Pastor Wes Morris
Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV) For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.
✓ WE FEEL BEHIND SCHEDULE.
✓ WE TRY TO CONTROL THE TIMING.
Psalm 31:14 (TLB) I am trusting you, O Lord. I said, “You alone are my God; my times are in your hands.”
✓ WE START TO RELY ON OUR OWN STRENGTH.
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV) For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Acts 9:31 (NIV) Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
I. TO LIVE IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD.
Romans 13:11-14 (GNT) You know that the time has come for you to wake up from your sleep. For the moment when we will be saved is closer now than it was when we first believed. The night is nearly over, day is almost here. Let us stop doing the things that belong to the dark, and let us take up weapons for fighting in the light. Let us conduct ourselves properly, as people who live in the light of day—no orgies or drunkenness, no immorality or indecency, no fighting or jealousy. But take up the weapons of the Lord Jesus Christ, and stop paying attention to your sinful nature and satisfying its desires.
II. TO WALK IN THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Acts 1:6-8 (NIV) Then they gathered around him and asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them: “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Acts 9:31 (NIV) Then the church enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
