I thought that today might be a good time to re-post this set of notes. This year has been a time of living this one out. I hope that this next year is a great one for you and your family.  Mark

Ecclesiastes 3:1, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”

Seasons = a set time, an appointed time.

• Childhood is a season.
• School is a season.
• Raising children is a season.

TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON!

 There is a reason for every season.

• Seasons of training can last until we learn the lessons.
• Other seasons will pass us by regardless.
• Understand the times and seasons.

 Just as there are natural seasons there are parallel spiritual seasons.

• God will put you in specific situations for seasons of time.
• It could be geographical, relationships, spiritual emphasis…

 Winter, spring, summer and fall.

• There are trees that stay green all winter.
• A time to sit by the fire and learn.
• A lot of bugs die in the winter.
• Summer we are growing and producing fruit that will not grow without HEAT!
• It takes heat to temper steel.
• Heat causes seeds to activate.

TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON!

 People who understand the seasons will be blessed in all of them!

 Each season is different.

• There are seasons of activity and seasons of inactivity.
• There are seasons to learn and seasons to teach.

 Each season is preparation for the next season.

• You must discern what God wants to teach you in your present season.
• You will be equipped for the next season only if you are faithful in the present season.

 If you don’t understand anything else, get this: SEASONS CHANGE!

1 Samuel 16:1, “And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.”

• Not all seasons are the same in length.
• There are long seasons and short seasons.
• How you leave one season determines how you will enter the next.

It is highly important to be faithful in each season.

Luke 16:10, “He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.”

Luke 16:12, “And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own?”

 REMEMBER: TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON!

Be faithful where you are with what you have been given and you will thrive regardless of season, circumstance or situation. 

God bless you! And, HAPPY NEW YEAR!