Today’s Coffee Break devotion from Lorraine Ezell is very simple, but very powerful and an important message for everyone standing for marriage restoration, so I wanted to share it here in hopes that everyone will be blessed and encouraged by it!

“And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.” 2 Thessalonians 2:6

I want to look at God’s timing this morning. He is never late, or early. His timing is perfect and always on time. He moves within the council of His own will and His ways are perfect. The Messiah was not born in the Book of Genesis when the first prophecy came about Him. But He was born in the “fullness of time”- in God’s perfect time. David did not take the throne when Samuel anointed Him as king over Israel-it was years later. Joseph was not exalted to the place of ruler over Egypt when he had the dreams- it too was years later. Abraham did not have Isaac when God first promised him an heir, it was many years later.

Five times the scriptures use the phrase: “And it came to pass in process of time”. That means that there is a process of time that has to take place for some things to occur. We want God to give us everything now– or yesterday. If He doesn’t fulfill and do what He says at the moment He said it, we get discouraged, lose hope, and stop walking in faith. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1) Just because I don’t see it at the moment He makes the promise doesn’t mean that He isn’t going to do it. If He said it- if He told me this was going to happen- then it will… it just won’t be in my timing but it will be according to His timing… which is perfect.

If He has spoken to you. If HE has spoken to you– not man, not your own wishes and desires, not some idea that you have- then He will bring it about. Sometimes what we believe for was not actually spoken to us by God- it was the desire of our own heart. But when it is God, you can “bank” on it happening. You just don’t always have the luxury of knowing when it might be.

Have a great day. Don’t get discouraged by time- God isn’t on our calendar or clock. He has His own and He looks at it when He moves on our behalf.

Coffee Break is a morning devotional written by Lorraine Ezell and it’s sent by email free of charge for the asking from About the Master’s Business Ministry, Inc.

So please feel free to call Lorraine at (601) 833-5278 or E-mail her at mastersbusiness@bellsouth.net.
And you can visit her on the web at MastersBusiness.org.

Posted Friday, January 4th, 2008 at 1:23 pm in Seeds Of Faith.