That means if you want to sow bad things and then pray for God to bless you and pull you up out of that mess you are trying to mock God.  God is a God of justice.  You will reap what you sow, and prayer will not change that.  The first thing that will help bring  you to your new season is to realize that you got yourself into that mess with bad decisions, and only you can bring you out by making better choices!  

Where is the help?   People say, "I pray and pray and pray for things to change but nothing changes, it remains and I am about to lose hope." 

God works miracles but he seldom pulls us up out of a hole that we dug for ourselves.   You have to see the way that things work to understand why things are like they are in this life.   The children of Israel disobeyed God so the wandered around, going in circles, in the wilderness for 40 years.  Joseph on the other hand was betrayed by his brothers, and sold into slavery.  He went from misfortune to misfortune, yet he was liberated and promoted by God in ONE day in the end.   So many people are praying for that sudden and extreme reversal just like Joseph received from God but you must realize that Joseph didn't dig his own pit, his brothers dug it for him.    When we dig our own pit and our mistakes have brought us to where we are there is not biblical example of a sudden over night deliverance.   There is redemption for our mistakes and God can and will bring us up out of them but he brings us out by our decision to make right choices and that comes through time and process.   For the children of Israel it was marching in circles for 40 years going no where.   But through their obedience to God they finally came out into a new season.  Prayer won't bring your new season.  Obedience to God's Word is the only thing that will bring  your new season.  

This brings me to the second part of this issue.  People contact me everyday wanting to know what are the right choices for their lives.   The right choice is to obey God.   ALWAYS.  Maybe for financial reasons you are living with a jerk, and not married, and you hope this person will love you and miraculously change for the better.    It is better to be hungry, and cold than to disobey God's Word.    Maybe you are sleeping around with this, that and the other person.   If you are a know your heart is broken and shattered into a million little pieces.   Better to obey God and be alone than to break the Word of God and do something that won't work in the end.   Maybe the day to day of the world, it's games, it's bills, it's drama, and it's stuff to do and see has your life preoccupied to the point that you don't put God first.   What you do with  your time is what you make your priority.  What do you do with a majority of your time?  Is that time for God's will, or what you want to do?    Does God expect a majority of our time?   He said to lay down our lives take up our cross and follow him, so yes, God requires all of us, including out time and resources.   People give God 10 minutes of their day in prayer and then get upset if that prayer isn't answered right away.  Daniel fasted and prayed for 21 days, non-stop fast, non-stop prayer to get his answer.   

If you have been praying and seeing nothing, let go of the sin and the weight that besets you, seek God with all your heart and when your season changes, you will find something better instead of walking around in circles going no where.