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Well, if you are taking notes, the title of my sermon is "What Time Is It?" What time is it? Um, what time is it? What time is it for real? What time is it? 10:18. 10:18. Okay, cool. I needed to know. Um, "What time is it?" is one of the most important questions that we ask on a daily basis. Every day, I don't care who you are, what you do, what side, what part of the earth you live in, there's a frequent question that you ask on a daily basis, and that question is, "What time is it?"
Uh, when I'm preaching for a while and you feel like you've been sitting up, you start yawning a little bit. Y'all ain't going to do that today 'cause it's the five-year. But, but you look over to your wife and you're like, like, "Baby, what time is it? Preacher going on a little long." All throughout your day, time determines every single thing you do throughout your day. What time it is determines when you wake up. It determines when you brush your teeth. It determines when you run up out the house 'cause you know you're running late to work. It determines what time you go to work. It determines what time you eat at the job. It determines what time you come back to the job. It determines what time you get off work. It determines what time you pick up the kids. It determines what time you put the kids to bed. It determines what time you eat. Everything throughout your day is surrounded and it's engulfed by this concept of time. You can't do anything without time. You can be in a conversation and it's okay to be there unless the time says it's not. You can be at someone's house and it's okay to be there unless the time says it's not. Everything you do, everything you're surrounded by is this concept of time. Everything is done in time. Everything is based on time, and everything moves through time. And one of the most important questions you can ask is, "What time is it?"
Now, that, that, that, that question can have so many different meanings, and we're going to pack, we're going to unpack what that can mean. But, but, but time is a very important thing. The Lord created time, and everything on Earth will be done in time. Now, eternity is outside of time. God is not inside of time. He's not bound by time. He's not limited by time. However, He uses time on the Earth, and everything you would do is based around time. Even this concept of death, you don't really die, you just run out of time. Yeah, everything is based on time. The world is consumed by time, and I want you to be cognitive. I want you to be aware and knowledgeable about time because whoever takes your time destroys your dreams. Whoever takes your time destroys your dreams. Procrastination is the suicide of your dreams in slow motion. If someone says, "Hey, I just want to come by and kill some, some time," you may not want to agree to that because to kill time means to kill you. If someone kills your time, they actually kill you because you have an appointed time to die. You only have so much time, and if your time is removed, you expire. So I don't have no time to kill. I don't have no time to waste. Right now, the moment is now. The days are evil. Know what the will of the Lord is. God is giving you time for purpose. He's giving you time for destiny. He's giving you time for assignment. What time is it? You have to always know the time.
So God does supernatural things through time, and perhaps you'll see time in a way that you've never seen it before. If you have your Bibles, go to Psalms 90:12, and it says, "Teach us to number our days, that we may gain the heart of wisdom." The Bible says if you number your days, you will gain the heart of wisdom. What does numbering your days and wisdom have coming? It's because if you were wise, you would number your days. If you were wise, you would number your days. What does it mean to number your days? It actually means to appoint or assign your days. Which means on this day, I'm only going to accomplish this. On this day, I'm going to learn this. On this day, I'm going to serve these people. On this day, I'm going to develop this gift. On this day, I'm going to pray and consecrate and intercede to the King of Kings. On this day, I'm going to read my Bible and go deeper into the word. It means to assign your days, to appoint your days. The Lord says, "I have an appointing for you," but in order for you to be at the appointing, you have to make sure you're meeting your appointments. Appointing comes from the word appointment. An appointment means that you are to be at a place on a p, on a specific day, at a specific place, at a specific time. I want you to know you have been appointed by God, which means there's going to be a day of destiny for you. There's going to be an hour of destiny for you. There's going to be a place of destiny for you. But before you can make your appointing, you first have to make your small appointments because the Lord will give you plenty of appointments before He takes you to A.O. 10. You have to know that there is a gap between the anointing and the appointing. David was anointed in the field, but it was many years later before he was appointed in the palace. God will always anoint you in a desert. He will always anoint you in a field. He will always anoint you in obscurity so He can give you purity before He takes you to the palace. Oh, come on, somebody. I'm telling you right now, there's an appointed time, an appointed time for destiny, an appointed time for purpose, an appointed time for what the Lord is doing under the heavens. God has an appointment, which means He has a time allotted for you. But the thing about destiny is, destiny is not an arrival. It's not a destination. Destiny is a moving target, which means God takes you from glory to glory to glory. And in your story, you may be in the field, and you may not feel like that's a version of glory, but it is a version of glory because they, David had to kill the lion and the bear before he could slay the giant, and he was just as much in his destiny fighting the lion and the bear as he was fighting Goliath. He was just as much in his destiny protecting the sheep of his father as he was protecting the sheep of Israel. I want you to know you don't have to arrive at your destiny, you evolve into your destiny at each stage of your life. So the Lord has appointed a set time for you. And what the enemy does is he comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I want you to know something. The devil do care about killing you if he can steal your time. If the devil can't kill you, he just kills you in slow motion by taking your time, by wasting your time. I want you to know that when you're distracted, those are your dreams divided. The enemy, if he cannot kill you, he will steal your time because time is a heavenly treasure from the Father to all His kids, and time is what's required for you to go to the next level. It's what's required for you to develop. It's what's required for your destiny. You have to feed destiny time. So what you have to know is this: It doesn't matter what happened to you in life. The most important commodity you'll ever have is time. Time is worth way more than money. Let me say it again. Time is worth way more than money. You can go bankrupt, but if you still got time, you'll be okay. You can lose everything, but if you still got time, you'll be okay. If they repo the car, if you still got time, you'll be okay. If they take the house, if you still got time, you will be okay. Why? Because if I got time, I can swing again. If I got time, I can fight again. If I got time, I can stand again. If I got time, I can pray again. If I got time, I can trust God again. If I got time, it's not too late. If I got time, failure is not final. If I got time, delayed doesn't mean denied. If I got time, and I want some of you guys to know, you may have lost everything in your life, but it's not over yet if you still got time. It's not over yet if you still got time.
And I want to tell you, and even if you don't got time, our God is not limited or bound to time. When Lazarus was out of time, God rewound the clock for Lazarus. He said, "I don't even got to get there in time because I don't submit to time. Time submits to me." And if I tell time to back up, it'll back up. If I tell the sun to stand still, it'll freeze. Why? Because I'm not limited or controlled by time. God has given you time, and some of you guys have wasted it. Some of you guys have wasted years. Some of you guys have wasted moments. Some of you are called to ministry and you didn't do it. You were called to pastor, you didn't do it. You was called to lead, you didn't do it. You was called to do Bible studies, you didn't do it. You was called to start a business, you didn't do it. And now you're older and you're like, "God, I'm out of time. I'm out of time, Lord. Did I waste time?" And some of you guys, you did waste time. Some of you guys have wasted 10 years, 20, 30, 40, 50. You wasted the time. But I'm going to tell you something. Your God is so good that even when you waste time, He can restore it. Let me give you some Bible. The Bible says the Bible says that the Lord will redeem the time that the cankerworm stole. What is a cankerworm? A cankerworm is a locust. God said He will redeem the time that the locust has stole. Why did the Bible use a locust specifically? Because whenever you get a swarm of locust, a swarm of locust would go through a garden, they would go through a place of vegetation, they would go through a fruitful place, and the swarm of locust would go through a garden and they would clean everything out. They would take all the fruit, all the produce, and all the nutrients out of an area. The swarm of locust will come and steal and eat up everything. And the Lord says, "If the enemy came like a swarm of locust and he caused you to be distracted, caused you to be divided, caused your time to get ate up, He says, 'I will redeem the time that the locust has stole.'" Oh, what do you mean? God's not saying that I have to rewind time. He says, "I'm going to fast forward you. I'm going to do in 10 days what it would have took you 10 years to get to. I'm going to do in one year what it would have take you a decade to get to." God says, "I don't only got a rewind time, I can fast forward you in such a way that you will still be on time, even though you lost time, because God is above time."
[Applause] Oh, I will redeem the time. And some of you older people there, it's not too late. Some of you guys that feel like you missed your destiny, it's not too late. Some of you that feel like you missed your assignment, it's not too late. Because the Lord is going to fast forward you to make sure you make it on. Oh, give Him a shout of crazy in this place. Now, that ain't even my sermon, that's just my introduction. We're going to actually get to the sermon now.
If you have your Bibles, go to Ecclesiastes chapter 3. Ecclesiastes chapter three, and it says, Ecclesiastes chapter 3, and it says, "You guys are there? Okay." It says, "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven. A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted. A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to break down and a time to build up. A time to weep and a time to laugh. A time to mourn and a time to dance. A time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones. A time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing. A time to gain, oh, and a time to lose." I received that by the blood of Jesus. I'm losing weight this year. It's my year in the name of Jesus. I'll see y'all at the gym. It's a time to lose. This is my time to lose. Amen. A time to keep and a time to throw away. Some of y'all need to clean out your house. But we're going to keep reading the Bible. Throw it away if you ain't using it three months, you don't need it. A time to tear and a time to sew. A time to keep [Music] silent and a time to speak. Time to love and a time to hate. To hate unrighteousness and the evil works. A time of war. There is a time to go to war and a time for peace, or a time of peace. Wow, wow, wow.
The Lord says there is a time, time, time, time. We see this word. There's a time for every person's purpose under the heavens. So the question is, why did God create time? Why did He create time? God created time for purpose. That's what time is designed for. He said, "There is a time for everything and every purpose under heaven," which means that when God created this concept of time, He created time for purpose and for things to be done under heaven. Which means that if you spend all your time doing everything except for your purpose, you have killed time because the purpose and the point of time is purpose. And we live so divided and distracted that we don't use our time for what the Lord has allotted our time for. The Lord says, "I didn't give you time so you can be bitter. I gave you time for you to be better. I didn't give you time so you can be distracted. I gave you time so you can develop. I didn't give you time so you can be discombobulated. I gave you time so you can walk into destiny." What is the time? The Lord has given you time for something so strategic. He has created time, and He's not limited or bound by time. You need to know something about God. I used to ask a question, "Who created God?" Nobody created God because God created created the thing. You got to know about God is, start didn't start. God started. Start. He created time. He's not limited by it. He's not bound to it. He is the author of time. He is the author and finisher. He's Alpha and Omega, which means beginning and end. In between His time. Why did He give you time? He gave you time for a destiny. He gave you time for an assignment. He gave you time for purpose. You must know the time, and you have to be willing to redeem the time.
The Bible says in the world, there is seed time and harvest. Seed time and harvest. Which means the thing that sits between seed and time and harvest is time. The thing that sits between seed and harvest is time. So what is seed? Seed is something underdeveloped. What is harvest? Harvest is something that is developed. So seed is underdeveloped. Harvest is something that is developed. So between something that's undeveloped and is developed is time. So the Lord is saying that if you're underdeveloped, I've given you time so you can reach a point of development. I'm giving you time so you can reach maturation. I'm giving you time so you can reach maturity. See, if you see a little baby, that baby is only a baby for an amount of time. Eventually, after an amount of time, that baby becomes an adult. Why? Because time was designed to develop, to mature, and to grow and to bring maturation. You see what I'm saying? So, so, so the point of time is this: God is giving you time for growth. Seed time and harvest. If you put a seed in the ground and you don't give it time, it don't become a tree. It doesn't become fruitful. But if you give it time, now that tree can become fruitful. It can yield a harvest. And I want you to know something. Maybe you feel like you're not doing much right now. Maybe you feel like you're in obscurity right now. Maybe you feel like you're not in destiny right now. Maybe you feel like you're not doing the big thing right now. But just slow down and give it time, because after an amount of time, God's going to grow you and develop you, mature you. Give Him a shout of praise. Give Him time.
So the Bible says that there is a season to everything. What is a season? A season is an allotted period of time. Um, in the world, we have four seasons. We have spring season, yeah, we have summer, we have fall, and we have winter. These are four periods of time. And the thing about a season is, a season is time manifested. A season is time manifested. Which means when we have fall season, there's manifestation going around. There's leaves falling off. There's things dying. Plants are dying. Everything is stripping down so it can get ready to blossom in spring. And you will have seasons where you have to downsize. You will have seasons where you have to downgrade. You will have seasons where you have to detach from people because God will have fall seasons where He strips you down to get you ready for spring. Because God said the next season you're walking in, these people can't go with you. That attitude can't go with you. That depression can't go with you. That fear can't go with you. That bitterness can't go with you. That greed can't go with you. I have to strip you down in this season so you're ready for the next season. And the Lord says, "Don't despise the day of small beginnings." Because He said, "Don't reject seed form because one day it'll be tree form." There is a season. And sometimes there's a season to mourn. There's going to be times where you are going to mourn, but God says the tide is going to turn. You will dance again. There's going to be seasons where you cry, but God says the tide will turn. You will laugh again. There will be seasons where you have to throw away, but God says you will replenish again. There will be seasons where you have to pluck up, and there will be seasons where you have to plant. God says every season has a time. So what you have to do is, don't be offended by the season. Don't be offended by the season because the season has a reason. And the reason for the season is to develop you for your [Applause] destiny.
The Bible talks about the sons of Issachar. When you're reading the Bible, it talks about the sons of Issachar. The sons of Issachar, they were so unique. They actually served King David, but they had the gift of leadership and they had the gift of wisdom. The sons of Issachar. And the Bible says something so special about the sons of Issachar. Go read it. It says, "The sons of Issachar have a special anointing. They have the anointing to determine the seasons and the times." That they can determine the seasons and the time. And not only do they, not only can they discern the seasons and the time, they know what to do in that time. I pray that God will give some of you guys the Issachar anointing where you will be able to determine the season and the time. You can determine the season and the time where you won't just know what season it is, you will know what to do in the season. Oh, this is the season for me to plant right now, so I'm going to start getting seed into the ground. This is the season for me to consecrate right now, I'm going to get before the Lord. This is the season for me to learn right now, I'm going to lean into the things of God. Oh, this is the season for me to launch. Do you know what time it is? Do you know what time it is? Because the sons of Issachar, they knew the time. And if you are around people that have the ability to determine the seasons and not only the seasons, but what to do, you need to lean into those people and learn, "Hey, what season is it? What time is it? What hour is it?" So I can know what I'm supposed to be doing. There's never nothing worse than not knowing what time it is.
What time is it? Another thing you have to know in life is, when does the season end? See, there's an automaticity to the seasons of this world. Fall ends at a set time. But in your life, seasons don't end at set times. They end after lessons are learned. Which means that if you're not getting the lesson, you may keep repeating the season. So I'm in a season of loneliness, and I keep every year going through a season of loneliness. It's because you didn't get the assignment of the season, so you repeat it. Whenever you lack assignment, you repeat seasons. Nah, you've been in a season of poverty, and you're saying, "God, where is my breakthrough? When are you going to bring increase to me?" He said, "I cannot take you to a season of increase because while you're in a season of poverty, you're still poverty-minded. I allowed you to go through a poverty season to strip the poverty mind off of you so I can take you into a season of increase." But as long as you keep the poverty mind, you repeat the poverty season.
[Applause] Ah, what time is it? You have to know the time because the time determines the shift. The time determines the shift. You have to know what time it is to know what shift God is leading you to. And God is leading you on. You have to know the time. And I want to tell you something about time. The best things in life take time. The best things take time. You can start an LLC in a couple of days, but it will take years to build a business. You can start a ministry on a Sunday, but it would take years to build a church. You can get married at a wedding in a day, but it takes years to build a marriage. Why? Because the best things take time. Oh, oh. Me and my wife, we shopped for chicken. We shopped for non-GMO. Non-GMO. Why don't we want GMO chicken? We don't want genetically modified. We don't want genetically modified chicken. Why? Because they didn't shop those chickens up, and those chickens aren't growing at a natural weight. They're growing at an accelerated rate because they've been shot up with all kind of steroids. Now all of a sudden, you got these big old tall chickens, they can't stand up, their knees is buckling, they're falling over. Ah, I lost some chicken, but not that chicken. Why? Because it's been genetically modified. It's been accelerated. It's been rushed. It wasn't given time. So now it's genetically modified. We want non-GMO because that food is defective because the source of it has been rushed. And I want you to know something. If you rush, your destiny will be defective. Slow down, because the best things take time. Oh, oh. When my wife, she cooked these ribs, it takes about six hours for her to cook them things. She boils those things for three hours, and she bakes for three hours. I come in there every 30 minutes, "Ribs done yet? Ribs done yet? Ribs done yet?" She like, "No, boy, it takes time." Oh, but when those ribs get done, those baby back ribs will put you on your back. My God. But it took time. The best things in life will always take time. Don't rush it. Don't force it. It will take time.
There was an elephant. This elephant was sitting there, and it walked past this dog. And the elephant and the dog got pregnant on the same day. So the dog was like, "Miss Elephant, I'm so happy we're pregnant at the same time. Can't, can't wait to see our babies." And the elephant said, "Yeah, it's going to be amazing." So, so after three months, the dog gave birth to a litter of puppies. And the elephant is just still carrying. Well, then those puppies grew up. And then a couple of months later, the dog got pregnant again. It gave birth to another set of puppies. And the elephant is still pregnant. The third time the dog gets pregnant and gives birth to another litter of puppies, and the elephant is still pregnant. So finally, the dog goes to the elephant and she says, "Mrs. Elephant, we got pregnant at the same time. I've had three litters of puppies, and they have grown up to be big dogs, and yet you still haven't given birth to anything. Are you sure you're pregnant?" The elephant looked at the dog and she said, "Mrs. Dog, you don't get it. She said, 'You're giving birth to puppies. I'm birthing an elephant.' And she said, 'It isn't fast, but it takes time.' She said, 'But the difference between what I'm birthing and what you're birthing is, what you're birthing takes three months. When I'm birthing, it takes two years.' Because when I'm birthing, it's so big and so heavy and so majestic that when it leaves me and hits the ground, the ground shakes. The earth knows it's arrived. Why? Because it's just that big. So I get what you're saying, Mrs. Dog, but in due time, I will give birth. But what I'm birthing is going to shake the ground."
I want to tell you something. There may be a lot of dogs around you giving birth to something, but don't be discouraged because what you're carrying is heavy. What you're carrying is weighty. What you're carrying is big. And when your destiny touches down and hits the earth, the earth is going to feel it. Hell is going to feel it. Oh, I'm birthing something big, and big things take time. I'm not birthing a 4-pound puppy. I'm birthing a 300-pound elephant. And when my baby comes, people stop in amazement. People stop and take pictures. People stop in amusement because when I'm birthing, it's so unique and so special. I'm going to talk to some people that's pregnant with purpose. It may look like it's taking a long time, and it may look like the Lord is carrying, but do the vision. Wait on it because at the appointed time, you will give [Applause] birth. The best things take time. It takes time. I'm birthing something. This isn't ordinary. This is extraordinary. This isn't natural. This is supernatural. It takes time. And what the elephant looked at the dog and said, it said, "And by the way, my baby will weigh more than all your full-grown dogs at the same time. You can put them all on the scale, and it's still smaller than the one baby I'm birthing at its birth. The elephant will come heavier than all the puppies grown." So don't be discouraged when it's taking time. Don't be discouraged that you haven't been released yet. Don't be discouraged that you haven't been blessed yet because the best things take time. The best things take time. The best things take. Oh, tap your neighbor and say, "I got time." I got. Oh, come on, tap the neighbor you don't like this much 'cause you went to second to say, "I got time." Oh, I got time. The best things that was awkward takes time.
Let me hurry. John chapter 2. When you have your Bible, say, "Ready." John 2. Are you guys being blessed by [Music] [Applause] this? It says, "On the third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Now, both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, 'They have no wine.' Jesus said to her, 'Woman, see Jesus, this will get me whooped.' Now, if I say 'woman' to my mom, I'm just, I'm just doing what I'm just trying to be like Jesus. Then got put out the house. Woman, what does your concern have to do with me? Jesus, this is grounding. My mama was called this talking back. Jesus, I'm just saying, I know you wouldn't do that. That's what my mama would say, though. Mommy might want to redefine that. He said, 'Woman, what does your concern have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.' His mother said to the servants, 'Whatever He says to you, do it.' Now, there were set there six pots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, uh, containing 20 to 30 gallons a piece. Jesus said to them, 'Fill the water pots with water,' and they filled them up to the brim. And He said to them, 'Draw some out now and take it to the master of the feast.' And they took it. When the master of the feast had tasted the water this what that was made wine, and did not know where it came from, but the servants who had drawn out, drawn out the water knew. The master of the feast called the bridegroom and he said to him, 'Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.'" Wow, wow, wow.
Let's, let's execute this scripture. So the first thing is this: They ran out of wine, and Jesus's mother, Mary, said, "Hey, they ran out of wine." And Jesus said, "What does this concern God do with me? My time has not yet come." Uh, here's kind of what happened. Uh, if you would just, just rewind back 18 years. When Jesus was 12, He was inside of the temple, He was baffling doctors and lawyers. He was baffling them. He was asking them questions and answering them questions. Hard says He was impressive at 12. And then His mama came to try to take Him away, and He said, "Woman, I must be about my Father's business." In other words, "I'm about my Daddy's business. I'm about to fulfill my purpose and my assignment and my destiny." But then I believe the Spirit of the Lord spoke to Him, and when the Spirit of the Lord spoke to Him, He went home to His mother. He became submitted. The Bible says He grew in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man. So He went back for 18 years. The Bible was silent on His life for an 18-year period because He went back and submitted because it wasn't time. Now, when He was 12 years old, He was anxious, He was ready to be about His Father's business. But now He's 30 years old, and His mother is telling Him to do a miracle, and He's like, "Woman, my time hasn't come." Why? Because wisdom waits. Wisdom waits, and wisdom has a patience to it, because wisdom, like the sons of Issachar, can understand the seasons and the time. And Jesus said, "My hour hasn't come." In other words, He said, "My time has not yet come. It's not time for me to reveal to the world that I'm the Savior. It's not time for me to be put on a public p, on a on a public uh pedestal. It's not my time yet. The Father hasn't appointed this moment." So Jesus still went and performed a miracle. Why? Because He was responding to His mother's intercessory prayer. But even in performing a miracle, the disciples knew and trusted in Him. A few of the servants knew, but He still wasn't revealed to the world. He still wasn't announced because it wasn't His time. But He understood, like the sons of Issachar, the seasons and the time. He knew when something was requested of Him, it wasn't His time. I remember being a young preacher developing, and people would ask me to preach, and I wouldn't go because it wasn't time. I was asked to start a church premature, three years early, but I would always say no because it wasn't. You have to know what time it is. And Jesus knew what time it was, and He knew it's not time for me to be exposed to everybody. That's why the miracle was done silent. The master of the feast didn't even know that Jesus did the miracle. He just thought they left the best wine till later because it wasn't time. It wasn't time. Jesus knew it wasn't time.
And I want to tell you something. Something masterful can be terrible out of its time. Everything must be done in time. If you take something out of time, something that is the right thing at the wrong time just became the wrong thing because timing matters. Jesus understood the time. I'm going to show you something else. Jesus did a miracle. What is a miracle? I've talked, ready in church, most churches don't notice. But what is a miracle? A miracle is called acceleration of elements. Acceleration of elements. A miracle isn't magic. So if Jesus would go and grab the five loaves and two fish, if He multiplied it and it just went from that to all this fish and bread, that would be magic. Magic requires something for nothing. A miracle requires something for something. That's why every miracle had instruction attached to it. Every miracle. He said, He said, "Take up your bed." Why? Because the substance of this miracle is faith, and I need faith to turn into a miracle. Because if I don't have a substance, this ain't a miracle, it's magic. Jesus needed water to turn to wine because if He didn't have a substance, it wouldn't be a miracle, it would be [Music] magic.
So what is a miracle? A miracle is the acceleration of elements. Do you know all a miracle is is the manipulation of time? See, when the boy brought his food, you don't know what happened in the heavenlies. The angel always ministers the miracle in the heavenlies. Angel armies went to the lake, they started fishing, they started processing fish, they cooked fish, they brought them back on the scene to be distributed in seconds. Well, how can it work so fast? Eternity isn't limited by time, only Earth is. That's why Jesus can walk on top of the water, why He can manipulate the elements because of time. So, so, so, so when you talk about turning water into wine, turning water into wine takes time. It takes time. But with Jesus, it didn't take much time because the moment when Jesus got to the angel armies, immediately went, and they got grape vines, they went, they planted these grape vines, and as they planted these grape vines, they harvested them, aged them, and then they presented them in the moment. That's what eternity in heaven does. Let me show you what it looks like on Earth. On Earth, it would take you getting grape vines. You would have to plant them and wait three to five years for them to come to the season of its age. After that, you would harvest them, and then you would take them to ferment and you would process the grapes into a ferment or into a juice. The juice will be put inside of a, of a bottle to be aged. The process would take between four and seven years to prepare wine. But when Jesus gets involved, what would take four years took four seconds. Why? Because He can accelerate the elements and He can perform a miracle in Godspeed, in Godspeed time. So the miracle Jesus did, the same thing they would had to do, just in a shorter amount of time. And I want you to know, He can do the same thing in your life. It should take you 10 years of education, but He can manipulate elements in such a way that He can accelerate time. He can accelerate time. Jesus can do quickly what it takes man a long time to do. That's why one day of favor with God is better than a thousand days of labor with man. One day of favor with God is better than a thousand days of labor with man because the Lord moves at a swift time, at a swift time. He moves at a swift time. So you have to know what time it is. A miracle is the manipulation of elements. Jesus controls time, and that's why He knew that His time has not yet come. And in our church, in the season of our church, I can feel a shift. I can feel a Kairos. I can feel a specific time that God is doing something in our church. He's doing something in our body. Over the last couple of weeks, our dream team has increased by 70 plus people. Why? Because God is doing something in this time. And for you, some of you guys, it's time for you to start serving. It's time for you to latch on and be a part of what God's doing. He's been tugging on your part and you on your heart, and you don't want to miss your time. It's your time. It's your time to serve. It's your time to lock in. It's your time to plant. It's your time to sow. This is your time. I can feel very specifically in my spirit, coming into the end of the year, that the Lord is getting ready to use me in the global fashion. I can feel it. I can sense it. So I've had to shift. I had to change. I had to make certain decisions. Had to cut off. Had to prepare, pre-prune, because I know it's time. It's time. It's time. It's time. You have to know what time it is. What time is it? What time is it? Time to sow? Is it time to plug? Is it time to serve? Is it time to learn? Is it time to start something? Is it time to develop? Is it time for you to take your walk with God not serious? What time is it?
And what you got to be careful to do is make sure you don't move too soon. You don't move too soon. You don't move too soon. You have to slow down and make sure you don't move too soon and do everything inside of His time. Isaiah 60:22 says this: "It says, 'When the time is right, I, the Lord, will make it happen.' When the time is right, I, the Lord, will make it happen." I want to tell you something. When the time isn't right, the Lord can't make it happen. You have to make it happen. And there's a lot of dreams and a lot of destinies that are falling flat and falling face forward to the ground because the Lord didn't make it happen. Man made it happen. And now you got to go to conferences with business cards because you can't wait on the Lord. I'm telling you, wait on the Lord because He said, "At the right time, He will make it happen." I don't want a destiny that men makes happen. I don't want a destiny that I make happen. I don't want a destiny that connections make happen. I want a destiny that I, the Lord, makes happen. I want to tell you something. In the right time, God's going to make it happen. You don't have to force a relationship. At the right time, the Lord will bring you a husband. He'll make it happen. At the right time, the Lord will bring your wife. He'll make it happen. You don't have to force. You don't have to lie. You don't have to manipulate. God said, "At the right time, I will make it happen." But good things take time. Timing is everything. Timing is everything.
I remember when I was a kid, they would play this game. Um, some of the girls on the playground, it was called Double Dutch. And they would say, "You want to come play Double Dutch?" I'm like, "Well, they kind of cute, I guess I'll play." And as they're double dutching, I'm sitting here, and I'm bouncing, and I'm leaning, and I'm rocking, and I'm leaning, and I'm rocking because this game requires timing. And what would happen in Double Dutch? It was two ropes going in the opposite, opposite direction. And if you didn't have proper timing, you would jump inside between the two ropes, and they'll hit you in the face. Why? Because you was out of time. You didn't have timing. But if you had good timing, you can actually jump in between the two ropes, and you could begin to Double Dutch because you had good timing. Timing is everything. Tap your neighbor and say, "Timing is everything." Is your other neighbor that you don't like as much? Say, "Timing is everything." It's everything. Oh, timing is everything. Everything that happens great in this world happens in timing. If you look at the best boxers, they're not the people that can throw the fastest punches. It's the people with the best timing. The best cooks are the people with the best timing. The best things in the world happens because of timing. As you listen to this beautiful worship that was happening on our stage, they all had a click in their ear. They had a metronome. And the rate of that click was probably a 44, which means it was one beat a second. One beat a second. One beat a second. Which means what they were hearing inside of their headphones was timing, rhythm, timing, rhythm, timing, rhythm. And that timing would take someone that's on the drums, someone that's on the keyboard, someone that's singing over here, someone that's singing over there, and that time, that beat, that click will pull everything together. It's a beautiful harmony because they had timing. They were all on the same time. Anything that's great has time. The Earth has time. The sun comes up, then the sun goes down. Everything has timing. Even a woman, her body has a cycle. Every couple of 30 days, there is a cycle. There is timing to her body to make sure her body is cleansed. Everything has timing. I remember when my wife was giving birth to our daughter, we was inside of the hospital, and every couple minutes, she would have contractions. There was a timing that would happen. And during the contractions, they would say, "Push." She had about a 30 to 45-second window to push. Why? Because she had to deliver the baby in time. And if she didn't make that contraction, she would have to go to another contraction because the Lord said, "Everything must be done in this time." And if you delivered a baby outside of time, you will tear because you was out of timing. Everything is timing. Everything has to be done in time. The Lord has divine timing. And when you get out of the will of God, you left His divine timing. And when you're out of time, you're going to see a catastrophe and something that's not masterful because you're out of time. You're out of time of time. Everything. So supernatural and great in this world will have time. When someone gets picked up by the paramedics, the first thing the paramedics do is they check their heart rate. And their heart rate should have 60 to 100 beats a minute. Why? Because that's the timing of the body. When someone is laying there and they've been injured really, really badly, the first thing that a medical professional would do is check and see if they have a pulse. What is a pulse? A pulse is a rhythm. What is the rhythm? A rhythm is a beat at a certain time. And when you lack a pulse, that means you ran out of time. There's no more beat. There's no more rhythm. There's no more time. When someone doesn't have a pulse, that means time has expired. They're dead. Now, they ran out of time. Everything happens inside of time. Inside of your car, you have something and it's called a timing belt. And this timing belt has your pistons and your valves together. And this belt moves around, and it moves your pistons and your valves, and they close and they open at the right time. And if your car would ever get out of time, or the timing belt will break, or it would get out of time, what would happen is your pistons and valves will crash into each other, and you would have a collision, and you would have chaos because it's out of time. But when your timing belt is inside of time, everything opens when it's supposed to open and closes when it's supposed to close. It opens when it's supposed to open and it closes when it's supposed to close. Why? Because there's a timing belt that keeps everything inside of time. So everything has to happen in time. And whenever it's out of time, what would happen is they would open and close at the same time, and what was supposed to be collaboration becomes collaboration and chaos and collision because it was out of time. And I want you to know something. God has a time in the opening doors. He has a time in the closing doors. He has a time in the opening doors. He has a time in the closing doors. And if you try to walk in a closed door, you are out of time. And if you don't walk into an open door, you are wasting time. Everything must be done in time. We started Ready Church right at the same time. It was a divided hour in our nation. It was the right time. If I would have went too early, I would have missed it. If I would have waited too late, it would have missed me. We had to plant the church at the right time. Everything must be done in time. If you say, "Lord, give me Your divine favor and Your divine timing," and I'll give Him a shout of praising this [Music] place. Everything has to happen in time.
And I got two points that I got to cut right now. Maybe we'll deal with them next week. But I want you to be cautious to not miss the time and to not waste the season. Yeah, because it had to happen. It's His appointing. It had to happen. You had to be betrayed. It had to happen. People had to fail you. It had to happen. They had to backstab you. They had to backbite you. They had to come against you and build walls against you. It had to happen. Why? Because you had to go through those seasons because those seasons will prepare you for your destiny. It had to happen. God said, "Don't be upset. Don't be frustrated. It is My appointing. It had to happen." David, you had to be number eight. It had to happen. They had to leave you in obscurity. It had to happen. You could be invited to the field. It had to happen. Why? Because if you was invited with your brothers, uh, to serve in the king's army, you would have been a coward like everyone else. But I wasn't going to let you be a coward. I put you in obscurity. I put you in isolation so I can give you courage when everyone else had cowardice. It wasn't time. But David, when it's your time, I'm going to send you to take some cheese and I'm going to send you to take some pepperoni to your brothers. You going to take them some pizza at the right time so you will meet destiny, and you and destiny will collide, and it will be divine timing because it's your time now. You have to know the time. You have to know the time. And most great people, they wrestle with time. Moses was called to deliver the Israelites, and when he saw an Israelite in the hands of the Egyptian, he struck them and killed them. Why? Because he was trying to move before his time. When Jesus was in the temple, he was moving before his time. Joseph, I know you had a dream, but it ain't time for destiny yet. Wait on your time.
And let me tell you something about the devil. As the band comes up, I'm going to tell you something about Satan. Satan is a coward, and he will never wait until you're prepared to fight. He will always hit you at the wrong time. Satan will never wait till time is fulfilled. This is why some of you guys were molested. This is why some of you guys were abused. This is why some of you guys were misused. You were divorced. You, you wasn't led right. You wasn't treated right. This is why you went through the things you went through because the enemy knew in your time you would be a mighty warrior. But Satan don't fight mighty warriors. He fights little children because he's a coward. He's not going to wait. That's why when Jesus was born, Herod killed all the babies under two. Pharaoh wanted to kill all the babies when Moses was coming. Why? Because Satan would never wait on your time. He fights you before your time. And he wants to fight you before your time so by the time you get to your time, you're behind time because you're still wrestling with identity because he hit you out of time. And I want some of you guys to know that's been hit out of time, that's been fought before your time, that had wrestle before your time, that went through heartbreak before your time, that wasn't loved in your time. I want you to know that God has a Kairos moment for you. He has a time. There's a divine time where God is about to move. He's about to heal. He's about to deliver you. He's about to do supernatural things. It's in its time. I want you to know that this is a time that we're going to shift from here as on Earth to here as in heaven.
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