Its Due Season

God says that he has seen your faithfulness. He has heard your prayers. He has listened to your cries and He says don’t give up your season is coming.

Speaking of seasons. Israel spent 400 years in captivity to Egypt but Exodus 3:7-8 tells us that the Lord said to the Israel “I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt…and I am come down to deliver them out of the hands of the Egyptians.”

It wasn’t that God was not listening to them. It was that God was preparing them to become a great nation. God devastated the greatest nation on Earth and all the other countries heard about. The Bible said that as Israel walked on their journey to Canaan that the other nation heard and were afraid.

Maybe that is what we need in this city. Maybe that is what God is setting us up for. Maybe he has heard you praying for your church. He has heard you praying for your community. He has heard you praying for deliverance and he is going to show up and put this community on notice.

This week I have dealt with about 4 or 5 people who has an drug or alcohol problem. These are people that come and knock on the doors of this church. Some have alcohol on their breath. Others know that they have an addiction that only the Lord can break.

Oh when the word gets out that God is moving in the church people will come.

I look at these people in the eyes and I see their hurt. I feel their pain. I see that they are about to give up. This is controlling their lives. But that is why Luke 4:18-19 means so much to me. Listen again as I read.

Luke 4:17-21 NKJV And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book, He found the place where it was written: 18 "The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind, To set at liberty those who are oppressed; 19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD." 20 Then He closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were fixed on Him. 21 And He began to say to them, "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."

Now let me ask you who could you picture in this passage that needs something from the Lord.

Could you imagine in your families what would happen if God set them free from drugs or alcohol. Could you imagine in your neighborhood what would happen if God saved and delivered your neighbor. It would turn this community upside down.

God says he has heard your prayers. Don’t get weary in well doing but your season is almost here. For some it will begin tonight as you are healed. For some you will not leave today’s service the same.

Conclusion

Tonight is going to be a special healing service. God is going to perform some miracles. But today I believe that some of you have been praying for something for a long time. For 9 years my children prayed for their grandmother, 3 months ago God said it is due season.