Timing is almost always at the top of our minds when we receive a prophetic word or when we want what we want when we want it. How long When will it happen? Why can’t it happen now? When we come to terms with the fact that prophecy actually sparks a hidden process, we understand why every word isn’t fulfilled immediately. Our timeline yields to GOD'S..... not our own! Delays are not Denials.
Fulfillment of prophecy takes as long as is necessary in GOD’s plan. Sometimes, we have to walk the path of patience and endurance, holding fast to the prophetic word we trust will be released. Impatience almost always leads to disaster. And thats what in the process of our waiting GOD is trying to build up in us.....Trust, Faith, and Patience. When Sarah got tired of waiting for GOD to provide Abraham with his promised heir, she manipulated the word and had Abraham sleep with her servant. She thought she was helping to fulfill the word, but in fact she created a disaster. Sounds like us when we try to rush something that we know we should wait on DISASTERIshmael’s and Isaac’s descendants war to this day. Whenever we try to fast forward past GOD’s timeline, we end up with something in our flesh that will war with us longer than if we had just waited. Whether it be a relationship that we know wasn't of GOD because there were still some things that HE was trying to do within the both of you but our flesh........OH our flesh to as simple as maybe even a move when we should have stayed planted until it was in HIS timing. We then start to blame the devil for all thats going on and we give him so much way too much credit when we are our own worse enemies the majority of the time. What we consider a delay in timing is seen by GOD as another opportunity to teach us patience. We all need to learn how to be steadfast in their faith. How can we learn that deep commitment if we are never tested on it? We cannot put a time limit on commitment to GOD; we want to, but we can’t.
Fortunately, there are prophetic words that we dive into and GOD throws time out the window. He wants to accomplish something immediately; our role is to give ourselves wholeheartedly to that process. This divine acceleration only comes out of His own discretion. We cannot earn it or ask for it. It’s given to us because GOD sees that the moment is critical.
In prophecy, people always want to know when. It simply isn’t possible to always tell. GOD is always doing something behind the scenes that is furthering His full agenda. We may think we know what that plan is, but it is entirely possible that we are missing massive chunks of it. Sometimes, we are in one theory of thinking, and GOD is actually speaking from a different one. We learn this lesson from John 11:1-7—Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. You know the story. It was the Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped His feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, "Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick." But when Jesus heard this, He said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but for the Glory of GOD, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it." Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was. Then after this He said to the disciples, "Let us go to Judea again." Jesus was clearly in no rush to get to Lazarus, so why do we rush HIM now? Imagine their grief when Lazarus died shortly thereafter. In their way of thinking, Jesus was a false prophet. He had been wrong! But God was speaking from a different point of view. When Jesus got to Bethany four days later, Martha, heartbroken, wanted to know where He had been, as we read in verses 20-27—
Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. How many times have we said that "Lord, if you had been here"......but HE always is just maybe not the way we want HIM to be. There are some people that I know that whatever they pray for they get right away and Im like OK Lord I pray too but mine dont come like that. Well maybe sometimes but I had to learn to not base my prayer life and what i was asking for with what HE was doing for someone else. What HE was trying to do in me. Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You in HIS timing yet again.
GOD has an agenda that the prophetic process is designed to reveal over time. Just because He did something in a particular way last time doesn’t mean He will do it that way again. The Holy Spirit has a different agenda than we have, and it is vital that we understand that. All in HIS timing not ours just remember that and wait patiently because HIS outcome is so much better. HE will continue to keep you safe in HIS arms until HIS work is done so dont give up faint not. Remeber all those mountains that we had to climb, the obstacles that were in our way, the trials we had to endure.....HEs always there
'I've forgiven mistakes that were indeed almost unforgivable. I've tried to replace people that were irreplaceable. I've acted on impulse. I've been disappointed in some people when I never thought that could be possible No, not them anyway! But who's exempt. But I have also disappointed someone.
I've embraced someone to protect them. I have laughed at inappropriate occasions. I've made friends that are now friends for life. I've loved and I've been loved. But I have also been rejected and I have been loved without loving the person back. I've screamed and jumped for joy. I've lived for love alone and made vows of eternal love. I've had my heart broken many, many times! I've cried while listening to music and looking at old pictures. I've called someone just to hear their voice on the other end. I have fallen in love with a smile.
At times, I thought I would die because I missed someone so much. At other times, I felt very afraid that I might lose someone very special (which ended up happening anyway.) but as they say in your life for a season, a reason or a lifetime.
But I have lived! And I still continue living everyday. I'm not just passing through life... and you shouldn't either. Live! The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be something insignificant.
Life is to short to hold onto things that are better for you when you let them go.........Nobody is perfect and GOD is yet working on all of us.
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The cheerful little girl with bouncy golden curls was almost five. Waiting with her mother at the checkout stand, she saw them, a circle of glistening white pearls in a pink foil box.
"Oh mommy please, Mommy. Can I have them? Please, Mommy, please?"
Quickly the mother checked the back of the little foil box and then looked back into the pleading blue eyes of her little girl's upturned face.
"A dollar ninety-five. That's almost $2.00. If you really want them, I'll think of some extra chores for you and in no time you can save enough money to buy them for yourself. Your birthday's only a week away and you might get another crisp dollar bill from Grandma."
As soon as Jenny got home, she emptied her penny bank and counted out 17 pennies. After dinner, she did more than her share of chores and she went to the neighbor and asked Mrs. McJames if she could pick dandelions for ten cents. On her birthday, Grandma did give her another new dollar bill and at last she had enough money to buy the necklace.
Jenny loved her pearls. They made her feel dressed up and grown up. She wore them everywhere, Sunday school, kindergarten, even to bed. The only time she took them off was when she went swimming or had a bubble bath. Mother said if they got wet, they might turn her neck green.
Jenny had a very loving daddy and every night when she was ready for bed, he would stop whatever he was doing and come upstairs to read her a story. One night as he finished the story, he asked Jenny, "Do you love me?"
"Oh yes, daddy. You know that I love you."
"Then give me your pearls." "Oh, daddy, not my pearls. But you can have Princess, the white horse from my collection, the one with the pink tail. Remember, daddy? The one you gave me. She's my very favorite."
"That's okay, Honey, daddy loves you. Good night." And he brushed her cheek with a kiss.
About a week later, after the story time, Jenny's daddy asked again, "Do you love me?"
"Daddy, you know I love you."
"Then give me your pearls." "Oh Daddy, not my pearls. But you can have my baby doll. The brand new one I got for my birthday. She is beautiful and you can have the yellow blanket that matches her sleeper."
"That's okay. Sleep well. God bless you, little one. Daddy loves you."
And as always, he brushed her cheek with a gentle kiss. A few nights later when her daddy came in, Jenny was sitting on her bed with her legs crossed Indian style.
As he came close, he noticed her chin was trembling and one silent tear rolled down her cheek. "What is it, Jenny? What's the matter?"
Jenny didn't say anything but lifted her little hand up to her daddy. And when she opened it, there was her little pearl necklace. With a little quiver, she finally said, "Here, daddy; this is for you."
With tears gathering in his own eyes, Jenny's daddy reached out with one hand to take the dime store necklace, and with the other hand he reache d into his pocket and pulled out a blue velvet case with a strand of genuine pearls and gave them to Jenny.
He had them all the time. He was just waiting for her to give up the dime-store stuff so he could give her the genuine treasure. So it is, with our Heavenly Father. He is waiting for us to give up the cheap things in our lives so that he can give us beautiful treasures.
How often do we feel this way "Even Me Lord" after waiting for what sometimes seems like forever. How often have you been tempted to give up on God....on prayer......on waiting.....on patience and endurance because God delayed in answering prayer immediately? How many of you are parents and after praying for decades have still not seen the salvation of a child? I'm still praying. How many believers have prayed night and day for healing, but still suffer or have to behold the suffering of a loved-one? I remember praying and fasting many nights for financial needs to be met and have agonized because of mounting debt. BUT GOD was and still is in full control and always no matter how hard it is to understand there is a reason for the delay. For delays are not denials. Its so easy to stop praying because we see no results and wonder when its gonna come but we must continue to pray, for only God knows how close to the crest of the hill we are. We must not give up despite disappointments, for God will justify Himself and bring glory to Himself. That great man of faith remember Elijah, not only prayed to God for rain he also kept gazing toward the horizon for the tell-tale signs of a cloud, until eventually a cloud the size of a man's fist appeared. He persevered until the heavens unleashed its glory, and God's word was fulfilled. The joy that cometh in the morning might be far less thrilling, had not it been for all the weeping that endured all night. Ask me I know! Had Jesus forgotten Mary and Martha? We see this very clearly in the raising of Lazarus the most touching of all miracles. When Lazarus was ill - when his state had become critical -Martha and Mary you remember sent word to Jesus. Now Jesus loved Lazarus and his sisters, and the happiest memories encircled that village home; yet the Gospel tells us that when Jesus heard the news, He abode two days still in the place where He was. There are seasons when two days seems like a moment; there are seasons when two days seems an eternity. What did it mean? Had Jesus quite forgotten them as we sometimes think He forgets us ? Was He deaf and dead to the prayers of the sisters' love? I think that Martha and Mary, with their eyes on dying Lazarus, knew the burden of divine delay. Did we get everything we craved for in the very hour of asking it, the one sure way to ruin a young child is to give it immediately all for which it asks and I'm sure Jesus feels the same way about us. Work reveals character, but so does waiting. We need to be tested to prove if we are worthy just to receive and use the thing we crave. So it often is that God delays, and will not answer us, and keeps us waiting. It is not in scorn but in the wisest love that He will not for a while. Then it is very helpful to remember that divine delay does not mean inactivity. God is not idle when He does not answer us; He is busier preparing the answer than we think. So when we pray and strive and nothing happens, till we are tempted to say God does not know, God does not care. Perhaps God, like some of the busiest men I know, is doing most when He seems to be doing nothing. There is definately Love in Delay And so in closing I would say to you: do not lose heart at the delays of God. Speed after all is but a relative term, and there is more love in God's slow method than you think. Being a parent I sometimes look back on those years when my children played and if i had some great news to tell them I deliberately withheld it for a time like we were going to Chucky Cheese maybe "If I told them that night there wouldnt be one wink of sleep; if I told them when they woke, there would not be one bite of breakfast and so deliberately I held back the blessing, and I did it just because I loved them other than the fact they would have worried me to no end. If ye then being evil act like that, is it incredible that God should do the same? I think it is wiser to pray on, strive on, casting all doubts to the devil who inspired them; believing in a love that never mocks us, and that will give us our heart's desire in His own time. Just know that He hears you and Delays are not Denials just Hold On it's coming!
When will it happen
? Why can’t it happen now
? When we come to terms with the fact that prophecy actually sparks a hidden process, we understand why every word isn’t fulfilled immediately. Our timeline yields to GOD'S..... not our own! Delays are not Denials. 
Ishmael’s and Isaac’s descendants war to this day. Whenever we try to fast forward past GOD’s timeline, we end up with something in our flesh that will war with us longer than if we had just waited. Whether it be a relationship that we know wasn't of GOD because there were still some things that HE was trying to do within the both of you but our flesh........OH our flesh to as simple as maybe even a move when we should have stayed planted until it was in HIS timing. We then start to blame the devil for all thats going on and we give him so much way too much credit when we are our own worse enemies the majority of the time. What we consider a delay in timing is seen by GOD as another opportunity to teach us patience. We all need to learn how to be steadfast in their faith. How can we learn that deep commitment if we are never tested on it? We cannot put a time limit on commitment to GOD; we want to, but we can’t. 
