Topic: Accepted Time [Sunday June 11, 2017]
ACCEPTED TIME – Sunday June 11th 2017
Memorise:
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of
salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time;
behold, now is the day of salvation.) 2nd Corinthians 6:2
Read: 2nd Corinthians 6:1-2 (King James Version)
1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 (For
he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of
salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time;
behold, now is the day of salvation.)
Bible in one year: Joshua 18-19, Jeremiah 47:1-48:8, Hymn: Sing hymn 4
MESSAGE:
God
is never late for any appointment. He is always on time. Looking at the
experiences of different people in the Bible, this has been shown to be
true over and over again. For the man who had been sick for 38 years,
when his appointed time finally came and the once-in-a-year miracle
platform God had put in place could not meet his need, Jesus personally
picked him out from the crowd and healed him by His own will (John 5:1-6). Accepted Time [Sunday June 11, 2017]. Also,
when the appointed time came for the woman who had been bent over for
18 years, the Lord healed her without her asking for it (Luke 13:10-13). Habakkuk 2:3 says,
“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.”
One
thing you should learn from this is that God has a timetable, and His
timetable may be completely different from yours. He has a set time for
every event in the lives of His children. It is like setting an alarm
clock to a particular time; when the alarm rings, God will address the
issues at stake.
Another
lesson worth learning is that until God’s appointed time for a
particular matter to addressed dawns, God may appear silent on the
issue, even when He has all the facts and figures of the situation at
His disposal. Open Heavens June 11, 2017. If He knows what an individual
is going through, and He chooses to watch carefully and quietly, He may
just be doing so in order to see how the fellow will respond to the
situation. Would he stand in faith and resist the devil, or give up his
faith and cling to doubt, fear and unbelief? Would he draw nearer to God
or go further away from Him? Would he down tools and stop serving God,
or would he continue serving God in the midst of no divine response to
his problems? When God keeps quite at such times, He may want to rest
your faith to see how elastic it is. It may be very frustrating when God
is silent on an issue, but never get to the point of thinking or
believing that He does not know what you are going through. He knows it
better than you do. He sees what you see and what you don’t see within
the circumstance. Just trust in Him and hold on to Him in faith. Love
Him more, worship Him more, serve Him more and keep trusting Him more.
In the end, you will be victorious.
Prayer Point
Father, give me grace to endure till my appointed time, and when it dawns, let me see the manifestation of my good expectations.
Open
Heavens Daily Devotional guide was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye, the
General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the
largest evangelical church in the world and also the President of Christ
the Redeemer's Ministries.
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