And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” 2 Corinthians 12:9.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Many of you today feel overwhelmed by the complications of living in the current window of time on the earth. It is a society of paperwork, computer and device technology, bill paying, registrations, taxes, jobs, duties at home, and keeping up your own routines of exercise and personal care. But for this to all flow smoothly, there is, above all, your time with Me in My Word but that is often the time that gets short changed or removed because your involvement from morning to night with worldly complications of today’s lifestyle chokes it off in the morning and by late night you are so exhausted you cannot pay attention to Me.
But what I want you to know is that My grace is sufficient for you to do all you have to do and have time left over to enjoy our time together. Where do you find that?
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession (homologia). For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:14-16.
Jesus was very busy. His life changed everything. He was up from early morning to late at night and sometimes all night. People were seeking Him at every moment. Crowds were seeking Him out for teaching and healing so that there were days He could not ever stop to eat. But He operated in a constant correspondence with Me. He leaned on Me for the grace to be skillful with His time and to make every minute count. He was never agitated or hurried. He knew I had prepared the life of good deeds in advance, as I have for you, and that if He just followed My leading and rested in Me it would all get done at the right time and in the right place.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6
My secret is for those who love and revere Me. Psalm 25:14. And that secret is when you abide in Me I redeem time for you.
Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. Ephesians 5:15-17.
I can hurry it up to reach a goal and I can stretch it out and slow it down for those who need more time to bear fruit and accomplish the vision.
Then the LORD answered me and said, “Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run. For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; for it will certainly come, it will not delay. Habakkuk 2:2-4.
To Me, a day can extend a thousand years and a thousand years be compressed into a day. You can get what would have taken a thousand years to raise up or bring down in one day by faith.
But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 2 Peter 3:8.
Do you remember what I told you about the deeds Jesus did in three years of time?
And there are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself would not contain the books that would be written. John 21:25.
But Jesus was never in a hurry. He sat by well in Samaria and spent a considerable amount of time with one woman who then brought an entire town with which he stayed two days in his busy schedule. He stopped at a tree in Jericho and went to one man’s house for a day. At the beginning of His ministry He spent the entire afternoon and evening with just Andrew and John. And it was John, who called himself the disciple Jesus loved, that was with Jesus from His baptism at the Jordan until His ascension into Heaven who witnessed His works and teachings who wrote that.
When I called Moses he was at the age of eighty years and with him I took down the Egyptian empire, redeemed a people out of slavery that had been in bondage for about four hundred years, and led them through the wilderness to the land I promised to give them in just a little over one year, and it only took that long because of the time it took them to follow the plans I gave Moses and build My tabernacle. Once the tabernacle was built and My Word written down, it only took eleven days to reach the Promised Land from Mt. Horeb. Deuteronomy 1:2. But all the time I was teaching them to know Me by My Word. If they had combined My promises with faith by hearing My Words and seeing My works, they could have taken possession of the promised land immediately all would have been accomplished within the span of three years from out of Egypt to being in their own nation wealthy, prosperous and strong. But their doubt and unbelief slowed the momentum down for 40 years and caused Moses to not complete his assignment as well as all the generation who experienced My wonders with him except for Joshua and Caleb who were of a different spirit, that is, the spirit of faith.
But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed, therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak, knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and will present us with you. 2 Corinthians 4:13-14.
Furthermore, during that period of forty years the inhabitants of the promised land built up fortifications and weapons as they watched the Israelites in the desert. For if you recall, when they met Rahab, she told the spies that the people were afraid of them but she believed that God would still conquer their land even though the attack had been delayed. Because of the delay, which made the enemy prepare, it took Joshua seven years to conquer and then more years to allot the portions to the tribes and settle the land. The delay was not My doing but the doubt and unbelief of the first generation. And Moses understood this when he wrote:
For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it passes by, or as a watch in the night. Psalm 90:4.
Peter and John both understood the time movement. The crippled beggar at the Beautiful Gate had never walked. They got him up by faith in Name and he was as if he had never been crippled. No physical therapy, no building of the muscles, that all accelerated at by faith in the Name of Jesus.
Paul, was weighing the benefits of dying or keeping on in time and decided it was more expedient that he stay on earth to teach the revelations I gave him and win more souls. But years later he wrote to Timothy he had finished his assignment as an ambassador on earth and was going to his homecoming.
Jesus, multiplied loaves and fish that would have taken time to bake and the fish to catch as quickly as a blessing and a prayer to Me that placed them outside time in the faith realm of accelerated increase.
For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, “I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply you.” And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise. Hebrews 6:13-15.
Mary’s faith brought in the elements needed to change water (hydrogen and oxygen) instantly to fine wine (hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon).
Moses instantly parted the Red Sea. The molecules bonded and the Spirit turned the mud to dry land.
And not forget Elisha and the 24 hour miracle, where the starving city under siege became a place of feasting and laughter. Joshua and the people shouted and massive walls went down that took decades to build. And when Joshua needed more daylight to finish a battle, he spoke to the sun to stand still and so it did, increasing the time.
The sign Hezekiah sought was time going backwards in the sundial and I gave him 15 more years to live.
With enough grace (skill and redeemed time) you can do anything.
I love you. Redeem the time. Planted in My house, you bear fruit even in old age – full of sap and very green. I can renew your youth if you can believe in My magnificent promises. Psalm 103:5. Mix your faith with My promises. Don’t repeat the faith failure of the generation I redeemed from slavery in Egypt. There is still time for your dreams. Grace makes it and faith takes it.