“TIMING!”

Me-Maw Thoughts
Number 454
December 10, 2019///

This day I want to call your attention to the latter part of the story we know as “Noah and the Ark!”

This is a familiar story but as I was reading it last week the Holy Spirit showed me a truth through it that I will share with you.

In the ark was Noah, his wife and his son’s wives and two of some animals and seven of some animals. When the flood waters began to recede, the ark came to rest on Mt. Ararat and here is where this lesson begins.

Noah knew that they were to exit the ark and replenish the earth. But just think about this. If they had tried to exit the ark as soon as it stopped on the mountain, they would have sunk in the water as soon as they exited.

But even though they knew they were to exit the ark, they had to wait for the right time. Even though they were anxious to get out of this ark, they had to wait, in order to succeed.

I’m sure while waiting for the right timing and sending out the raven and dove, Noah was also leading his family in preparing themselves to exit the ark into God’s promised restored world.

Noah tested the timing several times with the raven and the dove and when the time was right, he, his wife and his son’s and their wives and all the animals came out of the ark and did not mar up in mud or drown in water.

May we understand that God has a timing and even though we may be anxious to get from where we are to where we know we are supposed to be, we must test the waters and follow God’s timing. Then it will be right!

May we be preparing in the waiting for the right time!

When we are in the waiting period we may sometimes go ahead and do what we know we are supposed to do even though it is not the right timing. Or we may give up because it is taking to long to see the promise fulfilled. But what we must do is to begin to test, prepare, and see if this is God’s timing.

Like Noah sent out a raven and dove, we can begin to share our vison with the right people, or inquire about the possibilities and keep going forward, never giving up!

When God calls you must answer with a willing heart and rest in His timing but do your part to test the timing.

Genesis 8:5-12 (AMP)
5 And the waters continued to diminish until the tenth month; on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the high hills were seen.
6 t the end of [another] forty days Noah opened a window of the ark which he had made
7 And sent forth a raven, which kept going to and fro until the waters were dried up from the land.
8 Then he sent forth a dove to see if the waters had decreased from the surface of the ground.
9 But the dove found no resting-place on which to roost, and she returned to him to the ark, for the waters were [yet] on the face of the whole land. So he put forth his hand and drew her to him into the ark.
10 He waited another seven days and again sent forth the dove out of the ark.
11 And the dove came back to him in the evening, and behold, in her mouth was a newly sprouted and freshly plucked olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had subsided from the land.
12 Then he waited another seven days and sent forth the dove, but she did not return to him any more.

18 And Noah went forth, and his wife and his sons and their wives with him [after being in the ark one year and ten days].

We should not get ahead nor lag behind God’s timing, but we should be actively flowing toward the timing of the Lord God Almighty!

What is the vision or dream on the inside of you? What do you need to do to see if you are to hold steady or march right out of the constraints of your personal ark into the future God has prepared?

You see it is His will in our lives that will make a difference, not our own will. It is the doors He opens that will change lives, not the ones we force open by sheer determination!!

Do we Trust our Heavenly Father enough to follow His timing? I pray each of your dreams and desires come forth in abundance in the timing of the Lord God Almighty!!!

Go forth in the power of His promise, and in His perfect timing! Don’t give up!

Jesus birth was foretold all through the Old Testament but:
Galatians 4:4 (KJV)
But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
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Father, in Jesus name, I ask you to guide us into the truth of your timing. May we prepare for what we know you have called us to and may we wait patiently on your timing. Amen

Love, MeMaw