NOW Is The Time
- Now Think On This
by Steve Martin
“There is an
appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under
heaven.” Ecclesiates 3:1 NAS
When the Word of the Lord comes to you and speaks softly in your
inner spirit, saying, “NOW is the time,” you know that you know it is time. Something
in your spirit then responds “Yes!” He doesn’t have to spell it out for you. That
“it” – that something you have been waiting for, is now going to happen. You
just know that it is the time. He has spoken.
Each of us are waiting on something. Some of you for a decent job,
to replace the one or two part-time ones that you have had for awhile. Or the current
job that you now have causes you to drag yourself out of bed each weekday
morning, hoping that soon another will soon come along.
Others are anticipating the day when they will meet “the one”,
trying not to lose hope in the process.
One of you reading this just wants the Lord to heal that nagging,
hurting nerve. It has been painful for over a year now, causing loss of sleep
and all that comes with a chronic issue. Enough already with the Aleve twice a
day.
And yet several of you have been waiting for that release into
your God-given dream; to touch the nations, to help the helpless, to have your
life count for something, for all eternity. After all, the prophetic word came
when you were 24. Now you are almost 40. What is up with that?
Waiting on the Lord and His timing can do one of two things. One,
it can make you resentful that it hasn’t happened already, eventually turning your
heart into bitterness for the Lord and His people, which then ultimately has
you believing nothing that the Lord has spoken to you will ever come to pass.
Or two, you are maintaining that trust in His faithfulness,
knowing deep down that though you can’t see the promise fulfilled, which may yet be far off, you keep pressing on. Because He has proven Himself to you in your past, you
know that somehow, someway, someday He will be there to do it again. You are
believing the Scripture for what it exactly says, and which has been speaking directly
to you.
You really believe the Scripture, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1. NASB)
You really believe the Scripture, “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1. NASB)
I especially
like these following verses that talk about Abraham’s and Sarah’s faith. Being
in my “latter” years, or better yet, my “fine wine prime time golden ways of
gray hair days” years, they are especially meaningful to me.
“By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by
going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went
out, not knowing where he was going. By faith he
lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in
tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise; for he was
looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
By faith even Sarah herself received ability to
conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him
faithful who had promised. Therefore there was born even of one man, and him
as good as dead at that, as many descendants as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore. (Hebrews 11:8-12
NASB)
The Lord understands our weaknesses. He knows
where we are at. After all, He created us.
Today I heard the Lord say, “NOW is the time.” I
have been waiting. Let it now be done according to your word, my Lord.
He is speaking to you too. The waiting is over.
NOW is the time.
Now think on this,
Steve Martin
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Now Think On This #184 “Now Is The Time” by Steve Martin
Date: In the year of our Lord 2015 (10.05.15) Monday at 6:00 pm in
Charlotte, NC
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