The Right Timing Is So Important!
The Gospel According to Luke
Luke Chapter 1
Scripture= Luke 1:20, 37, 45
20And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their proper time."
37For nothing is impossible with God."
45Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!"
Observations and Applications=
Sometimes the right timing means everything...
In a comedy routine even the most well written hilariously funny script can be ruined without proper timing.
Have you ever planned a surprise party for someone and despite your carefully laid plans to keep it all a secret someone’s wrong timing gave everything away before anyone could yell, “surprise?”
Have you ever taken the time to lay out a budget only to discover that a bill was due right before your pay cycle? Trying to switch the bill due date or rearrange your whole budget is a serious example of the importance of timing.
Luke gives us several important lessons about timing in chapter one of his gospel. First we see in verse 37, that nothing is impossible with God. An old woman can conceive and have a baby in her old age and a virgin can become pregnant without ever having sexual relations with any man. Whatever God wants to do, He Can Do!
The second lesson about timing is to believe that what God said he would do, will happen. Sometimes it is hard to wait and keep the faith especially when the outcome depends totally on God. It is our human nature to want to do something to help God, to be involved, to get the ball rolling. We have to be like Elizabeth who praises God for something that she was not able to accomplish on her own. We have to respond like Mary who believed that if God said it; It Would Happen!
The last lesson about timing is found in verse 20; God’s word will come true at just the right time! Only God knows when a word given is to be fulfilled and his sense of timing is always impeccable. When we try to rush things and force things to happen in our sense of timing things never turn out right. God's Timing is Always Perfect!
Are there words that have been spoken over you that are yet to come to pass? Do you still believe? Are you trying to accomplish them on your own? Ask God to show you the signs that he is working (Both women couldn’t hide their pregnancy) and remember God might be working in you to prepare you for the answer.
Prayer=
Lord, show me where you are working in my life and help me to trust in you and your perfect sense of timing. I do believe, help me with my unbelief!
(He's Real) All The Power You Need
Hillsong
My God can never fail
He's been proved time and again
Trust Him you'll seehe's got all the power you need
He's never early never late
It takes courage and it takes faith
Trust Him you'll see he's got
All the power you need
He saves forgives and heals
He takes back what the devil steals
My debt's paid in full
And every day He does miracles
God dreams turn them into plans
Too big for human hands
Trust Him you'll see
He's got all the power you need
He's real
He's real
Faith's a lot stronger than what you feel
He's real
He's real
I'm believing for miracles
Trust Him you'll see
He's got all the power you need
Luke Chapter 1
Scripture= Luke 1:20, 37, 45
20And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their proper time."
37For nothing is impossible with God."
45Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!"
Observations and Applications=
Sometimes the right timing means everything...
In a comedy routine even the most well written hilariously funny script can be ruined without proper timing.
Have you ever planned a surprise party for someone and despite your carefully laid plans to keep it all a secret someone’s wrong timing gave everything away before anyone could yell, “surprise?”
Have you ever taken the time to lay out a budget only to discover that a bill was due right before your pay cycle? Trying to switch the bill due date or rearrange your whole budget is a serious example of the importance of timing.
Luke gives us several important lessons about timing in chapter one of his gospel. First we see in verse 37, that nothing is impossible with God. An old woman can conceive and have a baby in her old age and a virgin can become pregnant without ever having sexual relations with any man. Whatever God wants to do, He Can Do!
The second lesson about timing is to believe that what God said he would do, will happen. Sometimes it is hard to wait and keep the faith especially when the outcome depends totally on God. It is our human nature to want to do something to help God, to be involved, to get the ball rolling. We have to be like Elizabeth who praises God for something that she was not able to accomplish on her own. We have to respond like Mary who believed that if God said it; It Would Happen!
The last lesson about timing is found in verse 20; God’s word will come true at just the right time! Only God knows when a word given is to be fulfilled and his sense of timing is always impeccable. When we try to rush things and force things to happen in our sense of timing things never turn out right. God's Timing is Always Perfect!
Are there words that have been spoken over you that are yet to come to pass? Do you still believe? Are you trying to accomplish them on your own? Ask God to show you the signs that he is working (Both women couldn’t hide their pregnancy) and remember God might be working in you to prepare you for the answer.
Prayer=
Lord, show me where you are working in my life and help me to trust in you and your perfect sense of timing. I do believe, help me with my unbelief!
(He's Real) All The Power You Need
Hillsong
My God can never fail
He's been proved time and again
Trust Him you'll seehe's got all the power you need
He's never early never late
It takes courage and it takes faith
Trust Him you'll see he's got
All the power you need
He saves forgives and heals
He takes back what the devil steals
My debt's paid in full
And every day He does miracles
God dreams turn them into plans
Too big for human hands
Trust Him you'll see
He's got all the power you need
He's real
He's real
Faith's a lot stronger than what you feel
He's real
He's real
I'm believing for miracles
Trust Him you'll see
He's got all the power you need
