YOUR HOUR IS NOW
Dear Friend,
I was recently spending time in God’s presence and I heard a word for you. That word simply says that “Your hour is now”. Have a good read.
You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for the time to favour her, yes, the set time, has come. Psalm 102:13 (NKJV)
One evening, my dad sat me and my sister Peace down to teach us how to read the clock and tell the time. It was a ‘blessed’ day. I vividly remember the passion and the holy anger he had as he taught us and I’ve been thinking if my dad was so concerned that we understand how the clock functions and at the same time be able to tell the time by reading the clock, how much more God?
The scripture says in 1Chronicles 12:32 that the sons of Issachar understood the times and knew what Israel should do. These people had some sought of knowledge perhaps by reading the books, by discerning, or just by being sensitive to the move of God during their time; whichever means they used, the key thing is that they understood the times and they knew what to do. You see, if you don’t have an understanding of times, you will not understand seasons and you will miss your hour of visitation because the hour is within time, and seasons proceed from time.
Have you noticed that Jesus our model and example did nothing except his hour had come? During the wedding at Galilee, his mother was trying to hasten him to perform a miracle before his time, and he answered her “My hour has not yet come”. His brothers during the feast of tabernacles urged him to go to Judea for the festival. “You can’t be famous when you hide like this! Go where more people can see your miracles!” they scoffed but again He answered them “My hour has not yet come”. Jesus, in His own time, went to the festival and as He preached, the Jewish leaders sought to arrest him; but no one laid hands on him, because his “hour had not yet come”. Are you gaining something out of this? I want to let you know that when it’s your time, doors will open of their accord and no one can do anything to hinder it. Could it be that the reason why you’ve been struggling is because your hour has not yet come? Here’s what Galatians 4:4 says: “But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son”.
Moses prayed in Psalm 90:12, Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. This is another way of saying, Lord; give me an understanding of the times that I live in, so that I know what to do as each day unfolds.
The set time is a moment or season marked out, set apart for a definite purpose. It is appointed, fixed, set for you to experience God’s blessings; it’s a time of favour. It’s a moment that must not be missed. Do you get it? So your understanding of times will determine how you apply your heart to wisdom, simply put the actions you will take.
Ladies have regular monthly visitors. I’m I right sister? I’m sorry brother, if you need a deeper revelation, turn to the book of Biology from chapter nine onwards. If a lady does not know the time of this visit, it is bad and if she knows the time but does not know what to do, it is equally bad and a preventable disaster can occur.
Do not run ahead of God. He’s never late; His word declares that He will make all things beautiful in his time. Don’t allow anybody to deceive you into believing the lie that it’s never going to happen for you anymore because it’s too late. Your hour has come and it is now, This is your due season, your set time of favour , you will be healed, you will marry, you will have kids, you will pay off that debt, you will buy that car, you will buy that house, you will get that job, your unsaved will come to know Jesus. If you believe it, say it out loud – My hour is now.
Esther 9:1
Now, in the twelfth month, that is, the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day, the time came for the king’s command and his decree to be executed.
Did you notice the first word in this passage, ‘Now’! The Lord’s decree over your life is about to be executed. The hand of the Lord will be upon you to bless and upon your enemies in judgment. Your hour is now!
Jeremiah 52:31
Now it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month that Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.
A prison is a place of confinement; it’s a place of limitation where liberty is minimum or in many cases absent. The scripture says that God made the evil king Merodach favour Jehoiachin and released him from prison. God will do the same for you; He will make people who don’t even like you help you.
I declare today that you are loosed and set free; this is your hour of visitation, your time of refreshing, your year, and your due season to experience the Lord’s favour, the appointed time for your blessing. Your hour is now.