Know the Season of Order and Opportunity
I have been praying about the deep need to Love, and be loved, in our world today.
As I was praying in The Spirit, I heard The Voice of The Holy spirit very clearly say, “I, The LORD, AM drawing many hungry believers into a deeper understanding of My endless Love.
I AM raising up a new generation who are hungry for True Love. I AM taking them beyond the shallow superficial to a heart filled with commitment to love as I love.
My love is not dependent on how I AM treated, how much you can do for Me, or even the expectations of emotional expression.
I have observed the on-again, off-again actions of those who say one thing but do something else.
When a heart is grounded in My Love, it is not dependent on feelings and expectations.
This past season has been a true time of testing for believers as well as non-believers.
Testing reveals what you know but more than that, it reveals who you are, who you really are, not just who you say you are.
Many who say they are believers are dependent totally on what they believe in their head, but have not come into a deep heart relationship of heart to heart communication,” says The LORD.
“In this hour, I AM preparing My Chosen Ones to be fully equipped and prepared to finish their race by Faith. So, Faith is rooted in trust — and trust produces more Faith.”
Proverbs 10:5 TPT says:
“Know the importance of the season you’re in and a wise son you will be. But what a waste when an incompetent son sleeps through his day of opportunity!”
James 1:2-3 NIV says:
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.”
James 1:2-3 TPT says:
“My fellow believers, when it seems as though you are facing nothing but difficulties, see it as an invaluable opportunity to experience the greatest joy that you can! For you know that when your faith is tested it stirs up in you the power of endurance.”
The Passion Translation [TPT] seems to be describing the real season we have been in — and still are — when it seems that we are facing nothing but difficulties, and yet it is an opportunity to experience joy.
That brings to my mind that Jesus endured The Cross for the joy that was set before Him.
Beloved, what that really says to us is we must look beyond the moment to the end result.
Consider — aka ‘count the cost’ — of what the end result will be when we endure and allow our faith to produce perseverance.
And the good news is ‘when we let perseverance have its perfect work, we will be mature and complete, lacking nothing,’ according to James 1:4.
The LORD said, “Beloved one, I have a purpose in my heart for you to overcome fear and perfect love casts out fear.
The testing of your Faith in this hour is producing an experience that will deepen your trust, settle the truth in your heart, and carry you through your journey with the substance of things you have only hoped for,” says The Father God.
“I AM teaching you to focus on the end result as you make quality choices and count the cost even as Jesus did when He endured The Cross for the joy that was set before Him.
The curtain is coming up for the staging of recovering all and turning the tables to bring order.
Order is the order of the day. I AM shouting out to My People to stop and re-order their day.
Order is connected to everything in life and time stops for no one. It is the now time to re-order your day and bring everything into balance.
It is urgent that you make the most of every hour of every day if you are to realize and fulfill your purpose and carry out My Plan for your life.
The world is filled with overwhelming distractions that are sent to interrupt your thinking and stop you from carrying out your assignment with consistency and focus,” says the Creator or all the earth.
“So, I adjure you to set your heart and keep your focus with a single eye. Know the Season you are in and do not miss your opportunity in this hour.
Just as My Word speaks, for the moment, all discipline is painful rather than pleasant but later, it yields the perfect fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it. (Hebrews 12:11)
The moment spoken of here is the moment of choice. Choose life and discipline yourself to live each day intentionally.
It is the catalyst to be the right person at the right place doing the right thing and producing the right results.
Remember always, I AM a God of order, and I AM ordering your steps but you must trust me and lean not to your own understanding.
For every promise, there is a condition and a provision. And for every promise, there is a timing. So, dear one, as you trust Me with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Me, I will direct your path.”
“Trust in The LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV
~ Sandi Holman
Sandi Holman was called to the nations as an End-Time Handmaiden in 1984 with Gwen Shaw and served with YWAM Singapore and YWAM Charlotte in missions. Sword of The LORD Ministries came from a divine encounter with The LORD when He came into her prayer room and said, “I have come to put a sword in your hand and was given special instructions on how and when to use it.” She is an author, Prophetic Intercessor and Seer, Chaplain, Teacher, Speaker and Equipper, and Blogger who has also served as a Pastor Online with Beyond the Veil Ministries.
Yes. Lord, I willing, Let go of my own understanding and thinking of my own understand, to you JESUS CHRIST .
Dear Wong E Zin, thanks so much for your input and it is always good to hear an obedient confession to obey what the Lord is sharing for us to do. May the blessing of the Lord follow you and keep you in all your ways, Sandi Holman
Thank you. There are times we must allow ourselves to freely rest and are instructed by our Lord to do so. If we’re to make (virtually) the most of every hour of every day, that would seem to include not stressing and straining, but sometimes resting and playing. Also doing what we see before our hands to do, without worrying as a perfectionist might, about how it may be done in a way that makes the absolute most of it. Correct?
Dear Arlen. I agree..so correct! He is perfecting ..we are obeying. He is aligning, we are agreeing. He is the master of our many opportunities to carry out His plan and we are the sons and daughters who choose to follow his order and allow Him to order our days for the best results. Thanks so much for sharing your heart. Sending many blessings to you! Sandi Holman
Hi Sandi :)
Thank you for sharing what He’s been speaking to you. Your such an encouragement!!
I’ve been through this discipline process, it’s tough!! And then one morning upon awakening the Lord said “I will slay you no more.” I was immediately reminded of the Book of Isaiah where He says, “And many were those slain by the Lord”…..I always thought He was speaking of the wicked there and then realized He was. Every part of me intertwined with the “world system” has been through the Furnace of affliction. Not to say I’ve arrived, but the Season has most definitely changed. I’ve been slain, stripped, and threshed, and now the Peace of God is filling every part of me as I, in obedience, rest in the Lord. The striving through tough discipline is over and His healing is washing over the open wounds. He’s so so worth it!!
God bless you dear beautiful lady!! :)
Thank you dear Cherish for that wonderful testimony of how the Lord has sripped you of self and mand your heart beat only with his. Just nothing like that experience and nothing compares to the end result when peace flows like a river and remains past understanding! Love and blessings to you, Sandi