We’ve all been told that, “This is your season.”  This one statement is perhaps one of the most profound and confusing for us as Christians.

 

Jesus died so that, “We might have life and  life more abundantly” (John 10:10).  If you believe in Jesus, you better believe that God’s divine plan is to prosper you and not to harm you (Jeremiah 29:11).  There is no devil in hell, situation or circumstance that can stop God’s will for our lives.   No matter what the weather forecast is, no matter what the obstacle is, God’s plans to prosper us are always true.

 

If you’ve lived and walked in faith for any length of time, you know that prosperity and increase are seasons. Not one of us has a problem with the seasons of prosperity or increase, most of us struggle in our seasons of Preparation or Plowing, Planting and Growing.

 

Lord knows it would be nice if we could skip the middle and just go straight to the harvest but without the middle, we miss out on the most critical parts of a God promise.  Every season is a God season, and when our position of faith is tied to God’s timing (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8), it causes a supernatural mind shift.

 

We don’t control seasons, we control our faith in our seasons.  This is something that we have to let sit in our spirit and let produce a harvest of understanding in every season.  

 

 

Season of Preparation: Before any God seed can be planted, the ground has to be prepared.  The season of preparation is the one time that there is nothing in the ground. This is your season of tilling and plowing. Uprooting the old and getting your heart and mind ready to be fertile for God’s seed. In this season, you’re going to experience the most uncertainty because it’s not your appointed time, it’s your anointed time. In this season, you may need a second touch for clarity (Mark 8:22-26). In this season, you may experience famine, lack or be unsettled as God tills the soil of your heart in preparation for planting season: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10). Our season of preparation is our most intimate time with Jesus.

 

Planting Season: Our planting or sowing season, builds off of our Season of Preparation.  The bible tells us that we reap what we sow (Galatians 6:7).  We cannot sow a doubt seed and get a faith harvest. Remember the parable about the seeds (Matthew 13:20-23)? Some fell on stony ground, some fell among weeds and some feel on good ground.  Our planting season is only as good as our ground is — and God knows what that is.  Don’t despise your season of preparation.  In our season of preparation, God works out anything and everything that will cause our seeds to die.  You can imagine the problems that would, and do, occur when somebody prays for a marriage harvest but neglects or bypasses the season of being healthy single.  Or the bigger salary before we learn to be faithful stewards.  Or a powerful position before we’re powerfully humble.  No matter what the seeds are or our hope is, God protects our harvest by ensuring that our ground, our faith, holds our seed to the end.  Good ground produces good harvest — not hope, desire or wishing (Hebrews 11:6).

 

Growing Season: God knows that the best of us hurt the most, struggle the most and doubt the most in our Season of Preparation and our Season of Growing.  Growing is never easy in the flesh (Matthew 19:26).  It does not matter who we are, how long we’ve been saved or what our faith level is, growing hurts. Growing takes us from the level we’re on to our next level of faith.  It takes us from our comfort zone to our uncomfortable zone. Preparation Season and Growing Season are the seasons of our most intense spiritual warfare.  The seed can be good — what we hope for, but the growing takes faith work.  Our growing season always matures the fruit of the spirit (Galatians 5:22-23).  Without fruit, there is no harvest.  See, spiritual fruit can only be produced through experience and our faith in Jesus — and only through our faith in Jesus can we receive anything (John 15:5-7).  In other words, our growing season grows us deeper in relationship with Jesus so that God can take us to higher promises!

 

What season are you in?  How are you handling it?  The better we understand God’s seasons, the less stress and struggle is wasted on fighting the process and resisting the enemy.  If you noticed, seasons aren’t punishment, they’re God’s process to produce a divine harvest.  The world cannot give a divine harvest and the world cannot take it away.

 

No matter what season you’re in, you are always in God’s plan. Jesus is the beginning and the end, the vine and the answer, the strength and the fruit in every season. The Apostle Paul said, “Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am” (Philippians 4:11).  By “learning,” Apostle Paul means that we’re growing through every circumstance or season!

 

Get season ready.  Speak the word in every season! It’s not happening to you, it’s happening for you.  Pray over and thank God for what He’s doing right now — growing you.  Being content does not mean we’re satisfied, it just means that we know that as long as we are working our season, God will work all things together for our good (Romans 8:28). 

 

Your harvest is coming!  Hope will never make you ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ (Romans 5:5). 

 

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