In the many years of walking with God, I have come to realize a few things. I can’t say that this is by revelation knowledge, but more by painful experience and simple deductive reasoning. It would be that God’s timetable has absolutely nothing to do with our own! Shocking as that statement may sound, I don’t think we really realize the grand depth to the intricacies of God’s creative plan and power. We see things often in a linear fashion. We see God’s prophetic word of encouragement and promise, then a time of waiting and preparation, to finally the completion and production of that word coming to pass. What we fail to understand is that God has no limitations. He’s not limited to time and space, nor is He limited to the successes and failures of man. When God orchestrates, He works in quantum ways. He’s beyond two or even three dimensions. God has our lives and even destinies so inter-twined with others, that our success becomes a stepping stone for others around us to move forward. I find it quite fascinating to see how the hand of God not only tickles my life, but can tickle others in the same stroke.

The Bible says in Isaiah 55:8-12,

8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
10 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it bear and sprout,
And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
11 So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth;
It will not return to Me empty,
Without accomplishing what I desire,
And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
12 “For you will go out with joy
And be led forth with peace;
The mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you,
And all the trees of the field will clap their hands.

How is it that the mountains, the hills, and even the trees have a better clue as to the success of our lives then we often do? It’s because they have no unbelief! It says in Romans 8:18-22

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
19 For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.
20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.

All of creation is waiting for you and me to be revealed. Creation is groaning in birth pains until now. When is the divine “now” for you? I believe that the world is waiting for our faith to work through our love. Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” We need to walk in a “NOW” faith and begin to create our world. God has created us in His image. The whole world God created was framed through the spoken word, and so is ours. Our job is to speak things into existence, walk in the love of God, and remain thankful and grateful of what the Lord is doing currently in our lives. I think the first part of that comes easy to people. Speaking out our desires is easy as it doesn’t require too much humility or patience. The second part of walking in love, well that’s a whole new game. That requires an inner work of the Holy Spirit to develop fruit of conformity to His image. Now the third part can be even that much more challenging. Thankfulness and Gratefulness requires humility to truly be genuine. It will separate our “wants” from our “needs”. I’m reminded of the song “Give Thanks”

Give thanks with a grateful heart,
Give thanks to the Holy One,
Give thanks because He’s given Jesus Christ, His Son,
And now, let the weak say, “I am strong,”
Let the poor say, “I am rich,”
Because of what the Lord has done for us,
Give thanks

So regarding the timing of God, the best encouragement and advice I could give is this…

1) Call forth the plan and purpose of God
2) Walk in the unfailing love of God
3) Remain in a heart of gratefulness and thanksgiving

So in the spirit of this message, thank you for spending time to read this. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14