The Appointed Time

For everything there is an appointed time,
and an appropriate time for every activity on earth

Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NET)

Many years ago God told me that I was going to be in a band. I got so excited about this because I had been praying for this for several years, and I thought Wow! It's finally going to happen! Days started to go by with no band, then weeks started passing, then months had started passing and still no band. So I made the decision to start a band on my own. I even prayed about who is to be in the band but all I got from God was silence. So when I found someone who played an instrument, I asked them if they wanted to be in the band. I went to several musicians asking this and eventually, over time (and I would say several months) I had a band. We then started rehearsals which went every way but smooth. I had members who wouldn't show up, ideas clashed constantly...it was something that I could certainly say wasn't of God! Eventually the band broke up. When it did, I asked God "what happened, You told me I was to be in a band, I got in a band, why didn't it work?" At that point the silence broke and God told me "now wasn't the time for the band, I will tell you when." It wasn't for another 7 years that the band God told me about happened. When God tells you something that you are to do, or something that is going to happen, He is telling you for a reason, and not that it is going to happen tomorrow. There is a "preparation time" that you need to go through before whatever it is happens. During that preparation time, you need to be patient, listen to God about the steps you need to take which may include work on your heart and work on your mind. If you are patient and do what God tells you to do, whatever it is He told you are to do will happen flawlessly and without any effort on your own. He will do it!

Take Away: There is an appointed time for everything God tells us. When God tells you something that you are to do or something that is going to happen in the future, be patient as you go through the "preparation time."

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