Embrace Your Season

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Message Notes: 


Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV) For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.

√ Seasons are inevitable. 

Genesis 8:22 (NLT) As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night.

√ Seasons are unavoidable.

√ Seasons won’t last forever. 

Psalm 90:12 (TLB) Teach us to number our days and recognize how few they are; help us to spend them as we should.


EMBRACE YOUR SEASON


I. SEE THE OPPORTUNITY IN FRONT OF YOU.

Acts 2:17-18 (NLT) In the last days, God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions, and your old men will dream dreams. In those days I will pour out my Spirit even on my servants—men and women alike—and they will prophesy.’


II. LEAVE REGRET IN THE PAST.

Isaiah 43:18-19 (NIV) Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

Psalm 51:10-12 (TLB) Create in me a new, clean heart, O God, filled with clean thoughts and right desires. Don’t toss me aside, banished forever from your presence. Don’t take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me again the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you.



III. KEEP ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE.

Ecclesiastes 3:9-11 (NLT) What do people really get for all their hard work? I have seen the burden God has placed on us all.  Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart...

II Corinthians 4:17-18 (MSG) We’re not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can’t see now will last forever.