-Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo at Morning Glow, KICC on ‘DUE SEASON’
Praise the Lord!
This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Welcome to Morning Glow. Welcome to a beautiful day, trusting the Lord to bless you this day; to impact your life, to change you, to transform your mind, to bring you to the fullness of all that He has for you. Get ready to be blessed. Get ready for the Word of the Lord to take you from one level to the other in the name of Jesus.
This morning, I will like to celebrate everyone who is joining us from the four corners of the earth.
For the past couple of days, we’ve been praying on what the Lord showed me, that there is going to be a way out and also, we are praying due season. This morning, I feel like praying due season because your season has come; the season of transformation, the season of change, the season of favour, the season of testimony, the season of breakthrough.
You’ve got to know how to stand strong in the seasons of life. Seasons come and go, time is forever changing (Ecclesiastes 3:1-7, 17). Church Gist. When you understand seasons then you will understand when your due season comes. Due can either be what is due you, what is your right. Due can also mean the appropriate time, both are good for you.
What is due you, the Lord will bring it into your hands and when it is your due time, God will cause things to happen. Due seasons are preparation times. For example, God can take you through a season when he is preparing you for great things, for awesome things, for blessings.
Certain seasons also are processing times, not finishing. For example, planting time is a process, it is not the finish. You can’t dip the seed in the ground and go for a harvest tomorrow. I do not know of any seed that grows and germinates and produces seed and matures by the next day. You have to sow the seed, you have to water the seed, you have to wait until finally there is a result.
There is a watering time. When you keep watering the seed you have put in the ground, it is a process you have to go through. No one else can go through it for you. Life is very interesting, there are those who do not like that watering but that is how life is. Life demands that you wait, that you water.
Seasons are also the appropriate time to launch a thing. Church Gist. I have learnt in the few years of the journey of life that there are doors you need to wait for the due time for them to open. If you force them open, you may have to shut them again and wait for the right time because you open them too early.
There is a time to plant, then there is a time to wait and there is a time to harvest. You can accelerate many things in life but there are seasons you can not accelerate, you have to just go through the process before you get the product and everytime in life that we try to hurry process, we damage the product. We see it in nature; if an egg is hatching and the chick is trying to come out, if you try to help it, you might damage its wings. It has been said that if an eagle is hatching and you try to help it out of the egg shell, it will not properly form because you have messed up with the process.
When you due season comes, it is because you’ve gone through the preparation season. Many wonder why they have to wait. Church Gist. Good things are worth waiting for good things to mature. So there is a time to plant, a time to wait and a time to harvest. We want the Messiah to come at a certain time but He doesn’t come at the time of our own time. But when comes through a season, He matures you, He gets you ready. Every world champion boxer we know, some of them prepared for 25 years for a 5-year career. But you see, you can’t measure that world champion boxer by the 5-year career. You have to add the years of the preparation.
One time, somebody said, KICC, so quick within this number of years, within three years, four years, five years; you owned this, you owned that. No, before KICC, as the Founder, I had to go through a process of being in another setting for 18 years. I grew roots for 18 years, from 1974 in Bible School to 1992, when KICC was launched. Whatever root you grow for 18 years, your fruits should justify your root.
Moses spent 80 years to do 40 years ministry. Jesus, the first 30 years of His life were quiet years, preparation and process. Then three and a half years of fulfilling the purpose of which He came.
- I pray for you this morning that in your season, there will be testimony, favour, the hand of the Lord will be stretched. As you wait for your season; your tears will be wiped, your mouth will be filled with joy and celebration.
You may have to go through as many as 15 different seasons of life. Some of you are wondering; I have been fasting, I’ve been praying but God is taking you through a maturing process.
- Season of affliction. Where you are wondering, is this God or Satan that is afflicting me. When that season comes, there shall be deliverance in your life in the name of Jesus.
- For someone who is going through a season of affliction, I speak into your life that the time has come for it to end.
- Season of solitude. When everything is cut off from you; friends are cut off and people are leaving you. As He hung upon the tree, with His hands nailed and His feet bleeding, the twelve who ate from His table, wore the clothes He bought, walked away from Him. That was a season of solitude for Christ but that season was necessary for Jesus Christ.
- I pray for you, in your seasons of solitude, may you hear God. May you sense God, may you feel His presence, may you complete your assignment in the name of Jesus.
- Season of warfare. When you go through the battles of life, I pray for you today, you are coming out of it with strength and victory and power in the name of Jesus.
- Season of suffering. It is a season but that season will also become a testimony (2 Corinthians 4:17-18).
- This day, somebody here, you are coming out of the season of suffering.
- Season of ignorance. When you don’t really know the mind of God on a matter.
- I pray for someone at this altar today, in this season of your life, the Spirit of counsel, direction and wisdom will speak to you, lead you in the mighty name of Jesus.
- Season of wrong desire. You head wanting to make you run crazy. You are desiring something you shouldn’t desire; desiring somebody else’s wife, husband, something that is not yours.
- I pray for you today, we break the power of that wrong desire. We loose you from the grip of that seed that is from hell in the name of Jesus.
- Season of contention.
- I prophesy on someone this morning, you are coming out in the name of Jesus.
- Season of persecution, people just rise against you. David said, many are they who rise up against me. Many are they who say of me, there is no help for me in God. But thou oh Lord art a shield for me (Psalm 3)
- Come out of that season of persecution in the name of Jesus. That season of contention, come out in the name of Jesus.
- Season of proving yourself. When you have to go through a proving and pruning, proving what you carry. Church Gist. You don’t know how strong your faith is until you are confronted with battles that test it. You shall overcome!
- Season of disloyalty. When the people you thought were the most faithful to you, actually are lying and fighting you behind your back. God will give you victory.
- Season of injustice. When there is a rising against you, you shall be victorious.
- Season of isolation. Everything around you become solitude and it cut you off, you will be victorious.
- Season of supernatural intervention. When God steps into the matter, that due season is here for some at this altar today to the glory of the Lord in the mighty name of Jesus.
- Season of chastening and it can come from the Lord.
- I pray for you, you will not fall into temptation, you will not be destroyed.
- Season of surviving. After all you’ve been through, you are coming out with testimony.
- Season of the firery furnace. Shedrach, Meshach and Abednego, when they went through that furnace, He was with them. Church Gist. They stood for Him and He delivered them. God chooses the way He demonstrates His power in our lives, all we know is that we will be the evidence of His miracles. You will be the evidence of God’s miracles.
- So seasons can always change but for you, I declare today, they will change for good.
Job 42:10
Why is it necessary for you to wait for your season of change?
a). Character is built during seasons.
b). Deep and strong convictions are found during season. The reason God is preparing you, He wants you to have deep conviction. So when people want to pull you away, you will be able to say like Paul; I know who I have believed and I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day. Glory to God!
Why should you wait and understand your seasons:
a). Because a clear sense of purpose which can see you through the winter or summer is found in seasons. Purpose comes during season. Glory. Church Gist. The solid foundation that change the weight of your future blessing is laid in seasons. The value of your life is often in the seasons you’ve been through.
The quality of your preparation in seasons determine your success.
- I pray for you this season you are going through will produce in you a remarkable favour, testimonies, victories, joy and breakthrough. You will not go through the season of life in vain.
Good planing takes place during the season you go through, during the season of life. There are somethings you cannot hurry, you cannot accelerate some experiences of life. Infact, you can’t accelerate good experience. Champions never hurry, champions do not become champions in the ring, they are recognized in the ring. Every champion you know, it was not in the ring that they become champion. It was in the ring that they were recognized.
What happens when you don’t wait for your season.
a). Your boat will launch out prematurely and get into a storm you did not prepare for. When you launch prematurely, you may give birth to a vision whose time is not due. When you hurry your season, you could cause an aborted vision. This morning before we take the time to prophesy your due season, I’m just speaking into some people’s lives, if some things have not happen, just believe in God, worshiping God, trusting God, it shall come to pass but don’t hurry the dream.
There are right visions, wrong timing. When you don’t wait for the due season, you will submit to people’s opinions and pressure. When you don’t wait for your due season, your errors will be many. So listen to me, Jesus was sensitive about timing (John 2:4). Church Gist. Expect something good every season. Look for the benefits God has for you in a season, there is always a benefit somewhere, a breakthrough somewhere, a testimony somewhere. Seize the moment and enjoy today. Believe God for the future. Know that success comes slowly. Don’t hurry somethings, believe the Lord. I believe for someone who is at this platform, the season has come, the time has come, the day is here when God is going to surprise you, wipe your tears, make you laugh. You are going to walk in the due season.
- I declare and decree that in your due season, doors will be opening for you like you have never known in the mighty name of Jesus.
- In your due season, things will work for you in Jesus name.
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