Time Well Spent (When You Trust God)
Recently the messages during service and on FORREAL Radio Broadcast have focused on how we are spending our time with or without God.
The following is a compilation of powerful insights that have come from those messages.
When you have faced something in the past, have you allowed it to be your stopping point or your turning point?
Our time is best spent when we go all the way through something and get to the other side instead of stopping and turning back. Chief Apostle H.C. Gunn said he has drawn closer to God and gotten to know God more because he went through, because he stayed in the race to get to the finish line and God was right there waiting.
Imagine going on a journey and because the road you were driving on got rough you turned around and went back home, but you were almost to your destination. Think about all the time you wasted and think about what opportunities and experiences you probably missed from not getting to your destination.
When God sends you out, or allows you to go through something, what makes the journey worth your time is that you are trusting God with it and the knowledge that your steadfastness will allow you to see what God has in store for you to do or receive on the other side.
As the saying goes: There's a blessing on the other side of through.
In God's word, he says:
(Isaiah 43:2) "When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you."
When you are willing to go all the way through and are able to trust God with the outcome, it makes your faith stronger. It makes you learn to depend on God more and it causes you, through his grace, to hear him better, to know him deeper, to want him more and to hunger even more after righteousness, his goodness, his ways, and his will.
When you go through one thing it prepares you for the next thing, it not only gives you life experience, but God experience. For example, going through parenthood makes you a better grandparent. Being more settled, sober, seasoned and stable about things you encounter in life comes with being willing to go through until you get to other side. Going through makes you more responsible and more consistent.
You're going through makes you more prepared to help other people come out when they are going through. For example, those who are able to go through the college experience, are able to help high school students going into college with navigating.
Going all the way through and getting to the other side is not only a blessing for you, but it will be a blessing for the people and your children who come after you. It is time well spent.
Another part of going through is waiting ...
Waiting is time well spent!
For example, waiting for marriage or waiting for God to answer your questions ensures you make the most of your time and your life.
We must learn and choose to wait on the Lord and be encouraged. He will strengthen your spiritual heart and natural heart when you wait on him. In the wait is rest, peace, understanding, cleansing and healing.
When you fall get up. Wait on his answer and his direction. If you wait on God, he will show you how to have compassion and have patience. It is ways time well spent.
Wait on the Lord, be of God courage and keep his way. Keep doing good, Keep doing right and keep living the word, no matter how many time you fail or things get off track. Don't give up. Keep going.
Doing what is right and what is in the word is never a waste of time. Forgiving, showing mercy. loving, giving. caring, helping is time well spent.
A few weeks ago God asked: what are you doing with your now? Now is the most important time ever in your life.
It's time to be sober to the ways and things of God and allow them to bring our lives into the place of joy, contentment and satisfaction, not only to ourselves but to the kingdom of God.
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