"What God Endorses You Don't Have To Force"

For most of my life I have had the right plan, I knew what God had called me to do but because of the thorn in my flesh (impatience) I have rushed into the God thing in my timing instead of God's. David wrote that my times are in the hands of God (Psalms 31:15).

Yes it is God's will for your life, yes it is the right dream, but many times we try to make it happen instead of letting it happen. In sports terminology it is learning not to press but to let the ball come to you.

In the bible there are two primary words for time. The first word is Chronos, it is a general time, not a specific time. It is when like Abraham you get a prophetic word that says you are going to have a baby. Abraham receives a logos from God, a general word for a general time. When this happens all you can do is walk by faith in obedience doing the last thing God told you. You don't know when, you just know. You don't know how, you just know. This causes us to many times be frustrated and because we don't properly discern our season, we curse the tree not understanding that it is winter season and thought the tree looks dead, the reality is the sap that produces life and fruitfulness is in the roots waiting for the right season. Many abort their promise in this stage because they lose faith and perseverance.

The other primary word for time is Kairos, it is a specific time when God speaks a specific word, like Peter come. Peter steps out of the boat and walks on a rhema word that causes him to walk on what he would have naturally sunk in. It is a window of opportunity that when step through it, you receive divine enablement to do what you couldn't do before. There are two words for word (logos) and (rhema). The word of God is a two edged sword (logos) which is learning to stay in the general word until you get a (rhema). You don't fight with a logos, you fight with the sword of the spirit which is rhema (Eph. 6:18). This means that you can't just grab any word for your battle, you have to have a specific word. Half of the battle is learning to appropriate the right word for the right situation. For example if you get a report from the Doctor that you have cancer, you don't quote Phil 4:19. You have to fight with the right word (Iss 53).

God comes to Abraham after 21 years of walking in Chronos in the logos and gives him a rhema, by this time next year you will have a baby. Abraham receives a specific word for a specific time. In the in between, He tries to create God's promise in his own timing resulting in Israel's greatest enemy to this day (Ishmael). Why, because what you create in your timing (flesh) will always fight God's timing (spirit). In fact what you create God is not obligated to clean up.

Most of my life I have arrived early causing the promise of God to be premature resulting in a sickly promise that I had to fight just to keep alive (life support). As I was recently trying to force something God has spoken to me, I heard the Holy Spirit speak to me these words, "What God endorses you don't have to force". What does that mean.

Tune in tomorrow to find out!

Blessings,
Craig Sloan