Replenishing My Soul Pt.4
SUSTAINING SUCCESS THROUGH VARIOUS SEASONS
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
- The IMPORTANCE OF THE NOW
- Sustaining Through Transition. Succeeding in Every Season
Ecclesiastes 3:1 NKJV
For everything there is a season.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 NKJV
God has made everything beautiful in its time
- SEASONS TO CONSIDER
- There is a developmental period. Designed to produce, mature, gain.
- Jeremiah 12:5 l
- learn of the footman so I can gain quicker success
- THE DRY SEASON
- Dried up, God is distant, and more questions than answers
- Prov 3:5-6
- Drought will come when we think we’re rising then everything falls flat teaching me:
- To be resilient,
- To trust,
- To have a determination.
- Developing you for where he’s about to take you.
- I keep trying but I Can’t Get There Trust in God like Never Before
- THE WAITING SEASON
- What DO I DO While I WAIT
- Waiting is not easy. I’m tired of waiting for my tired is tired of waiting.
The moment is called stillness.
- Psalm 37:7 NKJV
Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for him to act.
- Stay in His Presence
- Stand Still
- God will expedite the situation to get you where you going to arrive.
- Learn the power of waiting. Serve while you wait
- Im Anticipating God to do something.
- Psalm 40:1 I was serving while waiting on Manifesting.
- JOSEPH IN EXODUS
- Psalm 5:3 NKJV
My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; In the morning I will direct it to You, And I will look up.
- Gal 6:9
- THE GRINDING SEASON
- This is the season to trust God while he’s pruning you.
- God is working on you and you working on it
- John 15:1
- You are connected and trusting but God still has to take things out of you that don’t belong
- Keep Grinding. Make it Happen
- (not complain, not procrastinate, not whining, move in the moment.
- Do what you have to do so you can do what He wants you to do.
- James 2:26
- What are you being intentional about
- THE TESTING SEASON
- I’m not allowing the end result of the enemy to manifest in me.
- Sustainability
- 2 Corinthians 4:8
- I must rise.
- I will not be broken by what I’m experiencing
- I have to hang in there
- A faith that can’t be tested is a faith that can’t be trusted
- Galatians 6:9 NKJV
And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.
- This is working together for my good, I will not be broken,
- James 1:5 NKJV
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
- 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 NKJV
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
VII. THE FIGHTING SEASON – SPIRITUAL WARFARE
- Everything you worked for is under attack because the enemy is intimidated by the greatness in your life
- Ephesians 6:12 NKJV
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
- This is a spiritual war
- Ephesians 6:13-17 NKJV
Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God;
- Declare Your Success
- Wake up every single day declaring over your life
- I’m dressed for battle
- I have to fight for my dream,
- I have to fight for my destiny
- If I’m under attack its confirmation that Satan hates what God is doing in my life.
- God fights our battle.
- In the end I win. God protects what he’s invested in.
VIII. WALKING INTO “YOUR SEASON”
- See the power of walking in your season
- Now is your moment to be sensitive, to say Lord give me the courage to walk in my season.
- 1 Peter 5:10
- Manifest: break forth something is extraordinary about you.
- Your purpose
- Your destiny.
- Every season that God allows me to go through is part of a larger narrative
- I wasn’t ready before but now I’m equipped.
- The vision he gives you will live beyond you.
- There’s no such thing as I once was, every season you will succeed
- James 5:13 NKJV
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms.
- God is a generational God. Abraham Isaac, Jacob. Will this vison be sustainable or will it die. It will get better after this