{Experience} The Lord Emphasizes Divine Timing

EXPERIENCE: THE LORD EMPHASIZES DIVINE TIMING 5/18/09

Today I reorganized the lessons at the QW school so that each theme has an index because I am starting to add more on each subject. I did a new theme yesterday about God’s Timing and added several lessons about His Timing. I received several confirmations to this and perceive that the Lord is emphasizing His divine timing for His purposes.

Eccl 3:1 NKJV

To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven:

Eccl 3:9-11 NKJV

What profit has the worker from that in which he labors? I have seen the God-given task with which the sons of men are to be occupied. He has made everything beautiful in its time.

CONFIRMATION: This afternoon as I was searching for some information at the forum, I discovered that Tao had written a post called, “In His Timing” in 2006 that was not yet visible on line. I knew the Lord had saved it until now!

Speak His words in His timing
Posted by [ taojin ] Oct 20th 2006 - 5:58PM Posts to date: 432

In the past couple of days, the Lord taught me about “speaking His words in His timing” through some daily ordinary events. Here is my experience,

Scene1: There was a mango fruit lying in our kitchen table for a while. I wanted to eat it, but I thought it was better to wait for one more day to eat it, since I considered that it would be ripe and sweeter the next day. Then I waited and ate it the next day, it truly tasted very juicy and sweet.

Scene2: I realized there were some bananas lying in the kitchen table. Since we didn’t eat them at the right timing, now they were too ripe and we missed the best time to eat them.

Scene3: I picked my son Samuel in school and drove him back home. On our way home Samuel held the remote control of our home’s garage door in his hands. As we drove to a certain place in our community, he wanted to press the remote control to open the door of garage. As I saw him do that, immediately I told him the door couldn’t be opened because you pressed the remote control too early. Then I continued driving for a short while, as we were near the garage door, I spoke to Samuel that now was the time for you to press it and the door would be opened for us. He did as I instructed him to do and the door opened.

Quickened messages: There was timing for speaking my words, if you spoke my words at my timing, it would produce the effects I intended. At the command of my words, the door would be opened for you and the stronghold would be removed.

Application: The Lord calls us to speak His words at his timing. When the Lord gave us a word and wanted us to share it, we need wait upon Him to know His timing to speak His words.

“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven” (Ecclesiastes 3:1)

“He has made everything beautiful in its time”: (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

“A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.” (Proverbs 25:11)

“As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.” (Isaiah 55:10-11)

“The Sovereign LORD has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught.” (Isaiah 50:4)

Love and Blessings
Tao

CONFIRMATION: Tonight I briefly listened to a preacher mention that the gate Beautiful in front of the Temple did not mean beautiful or attractive, but actually meant belonging to the right hour or season.

Acts 3:1-10 NKJV

Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful , to ask alms from those who entered the temple; 3 who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms. 4 And fixing his eyes on him, with John, Peter said, "Look at us." 5 So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. 6 Then Peter said, "Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk." 7 And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. 8 So he, leaping up, stood and walked and entered the temple with them — walking, leaping, and praising God. 9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God. 10 Then they knew that it was he who sat begging alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

NT:5610

NT:5611 horaios (ho-rah'-yos); from NT:5610; belonging to the right hour or season (timely), i.e. (by implication) flourishing (beauteous [figuratively]):

KJV - beautiful.

NT:5611

NT:5611 horaios (ho-rah'-yos); from NT:5610; belonging to the right hour or season (timely), i.e. (by implication) flourishing (beauteous [figuratively]):

KJV - beautiful.

QUICKENED THOUGHTS: This lame man had been laid daily at this gate and Jesus must have passed him many times and did not heal him. But at the right time Peter and John had fixed eyes (or quickened eye glances!) upon the man and it was his time to be healed.

As I was reading the passage I noticed something that was quickened to me about a season. This whole scene took place at a gate, which represents a doorway. We are starting a time when we may not have a lot of money, but what we will have is the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to command healing! In the same way that Peter reached out his hand, so did Tao’s son reach out his hand to OPEN THE DOOR.

The other thing is that the man in need expected to receive. It was a perfect timing where everything lined up in synch between the need and the provision.

This whole scene was what inspired Peter’s prophesy which has always been one of my favorites. I once did a Word Study on it, and it is relates to when the season has been very dry like dried up raisins, and then the Lord is going to rain on His people and reconstitute the dried up and parched people by adding water to restore them. It is also important to note that this season follows repentance and turning our lives around.

Acts 3:19-21 NKJV

Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.

Acts 3:18-21 NKJV
Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing (#403) may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration (#605) of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.

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NT:403 REFRESHING
NT:403 anapsuxis (an-aps'-ook-sis); from NT:404; properly, a recovery of breath, i.e. (figuratively) revival:
KJV - revival.

NT:404
NT:404 anapsucho (an-aps-oo'-kho); from NT:303 and NT:5594; properly, to cool off, i.e. (figuratively) relieve:
KJV - refresh.

NT:605 RESTORATION
NT:605 apokatastasis (ap-ok-at-as'-tas-is); from NT:600; reconstitution:
KJV - restitution.

NT:600
NT:600 apokathistemi (ap-ok-ath-is'-tay-mee); from NT:575 and NT:2525; to reconstitute (in health, home or organization):
KJV - restore (again).

Acts 3:19-21 AMP
So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased (blotted out, wiped clean), that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord; And that He may send [to you] the Christ (the Messiah), Who before was designated and appointed for you — even Jesus, Whom heaven must receive [and retain] until the time for the complete restoration of all that God spoke by the mouth of all His holy prophets for ages past [from the most ancient time in the memory of man].

I am totally convinced that season will also be a time when God hugely heals people and restores what they have lost in years.

Joel 2:23-25 NKJV

And rejoice in the LORD your God; For He has given you the former rain faithfully, And He will cause the rain to come down for you — The former rain, And the latter rain in the first month. 24 The threshing floors shall be full of wheat, And the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. 25 "So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, My great army which I sent among you.

Update confirmation 5/25/09: IT IS TIME, TIME, TIME

Today Elijah list posted a Word where Theresa Phillips heard the Lord say, "It IS time. Time, time, time, time...The scrolls of the ancient ones are being opened to the ready reader...scrolls of Law, Righteousness, and His total will and essence. Write, write, write, write!"