Learn To Identify Seasons.

DO WE IDENTIFY SEASONS…

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)

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

2 Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

SEASON: divisions of time marked by certain patterns caused by change. Daily living comes in seasons. Seasons bring CHANGE. Some seasons seem long. We must recognize CHANGE IS COMING… Seasons bring CHANGE AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES.

V-I-C-T-O-R-Y, WHAT HAVE WE GOT: VICTORY… DELIVERANCE.

THE HUMAN MIND CAN NOT ALWAYS COMPREHEND AND UNDERSTAND GOD’S PLANS AND THE SEASONS OF HIS PLANS. WE NEED TO COME AND WILLINGLY SURRENDER.

Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

V-I-C-T-O-R-Y: I LOVE DIVINE DELIVERANCE… KING HEROD LOVED TO PLEASE THE PEOPLE… JAMES, ONE DOWN… PETER YOU ARE ON DECK… WHAT A WONDERFUL SEASON OF DELIVERANCE.

Acts 12:2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. 3 And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)

THANK GOD FOR PEOPLE THAT KNOW WHEN TO PRAY AND HOW TO PRAY.

Acts 12:5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

PETER TRUSTED GOD ENOUGH, HE LAYS DOWN AND IS SLEEPING SOUNDLY. GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS. GOD DISPATCHED AN ANGEL TO MAKE A JAIL BREAK!

V-I-C-T-O-R-Y: THE A TEAM: I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER. THE DARKNESS OF JAIL YIELDS TO THE LIGHT OF GOD.

Acts 12:7 And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

THE PRAYER MEETING GETS INTERRUPTED… WHO KEEPS KNOCKING ON THE DOOR? WHY BE SURPRISED WHEN THE ANSWER TO YOUR PRAYERS KNOCKS ON YOUR DOOR.

Acts 12:16-17 But Peter continued knocking: and when they had opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished.

17 But he, beckoning unto them with the hand to hold their peace, declared unto them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. And he said, Go shew these things unto James, and to the brethren. And he departed, and went into another place.

JOHN, WE ARE BLESSED WHEN WE REFUSE TO BE OFFENDED. ANOTHER V-I-C-T-O-R-Y: SEEMS WE LOVE TO WIN… PAUL AND SILAS ARE DOING GOD’S WORK AND THEY FIND THEMSELVES IN LOCK DOWN IN A PRISION. NOT TO WORRY MY FRIENDS… PAUL AND SILAS WERE NOT SLEEPING, THEY WERE SINGING PRAISES UNTO GOD.

Acts 16:23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely: 24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. 25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them. 26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.

The Preachers trusted God had a plan. The Preachers sang… MUST HAVE HAD THE ANGELS DANCING AND CAUSED A GREAT EARTHQUAKE… V-I-C-T-O-R-Y. I love it when a plan comes together. Give me a v-i-c-t-o-r-y!

SEASONS OF V-I-C-T-O-R-Y… JOHN THE BAPTIST HAS STEPPED OUT OF THE PULPIT AFTER PREACHING AN ANOINTED SEARCH AND HE CALLED OUT SEXUAL SIN. JOHN BOLDLY PROCLAIMED GOD’S WORD AND TOLD THE KING THAT HE WAS SINNING WITH HERODIAS …

See Herodias was married to Philip. Herodias is offended, bitter and angry. John saw Herodias was using marriage to move up the ladder. SO HEROD MADE THE CHOICE OF SIN…

V-I-C-T-O-R-Y? JOHN CAN’T UNDERSTAND THE BIGGER PICTURE AT THIS SEASON... JOHN HAS A SEASON OF SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS.

John’s crowd of followers is getting smaller and smaller. Many are leaving John to flocking to Jesus. At best this chain of events is crushing.

Matthew 11:2 Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples, 3 And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another? 4 Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see: 5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them. 6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.