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Ecclesiates
3:1.
There is a time and a season for every activity under the sun.
Are you complaining
about feeling left out, pushed aside, or not included when you really should be
thankful for a season of rest?
Something
to Consider: The seasons of life require that we
sometimes enter a period of dormancy, inactivity, rest, veiled (concealed,
hidden, obscure). Don’t confuse your season of dormancy with death.
Also
consider:
Even if the motive of the other party is to hold you back or exclude you, there are two questions you can
ask yourself and move forward accordingly.
1.
What
could be the enemy’s desire while you are seemingly in the background?
We
can all easily come up with the answer to that question! But an even better question to ask would be:
2.
What
could be God’s desire or to what advantage
could God use your season of dormancy? Feeling excluded is
also to feel somewhat isolated, but there are blessings that can be found in
your season of isolation.
a.
Rest
b.
Replenishing & Restoration
c.
Reconnecting with God on a deeper more
personal level
d.
Preparation for your next assignment
Finally:
Please be careful that you’re not snatching on a door knob and trying to yank open
a door that the Lord has purposely closed and locked.
One
reason you might be doing this:
You’ve
done it before and perfected it. It’s something you’ve mastered and you know
you would be a perfect candidate or choice to walk through that door.
Something
to Consider:
If you’ve already mastered it, maybe the closed door is God’s way of
leading you in another direction to conquer more territories, instead of
allowing you to be territorial over something you have mastered.
Another
reason you might be doing this: You have a right to go through the door. You’ve earned the right to go through the door!
Something
to Consider:
If what you’re doing or attempting to do will thwart
God’s plan for your life, He will continue to keep the door closed and locked.
Seek Him to be sure that you’re not fighting against Him, instead of a
perceived enemy.
You may have the
right to walk through the door, but also consider that this might not be the right door. It could be that your blessing or
answer to prayer is behind a door, just not this
one. Many of us can attest to the fact that we’ve spent a lot of time expecting
our answer or blessing to come from one way, and when it showed up it was coming
from an entirely different direction. Not only that but usually with God, when
it does show up it comes out much better than you hoped or thought!
It is true. His
thoughts are not our thoughts, and His ways are not ours but much higher. He is
not only able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all we can ask or think, but
usually He does exceed abundantly and above all that we can ask or think.
Moving
forward: We do know according to scripture that faith without
works is dead. We also know that some prayers are answered before we speak,
some while we yet speak, some after we have asked, and some after what seems to
be a delay. There will be times when you
will seem to be in a fight. But when you begin to feel as if you are hitting
your head against a brick wall, or like you’re fighting a different kind of
enemy, it might not be an enemy at all!
It may be your Lord trying to get you to realize the season you are in,
or to turn your attention away from a door that He has obviously closed, simply
to keep you in the center of His Will.
