Devotionals on Time

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• This is because we do not stand back from time to time and in detachment and waiting upon the Lord give Him an opportunity of enlarging vision.

• The God-given experience of the Spirit's working many a time passes away, and leaves the soul apparently dull and dead.

• “The God-given experiences of the Spirit’s working within many a time passes away, and leaves the believer apparently dull and dead.

• Son of God Imagine John’s dismay when He saw the sinless Son of God on Whom the Spirit was to rest coming to him to be baptised in water.  “I need to be baptised by You,” he protested.  But God always has His reasons and all that Christ did was under the guidance of the Spirit of God and in perfect harmony with the will of the Father – and for God’s glory. Jesus reassuring His humble herald said to the faithful John, “Permit it at this time; for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness,” and so He was baptised.

• The prophetic function is brought into operation at a time when things are not well with the people and work of God, when declension has set in; when things have lost their distinctive Divine character; when there is a falling short or an accretion of features which were never intended by God.

• We have been with Him in Gethsemane in the time of the travail of His soul, and we are with Him, on the other side of the travail.

• Living by faith which comes from hearing and not by sight or signs or dreams – putting off the old man in Adam and putting on the new man in Christ – recognising our heavenly home is a greater reality that this sin-sick, cursed world. Many such writings have been on waiting – waiting God’s time and waiting God’s way.
• A man who waited God’s time. We read the following in Luke 2:26 and it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s Christ. It is a truly fearful thing for anyone to see death before seeing Christ Jesus.
• Waiting Men Were these men discouraged as time passed?
• Did the passing of time raise questions as to, when Lord?
• Eternal Plan If scripture contradicts itself in this point, then it cannot be trusted in any point. The overall message from Genesis to Revelation it that God takes His time.. which may seem an eternity to His creatures, but it is all part of His eternal plan. God takes His time for a purpose – not as a cruel trick or a mean manipulation. God is not tarrying in the way that He considers tarrying, for God has a purpose.
• Appointed Time Throughout Scripture, we see that God has His appointed times and He will not fail.
• Long-Suffering I believe, with all my heart that in the fullness of time we will understand why the Bridegroom ‘tarried’… for we know that all things work together for good to those that love God. All things – even things we don’t understand and the things that grieve us: all things; ALL things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.

• This truth has remained unchanged since that pivotal time in eternity’s history.

• Recognizing those arms and trusting, taking the step, we learn to walk by Christ, to live by Christ; and the next time we shall be able to go a bit further.
• Each time capacity is being enlarged and we are coming to a fuller measure of maturity.

• We are to trust Him in spirit and truth; in word and in deed; in time and into eternity..

• Testing of Faith Now is a time of faith’s testing for the saints of God.
• Such time challenge us to endure: Be thou enduringly faithful to the very point of death.
• God’s Timing Little gems of encouragement pepper the dialogue between Habakkuk and the Lord: for the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end, it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.” Hab.2:3.
• It took time and much heartache for Habakkuk to learn the vital lesson from God..
• Lessons Learned It took time and much heartache for Habakkuk to learn these things.
• It takes time and much heartache for us to learn these things too, but it is God’s desire that we learn the same lesson too.
• Today, as in the time of Habakkuk, God truly does seem to be hiding.
• Embracer of Burdens In the unseen realm, the enemy knows time is short and he’s multiplying mayhem, but in the spiritual realm the enemy is being defeated..
• Prayer of Habakkuk Let us become like Habakkuk, an “Embracer of Burdens” – for right in the very middle of the most testing time when it seemed totally lost – in faith, Habakkuk sang his amazing sacrifice of praise: although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls...  Hab.3:17-19

• And yet this dreadful defeat for man’s deliverance was to be effected over time.
• Paul’s Perseverance Time and again it appeared, in Paul’s life, that the encounter ended disastrously - Like at Philippi, Lystra, Ephesus.

• The Perfect Man Only God’s eternal Son was good enough to pay the incredible price for humanities sin, but God is Spirit and without the shedding of human blood – is no forgiveness of sins. He had to lay aside His glory, leave His heavenly abode and become the Son of Man. And so at God’s appointed time Jesus was born – as the innocent and perfect Man. Only the blood of an innocent and perfect Man was sufficient to pay the price for sin.

• A Mother’s Prayer Rachel’s prayer as she waited during that testing time..
• as time ticked slowly by was,  Lord this is my precious son.
• in God’s way and in God’s time.

• There never was a time when positive spiritual work was more jeopardized by suspicion than now.

• Humble Obedience Christ came to earth as a man and in obedience to God, voluntarily emptied Himself. He did not cease to be fully God, but put aside His right of deity for a time. He obediently set aside all the privileges, prerogatives and power of Godhead.

• But that one nation that was chosen to be His witnesses also disobeyed the Lord their God. So God allowed the times of the Gentiles to demonstrate man’s inability to rule – from the time of Nebuchadnezzar God has permitted illegal dominion over the earth – the times of the gentiles.
• Satanic Kingdom God is allowing this satanic control of the heavens over the earth for the present time, until that time when He will set His Own Anointed upon His holy hill of Zion.
• This will be the time when the earth is filled with the glory of God; a time when the lion will lie down with the lamb; a time when Christ is set on God's holy hill of Zion as Lord of lords; a time when His people Israel will be the head of the nations and not the tail; a time when Satan is bound for a thousand years and Jesus Christ is King of kings.
• Christ Will Rule This will be a time when Christ will rule from his throne in the heavenly Jerusalem; a time when Christ will rule the earth from his throne in the earthly Jerusalem;  a time when the bride of Christ will rule and reign with Christ, with a rod of iron; a time when the earth is filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea. How important it is for the believer to rightly divide the Word of truth.

• All in All The plan of God is the millennial rule of Christ (followed by the eternal ages). The time when all things are brought under His feet and returned to God, – so that Christ will be all in all.
• He is using the Church and the evils of this time to bring about His planned design, and He will work Satan’s schemes and the coming tribulation together – for His good.

• Invisible Evidence When we view the greater reality of the unseen things, eternity becomes more tangible than time.

• Time and Eternity This is the dwelling place of the believer now and the abode of our eternal future too! Some believers know this as a scriptural truth, but do not experience it in realty. Some Christians have not come to an understanding of our position in Him.

• The Perfect Law The perfect Law became our tutor to lead us to Christ, so we may be justified by faith. It was Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a leader of the Jews who came to Jesus by night. Like all religious leaders he was a man who was separated unto legal righteousness. He knew every nuance of the Law and at this time he was the main teacher in Israel.

• Jesus had told his Jewish brethren that He would return at a very special time.
• Resurrection Appearances What joy must have rippled through the crowd of 500 who saw Him at the one time.1 Corinthians 15:5 He appeared over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God, and He gave them many convincing proofs that He was alive.
• Christ’s Reign Little did they understand that the kingdom of God had been postponed – for a time.
• Times and Dates But it was not for the apostles to be told the time the kingdom of God would come.. nor are we to know the times or dates that the Father has set by His own authority. But they rejoiced to hear that they would shortly receive the Holy Spirit’s power, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth Acts 1:8

• Today is still the time to root out unholy weeds..

• But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of woman, born under the law.Galatians 4:4
• The cross is the central focal point within time and through eternity.
• Pre-Cross Gospels The gospels were written about a period of time in world history, that was pre-cross.
• God sent His Son to the world at the right time – born of woman, born under the law.
• Church Age But God in His wisdom foreknew all that would take place in Israel, 2000 years ago. In His eternal wisdom, God addressed this rejection before the world was founded – God would set Israel aside for a time and continue His work through the Church.
• Let us view the cross as that central focal point within time and through eternity.

• Life Troubles In Psalm 46 we are told that God is a very present help in time of trouble, but He permits trouble to pursue us, as though He were indifferent to us.. as though He were disinterested in its overwhelming pressure, that we may be brought to an end of ourselves. That we may be led to discover the treasure of darkness – the unmeasurable gains of tribulation.

• He looks back to their pre-salvation life and reminds them: at one time you also were servants and slaves of sin.

• We can lay it all out according to the New Testament and it can be dead, ineffective.... You see the difference between a traditional system, whether it be Judaism or Christianity, and a living thing coming all the time in a living way out from the Christ Himself by the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit Himself doing it.

• Romantic Nonsense There has been much romantic nonsense written about the early life of the Lord Jesus, but Jesus lived a hard life and yet a simple life in the little despised village of Nazareth. There have been many false gospels written about the time that God in His wisdom chose to keep Jesus hidden from our view – with a few, thought-provoking exceptions.
• Veiled Life In the main, God chose to veil our view of Jesus, until the time of John the Baptist’s ministry, when Jesus started to walk in and out among the disciples of John. And yet there is much that we know of His character – His spirited zeal for the Lord – His love for the Scriptures of God and His humble dedication to His Father in heaven.
• We read that Jesus set His face as a flint to go to the cross as the time drew near.

• It is time to see that all you need you have in Christ.

• We have to look through all that to the heart, and be reminded every time that the Lord looks on the heart.

• Time and again, we turn to other people to be our strength, our support, and our supply.

• But too often much time is wasted, seeking ways to get God’s acceptance..

• We were accepted, by God, in the Beloved from the first moment we believed, and we will remain accepted by God, in the Beloved, through time and forever.

• The first time the evil one moved against Job, it was to afflict him in spirit and soul.
• The second time Satan 'smote' him, he smote him in the physical realm as well.
• James tells us Job is for an example of suffering affliction, and of patient endurance.  And so for a second time we are told that again Satan smote Job.
• Time and again God divides Satan against his own evil self – to smite himself, for Jesus asks is if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand?
• it is not I that live but Christ that lives in me.  Galatians 2:20 Like Esther – both Peter and Job were trusted to overcome in the spiritual battle – and like Queen Esther, both Peter and Job could have been asked the question… art thou come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

• Spiritual Truth IN HIM you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; IN WHOM also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.” Eph.1:13 Through time and through eternity, this heavenly fact is expressed in many forms, Through the cross, this eternal reality is wrought in literal and experimental forms, but always, Always, ALWAYS the same principle emerges:- always, ALWAYS the same abiding, infinite, glorious, spiritual truth is manifested.

• God is omnipresent and there is nowhere that God is not, but we are limited in space and in time.
• in time and in space.

• Time Element By faith, we stand and seize hold of them.
• But it takes time to prove it, to live by it, to learn its laws, to be conformed to it.
• It just takes time.

• Believers also are liftedout of time, and are given a significance altogether beyondanything here.... What a Christ!
• There were some things which he did not shake off for a long time.
• It was the revelation of Christ which was emancipating him, leading him out, freeing him all the time.
• Everything of earth and time will go as we see Him, and in the background of our lives there will be something adequate to keep us through difficult and hard times.

• Of course, we all like to see the blossom in its time, but we should have some strange feelings if we saw the blossom there all through the Summer.
• We should say: There is something wrong here, it is time that blossom went.

• … a story that continues to be lived out through His AMAZING GRACE…I encourage you to take time today… to read it through and to marvel at

• A Godly Love In His heartache, torment, suffering, and distress, He stretched His arms of love – a reach from eternity past to eternity future.  The anguish, desolation, loneliness, and rejection poured on Him was the totality of humanities amassed evil – and the outflow from Him was forgiveness; hope; compassion – love.  All Satan’s tempestuous fury was concentrated and condensed into one brief breath of time.  All the Father’s undiluted wrath and rage was poured out in full measure upon His sinless head – and in the midst of this, He called out, Woman, behold thy son!

• We are to be ready: for we do not know the day or the time that our Lord will come..  but our readiness should not be in fear but a dear desire to be with the One we love.
• Standing Firm A watchful prayerfulness and a prayerful watch is linked is with patient endurance, and patient endurance is linked with standing firm in Christ. Patient endurance is to do with standing firm in the evil day, Paul warns us to:- “Stand therefore … and having done all, to stand.” Ephesians 6:13 And the Lord Jesus Himself in this same context earnestly exhorts us to:- Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is” And He tells us:- “Take heed – See, I have told you all things beforehand.”

• But until that time – go where you 'needs must be' – or stay in the place where needs have placed you.

• Today so much Christian work is expended in our own time, energy, and way... but unless effected by the power of the Spirit, it is pretty ineffective.

• And it is just the contradiction of the Divine thought to have a heavenly people on this earth of this kind; the reproduction of this seed which is Christ, which is the embodiment of this love that lets go, this love that knows how to yield, this love that is all the time giving.

• but when He ascended into heaven, to sit on the throne of the Father, He sent us the Holy Spirit to be another Comforter – to be our ever-present Help in time of trouble.

• and praise Him every time He withdraws His gifts, that we may better know the Giver.

• Time and again he was beaten with rods by his Jewish brothers and faced many false accusations, imprisonments, beatings, and banishments.

• You may have been in the fires and have been having a pretty hard and painful time in your spiritual life, but that only means that God has been preparing you for something more.

• Never do we trace in Him a sign of waiting to question why a thing should be done in a certain way, or at a certain time and not another, or why certain means should be employed and not others.

• As babes in Christ we are left for a season in the old surroundings, because the time is not yet ripe for us to know our high calling, and the discipline needed for the heirs of God.
• Our Father will not deliver us from bondage unless we want Him to; therefore He must permit pressure to come upon us in one way or another, so as to bring us to the point of asking Him to do for us what He has been ready and able to do all the time.

• Security in our salvation is locked into Christ’s finished work – in time and eternity.

• We have to come very definitely and positively to such a position, and then realize that from time to time there will be, by one means or another, an effort of the enemy to change our minds, to weaken us in that course, to make other suggestions, to get us to reconsider it in the light of various issues and interests.

• Accepted Time How important in these closing days of the dispensation of grace, that we earnestly desire to become peacemaking, children of God. Now is the time we should be applying this grace to our lives with all diligence. Now is the time we should be peacemakers in a world of beauty marred by strife. Now is the accepted time – for tomorrow could be too late.

• Trust His Delays But He does it in His own way and He does it in His own time. We are simply required to trust His decision and to have faith in His delays.
• This is not a call to give up the fight; to give up in submission but to advance in the army of the King, this is the time to trust Him, to be brave and to be strong: knowing that our enemy as a roaring lion..

• Remain at your post and just wait. Wait for the larger opportunity which God may some time send to you.

• Lord of Glory Behold the Lord of glory revealed by Man to men. Yet, His glory is shrouded, and He has no form or majesty that we should look at Him. Behold, He has no beauty that we should desire Him. His exceeding loveliness is veiled before His human brethren. His grace and glory is tempered before human gaze. No man has seen God in His pure essence at any time, except the only begotten Son of His love, Who has unfolded to man… the brightness of God’s glory and Who has demonstrated to us the exact expression of His nature and love.

• Jesus inhabits all time and eternity, and as a blood-bought believer His Spirit indwells you and He indwells me.

• For some time after I knew the Saviour I used to think of Him as One who had lived and died on earth long years ago, and I well remember the day when I knelt down with a dear brother who prayed that we might know the Lord Jesus as a living Person in heavenly glory, and it dawned upon me that there was a present Object for my heart in heaven.

• Nothing can be more unreasonable or more unscriptural than to borrow some portions from the law system, either that of Moses or of the millennial kingdom, and, at the same time, reject other portions.

• It is not a matter of time at all, it is a matter of Him.
• He says, I am time and eternity all in a moment, and you need not accept anything in the matter of time; you accept Me, and you may be well-nigh dead in the morning and be very much alive before the day is over. 'I am the resurrection and the life.' Mary said, i>I know that He will rise again in the last day.For her resurrection was a matter of time.
• As long as it takes to break a loaf you have gone from seed-time to harvest. 'Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest?' (John 4:35).
• It is not a matter of time, of circumstance.
• Distance does not matter, time does not matter, just speak the word and it will be done.

• The flesh will fail us every time, and under all conditions.

• God's elective purposes are carried out in such an incomprehensible way through the internal and external influences of infinite love and wisdom that man is at no time conscious of any external compulsion, but only of choices and decisions in the exercise of his own free will.

• A plan conducted and concluded in present time.
• Job’s revelation of the Lord was incomplete, yet Job held fast to his creed, despite overwhelming odds – triumphant in faith, as God (over time) unfolded more and more of His revelation to Job’s spiritual eyes.

• But it takes time and when we revert back to the world, our standards will fail.

• God is no believer in negatives as being the ultimate goal; but when He breaks and when He empties, He does something on the positive side which ever causes us to marvel, and we have to say every time: Well, that was the Lord, not ourselves.

• No, it rests in union and communion with the vine; and at the right time, and in the right way, is fruit found on it.

• Time is short : Jesus is coming again soon. Take time with Him : Embrace the moment. Delight in your lonely solitude : That I may know Him : Take time with Him : Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while..

• Perhaps one of the things which you and I and the Lord people everywhere need to recognize more than anything else at an end time is the fact of our heavenliness.

• Israel and Judah And for a time Israel has been set aside, and the dispensation of Israel placed on hold.
• Dearly Loved Bride God betrothed Himself to Israel so that she would be His own satisfaction and joy, but Israel failed and was set aside for a time so God could complete all He purposed – and Christ is betrothed to the Church as His dearly loved bride, for His good pleasure. She is the city of the living God; the golden candlestick – the house of God.
• The Church God wanted to show forth His glory and grace to the world – through His chosen people, but Israel failed and was set aside for a time – for God must continue all He planned, and the Church has now been raised up to demonstrate the grace and glory of God.

• That night, for the first time, Jacob became dependent upon God.
• Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.

• Many have the wrong idea of that word chastening.' We think, perhaps, that it represents God as having a big stick in His hand and knocking us about all the time.

• God’s Grace And so God, in Himself, knew before time..  the choice every man would make.

• This flesh loves to sport itself in Christian work, and tells us that if we are going to be dependent upon the Lord we are going to have an anxious time.

• In time, his O wretched man complex is replaced by I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord (Rom. 7:24, 25). Christ-confidence is the basis for the healthy Christian's walk.

• They may from time to time have a sense of attainment and success, with much resultant gladness, but with the fluctuating emotions of the soul, things seem to collapse and go all wrong.

• Centrality of Christ It is folly to spend time and energy building up a Christian work unless Christ is central, but many Christian works are founded on ‘Christian’ principles alone and not Christ – and any ministry that neglects His rightful place, is doomed to collapse.

• Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time. 1Peter 5:6.
• Understanding and appropriating the facts of the cross is a saint's most trying time, but deep calleth unto deep, and there is no other way to achieve a reality of Him.

• There are times when, in recognition that a certain course is the Lord way, we have to wait for the Lord time and see to it that our strength of will coming into alliance with some purpose of God is not jeopardizing the fruitfulness of that thing, and doing other people harm and making other people suffer.
• I do want to be sure of Your time in this, and that I am not taking hold of it; it is not my strength of will to do Your will.

• But this knowledge is firstly, constitutional: that is, it is to constitute a certain kind of person and character; and secondly it is vocational: it does not end with the person concerned, but is the essence of service, in time and eternity.

• One resting place is the night-time, where our empty life-fountain can be refilled.
• One is the morning-time as we awake to find ourselves resting in His love. One is the quite-time where He so delights to still our anxious thoughts as we rest in Him.
• Possibility of Rest As the Son rested in the love of the Father through His life and death and grave, so the love of Christ is to be our rest in and through this time of turmoil.
• Focus of Rest 'But how  you ask. 'How do you reach the rest that He has promised you?' Turn away from the visible,  if you would possess the invisible. Take time with the Lord Jesus and gaze on His loveliness. Fix the eyes of your heart on Jesus and away from the world’s ugliness. Turn away from your own efforts and from faith in yourself, and allow Him to occupy your thoughts until He is resting within your heart.  Come away from all else and set your heart, your thoughts, your mind on Jesus.

• Maturity has learned to take time to assess the facts and to refrain from haste.
• God is our patient Teacher, Who is taking our life-time to teach eternal facts.
• Though complete in Him through spiritual birth, maturity grows over time.

• Your mercy and authority encompass all ages, Your wisdom remains forever, for time and eternity revolve around You.

• Diminishing Remnant There were many beautiful women in Israel at the time Mary was called and chosen, but she was one of a diminishing remnant – waiting for the coming of the Lord.  Only the one whose heart was perfect toward the Lord can be used by the Lord. Only the one who is watching and waiting for the Lord is called and chose, for the LORD's eyes behold and his eyelids try, the children of men – for many are called but few are chosen.
• Humble yourself, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. 1 Peter 5:6.

• Acceptable Prayer Prayer is designed to accomplish God’s ends and God’s way in God’s time. Acceptable prayer can only be prayed in and through the Spirit of the almighty God – and this verse in Colossians mentions three important aspects of prayer: Devote yourselves to prayer –  keeping alert in it – with an attitude of thanksgiving.
• Important Instructions As we take up the weapons of our praying warfare, we must remember two things. FIRST: we are to pray INTO God’s plans and Purposes – God’s Will in God’s Time. SECOND: we are simultaneously watching against the wily activity of the enemy.

• He was instructed to wait God’s time... but he arrogantly refused and looking at his circumstances, Saul disobeyed – Saul disobeyed God’s Word. 1 Samuel 15:24
• Three times his wrong attitude towards God was clearly demonstrated in 1 Samuel 13-15 Each time Saul did what was right in Saul’s eyes – ignoring God’s instructions.

• Too frequently a period of blessedness transforms into a long season of wretchedness. Following a time of tender intimacy and gracious communion with God.. a time that has been spent hidden behind the closed portals of His love, the door is flung open to the enemy’s most fiery trials and evil suggestions.
• Our Testings We all face some of the most trying and testing days ahead – as the world crashes. Areas of testings that once seemed remote, will increasingly knock on your door. Satan knows His time is short and seems to be multiplying his attacks on the saints. He seeks through whatever means to shipwreck the faith of true believers. He searches out areas of greatest vulnerabilities, and chips away in his vile manner. But the Lord continues to pray for all His disciples:- I have prayed for you, that your faith should not fail. Let us keep the faith and not waver in our trust in our great and mighty God.

• We must face the fact and we must seek help from God always to bear in mind that we are going to have a path of suffering if we are in fellowship with the Lord Jesus.... There has to come a point when we sit down and do some calculating and come to a definite conclusion on this matter that, although very often we may not be able to see that our suffering is because of our relationship to Him (the sufferings are so manifold and diverse, and very often they look as though they have no relationship at all with our Christian life) at the same time, whether we can discern it or not; the fact remains that the pathway of the child of God, of the fellow of Jesus Christ, is the pathway of suffering.
• I say, postponement or delay in settling that matter keeps us all the time in that state of hoping and waiting for it to be different, and, because the difference does not come, getting downcast and feeling that all is wrong and that the Lord is against us and all that sort of thing, thus giving all the ground that the enemy wants for destroying our testimony.

• Long-time friends and dear relatives, who seem to be giving up on their faith.

• Salvation Joy Did you experience overwhelming joy, delight and glory when you first believed? Did you tell all and sundry the wonders of God and the message of salvation? Were you one that for a time was seated on the top of the mount of transfiguration? Did you tell the world of all the joy and thankfulness that was in your heart..?
• but what of the time when you have been adrift in a sea of discontent and discomfort?
• Do you still have that vision with the passing of time and the increase of age?
• Faithful Shepherds It seems these men, like David the shepherd king, were men after God’s own heart, as night after night and maybe year after year – these ones were unseen but faithful – unseen by multitudes, who daily flocked to the temple to seek YHWH’s forgiveness. Seen by the One who daily covered those sins – until the fullness of time came in.
• Spiritual Bliss How many of us, like these shepherds, have been in the very presence of God?  How many of us, recall that wonderful transfiguring time, and long for its return?  How many even question the glorious promises, bestowed on us from earlier days? How many start to wonder if the closeness, once discovered, when in His Presence..  was but an illusion; a dream; a forgotten hope; a lost delight – as they also leave that high point in their lives and walk away (leaving their first love).

• It is true that the true children of God are going through a time of intense trial and testing spiritually in these days; everywhere it is so.

• but real faith in the One Who can be trusted – will be sharpened and honed– but it takes time… and it takes pain.
• Much time and too often deep, deep pain.
• Food of Faith Saving Faith is instantaneous... and praise God it is finished at the time of rebirth.

• The enemy can hold up young Christians on this point for a long time, so that they do not really get started on the Christian walk.
• They wait for some vague time when they hope they will have reached a more satisfactory position in regard to the lusts of the flesh, and will feel more confident about attempting a walk in the Spirit.

• By grace we will not murmur, but humble ourselves under His mighty hand, and He will exalt us in due time.

• Cool Detachment As I look back on the birth of the Saviour… that too was a time of disinterest – a disinterest and impartiality towards the Anointed One of Israel: Emmanuel.
• Inner Character Yet, He set a president which few of His followers, to this day, delight to abide by, and in John 6:66 we read that: from that time many of His disciples went back – and walked with Him no more.  True greatness is demonstrated through character – not circumstances. No matter about wearing a crown..

• Then is the time to look into His face and say, I believe, Lord, that it shall be done as it was told me.'

• The Lord may see it needful, for the trial (development) of faith, to seem for a season not to regard our supplications; yet, if we patiently and believingly continue to wait upon Him, it will be manifest in His own time, and way, that we did not call upon Him in vain. -G.M.

• No matter how long it takes, our Lord allows the necessary time for a heart to be prepared of the Spirit in order that it might be truly born of the Spirit.
• In our day we promote elaborate follow-up' schemes to keep our converts' in the right way, but I sometimes wonder if a little more time spent right at the outset in ensuring that these converts are properly born,' so that they can be receptive of the Spirit's teaching, would not save much heartache and make certain that God's work in their lives is done in His way. -J.C.M.

• Be ready to spread the word whether or not the time is right.
• If you are governed by Divine principles you may seem to lose a lot here; you may, for a time, have to go out with David and wait.

• In all creation time is the great perfecter of growth.

• This progress will not stop when we leave this world, and when time gives place to eternity: Of the increase of His kingdom there will be no end.
• Therefore, the knowledge of Christ which will, in time and eternity, be the secret of growth and progress, will continue in heaven, and it will take eternity to exhaust it....
• Seeing He is so vast, so immense, so many-sided, we can only see Him from one standpoint at a time; we have to move round to see Him from every angle.
• And at this time we are just looking at the Lord Jesus from one of the many angles, or points of view, which is this particular aspect of His significance: that He, in His Person and in His work, stands related to an eternal, heavenly order.

• It is a kind of dividing thing all the time.
• The Holy Spirit is pursuing that course all the time to find us out and to just classify us like this, so that when the Holy Spirit has worked we are in definite categories.

• Only with a chastened heart that is disciplined and stilled before His throne can we whisper with Job in the fullness of our time.

• For this shall everyone that is godly pray unto Thee, in a time when Thou mayest be found.
• I was alone in the manse at the time.

• Ever-Present Problem Paul’s gives every generation of believers much to rejoice our hearts in this epistles, but the warnings of false teachers applies to all believers of all time, in this age – from the early church to the present day this has been an ever-present problem.

• Peculiar Famine There are still a few watchmen on the walls crying 'prepare ye the way of the Lord', but there is one frequently overlooked warning to which we would be wise to heed:-  a warning to apostate Israel, but one that can be applied to Church-age apostasy; a forewarning of a time of peculiar famine; a notice of great thirst in the world; a famine of hearing God’s lovely word – a scarcity of listening to God’s pure voice.
• We read in Psalms: how sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” Psalm 119:103 –  and yet a time is coming when there will be a severe famine and thirst in the land.
• Prophetic Warning The Word of God is true, vital, and more accessible than at any time in history, yet Amos warns of a time when people just don’t want to know and will not listen – and resistance to hear His voice and reluctance to follow His Word is rife today.
• When time and again God’s word is rejected or replaced He eventually sends a delusion.

• At first, God at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets.

• If the thing could be said at any time to have its origin in us, then faith would be dismissed.

• many mature men and women – mellowed with time, who strive to work for the Lord.

• Moses had to wait and be weathered. Moses had to discover that God alone had the answers. Moses had to be humbled to the point of seeking the Giver and not the gifts. Moses had to be set apart for a long season, before God used him mightily. Were Moses’ years of waiting a waste of time? Never! The headstrong prince of Egypt had to become the humble man of God.
• Christian Life Have your years of waiting been a waste of time?
• Have your experiences of falls and failure been a loss of time?

• He chose rebellion and the moment he disobeyed and sinned against the Lord, the spirit of Adam died – and from that time forward the children of men were eternally separated from their Creator God – they were dead in their trespasses and sins from birth.

• I/i>have borne with you all this time because I love you; anything could have happened to you, but I have not let it, I have shown you infinite longsuffering and patience, and earnest solicitude for your eternal well-being: because I love you, I have kept you alive, and have brought you to this time and to this place; I have not let you go.
• You may think it is quite fortuitous that you are hearing it just one of the chance happenings of life; but if you knew the truth it is this infinite love of God which has held you to this time in relation to the infinite purposes of that love to let you know it.

• he is prowling around seeking a prey – walking up and down, throughout the world, seeking whom he may devour. 1Pet.5:8.  His strategies are still wicked and highly refined with the passing of time. He still uses his favourite toys to tempt and ensnare. Examine yourself to see if you are a slave to the strategies of Satan, or seek the Spirit’s scrutiny of your inner being. No man or woman is secure from the ravages of pride and ego and self. No-one is exempt..

• Our blessings in Christ touch everything in time and stretch through eternity.

• But there does come a time, also, when love ceases to be heard.. if love is not responded to – if love is not believed in.
• Anchored to Christ In this time of earthquakes and many other terrors that are coming on the world, men’s hearts will fail unless their heart is anchored to His voice of love.

• THEREFORE - and in the light of all of the wonderful things of chapter 1.. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip Hebrews 2:1

• The Plain Truth Israel lost out at that time because of a wrong response to God’s word, They did not believe what God said so they did not mix their knowledge of His Word with faith.

• Twelve Apostles Matthias was the man that replaced Judas Iscariot to become Christ’s 12th apostle. All these disciples including Matthias, were eye-witnesses of Christ’s life and death. They all were with Him the entire time that Jesus travelled in Judea and the Galilee.
• Personal Witnesses These disciples knew Jesus as a Man and they were personal witnesses of all He did. These apostles knew Christ as God incarnate and worshiped Him as Saviour and Lord. They listened to the sermon on the Mount as Jesus taught of His coming kingdom. They were party to His discourses, warning of a coming time of tribulation and trouble.

• – I am experiencing the most trying time in my life – can He really love me?'

• Temptations of Life And Life is awash with temptations, as trials pour through the floodgates of time.

• Directly we are born again we are positioned in Christ for time and eternity, but fellowship with God and unity with the Spirit can be damaged and broken.
• Let us fly to the throne of grace the moment we find we have sinned against God – and find grace to restore and help us in time of need.

• It is something that makes you say: have read the Scriptures on that for a long time, but I have really never seen that before./p>

• It was a time of rejoicing and repentance when the glory of God filled the Temple.
• It was a time of deep travail and excruciating sorrow for this prophet of God.
• Writings of John The writings of John were also scripted to point to a time of departing glory. The first flush of faith had been replaced with a people that left their first love..
• a time when power, purity and peace were all but lost... and truth was being defiled.
• He wrote at a time when zeal had withered; truth was twisted; faith was failing.
• Revelation 1:1 And while the remaining apostles resided in heaven, following a martyr’s death, John began to reinstate the glorious, unique and heavenly position of the Church - a Church that in so short a time had lost her way – a Church from which the glory had all but departed.
• Federal Head John’s gospel, letters and apocalypse were scripted at a time of departing glory, and Christ is presented in his writings by John as the heavenly Man.
• Restatement of Truth The old order has become new – old things are passed away, and to that Church, which is His Body, the Lord revealed Himself. 'I am the Alpha and the Omega, I am the Beginning and the End, says the Lord, Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty.' Rev.1:8 John takes time and effort to restate Truth, which is only found in the Son.

• No utterance has had greater significance for time and through eternity.
• Time and Eternity; Mortal and Immortal, Terrestrial and Celestial pivot at this point.
• The Work of Redemption As Christ, the Cornerstone, died at this fulcrum of time and eternity, His work of redemption for humanity was finished.
• And He said, Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit, so that at the appointed time we can claim…

• Aspects of Omniscience God is all-knowing, and He knows everything, everywhere, every-time – forever. He knows the number of hairs on our head. He knows the thoughts of our hearts and the choices we will make before we do.
• FORESIGHT is knowing ahead of time and is an aspect of omniscience.
• In His foresight, He knew ahead of time who would believe.

• This truth has remained unchanged since that pivotal time in eternity’s history.

• God takes time to teach us that He can do everything and we can do nothing, There are no shortcuts to the Spirit’s work in conforming us to be like His Son.
• Identification Another vitally important foundational truth is identification Identification with Christ is essential for the spiritual growth of a believer, and chapter 8 of The Green Letters briefly outlines these foundational truths… through the thoughts and writings of a range of time-honoured saints of God.

• The Lord said: ow hardly shall they that have riches enter into the Kingdom of God!I think if He had been in another world from the one in which He was at the time, if He had been in the Western world He would probably have said: ow hardly shall they that have knowledge enter the Kingdom.The boasted knowledge, wisdom, and intellect of the Western world is the great obstruction to the Kingdom.
• When Paul got outside of the Jewish world, that was the kind of thing he was saying all the time, that the wisdom of this world was the great hindrance.
• One piece of knowledge we have is that we do not know anything at all, and we are just longing all the time to get some knowledge.

• Wisdom of God It seems beyond the bounds of reason that all this could happen in a moment of time.

• and that is a fact of sin and death – and it’s non-negotiable in time and affects our eternity.

• The toys, the picture books, the illustrations, the symbols, the types are for children who have little intelligence; they are taken away at a certain time when God is out to have, not children but sons; and there is all the difference between the two.

• The learning is at one time (head), the proving (heart) at another. -J.B.S.

• The Father knew it all the time, but we did not, and so He has to bring us through painful experiences to a recognition of the fact.

• I spent time identifying and praying forgiveness over everything: Forgiveness over every person; cleansing over every situation, for I had not been faithful in applying 1 John 1:9 – For if we believers confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from every wrong.

• Reflect upon his past life, privileges, and inheritances which he at one time believed were so utterly and absolutely of God for him, and that he really was in God's will.
• He came to a time when he said: The things which were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ... for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ; and yet he was so devoted to all that as a traditional religious system in which he at one time was living as out from God, which had now become merely an outward thing of forms and external laws.

• Most of our service during this time is learning how not to do it.

• Such self-thoughts erect strongholds over time, that need to be smashed down.
• Laws of Life Time is short and each of us needs to prepare for the any-day return of the Lord, and God has set out the ‘laws’ of the sanctified life, in the middle of scripture… The first step towards sanctification is right thinking, and right thinking is recognising your own strongholds, doubts, and fears, so that you can turn away from the sin of erroneous thinking about God, for right thinking always starts with your own thoughts.

• But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son born of woman, to redeem those who were under the law.Galatians 4:4-5
• Price for Sin So when the fullness of time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, to redeem us all, so that we might receive adoption as sons. To deny the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ renders Calvary as a sham and charade, for there is none good..
• Given and Born And so when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son – He GAVE His only begotten Son to be BORN of woman, born under the law so that He could redeem those who were under the law.

• Yet the valley gives time for reflection to enable us to draw close to Him. God wants each of His children to recognise His sovereignty and our own lack.

• Christ came into time to rescue His own inheritance.

• There was a time when I had not the ground upon which to do anything with you, and for you, but now you are on the ground of Christ, the ground which I have provided; if only you will trust Me, if only you will rest in Me to bring you through, you will be saved from so much of this weakness, and fret, and anxiety!

• He let people know that to “follow Him,” as He put it at that time, involved them in difficulty and suffering and persecution and trial and a lifelong thing.

• God’s supply is for both time and eternity.
• IN TIME:- (either in this age or in the millennial age) and in ETERNITY:- (in the timeless ages that are to come).  All His benefits, in time and in eternity are still future and we are called to trust Him and obey Him – like so many saints of past ages.

• You have a reward in time and in eternity. You will reign with Him in His kingdom in time (ruling with a rod of iron) but you will also be with Him for eternity (as an example in the ages to come of His astonishing grace.) Whatever the cause of your earthly sorrow – healing and peace comes from Him.
• No matter what causes your distress of soul – blessings and renewal come from the Lord, Who in time and in eternity is the Comforter of your soul.
• He will never leave you, He will never forsake you – in time or throughout eternity.

• He understood the heartache that would fill their hearts – like a cloud of 'unknowing', when it was time for Him to go.
• through time and into eternity.

• It is His desire that I accept this position without hesitation or doubting, because I am accepted by the Father – accepted in the Beloved, for time and through eternity.

• Study - GOD, All I Need Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, Who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession… for we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathise with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us, therefore, come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.  Hebrews 4:14

• John 17:13 These astonishing words were spoken at a time of deepest grief and intense loss, but they contained a promise that joy would come in the 'morning'.

• In both time and in eternity, our need of Him will never diminish one jot but we need to recognise how much we need Him – here and now.

• Time and faith are the main contributors to the development of patient endurance.

• Experience of Praise At one time when for nine months by voice was shattered in grief, it was singing praises to God that renewed and refreshed my dying soul.

• We should take time to ponder the enormity of this simple text.

• How can we hear His words of instructions or discern His whispers of love. God instructs us to take time each day to quietly meditate upon His word of truth; to quietly consider the things of God and the beauties of His person.
• We all need time to rest awhile; to relax in His tranquillity and to repose in His arms.
• We all need to be wise and take time alone – leaning on the breast of the Beloved.
• We must be ready to respond to the call for help or the less trivial needs of others – but not at the expense of our time in His Presence, or He may withdraw..
• for nothing is more important than taking time alone with God.

• through time and into eternity, for as the apostle Paul reminds us, no foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:11 How it must please the heart of God when believers can be described like Gauis – a man of truth.

• All the urgent needs that demand such a high priority on my time must give way to that which is important.

• We live in a time when the pagan mindset of the world is eroding Christian homes, but God will honour all that, in His strength, teach their children to love the Lord.

• Go back to the place where, for the time being, the Lord has put you, where He has called you to live your life and do your work in all the trial and difficulty and suffering of it, and do not strain to get out of it.
• Do not lose the present value of it by always living mentally or hopefully in a time when you will be out of it, but go back there and recognize that if you are the Lord's, if you love God and are called according to purpose (as you are if you are in Christ), God is seeking to do something with you and in you by means of the conditions of your present situation.
• I can think of few things more regrettable and grievous than that we should look back upon any part of our life and have to say, I might have realized some great purpose of God in that period of my life if only I had taken another attitude toward it than the one I did take; I was chafing, impatient, all the time looking for a way of escape; I was rebellious, living in another mental world of my own creating, in which I would do and be this and that; and I missed all that God intended at that time.

• Similarly, during the time of King Herod when Israel was deep into apostasy and the traditions of men, John the Baptiser was sent by God to warn His people to ‘repent’. John had come after the order of the fearless Elijah..

• Time of Testings And believers cry out why?
• Now is a time of faith’s testing for the saints, and of unprecedented Satanic fierceness.
• We read: For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie, Though it tarries, wait for it, because it will surely come – it will not tarry.
• It took time and much heartache for Habakkuk to learn the vital lesson from God..
• Spiritual Victory It also takes time and much heartache for us to learn these lessons too.
• Today, as in the time of Habakkuk, God truly does seem to be hiding His power.
• In the unseen realm the enemy knows time is short and he’s multiplying mayhem.
• Embracer of Burdens Let us embrace in the Spirit, the burden of our Lord for His despairing people, and become like Habakkuk, an “Embracer of Burdens” For you see, right in the very middle of the most testing time when all seemed totally lost, in faith, Habakkuk sang his amazing sacrifice of praise: although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines – the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat.

• He knows everything visible and invisible; natural and spiritual; good and evil – in time and in space and in eternity.  He knows the end from the beginning.

• and being God there is no limit to His presence.  He is omnipresent in time and eternity – in space and throughout creation.

• God in His wisdom continued with His eternal plan and purpose for man – as in the womb of time His wise plan unfolded and the Saviour was born.
• Perfect Plan In God’s perfect way and God’s perfect time, He continues with His perfect plan.

• Divine Dealings God will not change His divinely developed dealings with man, nor will He alter His outlined instructions to us – so perhaps it’s time for us to start doing things His way..

• We need to remember that God is working in all thing, the visible and the invisible, for time and for eternity: for faith is the confidence of things hoped for.

• This was God’s purpose, before time began: the Lamb of God was slain:- from the foundation of the world.
• Purpose of God God had you in His heart and thoughts before the earth and time were created – you specifically.
• And you will continue as His blessed beloved through time into eternity future.

• Faith in the One Who saved, for His initial salvation at the time of rebirth – trusting the indwelling Spirit,  for a lifetime of His working in and through us – believing in God to work out His plans and His purposes in your life and in mine.
• And now in this darkest history of the world, we wait a second time – in hope.

• That future hope is a time that the believer looks towards, through a lifetime of pain.

• You may or may not know the time, day, or date but there is one point of rebirth.

• Israel’s Remnant They would be ones that, “hopefully”, trusted in His word. They would be men and women that, “patiently”, waited for His time. They would be servants of the Lord that, “trustingly”, resting in His love. And for every lone Elijah, God reserves “7000” more who remained faithful.
• Let us like them be men and women that 'patiently wait' for His TIME..

• God and Christ What comes to your mind when you think of God and His Christ? What false perceptions of God have you developed in your life-time?
• Time and Incentive There is little time or incentive to be still and know the God of the universe..  and there are fewer who desire to fall in love with the lover of our soul. – and to worship as His feet in grateful thanks and reverential tears.
• Dwindling Honour There is a decline in the knowledge and understanding of the Holy One of Israel..  a dwindling of honour of Him Who made us and redeemed us for time and eternity..

• Perfect Pattern During His time on earth He walked; He ate; He drank.

• Christ’s Peace Sinners who trust in the only begotten Son of God are given peace WITH God and believers who live in fellowship with the Father receive the prefect peace OF God – indeed, as the time drew ever closer for the Lord Jesus Himself to leave His little flock, He said, Peace I leave with you..
• Life-Giving Peace Peace with God and the peace of God stretches through time and into eternity, for all who trust Christ as Saviour and learn to keep the eyes of their hearts looking to Jesus for it was our Saviour who calmed the ocean of God’s wrath against a sinful world, which He procured for us by His sufferings and death on Calvary’s cross. He broke down the middle wall of hostility that divided Jew from Gentile and the curtain of the temple was torn from top to bottom announcing that the gaping void between a holy God and sinful man had been spanned by the blood of the Lamb – for by Hs death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way, through the curtain which is His body.

• He has ordered every day of our lives and no matter what happens, it will be to our advantage and to His glory. And God is omnipotent and His will and purpose will be accomplished at the right time and nothing and no-one can stand in His way or prevent its ultimate fulfilment.
• But a curse was put on that royal line during the time of the Babylonian captivity… A shocking curse was placed on Jeconiahm, Judah’s final evil king – through Solomon.
• NO MAN of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah. No future descendent of Solomon’s line of could ever rule as the king of Israel, and for a time it must have seemed to Satan that God’s Messiah had been defeated. Descendants of the cursed bloodline from Jeconiahm onwards… could never sit on the throne of David, and yet the Messiah was to be born of the house and lineage of David.

• Eternal Calling Everyone that is born from above is called according to the purpose of God. Every believer has a calling; an eternal calling – a great purpose in time and eternity, and God’s purpose is entwined and interlinked with Christ – Who is to be all in all.

• God takes time, and plenty of time, to bring a man to a point of true submission..

• God’s Mighty Strength God’s mighty strength is just as powerful and potent today as in past generations. No matter when or how the enemy attacks – God works secretly in our time too. God has a sovereign plan and a purpose – which is laid out in the Scripture. It is a perfect plan – written in eternity past,
• All-Prayer Like Moses, we too can become faint and weary, discouraged or disillusioned, and as in the time of Amalek, the enemy watches for any weak link in our armour.
• Like Moses, Esther, and others – let us take up the gauntlet at such a time as this, Let us lift up the arm of prayer – for our the Lord our God is mighty to save.

• Appointed Time But finally God’s appointed time arrived and on that special day the angel was finally able to announce, for unto you is born this day in the city of David – a Saviour.  A host of angels rejoiced as they raised their voices in a chorus of excited praise singing, glory to God in the highest and peace on earth to men of goodwill.
• He had been appointed as Saviour from all eternity and His arrival was anticipated from the dawn of time – even from the beginning of the world.

• Here I am going to upset a lot of you: you leave Israel alone for the time being.

• The Mystery of the Church Even Peter found the inclusion of Gentiles believers into Christ’s sheepfold and their equality in God’s eye difficult to accept, and he, and the other apostles, had to discover the truth through the apostle Paul – Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles who was given the mystery of the Church – the mystery of the kingdom – a parenthetical period of time, when God would call out of the Gentiles a people for His name – the Church.
• One New Man in Christ The time had come when the Church was to be the vehicle to witness of God’s grace.
• Turning Point This was the turning point in Acts – God was doing a new thing – for a time. The Jewish exclusiveness of those early chapters of Acts had to change its focus. Christ was to build His Church – and Paul was chosen to open up this revelation.
• Rightly Divide For the time being Israel’s earthly kingdom is postponed until a future time of restoration, when the earth will be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea.

• As time passed, the people of Israel became more filled with self-righteousness.

• The progress and increase of spiritual Life means this, that the gap widens all the time between the children of God and those in the world who are not such.

• come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need (Heb. 4:16).

• If our perception of God’s character is wrong, so also how we understand grace. How vital that we take time to come to the correct understanding of grace.
• How crucial to take time to get a correct understanding of God’s character.

• Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you (1 Pet. 5:6, 7).

• We are been imparted with the fullness of God’s grace – in time and into eternity, for we have all received one gracious blessing after another:  the fullness of His grace from His abundance.  John 1:16

• For they disciplined us only a short time, as it seemed proper to them; but He does it for our good, in order that we may share His holy character (Heb. 12:10, Wms.).
• Now for the time being no discipline [child-training] seems to be pleasant; it is painful; later on, however, to those who are trained by it, it yields the fruit of peace which grows from upright character (Heb. 12:11, Wms.).

• But in relation to our spiritual maturity – God takes His time.
• In the life of a believer God uses a life-span of time to prepare him for eternity, and... like the chronology of the world, God uses a lot of time to fulfil His works.
• Oh yes God takes time to bring a tiny acorn to maturation as a mighty oak.
• And God takes time in the life of a believer to bring him to maturity in the faith.
• For the majority of time, growth is simply solidification, which is establishing maturity.
• How much more is this the case for we who are God’s sons, where our life in time is preparing us for eternity.
• Spiritual Maturity God knows what’s best in the life of each believer to bring him to strong, full maturity – and God takes time to bring a man or woman from new-birth to final maturity, God takes time to conform each of His children into the likeness of His beloved Son.
• Jesus grew in wisdom and favour with God and man – over much time.
• Jesus could have overshadowed the Baptist’s ministry, but He quietly waited – His time had not yet come.
• So he quietly watched and patiently waited God’s time.
• He could have identified Himself as an eager prophet, before His appointed time.
• proclaiming an ‘early’ gospel – but He accepted that God takes time to carry out His plans in a trusting Son.
• The Wrong Way Throughout Scripture there are examples of men who also had to wait God’s time.
• Similarly, throughout the Church age – saints have been caused to wait on God’s time.
• Some try to circumnavigate God’s appointed time and seek to sprout too early..
• God takes time in a man to bring him to a mature knowledge of His Word.
• This takes time, more time - much time to produce fruit, more fruit - much fruit.

• Heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.Luke 21:34
• Deep Entrapments And these warnings are burning embarrassments for the one who seeks holiness. The things that can easily entrap us are listed as the excesses of careless living.. lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting /dissipation /excess.. lest at any time your heart be overwhelmed with drunkenness – lest at any time your heart be overwhelmed with the cares of this life. We would do well to keep in mind this warning of the world’s is deep entrapments.
• Trust in God The final snare is to permit the trials of this life to overwhelm us with worry,  lest at any time your hearts be overwhelmed with the cares of this life. And the caution against the physical sin translates into a spiritual warning.
• Heed to Yourself Oh, we all have many family and business, financial and relational problems, but it is giving these problems preeminence in your thoughts – in your heart..  lest at any time your hearts be overwhelmed with the cares of this life.
• heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.”
• Many earnestly have prayed “Maranatha” for the arrival of that time…  but that in no way prepares a saint spiritually for Christ’s return – that does not guard the heart of a saint sufficiently.

• Apart from never being behind time, our Father is an eternity ahead of time!

• Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time (1 Pet. 5:6).

• This is a fact borne out in the case of every servant of God in history who has really come under the hand of God - that the real values of their lives for all time have been those which correspond to the wine of the grape, the thing trodden out in the winepress, the agony of heart; and you know that it is true in your case that if ever you have had anything at all which you knew to be worthwhile and which has helped someone else, it has been born out of some travail in your own experience.

• behold, now is the accepted time - behold, now is the day of salvation.

• Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time (1 Pet. 5:6).

• Throughout his painful time, God brought a prideful Job to the very end of himself.
• Then – after an unspecified length of time… then after a great deal of God-searching questions… then after God’s tremendous soliloquy, Job said to the Lord:

• Peter tells us to: humble yourself, under the mighty hand of God.  The new man in Christ will submit to His way and His time and listen and learn.

• The Septuagint version of the Bible says much time having elapsed…..  Much time had passed until she reached her personal breaking point.
• Contemplate these thoughts the next time you are overwhelmed by the facts of life.
• Contemplate these thoughts the next time you drop to your knees, to pray.

• Father of Pride It was evident in the accusations of Job’s friends against their long-time companion.

• This has not happened yet and over 1000 years of 'time' yet remains – before the start of the eternal ages to come. So… what think ye of Christ?
• Time To Consider Have you considered how and why Job repented, in dust and ashes..

• He says, Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time' (1 Peter 5:6).

• For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears” 2 Timothy 4:3 

• This One Who is seated beyond the realm of time, has thus revealed His plan to us.

• Jesus took time and won His way into her confidence.
• Jesus took time to get her trust and to find a way into her heart.

• at one-time blessing and another time cursing.

• God’s Exquisite Answer Man offers his petitions, expecting them to be heard or ignored as God so chooses, never realising that the response and the wonderful reply was waiting all the time.
• and not one prayer you’ve uttered will return to you unanswered – but will be answered in His way, and His time – and to fulfil His best purpose for your best purpose.
• He cares and will answer at the best time for your eternal profit – and He knows and fulfils His best purpose for your very best.

• Spiritual hunger and thirst are fulfilled in the Lord Jesus, while at the same time they are enlarged for more of Him.
• As to even our doctrinal blessings, there is a wonderful charm about them when they are new to us, and they sustain the soul for a certain time; but when the first joy of them passes away, a settling-down process commences.

• When we have been in Romans Seven for a time, we come to realize that we have been struggling to produce that which God has already accomplished for us in Christ.

• Earthly and Spiritual The people of Israel marched around the walls of Jericho to gain victory – today we march a seventh time around the city gate of our spiritual Jericho.

• The Lord would have prayer touching things heavenly, things spiritual, related to that which is not of time, but of eternity; not of this world, but in relation to His eternal, heavenly intentions.

• It takes us a long time to realize that all is darkness outside the Light of heaven and earth.

• Heavenly Sphere All believers are in Christ and at this present time are seated with Him – in Christ. All Christians are in Him and forever seated with Him : in Him, in heavenly places.

• That is the thing which the Lord has been seeking to reveal to our hearts more and more for a long time.

• We have heard it said that at a certain gathering of servants of the Lord it was like a touch of heaven; everyone dropped for the time being their differences of denomination and earthly divisions.
• We shall be wasting our time if we expect, try, or even pray for anything really effective apart from this essentially heavenly and therefore anointed ground.

• Victory in Christ But until that time of future bliss we live on this earth with its trials and pain, and every day we have a choice..

• He has been unfolding such truths to godly men down through the centuries, and I suspect that we all have much more to learn, in His time and His way.

• Veiled in Flesh The eternal self-existent, holy God clothed Himself in flesh to reveal Himself to man. The sovereign Creator chose to unveil Himself to you and me in time-space history. The absolute Lord of the universe came to dwell with us in the form of mortal flesh – and all the essential and unique characteristics of God are contained in Christ.
• With our finite minds, we are incapable of understanding the essence of infinite God – nevertheless, all the wisdom and knowledge of God are hidden in Christ in its entirety. Let us take time to mine out those hidden treasures by getting to know Him more.

• The darkness of this place will in time turn us to the light of His face - the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 4:6).

• Jesus replied, Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and yet you still don’t know who I am?

• Mary took time to kneel at the Master’s feet and accept His gifts of love and peace.
• She spent time with Him, in humbleness of heart, and received the better part.

• times when the Lord seems to have turned His face away – often for months or even years at a time.
• She knows that I am working in her and through her for time and for eternity.
• and is doing a work in you that will reach beyond time and into eternity.

• Superficial Senses Time with all its constrictions and pressures press in on every side.
• Riches of His Grace Time and sense as we know it with all its constrictions and pressures will be changed. The years that the locusts have eaten, will be replaced with the riches of His grace.
• And as with Abraham and the saints of old who have not yet received the promise, the time for His appointed return will come and it will not be delayed, Hab.2:3

• A Study:- Man’s Nature and Destiny Threefold Name Our triune God created triune man: spirit, soul, and body for a threefold purpose:-salvation, sanctification and service, for time and through eternity.
• It is the point in time when we trusted Christ as Saviour and were eternally positioned in Him.
• His Majesty Were we to plunge to the very depths of the oceans… were we to extend our beings into the extremity of the star-spangled universe, were we to spend from time until eternity exploring the qualities of this God-Man, we could not begin to exhaust the splendour and gentleness of His majesty.

• When once we see and accept our Father's purpose for our lives to the extent that it becomes our will also, the time and details of His process cease to matter.

• God, in His omniscience, knew the work of the Lord would be completed in time..

• Unsound Doctrines It is not only starting of the race that is important but the completing of the course, and it takes time and it takes perseverance to run the race set before us, with patience – and it needs both effort and endeavour to lay aside all distractions and outer influences.

• Grace, absolute sovereign grace, has set me there - to show its exceeding riches throughout time and eternity.

• Temple of God The moment in time we trusted Christ as Saviour – we were born into His family - we became part of the household of God, in eternal union with Christ.
• At a time known to God, we were placed in His family and in-dwelt by His Spirit.  We were in-dwelt by the Spirit of God – the home and temple of Christ’s Spirit.

• So now we must choose a replacement for Judas from among the men who were with us the entire time we were travelling with the Lord Jesus, beginning from John’s baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us.Acts 1:21-22
• Isaiah 35:6  This truly must have been a most exciting time to be living in Israel for although they were under the yoke of their Roman overlords – the kingdom of heaven was at hand. This meant that the king was coming – God’s promises to Israel were to be fulfilled.
• John’s Baptism Well, it seems that Acts chapter 1 gives us a clue as to the whereabouts of the Messiah. It seems that a hint is offered when a replacement for Judas is being considered. We read in Acts chapter 1: We must choose a replacement for Judas from among the men who were with us the entire time we were travelling with the Lord Jesus – beginning from John’s baptism.
• Humble Submission It seems that for a little time at least; the Lord was among the followers of John! He had humbled Himself for many silent years under the authority of His parents, and He seems to have spent some time learning from the ministry of the Baptist. What a wonderful example we have in the silent years of our developing Saviour. Though little is written of His life and learning there are many little clues that demonstrate that the Lord Jesus lived His entire childhood and early adult life in humble submission to those that were in authority – as He waited for God’s timing when He would continue His long, painful..

• That night, for the first time, Jacob became totally and utterly dependent upon God.
• So humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.

• At God’s appointed time – through His appointed messenger these were unveiled.
• They are Scriptural truths that remained undisclosed until God’s appointed time.
• Uniqueness of God There is a time before time began. There is a place before space existed. There is Life before all things created were spoken into being, There is God – Who alone can claim I AM that I AM.
• Crucified with Christ Until such a time, our heart must remain rebellious towards the self-existent One, Who loves us so much that He gave Himself for us.

• So that at the appointed time His delayed gift will come – and it will come at our best time: for our times are in His hands Psa.31:15 and it is God Who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.

• And remember that Jesus is coming at a time you think not, 'Therefore be ye also ready..

• Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and you still do not know Me?” Jesus asked him.
• God is Spirit, and God is invisible, and no one has ever seen God at any time, except the Son of God – the One who sits at the Father’s side.

• Familiar Concept Grace is a familiar concept to believers but over time has lost some of its dynamic. The all-encompassing nature of grace eludes any genuine, all-inclusive definition.
• Riches of God’s Grace Let us reflect on the riches of God’s grace towards us. Let us meditate on all that has been poured out on we, who are his children.  Surely through time and eternity, we will be praising God for His indefinable grace.

• We are the true aliens in the world and for a time are passing through a foreign land.

• Here is the time for faith to hold fast the Master's promise and the Father's gift, and to trust that the Holy Spirit is within and will guide.

• If you and I are going to be men and women of the Spirit, we are not going to have an easy time.

• He is on earth, and He is at the same time in heaven.

• It is better to lose time as to work in preparation for service than to lose time in repairing one's mistakes in undertaking a work for which one is not yet qualified.

• Call To Repent John the Baptist’s call for repentance was a particular call to a particular group of people at a particular time and for a particular purpose – he was calling for national Israel to turn away from their proud, hypocritical, fleshly, religious ways, back to the God of Israel – because the time of God’s promised Messiah had arrived. John had been chosen as the appointed herald of the Jewish Messiah..
• Coming Messiah At this crucial time in Israel’s history, Jews were baptised to identify with the message of repentance that John was preaching – in keen anticipation of the coming Messiah.
• God is Faithful And at this critical time, John was appointed to present their king to Israel.

• Not being able to find it, but breaking down all the time, we get miserable, perfectly miserable.

• The I AM of Scripture We are to know that we are accepted in the Beloved and accepted by God. We are to glory in the privileged position into which we have been placed. We are loved and cherished by God, Who chose us from before the beginning of time – but we are to bow to the Person behind our glorious acceptance by God.

• He is pre-eminent through time and eternity.
• He is pre-eminent through time and eternity.

• A Study:- Man’s Nature and Destiny And when the fullness of the time was come… God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
• Fullness of Time This was a non-negotiable Law that God Himself imposed upon man and sin, and In Genesis 3 we read that: the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them until that time…. (the fullness of time) for God is never late…
• Made Under Law And when the fullness of the time was come… God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. with men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

• In our time alone together do not speak or contemplate about Me.

• We had been associated with Him in a way for a long time, but He was not personal to us, not a living God.
• I do know that it is true to fact in the life of a great many, that the day comes when, though they have been associated with the things of the Lord for a long time, they suddenly wake up to the fact that the Lord is a living Person.

• Woman in Labour Isaiah, Jeremiah and others described their own life-testimony as a woman in labour, and Jesus likened the end-time tribulation to a period of intense and painful labour: – a woman, in labour, has sorrow because her hour has come.
• Israel’s Labour And for Israel, the time of Jacob’s trouble is a time of deep distress for Israel – BUT..
• the pain of that time will birth the millennial reign of Jesus – the Jewish Messiah.  And their time of mourning will turn in to great joy and so all Israel shall be saved: for as soon as she has given birth, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.
• Time of Tribulation Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jesus, and Paul never experienced physical childbirth..  but painted a beautiful picture in the spiritual realm from its physical counterpart.
• The labouring to which Christ pointed was also Israel’s time of tribulation.

• Bread of Life Jesus claimed to be the Bread of Life, and all who eat of Him will live... but this truth was a difficult statement for many of His followers to accept and from that time many of his disciples went back, and walked with Him no more.  Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?

• Yet each one must and does make it for himself at some time in his pilgrimage.

• And in His time and in His way He will avenge His own.

• Throne of Grace Christ’s death on the cross as the Sacrifice for sin tore down the unscalable wall of division that separated a holy God from a sinful race of men, and opened up, to all who would believe in His name, God’s eternal throne-room of grace: let us, therefore, approach God’s throne of grace with confidence and grateful hearts, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
• Time and again we discover Jesus rising early in the morning and finding Him in a solitary place as He drew close to His heavenly Father.

• Growth is by Life, and this, to begin with, may be by the entering into Life of but one soul, and then after a long waiting time of another; or it may be more rapid.

• Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me?John 14:9
• Eye-Witness Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me?
• Wrong Perception Surely after such a length of time, this disciple should have known his Lord?
• What a lesson to find we can walk a long time with the Lord and not know Him..
• and yet His gentle reproof to this precious disciple was: have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me?
• His Grace His grace is poured over us in great abundance. His holy correction is administered to us with infinite tenderness, but we need to take time to get to know Him.

• But time is required for that center to extend through all the circumference of our being.
• Even where in the new convert there is great singleness of heart and faith, with true love and devotion to the Saviour, time is needed for a deeper knowledge of the old man and sin, for a spiritual insight into what the Father's will and grace are. -A.M.

• With Him it is a question of what God is doing, and doing just at the particular time.
• With one object, God does different things at different times, and has a different emphasis from time to time, and those who are really in union with Christ have to be governed by that which Christ at that particular time is Himself undertaking, is giving Himself to: ...what things soever He doeth these the Son also doeth in like manner.

• The learning is at one time, and the proving at another.
• In fact, we ought to be prepared for the dark hour; so that, though it be dark, there is something so blessed, so suited, pouring its comfort and sustenance on our souls, that, after all, the dark and dreary hour becomes a more really festive time to the heart, because of the virtues of the truth now made known, than the time of its reception, which was so happy and exhilarating. -J.B.S.

• You know quite well that you cannot go on with people who are not straight, people who are crooked, people who are all the time furtive, not open, not frank, who have somewhere in the background a secretiveness.

• Walk of Life Take the hand of the One that knows how to lighten those that sit in darkness. Walk with the One Who will truly guide your feet into the way of peace, and you will have contentment in this age despite the hardships and disappointments – and in the age to come – the Millennial Age, you will discover joys unspeakable, for you will live 1000 years, in time – time recaptured from the today’s devouring locusts. Only put your hand into His and say:- order my walk; order my every moment… order my way and my life to your good pleasure – for whither Thou goest I will go. What you decide I will accept.

• It takes a long time for us to realize that we have been in the light above since we first saw the Light below.

• Its link to time and its roots in eternity, with its ever-constant inward connection to the very thoughts of the heart.

• Eternal Truths These vital truths are for our learning and were played out in the time of Nehemiah. They are still true today and need to be fastened in our hearts and secured in our mind. Let us without reservation listen and love… listen to His voice and to hear His word – encourage each other to fall in love with our Lord, all over again.
• Let us remember, Now is the accepted time – now is the day of salvation.

• Habakkuk first used the reforming words that resounded down the corridors of time, and we find them echoing through Romans; through Galatians; through Hebrews.

• God takes all things and God uses all things, for all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.” Rom.8:28 And He takes time – He often takes a life-time to gently lead one into this truth.
• They are forever groaning over their imperfections and struggling with the flesh as if they hoped in time to improve it.

• The new-life in-Christ takes time to grow – much time.
• Old and New Life At the same time, the old self endeavours to get down from the cross and resume control – and a battle ensues between the old sin nature and the new life in Christ.
• Egotistical Self The time must come when we make a commitment – that all of 'self' must GO.
• takes time.
• The new life takes time to grow – much time – a life-time of growing in grace.

• Word of Truth I don’t mean a searching for a specific day or date or a time for the rapture, but a searching of the scriptures to understand God’s Word and Truth.
• The Person I realised that the day and the hour is not the most important thing.. interesting though speculation on the time or manner of His return may be, but it is the Person I discovered, that I needed to watch for.

• For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained PROMISES……….

• Some time ago for one whole summer, following in his exemplary, in-depth deliberations, I too would reflect and ruminate on these verses for many days at a time – to search out God’s nuggets of love… for me.

• Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and go to the Father.

• Rest Rest your whole being, for time and eternity in His perfect character.

• The Throne Ministry Much of scripture is devoted to intercession and prayer – the throne ministry of God. Simple, dynamic power-packed instructions – to help us withstand in the evil day. This is so that God’s plans will be fulfilled in His way, in His time and for His glory – and God’s perfect plan always results in the best outcome for all of His children.

• Scriptural Truth Don’t be robbed of the scriptural truth that in Christ dwells all the Godhead bodily. You are once for all and forever, in time and eternity – totally complete in Him.

• Plans and purposes that He foreordained from before the world? Plans purposed, and plans foreordained from before the time that the worlds came to be?
• Time of God All He asks is that we trust Him in all things – put our total faith in Him, knowing that: 'ALL things work together for good to those who love God..
• Promised Seed Oh, Jesus came at His appointed time through the womb of a virgin – the first time.
• And Jesus will come at His appointed time in the clouds for His bride – the second time.

• Fellowship Formula Every time we sin, fellowship is broken and needs to be restored and John outlines the fellowship formula for God’s disobedient children to be restored back into full fellowship and sweet communion with their Father.

• Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known Me?John 14:9
• This Disciple Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me? This disciple had been with the Lord Jesus for three years. He had seen His beautiful life..
• Knowing Jesus Surely after such a length of time this disciple should have known His Lord?
• What a lesson to find we can walk a long time with the Lord and not KNOW Him..
• Jesus commanded His disciples to love one another as I have loved you, and yet His gentle reproof to this precious disciple was: “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me?”
• But we need to take time to get to know Him.

• There is no joy like that of realizing our nothingness, while at the same time reposing upon the Father's all-sufficiency.

• From the time of John the Baptizer until now, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful people have been seizing it. (Matthew 11:12 GW)

• We make a most serious mistake, when, in any time of need or pressure, we turn to the creature for help or sympathy.

• Process of Maturity BUT… it does not end there. The new nature of the born-again believer makes that saint complete in Christ. This allows the life of Christ to be exhibited in the believer, which matures over time.
• Because He knows what is best for each of us both in time and through eternity.

• We may go on that way for awhile, but is it not true that from the time when He begins in us His work of formation through discipline and chastening, it growingly dawns on us how little in fact we know of the true meaning of what we had been saying?

• Time is required – our times are in His hands.

• in time - in God’s time, that tree will bring forth 20-fold, 50-fold, 100-fold: “if you remain in Me and I in you” John 15:7

• This most painful intimate time was not to be witnessed by the inquisitive eye of man..nor the angelic host, as Father and Son in unison suffered excruciating pain, through this momentous, agonising separation.  And a fathomless darkness, never witnessed within eternity before, hung heavily over the Son of His love.
• The loss of the Father’s presence, for the first moment, since time and eternity kissed each other, was for our Lord Jesus, a loss so overwhelming, that human and angelic minds can only wonder.

• True Image Denominations and individuals alike envisage the God in whom they trust, and all too often the image that emerges is a distortion of the truth. All too often His resemblance has its poisoned roots in our early life. Role models we should trust and ached to believe in, let us down. Teachings of the church we attended or avoided..distorted God’s character, and over time, plus the input of life, God emerges – masked by our own imaginings. There are probably as many perceptions of God as there is sand on the seashore. But there is only one true character and likeness of God – the man Christ Jesus.

• Unfolding Plan It demonstrates the way that God, over time, increasingly reveals Himself to man.

• Volatile Society We are well down the path of that volatile society, about which we are warned. We are living at a time when Christian stamina is increasingly being wearied. We are experiencing a season when the believer’s endurance is being taxed.
• Morning Star It is often said that the darkest time of the night comes just before the break of dawn, and the darkness we are experiencing today is heralding the bright Morning Star.

• and it is by faith in God that He performs this change – and He takes His time! God uses life’s circumstances, (good and ill).
• as perfect in God’s sight as His only begotten Son. The saved saint similarly has ‘need’, without which spiritual growth will fail. He is accepted in the Beloved fully and perfectly, for time and through eternity..

• Restrictive Measure The Law though perfect, had no way to remove the death sentence – so death reigned from Adam’s fall to Moses and continued to rule from the time of Moses to Christ. The Law was God’s perfect tool to direct us to Christ so that we might be justified. But the Law can be equally problematic to the one that has been justified, for if one starts to live a Christian life under the restrictive measure of the Law of Moses or any self-imposed legalistic system, it can only be done by the old sin nature being guided by the lust of the flesh and not the new nature in Christ, that is led by the Spirit of God.

• We do not yet realize that time and processing are required before we are able to give up self-effort for our growth.

• For some time the sage gave no answer, but one evening he asked the youth to come and bathe with him in the river.

• We have to look at ourselves and see how far we are devotedly following the Lord Jesus, with full purpose of heart - how we can say, This one thing I do'; but we must take care at the same time not to get into legal bondage by this standard.

• Before time was created there was God, only God, and nothing but God.
• God’s Thoughts It was here that the Invisible, Eternal God chose to reveal Himself to you: no man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father (from before time and space) He hath declared Him.
• These thoughts of God were established and translated into created time.
• God’s Perfections He has made everything beautiful in its time.

• He will lead you and guide you one step at a time, little by little by little; day by day by day by day.
• They are plans for good and not for disaster –to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11 So remember... ONE day at a time

• And He will do it His way – one step at a time; line by line; little by little, precept upon precept.
• He only expects you to take one day at a time.

• We must know in our spirit just what Christ is doing, how He is doing it, the means which He will use, and His time for it.

• God Has Promised Like the arm of the Lord and the wing of the eagle, the promises of God are not unsubstantial. Hath God said and shall He not fulfill? Hath God promised and shall He not perform? Numbers 23:19 Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?

• Applied in time (in Christ’s millennial age), when He will wipe away every tear.

• The opposite of this, and that which we are seeing to be so much more needed, is a burdening of the hearts of chosen vessels with God's own most pressing concern at this time, resulting in an all-consuming passion which will accept all the cost of its realization....

• It is the root malady of the time.

• There is no doubt that the Lord intended that man to represent Israel and Israel's condition at the time.

• We must have a secret place where we spend time with Him.

• In the age of Israel, He empowered a few believers for a specific length of time, in a particular way or work and He also came in power upon prophets, priests, and kings, but this was never a permanent indwelling.
• Knowing Him Let us take time to get to know the Holy Spirit Who lives in each one of us.

• demonstrating His ineffable love for you and me – in time and through eternity.
• in time past to the fathers, by the prophets – has in these last days spoken to us by His Son.
• like Israel in time past seeks to “box God in…” In Psalm 78 we read:- Yes, again and again, they tempted/tested God, they limited the Holy One of Israel.
• In Spirit and Truth In the short time we have, before He comes to take us to be with Himself..

• And for a time Adam, and his wife Eve, tasted the glory and honour of their God-given ruler-ship of the earth. Adam was created in God’s image – a perfect man with a wonderful range of human attributes and faculties that mirrored those of his Creator.
• The Man Christ Jesus And for a second time, the glory and honour that was tasted so briefly by Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden has been regained by God’s true representative Man – Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Power of Death His death is sufficient for it satisfied God’s judgement of sin, in your life and mine. His resurrection is sufficient for it broke the power of death in all who believe. Christ’s glorious sufficiency meets every need in this life and the one to come, and we are fully accepted by God for time and eternity, because of His sufficiency.
• We are fully accepted by God for time and eternity, because of His sufficiency.

• he seeks to have you focus on difficult conditions in this current time.
• the one and only way of overcoming the present evil of this present time.

• You will see more and more the utter futility of trying to make yourself a keen Christian; that your best efforts are as futile as your worst failures; that your Christian life is to be a continual miracle that the Father must work every minute; that the only thing you have to do is to depend utterly, and altogether, and all the time on Him.

• To everything there is a time and a season.
• God’s Eternal Wheel But so often we try to kick against God’s timing in each of our lives, yet God has told us that the appointed time will surely come and will not tarry.
• God’s plans for his children rarely happen in the way, or the time that we expect them. At a time you think not He will come to you, and visit you, and dine with you.

• Shall He not answer in His own way and in His own time?  Shall He not exercise His will, according to His riches in mercy?  Shall He not bequeath His benefit to His child – to the glory of His name?  No righteous prayer is ever lost to the heart of God.  No heart sigh ever misses the Father’s wrapped attention.  No breath of prayer is ever spent in vain.
• In His time and in His way, your Isaac will be conceived.  In His way and in His time, your Samuel will be born.  In His way and in His time, your brother will be raised.

• Precious Privilege But the wonderful thing is that this weighty prayer of Paul is for all God’s children. Paul’s desire was that all believers discover the precious privilege they have in Him, and down through the centuries of time men and women have rejoiced in his words – and his prayer for revelation is for you and for me, and for all the body of Christ.
• Let us take time to KNOW every facet of the prayer that Paul prayed for us…

• Filled With The Spirit They were all baptised in the Spirit and then everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them His ability. What a day of gladness that must have been for those that were present on that day. What a time of rejoicing it is for all who are empowered by the same Holy Spirit.
• And for a long time the gospel was preached from Jerusalem to the Jews only.
• Israel-Adopted Sons They were the ones who were entrusted with the amazing Word and Words of God. They were adopted sons who were promised a wonderful earthly inheritance.. but they failed to do as God commanded which was to tell the nations about God – and Israel as a nation was to repent of her sin collectively, and turn to her Messiah. But Israel crucified her king and for a time God chose to work through the Gentiles.

• Now you go down with this truth, down into the vortex of awful agony, right down to the gates of hell, your being is upheaved right from the very bottom, and all the time there is the question Will that truth hold good?

• For when for a time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food (Heb. 5:12).

• It is during the time of our being broken that we learn that His promises concerning us cannot be broken.

• So the Lord has to take much time to make our spiritual history.
• When at length our eyes are open, we cry, O, why did I not see it before!' But everything else had to prove insufficient before we could really be shown, and that takes time.
• Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time (1 Pet 5:6).

• Creative Progression There is an infinite Being – outside time and space, Who has communicated with us.
• Creative Climax He made space, time, and language and imbued man with thought, reason, and choice.
• New Creation God could have obliterated humanity when sin was introduced into the world. He could have halted the human race before His creative work began, but He didn’t, for God looked down the corridors of time and chose each of us who’d become His Body.
• And in the fullness of time, God sent His Son to be the federal head of a new creation.
• The potter did not try to refashion the flawed jar – and God will not do so either. The potter gathered up the clay one more time – and made a new, more beautiful jar – and God in the same way has made a new, beautiful creation from fallen humanity.

• Our position is instantaneous but our condition takes time to join our position.

• But it was not counted as sin because there was not yet any law to break. Still, everyone died—from the time of Adam to the time of Moses—even those who did not disobey an explicit commandment of God, as Adam did.

• Christians are instructed to go boldly to the throne of grace in time of need.
• Ultimate Fulfilment Revelation 8 shows us the time that all-prayer will reach their ultimate fulfilment.

• A period of time was set aside to wrestle with this complex issues of ceaseless prayer – and a whole month was set aside to wrangle with this deep, ecclesiastical problem.
• Continuous Prayer Please tell us how this impossible task of our Lord many be achieved, they asked. How can a busy woman, spare time to engage in continuous prayer?
• they continued. Most people find that the more things we have to do the less time there is to pray... Oh sirs, was her simple reply, the more I pray the easier it becomes to pray!- and she explained how her heavenly Father was with her in every aspect of life.
• Intimate Prayer It’s good to take quiet time alone with the Lord in intimate prayer behind closed doors – but it is also incumbent on us to pray without ceasing – in every part of our life.

• Pray for Labourers We need to pray that God will raise up those to minister to the lost, the hurting and the bereft: pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into his harvest.” Matt.9:38 We need to follow the lovely example of Jesus – Who Himself needed time to pray: for Jesus would withdraw to a desolate place and pray. He went out to the mountains to pray, and all night He continued in prayer to God.” Luke 5:16

• Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need (Heb. 4:16).

• In the true prayer of faith' the intercessor must spend time with the Father to appropriate the promises of His Word, and must permit himself to be taught by the Holy Spirit, whether the promises can be applied to this particular case.

• Intercession is the work, which saints of past time have engaged in through the ages.
• and the deafening din of that heavenly hush – pierces time and penetrates eternity: and another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it, with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar, which was before the throne.

• For we are God's [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us, (taking paths which He prepared ahead of time) that we should walk in them - living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live (Eph. 2:10, Amp.).

• God in His foreknowledge knows ahead of time all who will trust His Son, as Saviour.  And God uses His advanced knowledge to predestine those that believe on Christ, but all who reject salvation bring condemnation upon their own heads.
• But God is outside of time and space and mass and the limitation of humanity.

• This must not be a treading of water – a beating of time.
• That time you spend in the Word, will build up your strength.

• Preparation certainly does have relevance to this brief breath of life here and now, but the work of God’s Spirit is to prepare us for the future ages to come. This is the reason that almost without exception time is needed for preparation.
• This is not a ‘one-time' crucifixion – but a daily dying to self and living for Christ.

• a people for His Name. But as understanding and illumination about the King of kings increases as time passes, so a wall of separation is being constructed between good and evil.

• As new believers, we all set out on a journey from time into eternity.

• Stunning Prophecy The rebellious nation had disobeyed their long-suffering God, and Israel was under the yoke of the cruel Roman Empire – but God had not forgotten His chosen people. And filled with the Holy Spirit, Zacharias started to sing praises to the God of Israel for the time had come for God Himself to visit and redeem His people.

• Paul said to Timothy, The time will come when they will not endure sound teaching; and they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.

• There were no spoken words, but the intimation was to thiseffect: The time has come to repudiate this state and lay hold ofChrist for Life!

• Time is a prime factor in one's assurance of the Father's leading.
• God will give us time to watch and make sure; Satan demands action, right now!

• These oscillations may go on for a certain time, until God carries on the work more deeply in the heart.

• So press onward an upward dear brother... one step at a time, dear sister, and remember He is at your side, spurring you on to victory.

• You may not know what it is at the time, but you have a sense that all is not well.
• You do not have to do that where there is devotion, love watchful all the time, aliveness, alertness, perception, readiness to do without being all the time told to do it.

• Any time there is effort involved in the matter of resisting sin, we can be sure that we are depending to some extent upon the flesh, instead of resting in the finished work of the Cross.

• We are going to learn this only through experience, and now is the time to settle down to this schooling - a day at a time.

• Are His promises at an end for all time?
• The Same Forever Call to mind the former mercies that He has bestowed on you in time past..
• will He do anything less at this moment in time?
• Consider the saints of past time and the prophets of old..
• Call to mind the former mercies that He has bestowed on you in time past..

• Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time (1 Pet. 5:6).

• Most of us can remember the day when we saw clearly that He died for us, and we ought to be equally clear as to the time when we saw that we died with Him.

• At the same time, there are far too many over-responsible believers who are seeking to carry out the Lord's responsibilities.

• The turning point in our Christian life comes when we begin to let God be God, the day we throw all caution (fear) to the winds and look to Him to carry out His purpose for us in His own time and way.

• And for three days and nights as time caught up with eternity  Jesus rested His Spirit in the arms of the Father.
• and for three days it seems as if, ‘time stood still’ – so that His death and His resurrection joined hands together in this; the greatest story ever told.

• Time and space now had no control of Him.

• Christ is far too vast to be seen in more than minute degrees at any one time.

• The Christian needs to seek and see where he is in God’s plan and time-line.
• Time of Transition Then come the Acts, which records a unique time of transition..

• Earthly Realm Israel will receive her earthly inheritance after the time of Jacob’s trouble. Israel must first be brought back to her God – in the time of coming tribulation.

• In chapter 6 our Christian life is wonderful for a time – until we reach the reality of our failure in chapter 7.

• Yes, and therefore, to know the Lord in a larger measure than we have ever known Him, and to be brought to a place where it will not be so easy for the Devil to shake us next time.

• It is good to have exhortation; it is good that we should have testimony; it is good that from time to time the Word of the Lord should come to us in the fullness of a proclamation, but as the Lord's people we also need sound instruction, foundation in the truth.

• Patience can also be a teacher..  willingly explaining a difficult concept for the “n’th” time.
• Obedient Patience Patient endurance and enduring patience is seen throughout the life of Christ! At one time His life was waiting in obedience... at another a running obedience.

• If the first step in the Christian course were definitely understood the saints would have a happier time.

• Some followed for a time – but found discipleship too hard a path and walked with Him no more.

• You only have one chance to be faithful to be obedient – and that time is now.

• Although this is a verse that is directed to Israel, in the time of Jacob’s trouble.
• Through the grace of God, we can stand firm right up to the time of His return – for we must all guard against God’s agape love in our hearts wearing thin.
• Work of Faith There can be no acceptable work of God in our lives that is not a work of faith. There can be no work of faith, which is not a labour of God’s agape love in us. There can be no end-time endurance without the patience of hope resting on Him.

• Nothing gets our attention better than going through a difficult time and He allows these experiences in order to filter our pride – causing us to return our focus on Him.
• At this critical time in our spiritual walk, when the Lord is at the very door. We would do well examine ourselves as never before. We need to see if secret sins have crept deep into our hearts. SEARCH ME OH GOD.

• And so it was that the time was accomplished that Christ was born as a son of Abraham: the father of Isaac who was the father of Jacob, from whose loins came forth the Jewish nation – and through whom was born the Messiah of Israel – the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Role of Israel It was Joshua who led Israel into the promised land of rest, so many centuries ago and it will be the Lord Jesus Christ Who provides the true millennial rest in His coming glorious kingdom – a future time when Israel will be the head of the nations and not the tail.

• They have got a self-complex set up, and all the time it is a continuous going round in a circle and coming back to the same point at which they started, and it is all round themselves, and they are wearing themselves out.

• You see, this servant abandons himself freely, voluntarily, for all time to the service of his master because he has come to love his master.

• Servant-Slave When a servant-slave in Israel ended his time of servitude, he could claim his liberty, but that servant-slave could also choose to remain in service.

• For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us (Rom. 8:18).
• You may have a more or less easy time.
• Just give Him time.

• There is a time when we must sweep our books aside, when we must shut ourselves up from the voices of men, when we must get quiet with the Lord and listen, and more, we must seek to cultivate, by the grace of God, the ear that is always open to the Lord even when all the other sounds are around us.
• The pressing in, and all the things which happen just when you have decided to have a little quiet time; then it is you have to fight for the ear you know it is true.

• We must bear in mind that, while it is the Father's purpose, in His dealings with Job, to vindicate His own estimate of His servant; it is, at the same time, shown us how He educates or disciplines that servant so as to render him worthy of that estimate.

• But we’re also to be set apart for practical sanctification during our time on earth.

• Day of Redemption The Spirit was active in the work He did in you and you were completely passive. Every aspect of His work was done at a moment in time by the Spirit – you did nothing.

• Whatever we do accurately must take time and collectedness of mind, and there is no accuracy in all the world like keeping company with God, and yet nothing so free from bondage or tediousness.

• We should not make a virtue of smallness, as though there were something important about being despised by others, but at the same time we shall find that whenever God has called people to display His glory, He has chosen those who have no glory in themselves.

• If you are in a wrong path, as you seek the Lord, you will be corrected; but on the other hand, the more you are set for Him here, the more you will find that there is nothing for you here, though at the same time you are daily finding more in Him.

• If some of you who have been the Lord's for a long time cast a glance over your past history, you will be able to recall occasions when He spoke and you obeyed instantly.
• But you can recall other occasions when He spoke and you failed to respond; yet strangely, after a time you just found yourself in the way of obedience.

• Ready to trust in His love; ready to believe His Word – and ready to spend time to commune without ceasing.

• The tragic mistake of thousands of believers is in trying to live in two worlds at the same time - in nature and in God, in self and in Christ, in the flesh and in the Spirit, by faith and in independence, by abiding and by effort.

• The Lord may get you off activities and shut you up to inactivity, and you go through an awful time and say the Lord has forsaken you, all has gone wrong.

• The implications of any movement of God are not always recognized at the beginning, but if we go on with Him we shall find that much that is done here and is of time is and has to be left behind.

• He knows what that means for him, and the Lord knows what that means for Himself and hence the special and extra difficulties when it is a case of Christians living together, especially for a long time.

• And time and circumstances affect their spiritual walk.

• It may take months, but at the end of the time you say: I am changed!

• Does this mean he goes accusing God for all the negative things – never, but neither does it mean that they spend their time criticising themselves.
• If there were ever a time for the believer to seek to be a spiritual man – it is now.
• Now is the accepted day – now is the day of salvation of the ‘soul’ The Lord is coming – at His appointed time and He won’t be late.

• Our natural mind is a great obstacle in the race which we are running, cropping up all the time with its complexes, its arguments, its interests and its methods.

• Conflict will go before, conflict will go on at the time, and conflict may follow after.

• Gen.50:20 And in God’s appointed time Joseph was raised from His prison cell, to become governor of all the land.

• His strategies are still wicked and highly refined with the passing of time.

• Not faithfulness for a time or for a season but steadfastness right to the finish line.
• Not loyalty when the going is good or because it suits for the time being, but faithful, devoted, steadfast loyalty, right up to the very moment of death.

• Just then, is the time for us to stand fast in the Lord and maintain that stand in faith.

• STUDY in PRAYER Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.Hebrews.4:16
• How urgent therefore to stand in the gap for others and intercede for the “many.” In Ezekiel’s time the Lord sought for a man who would build a wall and stand in the gap – but He found no one – not even one.
• The end-time of the leavening process is almost complete.
• The end-time apostasy, of which Paul warned in second Timothy seems to be here.
• Throne of Grace Unlike Israel, whose high priest alone could enter the holy of holies once each year, we have unlimited, continuous, and abiding access to the throne of grace, let us, therefore, come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
• Christian Holiness But as in the time of Israel, we too are to all to be clean before the Lord.
• As we wait daily for the Lord – let us intercede and take time to stand in the gap – for others.

• Oh, today we fear that the appeal to become Christians is so often in terms of having an easy or a good time; being happy and enjoying yourself; well, thank God for ALL divine joy, but this is true to the House, to the City, that the first thing the Lord is working toward and seeking to work into His people is that substantial, steadfast, enduring faithfulness that is according to His own nature.
• Oh for substantial Christians that don need coddling and nursing and running after all the time; being pandered to to get them to go on or stand up.
• There is much which is going to be carried away in the last great testing, and if, therefore, trial and adversity is the only way to deepen us, to put caliber into us, I suppose we must expect more of it as the time shortens.

• Bothersome Things Time can also be a big hindrance to which we all so stubbornly cling. Time is often filled with all things that bother us all so much.

• Christian Challenge We too are called at such a time as this, to accept this self-same challenge. We too are called to such a place as this, to be despised of the world and rejected. We too are called to come out from among them and be separate. We too are called to obey His commandment, to love deeply, and suffer long.

• Then the real measure of our dependence on Him is ascertained, and also the extent of our resources in Him; and we make acquisitions in Him which we never make at any other time.
• The more we can rest in Him the more we are independent of everything outside of Him - at such a time, the more vigor we really possess; and the better we get over the winter, be it ever so severe.

• Paul’s Discovery There was a time in Paul’s life when he did not know or appropriate this truth – for in Romans chapter 7, Paul himself cried out Oh wretched man that I am… who shall deliver me from this body of sin – and Paul discovered the answer – I thank God!

• God’s Will All such prayer will accomplish God’s ends and God’s way – in God’s time.
• Throne Ministry Unsung lovers of God who’ve seasoned the path of the body of Christ over time; each adding tears of intercessory love to the brimming bowl on the heavenly alter – all combined to contribute to heaven’s plan – in the throne ministry of God’s will.
• Pray for Fellowship Teach me, Lord, to be in FELLOWSHIP with You - the one only true God Saviour through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, splendour, majesty, might and dominion, power and authority, before all time and now and forevermore – Amen.

• His heart cry over time has grown to echo that of Paul: that I may know Him.
• Lessons we learn in our youth mature over time as we grow older.
• They are forever groaning over their imperfections, and struggling with the flesh, as if they hoped in time to improve it.

• He takes us a step at a time, and He does not want us to take six steps at a bound, or to contemplate six steps at a time.
• The other steps will come at the right time.
• Those of us who look back and see how terrible a thing it would have been if the Lord had shown us at one time all that to which we have been brought, know that if we had seen it all at one time, we could not have gone on.

• But each time He provides, we discover Him to be a God of surprises – and each time He provides is just one more confirmation that His Word is true.

• He needs no time, no heat, no light, no grace, no joy, no love – no life… God needs nothing.

• It is the fast-approaching time, when men of faith will receive their just rewards.
• It is the time when men of faith – who overcome will share in His throne… just as He, the Man of faith, overcame and shared His Father’s throne….

• Believing the Truth affects the eternal soul of man, through time and eternity, for no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid – which is Jesus Christ.” 1Corinthians 3:11 How it pleased the heart of the apostle John who was able to say of Gaius, for I rejoiced greatly, when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even as thou walkest in the truth.” 3John 1:3

• first – from an early Christian walk of prayer and praise to secondly,  the vital trial of our faith which is more precious than gold, to thirdly – the time when we shall know as we are known, and shall see Him face to face.

• Today is a time of child-training with rewards laid up in heaven – today is the day to live by faith as exemplified by all in Hebrews 11.
• Today is the time of child-training with rewards laid up in heaven – today is the day to live by faith as exemplified by that great cloud of witnesses.

• The Fullness of the Gentiles A time is coming (in time) – when the Church will be completed..
• a time when the fullness of the Gentiles will have come in..
• a time when the Lord Jesus comes for His bride – at the rapture…  a time when the 2000-year long Christian dispensation is completed.
• Jacob’s Trouble A time is coming when God will once again turn His attention back to Israel..  time of prophesied tribulation; a time of judgment; the time of Jacob’s trouble..  time when the gospel of the kingdom will have been taught worldwide – time when the veil over the heart of the Jewish nation – is lifted.

• Before time was created there was God, only God and nothing but God.
• The Scarlet Thread of Redemption… Across the landmarks of time and space… Across the realms of history and eternity..

• And God is taking a life-time and possibly longer to bring us to maturity. He takes the normal, natural things of life and uses them as His teaching tools.

• and the answers rarely come at the time that you expect – but at a time ye think not.

• Yes, we pass into a time of excruciating spiritual and soul suffering.
• That is the issue that comes up, and we are faced all the time with something about ourselves that is almost devastating.

• It is folly to spend time and strength otherwise.

• I think you would be wasting your time to try and find it.

• You have only to extend that, provoke that anger enough, put that nature into certain circumstances, and you will discover that you are capable of things of which you would have stood in utmost horror at one time.

• As they peered into a distant future they saw but one mountain peak of deliverance – when streams would rejoice and valleys sing and the earth would be filled with the glory of God…. the time when the kingdom of our God and of His Christ would be established. It would be a time of great joy and much rejoicing, for Israel’s enemies would be put to flight and she would be elevated to become the head and not the tail of the nations.
• Peace and Prosperity It was to be a time of peace and prosperity when God would dwell with His people.
• just like the ox. It was to be a time when the people of Israel would build houses and inhabit them – a time when they plant vineyards and eat of the fruit and enjoy the work of their hand. It was to be a time of safety when spears would be fashioned into pruning hooks and nation shall not lift up sword against nation – neither shall they learn war any more. It was to be a time of abundance when the wilderness would become a fruitful field… the desert was to blossom as a rose – the crooked places were to be made straight.
• Promise to Abraham It was to be a time when all the land promised to Abraham would, at last, be rightfully inhabited by Israel – from the river of Egypt to the great river – the river Euphrates. It was to be a time when the Dead Sea would be healed and filled with a multitude of fish and a river of water was to flow out from beneath the Temple of the Lord.

• They were waiting for the time when the earth would be filled with the glory of God.
• Limited Understanding At this time all the disciples had a pre-cross understanding of the coming kingdom. At this time they did not understand church-age doctrine – as designed by God.

• For the growing believer it means daily crucifixion, and at the same time freedom from the penalty and the power of sin and self.

• The most dangerous time for the work of God is the time of blessing.

• Whenever we are being faced with some new and different course, some fresh proposition or position, there is one all-governing question that we should ask, and which we should take ample time to ponder and pray over seriously.

• Throughout time men of faith looked for the day when the day-star would appear, for it is at one point on life’s horizon, at the break of the day, that the Son arises.

• Waiting for God Like the disciples, we must wait God’s time.

• The time is coming, yes, and has already come, when true worshippers will worship in spirit and in reality.
• Then He dismissed the whole system that had existed up to that time.
• The hour is not just a matter of time but a matter of PERSON.

• This happened in the time of Christ and it does today.
• We read that, from that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more” John 6:66

• All that itwill mean in time, and in eternity will be through our spiritualunion with Christ.
• But this, while we are yet here in time, will everbe by faith's union.

• begotten of love, Whose light burst into time from eternity.
• Eternal Essence Only created words in a created time can describe this uncreated eternal One.
• yet time nestles deep within the bowels of God.
• and a future residence in heaven is dimmed.. because we live in today – a time that seems so far removed from the eternal One, and His eternal ages..
• O Lord, teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Teach us to redeem the time we have left and use it to praise of the eternal God.
• Eternal Life The eternal God, Who LOVED you from the before time began..
• the eternal God, Who CHOSE you to be the temple of His eternal presence.. for the rest of your time on earth and into the eternal ages that are to come.

• And we would do well to take heed of the truth of God’s word and store it in our heart – for the time is coming when few will heed the true doctrine contained in Scripture.
• Oh, there were many times He professed to be the eternal, omnipotent God of Israel. And during His time on the earth Jesus told the Pharisees, “Truly, truly, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM.” …the exact words that the Lord God applied to Himself when He spoke to Moses at the burning bush, revealing Himself as, “I AM that I AM.”

• Rejected Saviour The first time the king of glory visited the earth to redeem His people from their sins He came as a helpless baby, born in a humble stable and lived a simple life as a poor carpenter, until He was finally rejected and cruelly crucified by those He came to save.
• Everlasting King The second time He will come with great power and glory to set up His everlasting kingdom, an earthly kingdom of thousand years – and an eternal kingdom that will last forever for He is our representative Man and our everlasting King. There are many intricate and interlinking story-lines woven together in God’s Word and every single one of them intersect on the Son of God, Who became Son of Man – God’s eternal gift to men.

• A striking feature of our time is that so few of the voices have a distinctive message.
• The most serious aspect of this way of things is that it results in voices, voices, voices, a confusion of voices, but not the specific voice with the specific utterance of God for the time....

• He even sees ahead of time what is going to take place tomorrow, next week, next year.
• but God is ever watching their evil designs, and the time is coming for their judgement.

• Children of God may cross your path in dire need, and may all the time be looking for the person who can help them.

• Time of Training David sought comfort in his Psalms - knowing God's promises are sure and Paul gloried in his thorn - knowing that His grace is sufficient. Present circumstances which press so hard and wound so deeply..if surrendered to the Lord..
• The Time to Trust When is the time to trust?Is it when all is calm,When saves the victor's palm,And life is one glad psalmOf joy and praise?Yes but more time to trustIs when the waves beat high,When storm clouds fill the sky,And prayer is one long cry Oh help and save!
• When is the time to trust?Is it when friends are true?Is it when comforts woo,And in all we say and doWe meet but praise?YES!
• but more time to trustIs when we stand alone,And summer birds have flown,And every prop is gone,All else but God.
• What is the time to trust?Is it some future day,When you have tried your way,And learned to trust and prayBy bitter woe?YES!
• but more time to trustIs in this moment's needPoor, broken, bruised reed!Poor, troubled soul, make speed To trust thy God.
• What is the time to trust?Is it when hopes beat highWhen sunshine guilds the sky,And joy and ecstasyFill all the heart?YES!
• but more time to trustIs when our joy is fled,When sorrow bows the head,And all is cold and dead All else but God.

• Pursuit of His Love should be a conscious part of our prayer-time.

• Throughout time and eternity the God of circumstances has every situation planned for our good and for His glory (Rom. 8:28, 29).
• By the time that action reached you it had become the will of God for you, since to a yielded believer there are no second causes.

• Tidings of Joy The tidings of great joy declared to the little shepherd band were indeed for all men, for all have sinned and all fall short of God’s glory and all men need a Saviour. Two thousand years ago the Infinite, the Almighty One stooped down into time, so that He could pick up you, a lost, worthless, shame-ridden, miserable worm..

• Precious Time The time one spends on worry is precious time that had been lost to life forever and effort spent on worry is of little worth – for it wearies the soul and exhausts the heart.

• It was grace in its fullness that caused the Godhead to look down the corridors of time and purpose an eternal plan that would redeem a sinful race of humanity from sin.  

• It is just in so far as you and I bring our lives at this time of the day back to God fullness in the Cross that we are going to know this progressive development and increase of Life - so far and no more.

• But at the chosen time God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law – to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

• 400 Silent years The nation of Israel was required to repent of her collective sins against her God, and generation after generation that Seed travelled down the corridors of time.
• Last Prophet John was Israel’s last prophet who was to call the nation of Israel to repentance as the time to set up the kingdom of God had finally arrived – their Messiah had come… but the nation of Israel rejected their Messiah and crucified their King and so the kingdom of God had to be delayed for a time – during the church age, and given to a people who would produce its fruit – and so Israel was set aside – for a time…
• The Witness of the Church The witness of Israel was to be replaced with the witness of the Church – for a time. The gospel of the kingdom was to be replaced with the gospel of grace – for a time. The promised kingdom was to be postponed – until the whole nation of Israel repents.
• Transitional Period And Acts covers a special, unrepeatable period of time – a unique time of transition. It was a period of history that bridged the old covenant with the new covenant. It was a bridge between Old Testament living and New Testament life.

• The mark of a life governed by the Holy Spirit is that such a life is continually and ever more and more occupied with Christ, that Christ is becoming greater and greater as time goes on.

• Second Coming Peter does not spend time giving peculiar details of specific end-time events, but warned us to recognise the approaching season of Christ’s soon return.
• He knows end-time believers have a greater need than such specific knowledge.
• We are to prepare our hearts for the time when all earthly things will go.

• Just as He, being the resurrection and the Life, means resurrection at any moment, and not merely at the last day you remember Martha said, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day, and the Lord, in effect, said, Stop, I am the resurrection and the Life, and I being here, the last day may be here so far as the resurrection is concerned; it is no time matter when I am present, it can be now!

• Yes, says the writer, there was a tabernacle on this earth, and for the time being... until the time.

• He intends to break down what is of the old man, and then, in His own good time, He will pour in that which sweetens all.

• A great deal of our time is spent in learning that there is nothing here to meet the requirements of our new affections.

• This whole question of heavenly relationship with the Lord is a tremendously searching one, the fact that Christ has transferred everything to heaven and that nothing less than a life in heavenly union with Him will stand the test at any time.

• We see that material and temporal things according to this world ideas and standards of greatness and even of the religious world standards, are the things which govern the mentality of these disciples after all this time.
• It is a continuous battleground as to how things stand in this world before men, and even as to what the great religious leaders, and even evangelical leaders of our time regard as the important thing.

• This is heavenly fullness, the thing to which the Lord has been working all the time.
• Naturally we are here, but there is something of ourselves going up all the time, when the Lord is getting in us something more of heaven.

• I am not saying that you have to eye every servant of God with suspicion and be saying all the time: Well, of course, he is not perfect, you know.

• Faithful and True His titles are as numerous as the stars and His designations are eternally glorious. His attributes are without measure and His unchanging character is faithful and true. His name is wonderful; He is altogether lovely; He is my beloved, and He is our saviour – and to know Jesus as saviour is the only thing worth knowing in time and into eternity.
• Hidden Mystery And so in the fullness of time, God sent forth His Son to carry out His heavenly plan.
• To know Jesus as saviour is the only thing worth knowing in time and into eternity.

• We must be completely clear as to what it is that God is particularly concerned with at this time in the world's history, and, therefore, what it is that we who are the Lord's children are called unto.

• Perfect Saviour As God He was still the omnipotent, omniscient, infinite, eternal, universal Creator – as Man He began His life as a babe in Bethlehem – and gave His life a ransom for many. The reality of Christ’s human nature links Him irrefutably with the whole human race, and though Christ must never be divorced from His deity, He became a man and He participated in the history of humankind – having come to this world in the likeness of sinful flesh. It was for us that the perfect uncreated God of the universe, became perfect Man and Who in the fullness of time – and for our sakes become our perfect Saviour.

• He does not keep office hours, or live in an alternative time zone.
• His promises are everlasting and His truth is all-embracing, for He is the immutable God Who is changeless in time and through eternity.

• But no matter how beautiful or expensive a gift may be, it will wax old and deteriorate, and it is all too likely to be replaced in time by something else that piques the interest. But Paul in his second letter to the Corinthians writes of the indescribable gift that God in His grace gave to humanity – a gift with eternal consequences, that will never age nor lose its value – a perfect gift of grace and beauty that can never be replaced.
• It’s suitable for all occasions no matter what the time – and for all persons whether bond or free. God’s unutterable gift of His Son multiplies into a plethora of additional gifts, which explode into an astonishing display of God’s amazing grace and unconditional love. Spiritual death is removed and the new life of Christ is breathed into our dead spirit – we were dead in our sins, but made alive in Christ.

• It is a great thing to which we are called in Christ, but how many Christians are really in it, and if they know they are in it, are tasting of the meaning of it: that this Life is an inexhaustible Life, that there are new vistas all the time?

• If we were so utterly and not one of us really is if we were so utterly consumed for the Lord's interests alone that no other interest in our lives had any precedence or power to govern us, we would be in victory all the time.

• Abounding Grace As time passed, mankind rebelled against their Creator God and so the Law was sent. Paul says the Law was given so that the offence might abound..

• God’s Time Periods Why was Paul so insistent that believers did not return from grace to law?
• Well God has established a divine program for the whole of human history and God has scheduled certain events within a series of set time-periods, (or dispensations).
• God’s Set Time God set a time for Israel’s Messiah to come to earth and to die as Saviour of the world.
• We read: when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son.
• He has set a time for Israel’s restoration, when Christ will set up His kingdom on earth: Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, Jude 1:14. and God chose to reveal certain events on His ‘calendar’ through His Word.
• God’s Rules for Living God scheduled certain events to take place in different time-periods or dispensations, and unless we identify our place in His program, we miss His plan.
• One time-period was in Eden.
• Every time period, epoch or era has its own code for living; its own ‘laws’; its own indigenous rules, requirements and regulations.
• Similarly, those living at the era of the Patriarchs had a code unique to their time-period and though there is little information of this code in scripture, Noah obeyed God’s rules, for we read that: Noah walked faithfully with God and did everything just as God commanded him.
• Age of the Church The Greek word for “law” is “nomos” and also means ‘rule’ or ‘instructions’ and since Calvary, believers have been in a specific period of time called the Age of Grace.
• Christians living in this Church age are given a set of instructions; a set of rules for living – guidelines to live godly lives and ‘laws’ specific to this time-period – and they are almost exclusively laid out in Paul’s epistles.
• Laws given in Eden or during the time of the Patriarchs are not for the Church today – nor are the rules which will be implemented in the Millennial age.

• Provided thatlaw is complied with, honored; and at the right time the body isgiven what it needs, not more, not less; the law of nourishmentdeals with that and quite spontaneously works out in development,growth, to express itself in various ways.
• The Lord Jesus knew that at a certain time He could notact, could not speak; He had no movement of the Spirit inquickening, no Life to do so at that time; in His spirit therewas no movement of Life; the law was not active in the positiveway.
• But when the Father, Who knew what was required in speech oraction, saw that the time had come, He did not bend down andspeak with an audible voice into His ear, and say, Now is thetime!

• Die to Self Turn away from your foolish boasting and dismount your elevated self-image, and put on Christ and Christ alone – nailing Self to the blood-stained tree. For no man has known God at any time, save the Lord Jesus.

• He let people know that to follow Him, as He put it at that time, involved them in difficulty and suffering and persecution and trial and a lifelong thing.

• Things that enter into our history we cannot always fathom, but the explanation which we can give is that, whatever there may be as second causes, the Lord is Sovereign and He thinks it worthwhile sometimes to allow what the world would call the most terrible thing to overtake for the time being, and it would seem that His Name and interests suffer through that thing, but through that thing He brings His people to a place of maturity and they get to know the Lord for themselves.

• Infinite Light No man has seen God at any time and lived, for His glory is beyond understanding. No searching in the heavens above or the earth beneath can discover Him, for He dwells in eternal light and infinite love that cannot be seen nor fathomed out.
• Divine Light The Eternal Son was translated into TIME. The Infinite God was contracted into a SPAN. The Immortal One was manifested in an EARTHLY FRAME. The Invisible One became a VULNERABLE BABE in the arms of His mother.

• Glorious Creator God – incarnate in Precious Perfect Manhood.  There is no one like You, Who is eternal before time was created.

• And, beloved, the burden of the Lord must come on our heart in like manner if we are to be effective instruments for the Lord in His end-time activities; we must be exercised in a very deep way with the interests of God.

• All who take time to study the disposition and character of Christ discover Him to display perfection throughout His lifetime and grace in all circumstances of His life.

• Right Relationship All these people were in right relationship with the Lord and each of these characters displayed a characteristic that pleased the Lord – a godly disposition that was precious in His eyes – a quality that is dear to the heart of our God. God laid His hand on each of His people in a unique way and God took time in each life to develop in each one a peculiar and distinctive quality that was a dim reflection of His own perfect grace – one that would be seen in the face of Jesus Himself.
• As we read through Scripture, we discover one here and we find another there… But in the fulness of time God sent His only Son in the form of man, in Whom would dwell all the godly attributes of Deity bodily – for He is the ultimate Man of faith and virtue, the perfect Man of prayer and praise, the godly Man of wisdom and worship, the loving Man of obedience and humility, the gracious Man so beloved of the Father, Who was chosen to be our Saviour for He is the true Man after God’s own heart.

• Moses had to wait forty years to carry out his purpose, which was a right one, though in the first flush the flesh sought to carry it out; but in the Lord's time, how fully every purpose of his heart was met - all the way to the Mount of Transfiguration!

• Fundamental and Foundational This is fundamental and this is foundational – Check out the scripture from Genesis to Revelation. Scrutinise the teachings of Paul. Plough your way through the Psalms of David.  Plunge into Soloman’s Proverbs and time and again and over and increasingly, it comes back to man’s thinking… to our thoughts..

• The peril is that we should begin to make our ministry something that is watertight.... Draw in your mind eye three squares, separate, standing each alone, and you will have what represents a very great deal of the nature of work for the Lord in our day from time to time.

• You have doubtless gone through a time of deep and dark trial in which you have had to hand everything over you have come to a crisis where you have had to place on the altar something that was very precious and let it go to the Lord.

• Final Revelation God may gracious illuminate the mind of man from His own Spirit-revealed revelation, but God’s revelation to man is an open secret in the scriptures of God: for God, spoke in many ways and means, in time past to the fathers, by the prophets, Hebrews 1:1  But God’s last and final revelation came through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

• Either you submit willingly to being conformed into the image of His Son – or through time, He will apply innumerable painful strategies to change you into His likensss.

• Glorious Gospel This is no “mysterious phenomena,” that cannot be understood by you or me! This is no “secret illumination” given only a few men with mystical minds. This was a truth hidden by God, until it was time to proclaim it to the world. The mystery of godliness is the wonderful truth of the glorious gospel of Christ.

• Do not conclude that because of such inaction no ministry is being rendered, or that everything of that kind is cut off at such a time.

• Final Reflection Take time, believer, to reflect on every aspect of the name of Jesus - Prophet Priest, and King... Who for love of you set aside His glory to become one of us, that you might one day be seated with Him in heavenly places.

• So the Lord has to take much time to make spiritual history.
• But everything else had to prove insufficient before we could really be shown, and that takes time.
• At this point, therefore, we awoke to the fundamental principle of our Lord's own life while here, and it became the law of everything for us from that time.

• No one who knows anything about the present conditions will disagree with the statement that the Church is in tragic need of men with a message, but our point is that what is needed is the knowledge of what the message is for the time.
• It will mean loneliness, and going on alone perhaps for quite a time.

• the things of eternity, rather than the things of time and space, of sense and sight.

• The devil is all the time trying to create a sense of distance between us and the Lord: but there is no distance between if we abide in Christ, for no one can be closer to the Father than the Son, and we are in Him! -T.L.M.

• It is a testing way, but, blessed be God, if we do endure the testing and go on patiently with Him, in His time, when that flesh has been finally laid low; when the voice of natural ambition is no longer sounding and having influence, and we are now utterly at the place where if things are not going to be of the Lord then there is not going to be anything at all, the Lord has a free way, and He is able to indicate that all the time something has been going on.
• He shows how He has been at work, and how that in time there will be manifested a work of God, a work that shall have such a large percentage of spiritual value and meaning in it that you are very glad, after all, that you walked with God and not with men in the work of God.

• It may be that you do not feel the full weight of that; but if ever you come, as perhaps some of you have come, to a time, such as many of the most faithful and devoted and greatly-used servants of God have known, when the dark forces spread themselves over, gather around in their hordes, and seek to come between you and your Lord and then begin their whisperings The Lord has given you up, handed you over, or something to that effect when you come to that place, then I trust you will know that this word is no light word, no unimportant word: for the last depths of Calvary were fathomed in the moment when our Lord cried that bitter cry and gained the answer and came out victorious and into rest.

• But there is the other side, of course, all the time, for God is not only, and always negative; there is the constructing, bringing up to the place where anything that is false, anything that is not absolutely transparent and true, straight, clear, is hateful to us.
• It is a time matter, but God is very faithful He is very faithful; He does not let things pass.

• but it would be built in the future. He wept over Jerusalem, for their rejection of Him meant a coming time of sorrow.

• Coming Glory I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the !!! !! ! !! !!!

• All-embracing Forgiveness His forgiveness traversed the centuries of time.
• This pivotal point in HIS-Story, which flooded the far reaches of creation, as fallen man was saturated with God’s forgiveness. This centralised fulcrum in the affairs of mankind – spans past time and through eternity.

• Personal Challenge God’s will, God’s plans, and God’s purposes will be carried out to completion. If we are not willing to be His prisoner, He will find other willing captives, He will enlist another one who will trust Him entirely and follow Him completely. But we must beware, lest the challenge thrown at Esther – is levelled at us, for who knows whether we have been called to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

• for the fruit of the Spirit takes time to grow and to ripen in the life of a believer – just as the fruit on the tree requires sunshine and storm to yield its produce.
• The temptation to shortcut is especially strong, unless we see the value and submit to the necessity of the time element; in simple trust resting in His hands - “Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Christ Jesus.
• But since God is working for eternity, why should we be concerned about the time involved?

• It seems that in the case of the Galatians it was again the natural man, but this time in the realm of natural emotions.
• The answer is, You ran in the strength of your own emotions, you ran as your enthusiastic response to God's call because it affected your feelings for the time.

• Tears Among Wheat The seduction of western Christianity has all but reached its fullness, as sheep of His flock feed on the bitter bread and toxic manna of its leavened meal. Christ’s kingdom parables outline in great detail the final condition of His church in Matthew chapter 13 – covering the time when the enemy started to sow tares into the wheat…up to today.. a time during which a little leaven was mixed into the 3 measures of God’s good meal.
• Praise the Lord of Heaven and earth, that His ways and purposes are not ours. His purpose in life will be carried out in the life of a believer – by faith. His plan for each life will take time..

• How blessed it is to know, and at the same time how solemn to realize, that the sin of the child of God is against his Father, and that it is the love of relationship that is called into exercise about it - love which acts towards us for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness' (Heb. 12:10).

• Our attitude every time must be, Lord, do save me from ever coming to the time when what I have heard proves only to have been a thing heard; make it a basis of Holy Spirit activity to reach the Divine end.

• Grace and Wisdom In His grace and wisdom, He will take the harrowed heart that questions Why, and He will answer it in His way – and in His time – to His glory – and to your benefit.

• What of the resurrection of nature every Spring-time?

• And yet God knows that we are all the time defeated in our very sincerity by secret motives, and nothing but a test position can prove whether we actually mean it.

• They need urging and encouraging; and all the time following up and putting right, because they have taken offence, and so on.

• You will not think me too elementary, for you know in your heart, as well as I do in mine, that this matter of heart rest, the rest of faith, is a live question continually, it is coming up all the time.
• One of the things which is lacking in so many of us is this rest, or, to put it the other way, the things which characterize us so much are fret, anxiety, uncertainty, and all those things which are just the opposite of calm assurance, quiet confidence, the spirit and attitude and atmosphere which says all the time, Don't worry, don't fret, it is all right.

• Health and Healing There have been other times of anguish that I have experienced since that time.
• Since that time, some 20 years ago, when darkness and anguish disquieted my soul, God has gently led me back to the importance of praise in a believers heart..
• for it is only when we see Him that we will be fully cleansed and made entirely whole, but Remember:- every time He breaks your heart..

• Salvation of the spirit (or being born again) takes one moment in time.

• He would take risks with people, you would probably say: Oh, why put them off, why run the risk of offending them, why discourage them saying 'except, except, except' all the time?
• If so, we stand to lose terribly.... Is there something quite distinctive about our lives that says that man, that woman, that young man, that young woman is utter for God, there no doubt about it, you see it all the time, they are utter for God; they are not playing at things, there no compromise with them.

• There was a time before time began.
• New Life But until we can truly examine every nook and cranny of our life and say with Paul.. I have been crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live – yet not I, but Christ lives in me…” Gal.2:20. Until that time our heart must remain rebellious towards the Self-Existent One – the Self-Existent God, Who loves us so much and gave Himself for us.

• Each time we sin, fellowship must be restored and John outlines his “fellowship formula” at the start of his first epistle.

• They have no time to lose.
• They must buy up their time.

• Before time was created and the stars were formed, God alone existed, and God had a plan to save those who would believe on the name of His Son – and God purposed that man would be saved by faith and that man would live by faith.
• God from the beginning, gave ‘order’ to all ages, of all time: past, present, and future, and He explained His plans and purposes in His Word – through faith.

• through time and into eternity, but God’s grace dictates that the choice is open for every sinner until death.

• 1st : Salvation FIRST: Salvation is secured through the Spirit at the time of rebirth, but we are given a choice and warned against resisting the Holy Spirit.
• Those that rejected the Spirit at the time of Stephen’s death were rebuked: you stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always RESIST the Holy Spirit – as your fathers did, so do you.

• Never allow your heart or spirit to depress at this time, though the world spirals out of control... for He is faithful to go ahead of all circumstances of life to redeem the impossible.
• gazing on the bloodied, beaten body of the Lord Jesus, after He gave up the ghost… WHO would have thought that His, was the greatest victory in the history of time and eternity?  Your victory, is as sure as His – as you stand and wait and watch in loving, trusting obedience, even as He requires each of us, so to do.

• The impressive thing about this expressed ambition is the time at which it is made.
• Here is a man who has had a revelation and knowledge of Jesus Christ greater than any other man up to that time.

• Not necessarily to sin or to the world, but to something which, while it brings them a great deal of gratification for a time, eventually proves to be a diversion resulting in arrested spiritual growth, and they are found in a backwater, a cul-de-sac, occupied with an alternative to the whole counsel of God.

• If He said, I am going to lead you into a bad time, it is all going to be dark and strange and perplexing and bewildering and helpless, but it is all right, I am working a tremendous thing, this is what I am going to bring out of it, if He said that, the faith element would fade out.
• When you are having a bad, dark time and feel that all has gone wrong, read the story of Joseph again... starting on it you will not want to put it down.

• One Gift of Grace Salvation is ONE and yet salvation is THREE – for we were saved at a single point in time:- (justified) We are being saved through the passage of time:- (sanctification) and at a point in time, known only to God, we will be finally fully saved:- (glorified). There are not 3 salvations, but ONE gift of grace that is accessed by faith, in Christ, God’s ONE gift of salvation has THREE elements – 1) justification, 2) sanctification, and 3)glorification.
• Justification – PAST There are many passages that distinguish between these three tenses of salvation, In 2 Timothy 1:9 we discover God saved us – a past event, that took place at a point in time, when we were saved from the penalty of sin i.e.
• Initial Salvation Although we were not made righteous in a practical way – for we still have an old sin nature, this was the point we were positioned “in Christ” – and imputed with His righteousness – and from then on we had a right standing with God – JUSTIFIED. This is the point in time when we were born again – by believing in the work of Christ.
• Although justification happens at a point in time – sanctification is a lifelong process. Sanctification is an ongoing, lifelong process in a believer, BUT though God desires all His children to be sanctified – not all believers are willing to be set apart unto Him.
• Positional Sanctification Being positioned “in Christ”, when we were justified, means we were also positionally sanctified that very moment in time.

• Now is the time and the hour to awake from our sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.Romans 13:11
• Time is Short Every day that passes is a day closer to the return of the Lord Jesus for His church.
• The Lord’s return is imminent and each day it gets a little closer than the day before. Time is short and we need to be awake, alert, ready and prepared to meet our Saviour.. but should we try to work out the day of His return to take us to be with Himself?
• Increasing Urgency This should also be a time when we examine our own relationship with Jesus. We can scarcely exhort others to be spiritual ready if we are ill-prepared ourselves. We can hardly encourage others towards preparedness if we have become careless. We cannot draw alongside others aright, unless we are in fellowship with the Lord – and the urgency increases as we see the day of His return approaching.
• Increasing Pressures There is to be a huge increase in satanic activity in the heavenly realms. The enemy knows he has only a short time to achieve his nefarious deeds. The enemy as a roaring lion prowls the earth, seeking whom he may devour.
• Spirit and Prayer Believers may be divided by thousands of miles – separated by land and sea… but we can gather together in love and encouragement – in spirit and in prayer, reminding each other that the time is short and we are to look up. Christ is returning soon and our redemption draws closer with each passing day.

• This is a day for travail: whether it be a travail for the unsaved or for the Lord's people; every true spiritual activity is born out of travail, and those who have been most used of God in every time have been men and women who had this travail in their soul, in their secret life with God.
• Then ask the Lord to bring you into His concern; stretch yourself out before God to be brought into His burden for the time in which you live.

• Cleansing Confession A believer who chooses to live under the law’s self-merit instead of God’s will is still a child of God, although for a time has fallen from grace.

• the stinking self, coming up all the time.

• The time came when He forsook both and He was no longer found there.

• God has never, at any time, by any means, worked on any other ground than that of His Son.

• Bridge of Time But it was also a bridge separating the old covenant from the new covenant. It is the midpoint of a transitional bridge of time, that spans past and present.
• Acts covers a special and unrepeatable period of time – a unique time of transition. Acts was a bridge between Old Testament living and New Testament life.
• Transition Time It was a time when God implemented His plan to set Israel aside – for a time. It was a period when God started to form a totally new body of believers.
• It was a slow, gradual, painful time of transition covering about 30 years.
• It was the time that Christ set about starting the process of building His Church.

• Little by little He unveiled new ways of revealing His nature and His character, and the unfolding of Himself is likely to reach through time and into eternity.
• There is no time or place where His presence is not found.
• for He knows all, He is everywhere – He is present all the time.

• Unique Nature The unique nature of the Lord Jesus Christ is a topic requiring deep exploration. Without His pre-existence as God He could never have become incarnate Man. He’s singular among the children of men for His birth was not the start of His origin. He’s unique within the Triune Godhead for He was the ONE Person Who became Human. Jesus Christ was the convergence of time with eternity. Jesus Christ was the harmonising of deity with humanity. Jesus Christ was the convergence of heaven with earth.
• Unique Son He laid aside the glory He had with the Father during the time He walked on earth, yet He retained His pre-existent knowledge – while learning obedience as a Son. He remembers the glory that He shared with the Father before the world was created. He recalled How He was the bread of life that came down from heaven for in Him is life, and that life is a light that shines in the heart of everyone coming into the world.
• Deep Darkness His eternal existence was rudely interrupted with His birth into a race of fallen men. The glory He shared with God was set aside, for a time – as He tabernacled on earth. The glorious relationship with His Father was temporarily terminated for 3 dreadful hours of deep darkness, as He paid for your sin and mine so He could cry – IT IS FINISHED.
• Time touched Eternity Yes indeed – the unique nature of the Christ will require our eternal exploration. Time touched eternity and heaven stooped to earth as DEITY united forever with humanity.

• Two Views of God The first way you get a full, and complete, yet distorted view of God, based on your imperfect imaginations – built up over time and through experiences.
• Those who start down the second path will make a conscious decision, to renounce all false imaginations and images of God built up over time – to refuse to believe the minds-eye photo that has been developed through life – and to believe without doubting that God’s Word is true and His promise sure.

• Immediately you begin to contemplate or purpose a fuller prayer-life, the enemy launches a new scheme for keeping you more busy and occupied, heaping up the work and crowding in demands so that you will have no time or opportunity for prayer.... But we must recognize this: that the enemy will construct his best arguments about responsibility, duty and conscience to stop us praying, and there is a place where, if we see prayer is utterly ruled out, or brought down to such a limited place that it is completely inadequate for a life of spiritual ascendancy and victory, we have to say: Lord, I am going to trust the responsibility with You while I pray, that You will not allow my breaking away for this time to have detrimental results, and that You will protect this prayer-time which I seek for Your glory from the inroads of the enemy.

• Each time one of His little ones cry out to Him He hears.
• He visits those that are sick and suffering, to offer grace in time of need.
• Acceptable Time Once, long ago, the Lord said: “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever”.
• “Now is the accepted time to come to the Lord”. 2Cor.6:2 Now is the accepted time to return to the Lord, and to get right with Him.

• Mean Routine How quickly we try to stumble over and endure the mean routine. How quickly we hurry through the mundane to get that ‘spiritual time’ alone that is indeed important..

• The spirit of every believer is born anew at the time he first believed – but the soul of every believer needs to partake of the Living Water each day.

• This is for your eternal good, though it causes intense distress in the present time.

• An experience that in time or in eternity will prove itself to be one of those things for which we say – ALL things work together for good to those that love God – to those that are the called, according to HIS purpose….

• Many things were dealt with at that time..

• For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us (Rom. 8:18).

• Future Ruler Christ’s kingdom is not of this 'world' – of this current world system, and Christ’s kingdom could never be set up under the authority of Satan. But Satan was defeated at the cross, so Satan is already a defeated enemy, and he knows that his time is short.
• This current world system is not where we should be placing our hope – for our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Saviour – the Lord Jesus Christ Philippians 3:20.  Scripture informs us that the love of many believers will grow cold. The Bible tells us that many Christians will forsake Him for alternative truths. The Word of God warns that the Church will be leavened at the time of His return.

• but none of us know the date and time that the end of our life will be, but from the moment of believing faith, we were accepted by God, through Jesus.
• Sanctified to God This is at the eve of His crucifixion. This is the time that His departure from earth is drawing close. This is the hour He is found in profound agony of spirit.
• Fleeting Time As blood-bought believers and servants of the Lord Jesus, we have the rest of our lives ahead of us, and yet we too are at the very door of our departure from earth... as for man, his days are like grass.
• Full Consecration Now is the accepted time to ensure that lives are fully consecrated to the Lord. Now is the time to be sure that our lamps are trimmed and lighted. Now is the time to ensure that our lives are fully surrendered to Him.

• It Takes Time There is no quick way to grow in grace and become spiritually mature.
• How vital that we understand and accept that God takes His time in our training.
• God is working in each life for eternity, and we must grasp hold of the scriptural fact that maturing in the faith takes time.
• One saint, who understood God’s principle of time, gave this edifying comment:- “We might consider some familiar names of believers whom God obviously brought to maturity and used for His glory – such as Pierson, Chapman, Tauler, Moody, Goforth, Mueller, Taylor, Watt, Trumbull, Meyer, Murray, Havergal, Guyon, Mabie, Gordon, Hyde, Mantle, McCheyne, McConkey, Deck, Paxson, Stoney, Saphir, Carmichael, and Hopkins.

• Acts is an overlapping bridge-of-time during which evangelistic responsibility is being passed from the old dispensation of Israel to the Church – in the age of grace.

• Soulical perfection: perfection of the soul takes time a whole life-time.
• What is so hard to accept is that God takes His time to bring us to perfection!
• God always produces at His appointed time.
• And He will do it in His time and His way and for His glory – but for our benefit.
• One great godly saint who understood the time-weathers principle of God wrote:- Many a young Christian, who has not been warned of this necessary voyage of discovery upon which the Holy Spirit will certainty embark him (Rom.7:1ff), has been plunged into almost incurable despair at the sight of the sinfulness which is his by nature.
• for He is not working a work in you just for time, but God is working for your eternal benefit – and for His glory.

• All the earthly distinctions of place and time disappear in Him.
• It may take us a long time to travel about this world, though men think it is a very wonderful thing to travel at so many hundred or thousand miles a minute and get to the moon in no very great time!

• And whether 4, 14, 24, 44, or 94, growing in the faith takes time in our life-journey.
• Such as the TIME that it takes to mature in the faith..
•  Abiding Walk Maturing in the faith takes TIME – a lifetime.

• Moment in Time Our little time on this 'hanging globe' is but for a moment.
• Prelude to Eternity This human life is but a prelude to eternity. The decisions made on this mortal coil are fixed in the books of eternity. May each of us make today count – for today you have been ordained for the service of the Lord. The believer’s time of probation and training needs to be enacted out for the serious purpose.

• Joy Set Before Us Remember – if for a time we are in heaviness – it is only for a season – and the very anticipation of the joy set before us..
• God has placed us in time with eternity in view – and He reminds us that there is a time for every matter under heaven:
• Time With Eternity in View A time to be born, and a time to die;A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which was planted;
• A time to kill, and a time to heal;A time to break down, and a time to build up;
• A time to weep, and a time to laugh;A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
• A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
• A time to seek, and a time to lose;A time to keep, and a time to cast away;
• A time to tear, and a time to sew;A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
• A time to love, and a time to hate;A time for war, and a time for peace.
• Accepted Time And he tells us that today is the time in which we live.
• Today is the accepted time.

• Our souls are making fools of us all the time.

• For both time and eternity, all is summed up in John 17:3: And this is life eternal. . . [to] know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ.

• Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time (1 Pet. 5:6).

• That there should be a company, two or three or more, though limited physically here on this earth by time and space, yet really functioning in the Holy Spirit, so that the universal Christ all that it means that He is there at God right hand is having some expression!

• Take time to simply reflect on these marvellous mysteries.

• That which He utilizes to cause us to grow spiritually is at the same time designed to prepare us for His service.

• under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time (1 Pet. 5:6).

• Now, at the time, discipline seems to be a matter not for joy, but for grief; yet it afterwards yields to those who have passed through its training a result full of peace - namely, righteousness (Heb. 12:11, Wey.).

• God will hear prayer, but He may not answer it at the time which we in our minds have appointed!
• Should we not be as persevering and hopeful as to heavenly things? Never let us despair – for we have God’s promises at our back. God’s time for mercy will come; yes..
• it has come, if our time for believing has arrived.

• and most believers I know have at one time or another asked such questions.
• God’s Forgiveness And then you recall the time when you first believed that your sins were forgiven.
• And most believers I know have at one time or another asked such questions.
• and most believers I know have at one time or another tried to justify such thoughts.
• If you have not once and forever accepted your acceptance by God, you will live a defeated life until the time that you die or until Christ returns.

• It may take months, but at the end of the time you say: I am changed!

• Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time (1 Pet. 5:6).

• Since they anticipate the binding of Satan, a purified earth, the restoration of Israel, and the personal reign of the King, they cannot be applied until God's appointed time when these accompanying conditions on the earth have been brought to pass.

• He waited patiently, and he patiently waited. This just, devout believer sought the Lord and waited for Him – for His time.

• We could spend much time in pointing out the tragedies that have come into Christianity because of failure to recognize or live up to this.

• No doubt the passing of time must have raised questions as to, When Lord When?
• The overall message of from Genesis to Revelation it that God takes His time,  which may seem an eternity to His creatures, but is all part of His eternal plan.
• God takes His time for a purpose, not as a cruel trick or a mean manipulation.
• God’s Faithfulness I believe in the fullness of time we will all understand why the Bridegroom tarried, for we know that ALL things work together for good to those that love God. All things – even things we don’t understand and the things that grieve us.

• Appointed Time It is the peace of God that will quiet your mind and rest your heart.

• for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah – of David also, and Samuel and of the prophets …….

• When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son. (Galatians 4:4 ESV)
• When the fullness of time came!
• It is not difficult for us to see in the case of Abraham how his faith was brought into relation to God's time.
• The time factor with Abraham was a very real one and was perhaps one of the keenest and most acute factors for his faith....
• If his faith had given way he would naturally have taken the attitude that, since the thing had not been fulfilled in so long a time and in his lifetime, it all represented perhaps a big mistake on his part, a false expectation, some misguidance, and so on.
• He believed, therefore, that God had His time for fulfilling His purpose... and that, although it might not come in his own lifetime, it nevertheless would come.
• But during his lifetime within the compass of the whole range of Divine purpose there were instances of testing on the time factor; and, having been tested on that factor, the promise was fulfilled.

• It is fatal to look around and at consequences, especially in times of crisis, for it will be impossible to be still, and wait God's time for deliverance.
• God is never behind time!

• Their hearts burned within them, and in time His person and presence was opened up to them.

• John encourages us to abide in Christ so we will be spiritually ready to meet Him, and Christ’s warning of the 10 virgins rings loud and clear to His own followers: be ready, be prepared – your Lord comes at a time you think not.
• The time for readiness and preparedness is not a future issue, but necessary now!
• Accepted Time Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation 2Cor.6:2.
• Now is time to be ready – not in 20 years, 20 months; 20 days or 20 hours… So why is it important to be ready and prepared and watchful?

• STUDY in PRAYER Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.Hebrews 4:16

• They play their waiting game, biding their time for that lapse of faith.

• Man’s Freewill And God decided ahead of time that the ones that would choose, of their own free-will, to trust Jesus as Saviour would be conformed into the exact image of Jesus Christ.
• And because He is God, He knew ahead of time all who’d choose to believe.
• And the ones He knew ahead of time would believe (in Jesus)…………. He also predestined to be conformed into the image of His Son.
• Justification is a past event in time – and happened when we first believe, and Glorification is a future event in time – and will be finalised at Christ’s return. Sanctification is connected with our Christian life today.
• It is linked to the ongoing present time.
• A New-Life in Christ As His children we were given a new LIFE in Christ – a baby life that needs to grow into a mature spiritual believer -– a life that will be fruitful – a victorious life – a life that will be conformed into the image of Jesus during the time we live on earth. But we also have a sin nature that seeks to gain supremacy over the new Christ-life. Oh!
• we have been freed from sin’s power over us – but while on earth it still lurks. And this is the thing… just as we chose to believe in the Lord Jesus to be justified – So too we have a choice when it comes to sanctification during our time on earth.
• Although justification happens at a point in time – sanctification is a life-long process.
• being positioned “in Christ”, when we were justified, means we were also positionally sanctified that very moment in time.

• Unique Baptism John’s baptism was for a special group of people at a particular time in history.

• All the fullness of the knowledge of God is only and exclusively – through Christ, All the secret things of God – the mystery of godliness was summed up in Him, And in the fullness of time God sent His Son, born of a woman to walk this earth.

• Next time every knee will bow before Him and He will govern the whole earth.
• Our first stay is in an evil world system and we mustn’t become embroiled in its lusts, but the next time we have power over the nations – we will rule and reign with Him!

• The Lord chooses His way and His time, to bring many sons to glory.
• Fruit of Suffering The fruit of suffering and training is the drawing closer and nearer to Christ. The outworking of sufferings are the benefits this closeness to Him gives to others. The learning and knowledge of Christ in a life, is through the school of suffering. The exercise and outworking of Christ in a life, is enhanced and refined through trials. Paul reckons we should embrace trials: for the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory, which shall be revealed in us.
• The whole of creation is waiting for the time when our suffering in this world is over, for like us the whole of creation is in the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God, so the whole of creation eagerly awaits for the revealing of the sons of God.

• He showers drops of dew on your brow to nourish and refresh – one day at a time.

• Yet He came to each individual at the right time and in His unique way.. to achieve His work in them. If we rest on our own understanding we often miss His precious presence. If we rely upon our own expectations we often forgo His unexpected visitations.

• This is no cute little bed-time fantasy to escape from the drudge of a hard life.

• Every born-again Christian has a choice: to live under the whole Law OR to live under grace, but they cant live under Law and grace at the same time.

• for He is eternal, while we are mere creatures of time.

• In time, He makes us aware of our utter weakness; and, in time, we trust and rest in His all-sufficient strength.

• Again in Romans Chapter 8 we read about condemnation, and this time Paul is addressing believers: therefore there is now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus… and some translations add: who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.

• It may be necessary for us, from time to time, to stand back and ask the Lord about all that we are doing. 'Is this out from God, or is it something out from ourselves?

• The will of the Lord is not always an easy thing for our flesh; and so very often, we have to have a real battle to get adjusted to the will of the Lord on some particular matter; and prayer is the time in which that adjustment has to be done.
• Well, this is the time to get through with that issue.
• True prayer is the time of absolute committal and surrender and submission to the Lord!
• True prayer is the time for getting right into line with the will of God on all matters!
• But when we come to the fourth thing, we move over a bit to another side; and I am sure that this first time of prayer in the case of Paul was a time of deep worship.

• The enemy’s fiery trials and evil suggestions often follow a time of joyful bliss.
• Satan knows His time is short and seems to be multiplying mayhem on His saints.

• Man’s False Perception Many Christians find this total acceptance by God, very difficult to understand. Many spend much time seeking to remain in His good books, by being “good”, They think that if their foot slips, or temptation strikes, that God’s favour is lost – Not so !!

• He may come bearing gifts of wholeness and health; wisdom, love, and help, and yet He may be prevented by unbelief – as He was that time so long ago, “He came unto His own and His own received Him not…” John 1:11
• Hearts of Unbelief It is often because of unbelief, that God’s power is prevented from working within. He is able, and He is willing and He is ever-present to help in time of need, but He will never force us to accept His gifts.

• God Speaks After an unspecified length of time and a great deal of God-searching questions, the final words of the Lord to Job, summed up God’s astonishing soliloquy.
• Job held the rough, 'uncut diamond', of God’s truth and understanding in his heart – but it took much time and heart-searching for its full-cut brilliance to be revealed.

• One Step at a Time All believers enjoy a wonderful justified new life in Christ, but not all believers yield to the beautiful, sanctified 'Christ-life', in you – the life of Christ which is daily, being formed in you.
• a voyage from this world to the next; a pilgrimage to be taken one step at a time; a wilderness wandering where some steps must be retraced again and again.

• He knew that our new life in Christ is the one and only thing for which we should constantly strive, in this sin-sick, fallen world - which, for the time being, is lying in the arms of Satan.

• He is the eternal, immortal, invisible King of the ages, the Ruler of time, the Sovereign of eternity, the Governor of the earth, and the Creator of the universe.
• When we sit quietly and consider these words and the awesome and weighty meaning behind them, all we can do is fall at the feet of our Saviour and worship Him: To the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority before all time and now and forever.

• Although he kept silence for a time, Job finally cried out to the Lord in anguish, compelling his three friends to respond with a series of long, self-righteous speeches in which they used human logic rather than Biblical truth to explain the shocking chain of events in Job's life.

• May we recognise how immensely privileged we are each time we take the Bible in our hand, for it is the Word of God to us.

• Could it be that this was the appointed time to seal up the vision and prophecy, to place all enemies under His feet, to be anointed as King, and set up His Millennial Kingdom?

• The day of God's judgement is coming upon the whole earth and many of the terrible physical characteristics and devastating disasters that Zephaniah set out in his prophetic writings, speak of the dreadful 'Day of the Lord', that future, 7-year long Tribulation period, known as 'Daniel’s 70th week' or the 'Time of Jacob’s Trouble'.This man of God wrote his severe warning of the wrath to come during the reign of Josiah, king of Judah.
• During this time, unbelieving Israel, along with all the godless nations of the world, will reap the dreadful rewards of their gross apostasy and satanic behaviour.Although severe destruction will fall on this godless world, the Lord has always had a faithful remnant, and He is not blind to the needs of godly men and women.

• The sudden shock of hearing that Jesus was leaving to go back to the Father, must have been desperately disturbing for the disciples, but Jesus quickly started to explain that although they could not go with Him at that time, their physical separation from Him would only be temporary.
• And in this chapter, Jesus begins to explain to His disciples some of the things which would happen between the time of the Cross and the coming kingdom; between Calvary and the Millennial rule of Christ; between the death, burial, and Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and His triumphant return as King of kings and Lord of lords.
• At the time, they did not understand that within hours, Jesus would be nailed to the Cross to die the death that we all deserve.

• He came at God's appointed time to put an end to transgression and sins through the sacrificial offering of Himself on the Cross.

• People living at the time of the Cross experienced both pre-Cross and post-Cross teachings and had to go through the painful transition from Law to grace, as they moved from a dispensation based on the Mosaic Law to living in the post-Cross Church age.
• The day of Pentecost was the beautiful birthday of the Church when the Holy Spirit, Whom Jesus had promised to send only a short time earlier,, was poured out on all the believers who had faithfully gathered: All-together in one place, as instructed by the Lord Jesus.
• And Peter further explained that having been raised up to this exalted heavenly position by the most high God, the Lord Jesus also received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit which had just been poured out on all the believers who were: All-together in one place, as promised by the Lord Jesus, only a short time earlier.
• But until that time, the Lord Jesus remains seated in heavenly glory at the right hand of the Father, until God makes His enemies His footstool.

• Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

• Today, we are permanently identified with all that He is and all that He has done, through time and into eternity.

• The Lord Jesus shared the glorious picture of mutual abiding as the time for His crucifixion drew ever closer.

• which in time will be translated into rewards for those that are faithful..

• But whatever the cause for celebration, this psalm explodes into excited ecstasy and jubilant joy, in which David looks forward to God's final triumph over all the enemies and antagonists of the people of God; that time when Christ sets up His future kingdom and all enemies are placed under His feet.

• Paul gave a stern warning that a time was coming when men and women would not endure sound doctrine.
• Had Paul spent all his time refuting each individual heresy and every strand of alternative apostasy, he could not have begun to stem the flood of false teachers that were streaming relentlessly into the Body of Christ.
• Sound doctrine and a challenge to false teachers is just as important today as it was in the time of Paul.
• Times today are not so different from the time of Paul's earthly ministry.

• Don't rebel against Me as your forefathers did: When they provoked Me during the time of testing in the wilderness.

• There were many animal sacrifices given to Israel and every time an animal was sacrificed, it was a blood-splattered reminder that we are all sinners who fall short of God's glory; we are fallen creatures who need to be forgiven; we are all sinners in need of a Saviour - and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin.
• Every animal sacrifice was another reminder that we are sinful creatures and every drop of blood that was shed, was a picture of the Lord Jesus Himself, Who would come to earth, at God's appointed time, to be the full and final sacrifice for the sin of the world - so that ALL who believe on Him would not perish but have everlasting life. 
• No surprise that the writer to the Hebrews emphasises the value of Christ's sacrifice and the glory of the Lord Jesus: WHO... having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God.

• And here, as Jesus nears the end of His time on earth, this theme of illumination is reiterated: I have come as Light into the world so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all, and Jesus was sent by the Father to give light the Gentiles and to enlighten those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.

• And for three years the Lord Jesus proclaimed that He was their promised Messiah and that the promised time of restoration had arrived.

• The Lord Jesus knows: The human heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, and that an attitude of materialistic, money-orientated consumerism will degenerate into greed, covetousness, double-mindedness, and a divided heart, for we cannot serve mammon and God at the same time.

• For the time being, we are separated from our heavenly Bridegroom, but a day has been appointed when: The Lord Jesus shall descend from heaven with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God, and we shall hear the voice of our Beloved saying: Arise my love, my beautiful one, and come away - come up here.
• What a beautiful love story we discover in the Song of Solomon, and what reassurance it gives us to know that despite His long delay, the time is coming when we shall be with Christ Jesus forever.

• The book of Genesis tells us about the beginning of creation, but before time and space and matter were brought into being, before the universe came into existence, and before man was made in His image and likeness; there was only God.

• David wrote this psalm in a time of deep distress and severe sorrow and pours out his heart to the Lord, but as with all the psalms he wrote, he inevitably restates his abiding confidence in the faithfulness of God, for David knew that there was nowhere else to fly to and there was no-one else in which to place his trust.

• From the time when Esau and Jacob jostled each other in the womb of their mother, and throughout the long and involved history of Israel, Edom showed contempt for their closest relative and engaged in wars and battles against God's chosen people.

• It is as we continue to read chapter 4 that we discover an interval of time had passed since Daniel's three friends had been delivered from the fiery furnace.

• demonstrated a nescessary judgement that had to fall on the nation of Israel at this time..

• Israel was the nation God chose to be His mouthpiece, to tell the world of the goodness of God and to be the nation through Whom the promised Seed of Abraham would secretly travel, until the appointed time.
• And so it was that in the fullness of time, Christ was born to save His people from their sins, and through Him, all the families of the earth would be blessed.
• God set Israel aside until the time of restitution, when the gospel of the Kingdom, which was preached to Israel before Christ was crucified, will once again be proclaimed by Israel throughout the earth.
• Scripture tells us that it is at this time that the remnant of Israel will finally recognise their Messiah and call on His name: They will look on Him Whom they have pierced, as Zechariah prophesied, and cry out, Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord.

• Knowing that his hour had come, Jesus took His followers into the Garden of Gethsemane where He agonised in prayer as the time for His sacrificial offering on the Cross drew ever nearer.

• The godly character of this dear man of faith was manifested in his actions, attitude, and commendable ministry.May we, like Tychicus, walk in wisdom, pray in spirit and truth, redeem the time, and give godly comfort and encouragement to our Christian brothers and sisters in Christ.

• The Law is not contrary to the promise that God gave to Abraham, for the Abrahamic covenant still stands and Paul further explained how long the Law was to be implemented, from the time it was given to Moses until the Seed, Jesus Christ the righteous was sent: The Law was given to Moses until the Seed would come, to Whom the promise had been made.

• We should spend time in His presence, we should take every thought captive, and we should cast all our care upon Him for in so doing we will remain IN Him, in spirit and in truth, for He alone is able to keep us from falling.

• It was a reminder of the time when God rescued Israel from Egypt and of their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness.
• It pointed to the time when God would come to earth to live among His people.
• In this verse we read: Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near, and although Jesus delayed His journey to Jerusalem following the taunts of his brothers, we read that Jesus did eventually go up to the Feast of Booths, but He went quietly because His time had not yet come.
• How ironic that this seventh, glorious 'Feast-day of the Lord' which was designed to point the Jewish nation to Christ, had become nothing more than a religious ritual that excluded Christ and over time, had been changed from 'The Feast of the LORD' into 'A Feast of the JEWS'.

• However, as time passed, hostility towards the Lord Jesus started to develop, and increasingly His message and ministry was rejected, causing Him to begin teaching His faithful followers through parables.
• The first time He was rejected by the people of Nazareth, was early in His ministry when He found it necessary to relocate to Capernaum.
• The second time He was rejected by the people of Nazareth, was in this passage, when Jesus interrupted His preaching itinerary to, once again, visit His hometown during His Galilean ministry.

• He knew that Babylon would be the first kingdom to stride onto the pages of history, as time marched towards the Rapture of the Church, the second advent of Christ, the Time of Jacob's Trouble, and that glorious day, when a STONE, cut without hands, would strike the statue on its feet of iron and clay and crush the kingdoms of this world - bringing in the Millennial Kingdom of Christ.

• It is incredible to think that this gross apostasy was taking place only a short time after Paul had taught them the truth of the glorious gospel of grace - and yet this situation was not unique to this church in Galatia, for this attitude and practice is increasingly popular in the churches of today.

• They would have to learn that the kingdom was to be delayed for a time.
• They were to learn of the hidden mystery, which was given to Paul: Which is Christ in You the hope of glory.  YES, there was much that they would have to learn from the apostle Paul in the early years of the Christian Church, but they could not bear it at this time as the Cross loomed ever closer.
• No surprise that the disciples could not bear these identification truths at that time for like us, they had to discover the inability of the old self life and that only the new life in Christ, which we all receive at Salvation can live a godly life.

• For the first time in His life and ministry, the Lord Jesus gave this little group of men a taste of the heavenly glory that He had with the Father before the world began, a peep in the eternal glory that He had set aside, in order to live and die as our Saviour and Lord.

• It is a process that starts at salvation, continues through life, and at His appointed time will be used by God for His eternal glory. 

• This would be the time the Lord would pour out His Spirit of grace upon His chosen nation.
• Time is short, and every day is a day when the gospel of grace can be shared with Jew and Gentile alike.
• May we be increasingly aware of the days in which we live and take every opportunity to tell others that salvation is by grace through faith in Christ before this terrible time of Tribulation.

• We should not waste our valuable time and effort in indulging the divisive tactics of someone whose prime objective is to cause division, within the body of Christ.
• Let us be wise with our time our talents and our teaching.

• The first six chapters of Genesis cover the span of time from Creation to the Flood.
• Why do we read that Noah was a righteous man, who was blameless among the people of his time?

• Daniel's time-piece had been ticking away for 90 years before Malachi prophesied, and 400 more years were decreed before God's messenger would arrive in the land, when the Lord, for Whom they longed so passionately: Would suddenly come to His Temple.
• But, to the faithful remnant of those who believed, the Lord Jesus was sent by God at the appointed time: As many as received Him, to them He gave the power to become sons of God.

• Let us make time to get to KNOW the Lord Jesus intimately and to be made more and more like Him. 

• It was at that time that the Lord Jesus began in earnest to prepare His little band of faithful followers for His shocking betrayal, false accusations, unjust trial, cruel death, and glorious Resurrection.Over and again, His disciples failed to comprehend the serious nature of Christ's repeated prediction of His fast-approaching betrayal and death, and it became necessary for Jesus to speak plainly about the severe self-discipline His followers would require if they were to stand fast in the evil day and not be sifted as wheat by the enemy, nor emotionally tossed about by the terrible things they were soon to face.A simple, immovable, childlike faith in Christ Who had come as God's anointed King, His promised Messiah, and Kinsman-Redeemer, was essential as the days grew darker: Whoever receives Me, Jesus said, receives Him Who sent Me.Petty differences of colour or creed were to be laid aside, and a unity in the faith was to be established by those who acknowledged Jesus as Lord.
• When Jesus came the first time, the people were to believe on Him Whom the Father had sent.Knowing the dangers of disunity among believing brethren, the serious consequences of unbelief and the necessity to be steadfast in the day of trouble, Jesus set out the relentless self-discipline His disciples needed if they were to be kept from falling.

• All such things, started to infiltrate the church in the time of Paul and seem and have exploded into multiple fragments of falsity, within today's apostate churches and heretical cults.

• God's purpose in each of our lives is to educate, discipline, and train us in righteousness and the fiery trials that come upon us are used by Him to try us, as the furnace tries silver, to cut deep into our fleshly nature and polish off all the fleshly dross that contaminates our new-life in Christ so that by grace through faith we will not murmur, but humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God, knowing that He has promised to exalt us in due time.

• Let us look at these Scriptures with fresh eyes, and with the leading of the Holy Spirit, grasp some of the enormity of that moment, when God was made flesh, stepped out of eternity and into time, to fulfil the plans and purposes of the Father, laid before the foundation of the world.
• God, the omnipotent, omniscient, infinite, eternal, omnipresent, immutable, holy creator of the world and the universe with all its visible and invisible elements, laws, and structures; Who set time in motion and flung innumerable stars into space – laid aside His great glory and humbled Himself to come to earth as a helpless and vulnerable newborn baby.
• Let us cast aside this familiarity with Scripture that deadens our minds and numbs our perception of Who God is and take time to gaze in awe at God's Word with a renewed freshness and a heightened wonderment of the amazing reality that God Himself should become Emmanuel, God with us.

• At the end of Isaiah Chapter 40, we read some well-loved verses that have encouraged generations of Jews and Gentiles, through many centuries of time: Youths may faint and grow weary, and young men stumble and fall BUT those who wait on the LORD will find new strength.
• In time they are brought to the very end of themselves until they can admit that the refreshment they desperately need has been drawn from the broken cistern of the old, Adamic-life and will eventually run dry, for the energy-source that is powered through the fleshly self-life, will in time be drained of all its self-induced efforts.

• This was the first time that Jesus was brought before Pilate who quickly realised the Man before Him was innocent of the crimes of which He was accused.

• But God, in His grace, prospered Jacob's work and protected him during his time in Laban's house, and the day came when the Lord needed to refine and hone His servant.

• He is eternal in His divinity but born at a point in time into the human race, for a specific purpose.

• One cannot love this world system and the things that are in the world, and love the Lord our God at the same time.

• God knew before time began who would trust in Christ as Saviour, and predestined them to become like His Son: And those He predestined He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified, by grace.
• God saved us and called us to live a holy life and He did this, not because we deserved it, but because this was His plan from before the beginning of time.

• Before time began, God determined to gather all things together in Christ, unite everything together in Him, to sum-up and bring into one final whole, all things in Jesus Christ the Messiah of God.
• Before the creation of the world, there was no time, and there is a day, yet future, when the fullness of time will have been reached, when time will be completed.
• Currently, time marches on, and living within the constraints of time makes it hard for us to imagine an eternal state where time is no more.
• But the passage of time has a purpose, and the Bible gives much insight into the way God uses time to work out His perfect plan.
• And although God Himself is not bound by time, he has appointed days, months, and seasons: There is an appointed time for everything, and there is a time for every matter under heaven. Even our days are numbered by the Lord and everything He has appointed will come to pass in His timing.
• On several occasions He reminded those around Him: My time has not yet come, until finally the hour was upon Him and He looked up to heaven and said, 'Father, the time has come.
• Time spans from the foundation of the world and will terminate in the dispensation of the fullness of times so that God might gather together all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth.
• This is the time when the successive ages of man and the millennial rule of Christ, in which the gospel of God and the good news of Christ has reached the distant shores of humanity will be brought to its close – the time when everything will be gathered up together, in Christ, and given back to God.
• This is the time when tears will break into joy and sadness into laughter.
• This is the time when toil will be replaced with rest, sickness with health, need with plenty, and suffering will be overtaken by glory.
• This is the time when Israel will have been restored and the groaning creation will sing for joy.
• This is the moment when time will cease, and eternity will engulf creation.
• God has made everything beautiful in its time, but we were not made to remain bound by time.

• How true it is that you become like the person with whom you spend time, and whatever has captivated your heart inevitably reflects attitudes and behaviours in life, (whether good or evil), and too often it is not a pretty sight. We are warned not to habitually be immersed in the world but to set our minds on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make Him the central focus of our thoughts.

• Even in the terrible Tribulation period, God's offer of salvation is open, and many will be saved during this time.As John watched the awesome scene in heavenly places, he saw countless martyred, Tribulation saints resurrected to life.

• If was for this reason that Paul spent so much time writing his epistles and correcting the many false doctrines and corrupt teachings that were already starting to infiltrate the Body of Christ - including Jewish legalism, Gnosticism or hidden knowledge, asceticism (which attempted to train the sin nature through self-abasement), and antinomianism (which promoted a licence to sin) - to name but a few.
• We are blessed to be children of God because Paul, Timothy, many witness, faithful men, and others have shared the good news of the gospel of grace, down through multiplied centuries of time.

• We do not have to grovel for meager scraps at the bench of an unbelieving judge, for we have free and open access into the throne of grace and the riches of His love in Christ Jesus so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

• Each time the enemy's subtle taunts, which were designed to cause Him to stumble in His mission, were countered with the proclamation, It is written... it is written... it is written… And it is the Word of God that is the weapon of victory that we must grasp in our hands and our hearts, for with it we can face every accusation of Satan and every doubt that is planted in our minds.

• They liked the idea of a time of peace and prosperity when the wolf would lie down with the lamb and each of them would sit under their own fig tree in the kingdom of God.
• Scripture teaches that the earthly kingdom of God will be set up on earth after apostate Israel has been punished in the Day of the Lord - the time of 'Jacob's Trouble'.
• Jesus taught His disciples many things that would happen during the dreadful 'Day of the Lord' which would precede His coming, earthly kingdom, and in verse 26, He describes the wicked state into which the world will sink as the time for His return draws closer: Just as it was in the days of Noah, we read, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man.
• The return of Christ to set up His kingdom will be preceded by a time of unsurpassed wickedness and evil.
• However, when the Restrainer of evil is taken out of the world at the time of the Rapture, how terrible will it become on earth when the wickedness of man reaches its fullness and every intent of the thoughts of men's heart will only be evil continually.

• In the penultimate verse of Ephesians, Paul is offering a familiar and well-loved salutation to his brothers and sisters in Christ: Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Peace, love, and faith are three spiritual qualities that are sprinkled in unfettered abundance throughout Paul's writings, and yet they retain a freshness each time they are bestowed on God's children of faith.Only once in the New Testament, is this phrase peace be to the brethren, used.

• The first covenant was in effect from the time that it was given through Moses, right up until the day that Jesus Christ was crucified on the Cross... when the New Covenant was cut in His blood - the New Covenant of which we are ministers.
• In Hebrews, we read that Sarah received the ability to conceive even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered God was faithful Who had promised she would be the mother of multitudes.
• By faith, Sarah received the ability to conceive, beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful Who had made the promise.

• And although the written Scriptures, the Messiah and God's plan of redemption was to come through the Jewish nation, God in His grace knew that for a time Israel would have to be set aside, due to unbelief.
• The Church, which is the body of Christ, would have to be formed in order to be God's earthly representatives for a time..

• Let us not be drunk with wine or controlled by any other substance or emotion that discredits our Heavenly Father, but let us go on being filled, day by day, with the Holy Spirit of God so that we may manifest the grace of the Lord Jesus, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit in our lives, today and throughout the rest of our time on earth.

• The God of Jacob is our rock of refuge, our safe stronghold, and our ever present help in time of trouble.
• Let us be still and KNOW that God is our refuge, our strength, and our ever-present help in time of need.

• It was David who penned this psalm, and after he had laid out his petition to the Lord and requested His mercy and grace, he acknowledged God's sovereign power among the nations and spoke of the time when the nations will know that God is the Lord; a time when every eye will see Him, every tongue will proclaim Him as Lord, and every knee and will bow down before Him and honour His holy name.

• It prevented the prophesied man-of-lawlessness from emerging onto the world scene before God's predetermined time.
• He reminded them that Daniel taught that the identity of this man would not be revealed until God's appointed time.
• In this passage, Paul reminds them of many things the man-of-sin will do, while the prophet Daniel tells us that this satanically inspired man will come onto the world scene for seven years, during which time God's wrath will be poured out on a God-hating, Christ-rejecting, sinful world.

• But how dearly the Lord Jesus would have loved to have had their prayer-support at this crucial time.

• We discover that although the reconstruction would take place during troubling and disruptive times, both the plaza and the city wall was to be reconstructed with its moat and many city gates.Time ticked on towards God's appointed hour, and Messiah the Prince arrived, as promised, to set up His everlasting kingdom.
• And Daniel's prophetic time-clock climaxed at Christ's First Coming.It was John the Baptist whom God sent to herald Christ's arrival.
• The whole nation was instructed to know and discern that from the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, there would be seven 'weeks' PLUS sixty-two 'weeks' followed by one final 'week' (490 years).At the appointed time, their Messiah arrived and made Himself known to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

• The pleading prayer of the captive remnant of Israel will one day be answered beyond what they could think or imagine, but first they must go through that terrible time of Jacob's trouble and endure the day of vengeance of our God, for Christ must finally destroy His enemies and place all rule under His feet.
• But God has permitted the destructive effects of sin to reverberate down through the centuries, as we look towards that time when Christ will return (with the Church), to reign on earth as King of kings and Lord of lords.
• And their Messiah Jesus will come in the name of the Lord a second time, to save His people from their sins.

• We may not understand the full plans and purposes of God, but He has appointed a time to judge the wicked.

• It was at this time of intense sorrow and deep, deep passion that the little flock of Christ heard their Good Shepherd say: A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, so love you one another.

• He chose their redeemed bodies to become His eternal temple, wherein He would reside through time and into eternity.

• He is beyond time and space, and outside the limitation of matter and natural laws.

• For 400 years Israel had been enslaved in Egypt, but at the right time, God sent a deliverer to bring His chosen people out of bondage.
• Moses was sent, with his brother Aaron, to demand that Pharoah let God's people go, but even a succession of nine terrible plagues was insufficient to cause him to release the Israelites and time and again, Pharoah hardened his heart against the Lord. 

• They were to fellowship with one another; sharing, helping, edifying, and encouraging each other in their common faith, as well as contributing material and financial gifts to one another when a necessity arose or by giving time and support to the one in need.
• May we seek to sow to the Spirit by investing our time, talent, money, material possessions, gifts, and godly graces wisely.

• In that day, Jesus will come again for the second time and Israel will be saved as they look on their Messiah and cry: Blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord.

• This is not a one-time strengthening, but a moment by moment reliance upon Him, until we are increasingly able to act upon His guidance, as we learn to listen to His voice saying: This is the way, walk in it.

• In addition, the true meaning of the word has been altered over time.

• In a time when food was regularly offered to Roman gods and sacrifices made to pagan idols, Paul knew that believers, who had engaged in these ungodly practices before their salvation, were often repulsed by the thought of eating food that had been sacrificed to these false gods, while other Christians understood that it was not eating the food that defiles a man, but his attitude of heart.

• He gave advanced warning of different signs to watch for, which would announce a time when the dry bones of the scattered nation of Israel would be resurrected back to life, by the regenerating breath of the Spirit of God - a time when the northern kingdom of Israel and the southern kingdom of Judah would once again be reunited as one nation under God..

• God is never late, but is always there at the right time, the best time, the needed time - His appointed time.
• And so, it was at the right time that Christ died.
• Some wonder why there was such a long time between the fall of Adam and the sacrifice of Christ, but in God's economy, it was the right time for you and me, and the right time for humanity as a whole.
• Indeed, multiple times in the Gospels, we hear Jesus telling people, My hour has not yet come - My time has not yet come. But God's Word is never broken, and the perfect time came, as recorded by John: The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
• In God's economy, He will act at the right time – the best time.

• And this will take place at the end of the coming time of Jacob's Trouble.

• But light is not only given at the time of rebirth, its cleansing power and refining rays continue to shine into the deep recesses and secret corners of our minds, to expose those things that discredit His name, hinder our spiritual progress and disconnect us from our communion with our Heavenly Father.

• And now the Lord Jesus was praying for their continued protection, knowing that His earthly work was almost done and that the time was fast approaching when He was to return to His Father in heaven.
• The time had now come when Christ was about to relinquish the protection of these men that He loved so dearly back into the safe-keeping of the Father..

• The book of Revelation describes, in detail, the events of the future time of Great Tribulation which is coming upon the whole earth, following the Rapture of the Church but preceding Christ Second Coming, when He returns with power and great glory to set up His eternal kingdom.
• Revelation describes a literal future time of great trouble for the people of Israel, when the wrath of God is poured out on a God-hating, Christ-rejecting, sinful world which takes place just before we, as Church-age believers, return with Him from our heavenly home to rule and reign in His eternal kingdom.
• John uses some very descriptive metaphors and symbolism to foretell this astonishing time, and although there are as many unscriptural interpretations of its meaning and imagery, Revelation is often its own best interpreter, having its roots sunk deep in Old Testament symbolism and prophecy, which further clarifies its content.

• The Bible tells us that all unsaved people are, by nature, children of wrath and disobedience, until the time when they trust in the Lord Jesus for salvation by grace through faith in Him.

• In a time when there are ever deepening divisions in the world, how important it is to love our brothers and sisters in the Body of Christ.

• Life on earth is difficult, and our time is fleeting, but we have choices to make every day of our lives - in the relationships we make and activities we undertake.

• Depending on the attitude and desires of the remaining, unsaved partner in such a marriage causes Paul to make a number of recommendations and suggestions.In short, Paul's broad instruction to newly saved Christians is not to immediately remove oneself from marriage to an unbeliever, but wherever possible to remain, and pray that the Lord might use the relationship to work out His plans and purposes in both their lives in His time, in His way, and for His greater glory.Remaining with an unbelieving spouse can often be a great concern for new Christians who find themselves wonderfully saved yet 'trapped' in a marriage with someone who remains unsaved and who often become hostile to their partner's newfound faith.

• Paul takes 12 verses to show, step by step, the exact progression of end-times events - which starts with our being gathered to Christ and continues through the Time of Jacob's Trouble, to the point when Jesus returns in power and great glory to set up His earthly kingdom.
• Paul reassured these worried saints that the 'Day-of-the-Lord' which will usher in the prophesied time of judgement - and which precedes the Millennial reign of Christ, will not come until the man of sin is revealed.

• Let us watch for His any day return and let us be ready, for: At a time that ye think not our Lord will return.

• At a time when the love of many is growing ever colder and darker, we are called upon to love our Christian brothers and sisters in Christ, to care and to pray for them to love one another in the same way that Christ loved us.

• Paul encourages us to live every day for Christ, redeeming the time, and eagerly awaiting our Lord: Looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Christ Jesus.

• However, Balak sent for Balaam a second time and pleaded with him to travel to Moab and curse God's people.
• He knew the evil intent of his heart and this time, God permitted the magician to travel to Moab, but commanded the man to only speak the words that God put in his mouth and do only what the Lord instructed him to do.

• What encouragement and joy must have flooded their hearts when this little group of suffering saints heard those words for the first time.
• Despite the terrible trials the believers in Smyrna faced, we recognise God's mercy, for the temptations and trials we face are for a limited time.

• Many struggle to understand the meaning of certain objects, the progression of certain events, the identity of certain people, and the time frame of certain passages in the Apocalypse, while others refuse to examine its content, declaring it to be impossible to decipher and describing it as an enigma that is impossible to understand.

• The precious promise to become a pillar in the Temple of God, should thrill the hearts of all born-again believers, for this is a reminder that we have the permanently, indwelling Spirit of God Who has become our 'life' through time and into eternity.

• How easy it is for us in this Church age to look back to this time in Israel's history with critical contempt for their failure to walk in the ways of God and to so openly deny the Lord Who bought them - and yet as we look at our own lives and the sorry state of the Church as a whole - we can only bemoan the spiritual condition in which we find ourselves today, and cry out to the Lord to search the inner recesses of our very being and to purify our hearts in the refining fires of His holy righteousness.

• The prophecy from Zephaniah was written to comfort the faithful remnant of Judah in their time of deep distress.
• It would be a time of deep distress and heavy darkness - the time of Jacob's Trouble.
• And this time is yet future.
• The judgment that is yet to come on unbelieving Israel and a world at war with God, is often referred to as 'the Great Tribulation', 'the 70th week of Daniel' or 'the great and terrible Day of the Lord.' It is to be a time when God will pour out His burning fury and indignation on the whole earth, which will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.
• But it is also the time when God's apostate nation will return to Him.
• Too often we want to dictate our preferred time-schedule to God, but God is not in a hurry.
• We are to wait for HIS time and to wait for HIS way.
• The glorious time of Israel's restoration is couched in this declaration from God, for He has promised to save His people from their sin, and His promises to Israel will never fail, just as His promises to the Church are 'yes' and 'amen' in Christ Jesus our Lord - and our present sojourn in this fallen world, is likewise hastening to its grand finale.
• Just as Israel must wait for God's timing, so we must wait for the Rapture of the Church and the resurrection of the saints, which will take place in God's time and in His way!
• We are to wait for His plans and purposes to be carried out in His way, in His time and for His glory - but we are to be ready and to watch for His any-day return.

• Another time, he vindictively set fire to their harvest of grain, grapes, and olives.
• And although God had blessed this man with great strength and set him as judge over His people, the time came when the Lord withdrew His blessing.
• Samson had compromised his Nazarite vow and sinned against the Lord long before his head was shaved, and as he languished in a Philistine prison, he had to accept that God had, justifiably, withdrawn from His servant and finally we read: Then Samson called to the LORD and said, 'O Lord GOD, please remember me and please strengthen me just this time, O God, that I may at once be avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.'
• The story of Samson is a very sad tale that clearly shows the long-suffering grace and mercy of God towards his servants, as well as a warning that there may come a time when God's hand of blessing and protection is lifted for a season when sin crouches at the door.

• The Lord Jesus had chosen His apostles some time earlier..
• But Christ's time had not yet come..

• But a time of Great Tribulation, beyond this Church age is coming, when a final and terrible thief will come and try to steal, kill, and destroy both the people of God and His Anointed King.
• This is the time of Jacob's Trouble when a Christ rejecting sinful world will experience the wrath of God.

• The Lord Jesus Himself learned obedience by the things He suffered, and after His time of suffering, Christ came into His eternal glory and willingly and joyfully shares it with all who trust in His name.
• James regarded those who endured suffering as 'blessed', while Paul considered: The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

• They called this out at His First Coming BUT then crucified Him, causing his kingdom to be delayed - for a season.When God's programme through the Church has been completed, then the Lord will remove the witness of His Church from the earth and graciously re-establish His work of redemption through Israel, during the coming time of Jacob's Trouble.

• The days in which we live seem to reflect much of the evil of Habakkuk's time... as Christians in this present evil age cry out to the Lord for relief and succour.
• But Habakkuk's fear turns to faith and his distress is stilled as the Lord answered His cries... explaining that relief will certainly come... but only at God's appointed time and only in His designated way.
• For although he discovered that even worse was to befall the stricken nation of Israel, justice would one day be meted out to the wicked, while the righteous would indeed be vindicated - but only at God's designated time and only in His appointed way.
• The plans and purposes of God will certainly come to pass and will not be delayed - but only at God's appointed time and only in His designated way.

• They remembered from John the Baptist, that Christ was the one Who would baptise with the Holy Spirit and now they were being told that this time had almost come, and that He would be their Comforter.

• There is no time nor place where His sacrifice of intercession does not reach us, thus underlining His promise: I will never leave you nor forsake you.The more we learn of God's Word and the wonderful covenant relationship that He has with His Church, the more we discover His showers of blessing and abundant privileges raining down upon our heads and come to an understanding of Who God is, what He is doing, and all that He has planned for those that love Him.

• The third time Jesus imparted this truth to Nicodemus is in verse six, where he says, That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

• through time and into eternity - And because we are in Him we are enabled to bear good fruit to the glory of God.

• The prophets of old did not see the twin-peaks of Calvary and His Second Coming, with the Church dispensation nestling between these two majestic peaks (stretching from the Cross to His Second Coming and Kingdom rule) which was why the disciples asked the Lord before His Ascension: Will You at this time set up Your kingdom? Like the prophets of old, they did not understand the mystery of the coming 2000-year long Church age (from Pentecost to the Rapture of the Body of Christ), and the unique privileges (which in general were revealed to Paul), that believers in this Church age are afforded.
• But in between those two mountain peaks, nestles the dispensation of the grace of God, which includes both the Church age in which we live (which was hidden from the prophets in time past), and a time of great judgement (the time of Jacob's Trouble; the coming Tribulation Period) about which the prophets of old wrote.
• First the time of Jacob's Trouble, then the promised time when: The LORD of hosts will become a beautiful crown and a glorious diadem to the remnant of His people Israel, as described in this verse by Isaiah the prophet.

• The faithfulness, mercy, goodness, and grace of God, are no less true today than during that time when David discovered the Lord was his Shepherd Who gently leads him beside the still waters, faithfully guides him into the way of peace, guards him in the valley of the shadow of death, and prepares a plentiful table of good things in the midst of all his enemies.

• It is in this verse, that Paul reminds Timothy of the time he urged him to continue teaching in Ephesus so that he could address this problem of 'bizarre doctrine'. 

• The Lord in His grace, stretched out His hand and touched the timid Jeremiah on the mouth and told him, Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.Jeremiah, like all those that are called, chosen, selected, or sent, was not to worry about the message he was to carry, because the words would be given from above – at the right time.

• Time after time, we discover our faithful God restoring His people and leading them by a straight way until they reached a city in which to dwell, for the Lord is good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon His name, and His love endures forever.

• And the book of Revelation gives a précis of Who God is, what He has done, what He is doing, and what He will do in time to come.

• The self-same Jesus Who came to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself on the Cross, and to break the power of death by means of His glorious Resurrection, will appear a second time without sin.
• The self-same Jesus Who came the first time as a baby in humility and disgrace, will return a second time as King of kings in power and great glory.

• In this passage, Peter is raising a concern that those who, for a time, escape the pollution and defilement of the world when they hear about the Lord Jesus, end up in a far worse state when they return to the world's entanglements.
• This verse has caused many Christians to think their salvation is lost if they become discouraged, walk away from their faith for a time, or become engage in worldly carnality.

• Peter knew his time on earth was short, and wrote his second epistle to remind Christians of the fundamentals of their faith and the need to live godly lives.

• The demons inside him, knew that Christ had come to break the satanic power of evil, and begged that they would not be sent to the place of torment before their time. 

• Until that time the whole of creation will continue to groan and suffer the increasingly intense 'labour pains' of childbirth.

• And may we also humble ourselves under the mighty hand of God so that He may lift us up in due time.

• Humanity is tethered to time and enclosed in space, unaware of the eternal, unrestricted perspective of the Father.
• May we come to the unshakable knowledge that our times are in His hands, and at His appointed time and in His designated way, we will one day step into His eternal presence, when faith will vanish into sight and hope be emptied in delight.

• For a fourth time, the Lord came and stood and called as before, Samuel!
• This time the young man quickly responded, Speak, for Your servant is listening.

• Together with a vast army of allies from Persia, Ethiopia and many clearly identifiable nations, he will march against God's people and this invasion is to happen at the 'time of the end.' The Lord told Gog that He would 'put hooks in his jaw' and give him and his allies, an irresistible urge to flood into the Land, at a time when God's people were living securely.
• Down through the corridors of time, we see a succession of evil men, like Gog, with the spirit of antichrist.
• There are many that speculate about Gog of the land of Magog, and try to pinpoint the time when this will happen.
• Let us remember that Ezekiel's prophecy was given to Israel, to encourage them at the time when Gog and a great army with him, sweep into the beautiful land of Israel, like a cloud covering the land, to take a plunder.

• Moses was called to be God's chosen servant through whom He gave the ministration of the Law to Israel (a time which is sometimes called the dispensation of the Law).

• And as the appointed time for the work of redemption drew ever closer, the Lord Jesus is found on His face beseeching the Father: If you are willing, remove this cup from Me... nevertheless, He submissively continues, not My will, but Yours, be done.

• Some do not believe the Lord will ever return because of the centuries that have rolled by without His return, yet Peter dismantles their unfounded reasoning, for time in God's economy is very different from man's perception of time.
• However much we long to be with Him, and irrespective of how much time has passed under the bridge of life, God is not slow in carrying out His plans and purposes.
• God is working His purpose out and He will come back at the right time, not too early, not too late and Peter gives us insight into His timing: The Lord does not delay his promise, as some understand delay, but is patient with you, not wanting any to perish but all to come to repentance.
• Let us redeem the time we have left and use our days wisely, as we wait for the glorious day when we will see Him face to face.  

• This is the faith that unquestioningly takes God at His Word, knowing that all He has promised to us in Christ is more secure than the rising of the morning sun and more certain than the daily passage of time.

• Although he responds to Zophar accusations with blistering sarcasm, Job silences his insults and embarks on a magnificent declaration of God's sovereign authority, before he rehearses the time-honoured words adopted by many who trust in God even when they don't understand: Though He slay me, yet I will hope in Him.
• May we never forget that we are in the midst of an ongoing spiritual battle which can impact our life at any time.

• Paul quickly moves from the righteousness of Abraham (who lived before the Law was given) to David (who lived during the time of the prophets and kings).

• Praise God that the full and final completion of this prophecy from Joel will finally come to fruition, when all Israel calls on the name of the Lord for salvation at the end of that terrible time of Jacob's Trouble.

• Christ alone is the life-giving spiritual manna from heaven that lasts through time and into eternity, and it is given as a free gift of His grace by faith to ALL who will trust in Him.

• The opposition to Jesus Christ increased over the years, but the imprisonment of John the Baptist seemed to be a turning point in His ministry: He who has ears to hear, let him hear, were words of warning that were spoken at this time, and soon the prophecy of Isaiah would be fulfilled, when Jesus started to teach His disciples in parables: That having eyes they do not see and having ears they will not hear.
• This was the time the religious leaders committed the unforgiveable sin against the Holy Spirit by denouncing Christ's miracles as works of Beelzebub.

• With each successive test of faith, the trial presented different challenges, and each time the trial became increasingly intense.
• A day arrived when He was required to trust God to provide for all his needs during a terrible time of famine, instead of placing his hope in his Egyptian neighbours.
• Abraham may have enrolled in 'the school of faith' when he left Ur and was justified at the age of 75, but he demonstrated that secure, sanctified faith which had matured and developed over time and through various tests, when he took his son Isaac to the place about which God told him and built an altar, arranged the wood, bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

• Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, has become a familiar and well-loved greeting, through the letters of Paul, but I doubt that in time or in eternity we will gain a full depth of understanding of what the all-embracing grace of God and the supernatural peace of God truly means.

• While the Jewish Temple was future in David's day and present in the time of Christ, during this current Church age we understand that the Church is the dwelling place of God.

• Those that seek Him with their whole heart discover over time that He is indeed the one that satisfies the thirsty soul, and calms the troubled breast.

• We are told in the Scriptures to rejoice greatly in the Lord, even though for a time we may have to suffer much grief and all kinds of difficulties.

• The practice at that time was that meat-offerings made to false gods were subsequently sold in the local marketplace.

• It is our heavenly treasure, through time and into eternity, where moth and rust will not spoil and thieves can never break in to steal it.

• In totality, the kingdom of God reaches to every place in the entire universe, stretching through time and beyond eternity, but in His revelation to man which is detailed in the Scriptures, the kingdom of God almost always restricts its horizons to God's current work and future rule, through a group of His obedient servants.

• Angels, help us to adore him;you behold him face to face.Sun and moon, bow down before him,dwellers all in time and space.Alleluia, alleluia!Praise with us the God of grace!

• Christ's life and ministry had been journeying towards the appointed time when He would become Israel's final Passover sacrifice.

• They missed their most glorious opportunity and caused the kingdom of heaven to be postponed, until a time yet future when Israel as a nation will repent of her sin and cry out to her Messiah for salvation.
• Israel's shocking rejection of their Messiah-King and their refusal to repent, prevented the kingdom from being established at God's appointed time.
• A time is coming when Israel will finally fulfil their God-given mission to preach the gospel of the kingdom to all the world, and THEN Jesus will return in power and great glory to be crowned King of kings in the holy city of Jerusalem.

• It was God's appointed time for this fallen world system to be judged and for Satan, the illegitimate ruler of this earth, to be cast out.
• The hour had come for God's terrible verdict to fall upon a world that spurned God's offer of salvation and rejected His only begotten Son - it was the time that the prince of this world was to be deposed.
• This would be the time when Christ's actions would also bring glory to His Father in heaven.
• Jesus knew that the singular intersection between time and eternity had arrived.
• God's appointed time had arrived and the Lord Jesus entered Jerusalem, riding on a donkey, as the crowds cried out in unison, Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord.
• They wanted salvation without the Saviour... but the price of sin had to be paid in full and so the time came for judgment to come upon this fallen world so that the ruler of this world could be cast out.
• Wise men had sought Him at His birth and Greeks asked to see Him as He faced the most challenging time of His life - death on the Cross.

• He alone is our present help in time of trouble, and His compassion and mercy towards us is new every morning.
• He is ours through time and we are His into eternity.

• May we use our time, talents, gifts, and graces for the edification of the body and the glory of God.

• He wanted to rejoice in the forgiveness of sin and life everlasting, by faith in Christ.But the Body of Christ had been slowly and stealthily infiltrated by certain vulgar individuals who were denying the efficacy of the blood of Christ, and adversely influencing the faith of others.And so Jude wanted to remind his fellow believers of the fate of those people who deny the truth of the gospel and blaspheme the name of the Lord, with their satanically inspired lies.He reminded them of the terrible fate of corrupt cities in the time of Abraham.

• And so in these last days of the Christian dispensation, we ourselves are witnesses to the increasing apostasy and degeneration of true spirituality in the Body of Christ as the days become darker, men grow more evil, false teachers proliferate, and doctrines of demons saturate the Church as the time for Christ's return draws ever closer.

• And it was the eternal Spirit Who empowered the Lord Jesus throughout His earthly life, for during this time, the eternal Son of God set aside His glory.
• In order to become the Messiah of Israel and Saviour of the world as laid out in God's plan of redemption, the eternal Son of God had to humble Himself and for a time was made a little lower than the angelic hosts that He Himself created.

• Time and again, He rehearsed the need for sinners to acknowledge their fallen state, to recognise their need for salvation, and to turn from their sin and look to Him Who alone has the words of eternal life.

• Sometimes we are unaware of the abundant blessings that have become ours at the point of our salvation and sometimes it takes time to become aware of all the gifts of grace that have been bountifully bestowed upon us, in Christ Jesus.

• We do not know the interval of time between Job's two trials, but we do know that this wealthy man, who had been so blessed of God and who was held in high esteem by his neighbours, was reduced to the status of an unclean beggar overnight, which caused his wife's spirit and hope to be shattered.

• It should be noted that the Jewish Sabbath had been changed and corrupted, over time, and had NO resemblance to the same command given to Moses.

• It is good to be watchmen on the wall who warn the ungodly about the coming wrath of God - which Scripture calls 'the Time of Jacob's Trouble'. Let us seek discernment from the Lord, knowing that He has revealed to us all we need for life and godliness in His written Word, for the Lord God does nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants, the prophets.

• And it was through her intervention at this critical time in their history that the nation, through whom was given the holy Scriptures, was saved from total annihilation.
• Mordecai challenged her with words that Jews and Christians down through the centuries have often rehearsed in the ears of those who are called upon to carry out a particularly difficult or dangerous task in order to forward God's plans and purposes: For who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this? 
• Indeed, she was warned: If you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place.
• In an amazing way, each one of us could be challenged with the words: Who knows whether or not you have been placed in this particular position for a time such as this?

• Such people will remain in the darkness that they have chosen and will remain in the darkness that they themselves have chosen; a choice made time but which will remain into eternity.

• This was the first of seven titles that Christ used about Himself that started with the words: I AM... I AM the Bread of Life which will satisfy and sustain you through time and into eternity.

• Faith that justifies takes place at one moment in time, when Christ is made the object of our faith.
• Sanctification is a work of faith which takes time to grow and mature.

• However, for the last century or so, the west has been living an abnormal Christian life with little real suffering and not much pain - but the tide of hatred towards Christians is turning... and the normal Christian life of suffering, self-sacrifice, persecution, and martyrdom, is already evident in certain countries and has been for some considerable time.

• But as time passed and complacency took root, Israel's life of ease began to be threatened and King Asa sought the help of man rather than maintaining his trust in the Lord.

• Whether you stand gazing at the deep midnight-blue sky where a multitude of shimmering diamond-studded stars are twinkling overhead or whether you pick up an authoritative journal that outlines the staggering dimensions and design of the Milky Way, the innumerable numbers of other gigantic galaxies or countless number of stars that are visible to the human eye, you can do little more than wonder about our astonishing Creator Who, at a moment before time began and in a place before space was created, spoke the world into being.

• The rejection of their Messiah caused the kingdom promised to Israel to be postponed for a time, and God required Paul to pen this series of chapters outlining His past, present, and future programme for His people, to prevent any false claims that God had finished with Israel and replaced them with the Christian Church, who some erroneously claim to be 'the new Israel'.

• For thirty-three years, the God of the universe stepped out of eternity into time.
• He has sent Me to proclaim freedom to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed.Jesus pronounced the fulfilment of this ancient prophecy from Isaiah, and the people there wondered at the gracious words that fell from His lips, yet they sought to slay Him for they could not accept the truth – but He passed through their midst, for His time had not yet arrived.Although Jesus was rejected in His hometown of Nazareth and an attempt was made to kill Him, He fulfilled this and many more astounding ancient prophecies, over the course of His life.The Spirit of God was indeed upon Him, for He submitted to the leading of the Spirit throughout His life, spoke only those things He heard from the Father, carried out His Father's will, and fulfilled every prophecy relating to His first advent.He did preach the good news of salvation to the poor, proclaiming freedom from sin, Satan, death, and hell – by faith in Him.

• Indeed, the LORD rescuing the godly from the wicked in His own time and His own way.

• So many of the sacred words that have been penned by Israel's shepherd-king are prayers that have been rehearsed on the lips of many saints over centuries of time, who have found comfort and grace in his pleadings to the Lord.

• The time is fast approaching when we will proclaim, Death has been swallowed up in victory.

• God does bless His people, however it is wrong to suggest that the reason a Christian that is going through a difficult time is due to their sin.

• It is reasonably simple to say, 'I love you' to other people, but the test of genuine love is expressed in deed and in truth.It is not simply expressing affection through what we say, but through the giving up of ourselves for the service of others, no matter what the cost in time, money, reputation – and even life itself.It is a 'dying to self' and a 'living for Christ' which is manifest in works of righteousness for the benefit of others – and to the greater glory of God.

• And it should also be studied alongside all other passages that teach about salvation if we are to understand precisely what Paul meant at the time that the passage was written.

• As Church-age believers, we will not have the wrath of God poured out on us during that fast-approaching time of Jacob's Trouble: that seven-year Tribulation period when the Lord pours out His wrath on a God-hating, Christ-rejecting, satanically inspired, sinful world.
• But that coming time of Great Tribulation is fast approaching and we are seeing evidence of its imminence throughout our earth.
• The satanically established religious and economic system which continues to persecute the true Church of God, and which has flourished down through centuries of time, will finally dominate the world in the coming 70th week of Daniel.

• Through time and into eternity, we must never forget the grace of God that has been extended to all who trust in Christ for salvation, for by His blood he reconciled both Jew and Gentile into one Body, which is the Church.

• As we consider the disciples of Christ's day and the multitudes of saints that have trusted in Jesus down through centuries of time, it is clear that not many mighty men and not many wealthy nobles become followers of Christ and heirs of the kingdom.
• Too often, the world's opinion of riches is bound up in the baubles of this world that will one day be burned up, but let us pay heed a truth that has stood the test of time - God has chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, and this is a promise which holds true for all who love him.

• In the final three verses of his second letter, Peter is explaining that unbelievers, who for a time are enticed by false teachers into believing a fake gospel with a counterfeit Christ, end up in a worse spiritual state than at the beginning.
• They may have escaped the impurity of the world with its many entanglements for a short time when they came into a knowledge of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, but they never came into a saving knowledge of Christ.

• Although restoration of a remnant occurred after Judah's return from Babylonian captivity, we know that a second restoration will take place at the time of the end, when God's faithful people are gathered from the far corners of the earth by His holy angels. 
• He brought back some of His faithful people from the Babylonian dispersion and at the appointed time, God sent His Son into the world to save His people from their sin.

• We immediately see the Lord working through Daniel, whom He used to interpret King Nebuchadnezzar's troubling dream, while revealing the course that human history would take, from the days of the Babylonian Empire to the time Jesus will return to earth to destroy the kingdoms of this world and set up His prophesied Millennial kingdom, of peace, prosperity, and righteousness.

• Although He was fully God, the Lord Jesus lived His life demonstrating to humanity how God wants every spiritual man to live - indwelt, led, and guided by the Holy Spirit of God while at the same time abiding in unbroken fellowship with our Father in heaven - every moment of the day.

• Prayer is the tool that encourages our continuous appeal to His Father-heart of love, for through it we find grace to find help in time of need.

• Let us seek to eschew all evil and live godly lives during our time on earth, and let us endeavour to reverence our Heavenly Father and ensure that every moment of our life is consecrated to the Lord, for His praise and glory.

• May we regularly reflect on the enormity of what the Lord has done for us; for while we were still helplessly estranged from God, He sent Christ to die for us at the right time, and demonstrated His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ, the Son of the most high God, God the SON, died for us. 

• A third group came back with Nehemiah, after the attempted extermination of the Jews during the time of queen Esther, and through whose encouraging leadership the city wall was speedily rebuilt and its broken gates restored.
• Cyrus also instructed the citizens of Persia to give the returnees freewill offerings of gold, silver, and other valuable material, to finance the building of the Lord's Temple, similar to the time when the Israelites came out of Egypt with much Egyptian 'booty'! 

• Eve knew her Seed would crush the serpent's head and Abraham looked for a city, whose Builder and Maker was God.Israel were promised a land and a kingdom of peace and prosperity, with a descendant of king David sitting on the royal throne – and the Lord Jesus was sent to earth at God's appointed time, to take up His position as King of Israel and Saviour of the world.Repent Israel, for the kingdom of God is at hand, was the cry of John the Baptist, but Israel rejected the kingdom and their King – and they crucified their Messiah.
• They cried with a loud voice, We will not have this Man to rule over us, and so the kingdom was set aside for a season and Jesus, the Crown-Prince of heavenly glory, returned to His Father's throne until a future time when He would be accepted by His people, seated on the throne of David, and crowned as their eternal King, Sovereign Lord, and promised Messiah.Today, the kingdom has been postponed and the Prince of Peace continues to be Israel's 'King-in-Waiting'.
• Today, Jesus is seated on the throne of His Father, until that time when the very nation that rejected Him will cry out with one voice for Him to save them: Hosanna!
• On that day, they will all acknowledge Him as God's anointed Messiah and enthrone Him, on David's throne, as their long-awaited King.The Church age is that period of time before the Lord returns to set up that promised Kingdom and be crowed King of all kings.

• We are to be holy by setting ourselves apart for Him, as a living sacrifice: Holy and acceptable unto the Lord, surrendering to Him in every corner of our lives and every attitude of our being, surrendered to Him for His praise and glory, through time and into eternity.

• The Man Who walked and talked with John and Who knelt to wash His dusty feet at that last Passover meal in the upper room is the eternal Son of Man Who spans time and encompasses eternity. He is the Source and Goal of creation.
• And when we believe in the death, burial, and Resurrection of Christ, for the forgiveness of sin, we are saved in body and soul, and at the same time we are born from above, receiving the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

• Unless we sit at His feet and spend quality time communing with our Lord as a priority, our life will be fruitless, our work will become tedious, and our witness will be void of power.
• Let us never set out to work and witness unless we have first spent time sitting at His feet, worshipping Him.

• With this in mind, after cataloging a fearsome list of the most traumatic circumstances that may impact our lives or afflict us in the physical, emotional, and spiritual realms, and having proclaimed that nothing can separate us from Christ's love (including tribulation and distress, famine and nakedness, peril, persecution, and death), Paul emphatically declares that we are conquerors in every single situation that crosses our path, in time and into eternity.
• What Paul is detailing in this passage is the believer's triumph, through time and into eternity, because when God is for us there is nothing and no one that can successfully oppose us because HE is for us.

• He reminded them that Jesus had appeared to over 500 brothers at one time and that many were still alive and living among them, although some had already 'fallen asleep'.

• But Christ's time had not yet come.

• However, when the time came for him to reclaim his property, he sent some of his servants to get it back, but the leaseholders refused to return it and treated the servants badly.
• However, His time had not yet come - for Jesus had an appointment with the Cross of Calvary where He would lay down His life for the sin of the whole world.

• Job had been knocking on the door of heaven for answers to his questions, for a long time.

• Let us redeem the time and make the most of our opportunities to share the good news of the gospel of Christ, Who died for our sin and rose again to give us His life so that we might become children of God.

• For three long hours, time embraced eternity, as the world was plunged into a thick darkness.
• Heaven was hushed, time stood still, and God turned His face away from the Son of His love, in Whom He was well pleased.

• Today, we are being: Kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

• The return of Christ is thrilling for those who believe, but for those who reject God's offer of salvation, it is a time of awesome judgement when God's justified wrath must be poured out, in fullest measure, on a God-hating, Christ-rejecting, sinful world.
• Time is short.

• But in His farewell discourse, Jesus took time to reassure His frightened little flock that His perfect peace would flood their heart and mind, if they would trust the words He had spoken to them and believe the things He had taught them.

• At another time, he had to dig through a wall with his eyes blind-folded, and on yet another occasion, he had to erect a clay tablet which was to portray the city of Jerusalem under siege, and then lie on his side for a total of 430 days!All these activities undertaken by Ezekiel were to act as 'signs' to the people of Israel – signs of things to come.

• God had promised Abraham a special inheritance in the land of Canaan which would be possessed by his descendants after Him... and although he did not see this come to pass in his own life-time, Abraham believed God.
• Although the Promised Land which God pledged to Abraham's descendants as a permanent possession is not yet realised - a believing remnant of Jews will, one day, be settled securely in their land forever - following the terrible future time of 'Jacob's trouble'.

• The time is getting nearer when He will lift high the heavenly sceptre that belongs to the King of kings and Lord of lords, and He will judge the world in righteousness.

• But we must also realise that we will be hated of all men, because we are His children, but praise God that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

• And so in the fullness of time, God sent His only begotten Son to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to son-ship, be returned into fellowship with our Creator, and learn to worship our Father in heaven in spirit and in truth.

• From that time on, we begin a lifelong process of progressive sanctification as we are changed from glory to glory, into the image and likeness of the Lord Jesus.   

• Indeed, he warns us that many such antichrists had already started to appear, which indicated that the last days had already arrived in the early days of the Christian Church and at the time that John wrote his epistle.
• The apostle John had walked with the Lord and spent time with his Master, but as the Church was being established and his life was drawing to a close, his warning to these maturing believers was, you know that the Antichrist is coming; you know the end-times prophecies that tell of the future Antichrist... well, even now many antichrists have already appeared - which indicates that this is the last hour.

• But it will only happen at His appointed time and in His appointed way.

• In the beginning, God spoke the world into being, creating time and space and matter.
• In the beginning, God spoke the world into being and we discover in the pages of Scripture that a handful of chapters were designated to inform us of what God did at the dawn of time, the birth of space, the creation of our world, and the genesis of the human race.

• The Lord is true to His Word, His mercy is new every morning, and He is a faithful God Who will stand firm to the very end of time.

• Instead of the Church proclaiming the gospel of the grace of God to a lost world, 144 thousand Jewish evangelists will start to proclaim the gospel of the kingdom – and then Christ will return as their anointed King.Although this is a time of Great Tribulation, it is not God's will that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance through faith in Christ for the forgiveness of sin.
• And it is during this 'Time of Jacobs Trouble' (the 70th week of Daniel) that we discover a great multitude without number who will be saved by God’s grace, through faith in the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world.We read in Revelation 7, that after the sealing of the 144 thousand Jews who come from every tribe of Israel, a great multitude which no one could number, will come to faith in Christ.
• However, from reading the book of Revelation, we discover that their faith will be severely tested, for about three quarters of the entire world's population will be slain during this period.Although there will be a global slaughter during this terrible time, a great multitude will be saved for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, because they did not worship the beast, nor his image, nor did they receive his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands.Though not part of the Church, these saints of God will be resurrected when the Antichrist is defeated and Christ returns to earth to take up His rightful position as Israel's King.
• They will be privileged to reign on earth with Christ for 1000 years – after He has returned, in power and great glory, to sit on the throne of David and begin His earthly rule from Jerusalem.The great crowd that John saw in his vision were Jews and Gentiles who had rejected God's offer of salvation during the Church age, but who trusted Him for the forgiveness of sin during this terrible time of Tribulation.

• For the time being, however, we are living in a dangerous and ungodly world where false teachings and destructive doctrines abound, but let us also remember that a day is coming when they will all be brought to destruction.

• At the time of John's writings, the inspired canon of Scripture had not yet been completed, and there were many false teachings and doctrines of demons that sought to distort the gospel and twist the truth of God's Word.

• But as the time for Moses' death drew nearer, a new generation of Israelites were given an opportunity to believe God's Word, trust the promises of God, enter the Promised Land, and live a victorious life of faith instead of a defeated life of unbelief and doubt.
• Having reminded them of their history and the promises of God, the time arrived for Moses to give God's people their final instructions.

• The greatest manifestation of God's love towards a cursed world and a condemned race was shown at the appointed time, when God the Father sent His only begotten Son into the world to be the substitute for our sin.

• But in this final section, Paul reiterates the serious warning of godlessness in the last days, where evil men will go from bad to worse - deceiving others and being deceived themselves: For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, is Paul's heart-breaking pronouncement.
• Paul warns that the time would come when they will not endure sound doctrine, and would want to have their ears tickled, with a watered-down and compromised gospel, and accumulate for themselves teachers - having itching ears. How reflective of Christendom today, is this warning from Paul.

• It was for that reason that Paul and the other apostles who authored the Scriptures, spent little or no time going into the finer details of the many false doctrines that were starting to infiltrate the Church of their day.
• And so Paul spent time opening up the good news of the pure gospel of Christ for a special reason: So that no one will delude you with persuasive argument.

• No one has seen the invisible God at any time, and yet God the Father sent God the Holy Spirit to live in and work through all those who have chosen to trust in God the Son for salvation, by grace through faith.

• He asked that an overflowing abundance of mercy, peace, and love be showered on all who trust in Jesus. He knew that wolves were prowling around seeking to scatter the little flock of God, and so he asked the Father for mercy to help in time of need and for an abundance of peace and love, in the midst of difficult times.

• It is a time when self-sufficient unbelievers who have relied on their own righteousness as a means to salvation, will be tried in the fires of God's righteous judgement and found wanting. 

• He could not proclaim His own personal, justified innocence, for to do so would render your sin and mine as remaining unpaid and unforgiven, through time and into eternity.

• God is Spirit, and John tells us on a number of different occasions that no one has seen God at any time, apart from a brief season at Christ's First Coming, when the invisible God was made manifest to the world through His only begotten Son.

• Some believers, both in Paul's day and in our own time, consider it important to celebrate the feast days and keep the Sabbath holy.
• Some favour making Sunday a special time of worship, while others prefer to keep every day the same.

• Were they recalling the time that Jesus took His twelve disciples aside and told them that everything written in the prophets about the Son of Man would be accomplished?

• Indeed, the Jerusalem council was formally set up to clarify the fundamentals of the Christian faith.They agreed that Gentile believers could not be expected to adhere to Jewish rules, rites, and regulations, but too often, Jewish converts to Christianity clung fast to their former rituals, even though they knew that it was not the Law that justifies them before God, but faith in Christ.Although these early Jewish believers understood that salvation was by grace alone through faith in Christ alone, many of them, including some of the apostles, continued to cling to the Jewish Sabbath, Jewish sacrifices, the Temple worship, feasts days, and other Jewish observances.Time passed since Paul's first, brief visit to Jerusalem where he had met with Peter and a few Church leaders.

• David learned to acknowledge the Lord in all things and finally he became a wise parent, for he took time to teach his children - and his children's children - that the fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom and understanding.

• Nevertheless, Paul, the great rabbi of his time, who was steeped in orthodox, Jewish tradition from his early years, was made a minister of this vital truth.

• It was by divine design that this Psalm so beautifully describes the Lord God as our great and caring Shepherd, for although it is often used as a great comfort at a time of death or bereavement, it is equally a Psalm that points to the Lord Jesus Christ as our sustenance and support in every season of our lives.

• Like us, Abram was justified when he first believed the Word of the Lord but like us, His faith needed to grow and mature - which takes time in the life of every believer.

• In the beginning, He commanded the light to shine out of darkness and in the fullness of time He sent His only Son to be the Light of the world, to give light to everyone coming into the world.

• The Body of Christ, which is the Church, has been chosen by God to be His permanent dwelling place, throughout time and into the eternal ages to come, for our bodies are a temple of the living God and the Spirit of God dwells within each one of us.

• It must have been a sight to behold that first day of Pentecost, when the Church was born and the Holy Spirit came to take up residence within the bodies of these first Church-age believers for the very first time.
• Until this point in time, the Spirit had only come upon a few believers who were chosen for a special office or empowered to carry out a specific task for the glory of God.

• They crave a time when the groans of creation cease, the wicked are punished, the hungry are fed, the oppressed are vindicated, the weary are refreshed, and justice rules in the corridors of power.
• A time is indeed coming when the earth shall be filled with justice and peace, and the King of righteousness will reign supreme over the whole earth.
• At that time, He will judge the people fairly.
• Prophets, priests, psalmists, and other holy men of God have prophesied of that coming time when this utopic peace will be established on earth and Jesus will be the supreme Ruler of the whole world.
• As those who have been saved by grace through faith, we look to that time when, with Christ, we will rule and reign with Him for 1000 years before His eternal kingdom extends into the eternal ages to come, when there will be a new heaven and a new earth.
• But until that time we must occupy until He comes in the clouds to take us to be with Himself.

• Both God the Father and God the Spirit turned their back on God the Son, as he bore the sin of the world upon His sinless shoulders, and the unity that the Three had enjoyed for an eternity was shattered for the first time, as the Father and the Spirit together poured out the fullness of their wrath upon the Son.

• It is the little remnant of faithful Israel who are depicted as rejoicing in the Lord because the time is coming when their promised Messiah will come and 'tabernacle' among His people and will lead God’s covenant nation in joyful praises to the Lord.

• It was this point in time when God the eternal Son, became Jesus the perfect Man, Who took upon Himself a human nature.
• It must have been such an amazing and joyful revelation to Joseph, who up to this time had been grieving that the girl he loved so dearly and had desired to become His wife, had been unfaithful to him.

• Over the next two years, a series of Roman trials were held in which Paul was called upon to defend his Christian faith from his Jewish accusers - during which time the plot to kill him continued, unabated.
• But we, who have been permitted to look down the telescope of time, are able to witness God's wisdom working all things together for good for those that love the Lord - for those that are fitting into His plans.

• He had been a secret disciple of Christ for some time – but was now ready and willing to declare in Whom he had believed.Joseph was a wealthy man whose tomb had been hewn out of the bed-rock, as prophesied by Isaiah.
• We also read in Luke, that certain women saw the place where the dead body of Jesus was laid, and for a time they lingered in agony before His burial chamber.All His followers were grief stricken to see Jesus dead and buried, and these grieving women followed and watched where they laid Him.
• Luke explains that even the women who had come with Him out of Galilee, followed and saw the tomb, and how His body was placed.But strict Sabbath Day regulations prevented these heart-broken, Jewish women from visiting the tomb the following day, which was a Sabbath and so from Friday, through Saturday, and into Sunday, the stone-cold body of the Lord Jesus Christ lay in silence – and alone - in the borrowed tomb of a wealthy man.No doubt copious tears were shed and many hearts bitterly grieved, as these loyal ladies fulfilled the requirements of the Sabbath Day – for we read that they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.No doubt, they started preparing spices and perfumes to anoint His body, throughout that evening and into the night-time once the Sabbath was over.

• He was called out of Egypt, anointed by the Holy Spirit, and Daniel even proclaimed the exact time of His appearance.
• But as the Son of Man Himself walked this earth in humble dependence upon His Father, He could also proclaim that now is the time when true worshipers would worship the Father in spirit and truth.

• And how blessed are we to receive it, for this is the eternal God and great Creator of the universe, Who has deigned to tell us ahead of time, details of His glorious plan for us and perfect purposes for the world in which we live.
• He was holy in eternity past, will be holy in eternity future, and He is holy in the present time and in all the surrounding space.

• Some of his writings describe Israel's immediate future while others give us a glimpse into the end-times, the coming satanic Antichrist, and the terrible time of Great Tribulation which is to descend on the whole earth as God pours out His wrath on an unbelieving world.
• The final chapter of his book gives a peep into the terrible time of Tribulation, which Jeremiah calls: The Time of Jacob's Trouble.
• Daniel was told to seal up his prophecy until the end of time.
• It is during this time that Michael, the great prince of Israel and archangel of God who stands guard over the sons of Israel, will rise up to protect them.
• Although they will have to endure the greatest time of distress the world has ever seen: Everyone who is found written in the book (the Lamb's book of life) will be rescued.
• Everyone who has ever lived since the beginning of time, Jew or Gentile, saved or unsaved, will be resurrected.
• King David, Abraham, Daniel and Esther will be among those resurrected at this time.

• It is a factual saying that will stand the test of time, a reality given to us by God Himself.

• Unlike the rest of Christ's apostles who walked with Jesus throughout His earthly ministry, Paul was called to be God's apostle to the Gentiles following the Resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and His Ascension into heaven.Because of Paul's unusual calling and unique ministry, there were many who criticised his teaching and challenged his authority, which is why he so vigorously defended his calling and frequently made reference to the direct revelation he received from the Lord.Here in first Corinthians, Paul found it necessary to severely admonish the believers in Corinth for their disgraceful conduct which discredited the Lord, tarnished their witness, and rendered them carnal Christians and spiritual infants.The unruly disunity, riotous behaviour, greedy indulgence, and disregard for the needs of their brothers and sisters in Christ, was even displayed during the celebration of the Lord's Supper – which Paul had already taught was a time to reflect on the reality of Christ's sacrificial death, until His coming again.And so in this passage, Paul is preparing to criticise and correct the shocking behaviour of these carnally minded believers, by reminding them of his own unique calling and the direct revelation he received from the Lord, which had already been taught to them on an earlier occasion.He reminded them that he had been called personally by God, and delivered a specific message regarding the importance and seriousness of the Lord's Supper, which they were currently disregarding:For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you, Paul reminded them, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which He was betrayed took bread; and gave thanks, and broke it and said, 'This is My body, which is given for you – do this in remembrance of Me.'May we never forget the enormous price that was paid for our redemption, at the Cross.

• Although there is some confusion as to the age of king Saul when he started to reign in Israel and the length of time he ruled over the nation, there are clear lessons that we can learn from his rebellious behaviour towards the Lord and His prideful unbelief.
• It was getting near to the time of his death and Samuel had already given his farewell speech to the nation where he reminded the people: If you will fear the Lord, serve Him, listen to His voice, and not rebel against the command of the Lord, then both you and also the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God.

• At an appointed time, He was clothed in flesh, becoming the perfect Son of Man so that sinful humanity might not perish but be redeemed from sin's eternal destiny and be restored into a right relation with their Creator.

• The mid-section in Micah, begins to describe the glories to come at the time of the end.
• He describes it as a time when God's downtrodden people will finally be acknowledge and praised by the nations of the world.
• Micah is speaking of the time when Jesus Christ will rule and reign as King of kings and Lord of the whole earth: He will judge between many peoples, during His coming millennial rule: He will render decisions for mighty, distant nations.
• During the time of the judges, the people of Israel rejected God as their King and during His earthly ministry, they rejected Jesus as King.
• This will be a time when wars and disputes between opposing nations will cease and weapons of war, like swords, spears, and maybe tanks and armoured vehicles will be refashioned into productive tools and hammered into valuable instruments that will benefit the whole of mankind.
• But both also prophesied of the time of the Messiah, when: Nations will hammer their swords into ploughshares and will fashion their spears into pruning hooks.
• For millennia, man has sought to create Utopia and bring in a time of peace and prosperity for all.

• And the hope that comes through faith in Christ does not disappoint, because the supernatural love of God has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, Who was given to us, through time and into eternity.

• Blessed are those who keep those things which are written therein, we read, for the time is at hand.
• We should pay careful heed to the content of the book of Revelation and be watchful for Christ's return, and we should be spiritually alert and recognise that the time of the end is drawing ever closer, and yet there are many in the Church today who dismiss the important content of this wonderful apocalyptic book and miss the blessing it offers because they consider it is too difficult to understand.
• Blessed is he who heeds the things which are written in this prophecy - for the time is near.
• It has been given to help us comprehend more fully God's plans and purposes for the redemption of the world and to inspire us to live godly lives knowing that the time is drawing ever closer.
• And while there is much information of the devastating events that will take place in during that terrible time of devastating disaster - it is a book that reveals the Lord Jesus Christ to those who find themselves facing God's wrath - and those in the Tribulation who also read, hear, and heed the words of this prophecy by calling on the name of the Lord will also be blessed - for they too will be saved. 

• Some suggest that this group of wise men had calculated that the time for His visitation was near and the star that rose in the east, confirmed their calculations.Having followed the star from the east, they arrived in Jerusalem where they were to learn, from Jewish Scribes and Pharisees, that they were searching for the promised Messiah of Israel Who would be born in Bethlehem of Judea, as prophesied by the prophet, Micah.Whoever they were, and wherever they were from, these wise men were searching for the truth – and they found Him in a little house with His mother, Mary, and they fell down and worshiped Him.These wise men had been divinely directed in their search and were justly rewarded.

• The coming Day-of-the-Lord is a future period of time when God will intervene in the history of mankind once again.
• Many passages in both the Old and New Testaments explain this 'Day' as follows: 1) The 7 year Tribulation period, as outlined by Daniel. 2) The period which Jeremiah calls 'the Time of Jacob's Trouble' which occurs during the last 3 1/2 years of the 7 year Tribulation period. 3) The prophesied return of Christ to earth with His saints to set up His earthly Millennial Kingdom at the end of the 7 year Tribulation period. 4) The 1000-year Millennial Kingdom when Jesus reigns as King of kings and Lord of lords. 5) The destruction of heaven and earth at the end of the Millennium - before the creation of a new heaven and a new earth.
• The coming Day-of-the-Lord which covers the five time periods outlined above, will last a minimum of 1007 years... and in his letter to the Thessalonians, Paul identifies two groups that will be impacted when the Day-of-the-Lord begins.
• And as we study God's Word and observe the world and current events around us, there are many indications that the time for God's next intervention into the history of the world is almost here.

• He was the last of the apostles because he was called following Christ's ascension into heaven. 1 Corinthians tells us about the occasion when Paul saw the risen, ascended, glorified Lord: Last of all He appeared to me also, as one born out of due time: for I am the least of the apostles.

• Christ paid the incredible price for sin: In His body on the tree, so that all who believe on Him might not perish but be united with Him through time and into eternity.

• YES – Christ is our righteousness, Christ is our ever-present help in time of trouble, and it is Christ Whose grace is always sufficient for all our needs for Christ is our covering.

• In Chapter 21 He appeared to Abraham a second time, when he was preparing to offer his son Isaac, as a sacrifice to the Lord, as God had directed him.
• There were times during his walk of faith when Abraham enjoyed fellowship with the Lord, and times when he was out of fellowship, those times he followed his own human logic instead of God's divine direction, such as the time he went down to Egypt during the famine, instead of trusting God to provide for his needs; and the time he took Hagar as his concubine, instead of trusting God to keep His word, concerning the promised SEED, Who would be born through his wife, Sarah.

• And this mingling of the angelic with the human, was Satan's attempt to corrupt the DNA of humanity and eliminate the Seed of the woman Who was prophesied to destroy the works of the evil one.Although the vile influence of these fallen angels certainly aggravated the degenerate, pre-flood conditions, it was the unrelenting wickedness in the human heart and man's obsessive preoccupation with evil which was identified in this verse and demanded the destruction of mankind, through the flood of Noah.The sin nature that so corrupted the human race at the time of the flood, is the same evil disposition that is inherited from our fathers and imputed into the heart of every man who has descended from Adam – for the natural man is a sinner who is born under sin and is at enmity with God.The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually... and yet God, in His grace, purposed to redeem mankind and to destroy the works of the evil one.Although God's judgement rained down on the antediluvian world, and will do so once again during the Great Tribulation, it was at Calvary where complete victory was gained against mankind's unrelenting enemy.It was at the Cross, when Christ's blood was shed to pay the price for sin, that our Saviour triumphed over the evil enemy of our soul, and Satan's defeat will be fully realised when he is finally thrown into the fiery lake of God's everlasting judgement, after which, God will make a new heaven and a new earth.

• The shame and slavery that Israel experienced in Egyptian captivity, was regarded by Isaiah as the time of Israel's youth.
• The generations of idol worship and spiritual apostasy that followed, was considered as the time of Israel's spiritual adultery, likening them to an unfaithful wife.

• There is an appointed time that God's wrath is going to be poured out in full measure on a Christ-rejecting sinful world that did not believe in Him; a future time that is called 'the time of Jacob's trouble' - 'the Great Tribulation' - and it takes place in the 70th week of Daniel's great end-times prophecy.
• That future time of wrath is very near, and we need to recognise that it is by grace that we have been saved and not of works, lest any man should boast, but one of the hundreds of benefits that is given to all who believe on Christ is that we are NOT appointed to wrath.
• Then we who are still alive and remain, will ce caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will always be with the Lord, and then that terrible time of Jacob's Trouble will be poured out.

• Throughout His life, Jesus had regularly attended this very synagogue, and for over a year He had been healing the sick, casting out demons, and teaching that the time of God's favour had come to His chosen people.

• And He will come at the appointed time: And will not delay.
• Let us hold fast to the truth of His Word and trust Him to carry out His plans and His purposes in His time and in His way, to our eternal benefit and to His greater glory.

• But at the appointed time, the Lord has promised to judge the world in righteousness and He will not delay.

• The Law spoke to them and they were to tell other nations that they needed salvation – by faith in God.It is by breaking a law that one is condemned by that law – and even if someone starts to keep that law perfectly, from one particular point in time, it cannot remove condemnation from past guilt, for we were born sinners.

• As he contemplated the vast expanse of God's glorious creative handiwork where, by the might of His power and His wisdom, God spoke time, space, and matter into being (from nothing), the Psalmist utters words that confound all God's children: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Who am I, David asks, that God should care for me and who are you that God should take note of you?
• For a time, He made Himself a little lower than the angels so that He could take upon Himself the form of a man and die to pay the price for our sin, and in so doing became our precious, Kinsman-Redeemer.

• But at the appointed time, God in His grace sent His only begotten Son - the pre-incarnate Word in Whom is life-eternal - and that life of Christ was the light of truth that enlightens everyone coming into the world.

• Whatever we do during the day and whatever activities we engage in during the night-time hours, all should be carried out for His praise and glory.
• If we find ourselves in difficulties or when we are engaged in some leisure time, it should always be glorifying to the Lord.

• But the undisguised hatred of the Jewish leadership and their rejection of the Lord Jesus, necessitated the postponement of the kingdom age until the time of the end.
• Christ had many things to tell His disciples at this time but they could not bear it and had to wait for the indwelling Holy Spirit to baptise them into the Body of Christ on that Day of Pentecost.

• May we never forget that the sufferings of this present time and the chastening we inevitably face, are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us.

• Some of the Athenian citizens dismissed Paul's teaching as babbling, pseudo-intellectual nonsense, while others were interested in what he had to say and asked him to explain this new doctrine to them – which they had overheard him teaching to Jewish and Gentile believers.The men of Athens spent their time doing nothing more than hearing, or telling each other some new theory or ideology.

• Nahum shows that the Lord is gracious and full of compassion and gives plenty of time for those that commit evil, to repent of their sins.
• However, when the wicked refuse to repent of their evil, the wrath of God is eventually poured out upon them and when the time for the punishment of the wicked arrives - none can withstand Him, for the Lord is a jealous and avenging God Who is angry over sin.
• At that time, they repented of their ungodly ways and for 100 years the grace of God was shown within the gates of this pagan city.

• Like other watchmen on the wall, Micah looked down the corridors of time to proclaim a Saviour Who is Christ the Lord, and His name was to be called Jesus for He shall save His people, Israel, from their sins.
• And although Israel crucified their Messiah and King, God has not finished His people, as many erroneously teach, for in the final verses of this powerful prophecy we see a future time when God will pardon their iniquity and pass over the rebellious acts of the remnant of His possession.
• At a time when much of the Body of Christ seems to have lost its way and has succumbed to many false doctrines that are infiltrating many churches, let us rejoice with Israel and sing: Who is a God like You, Who pardons sin and forgives the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? You do not stay angry forever, but delight to show mercy.

• The character of God remains the same throughout time and into eternity, and He chose to make the man who failed, into a victorious Conqueror.

• Paul firmly believed the good work God started in his life would be completed in God's time and in His way.
• May we never forget the far-reaching impact of Paul's ministry, because he was a man whose confidence was in God and considered that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

• Their enormous responsibility in caring for all the needs of God's people and fulfilling their tabernacle duties, undertaking the sacrificial offerings, and the various requirements of the Law, meant they had no time to tend to their own material needs.

• Although this is a Psalm that speaks both into the circumstances of king David’s life and also into the longer-term history of the whole house of Israel, this is a Psalm that is as relevant for us today as it was in the time of great Davidic dynasty.
• We have legitimate access to the throne of grace through Christ so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

• Do we condemn Esther as a woman who deliberately disobeyed God's Law and willingly engaged in many compromises during her life or do we applaud her courageous acts during her life and her willingness to be used by God for such a time as this?

• Every time Christ's piercing 'woe' rang out, He accused them of serious spiritual failure and pronounced them as religious deceivers.
• And at the start of His ministry, the Lord Jesus gave His people some wonderful blessings (beatitudes) in His Sermon on the Mount, but as His time on earth came to an end he had to pronounce a terrible series of 'woes' on Israel's leadership because they caused the people to reject the Lord of Glory.

• Her profession of faith has shone down centuries of time and ignited hope in the hearts of many.

• Paul was a highly educated and well-respected man who was well versed in the Law and the prophets, having been taught by the best rabbinical teacher of the time.

• Until that time, all who believe in the Lord Jesus, whether Jew or Gentile, become part of the One New Man in Christ, where there is no differentiation between Jew nor Gentile, bond or freeman, male or female, young or old, for we are all ONE in Christ.

• It was Solomon who wrote the book of Ecclesiastes, and although he was a king with unmatched wisdom, and wealth which outstripped every other mortal being, he was a man who lost his spiritual direction over time because of the carnal choices he made.
• Solomon reminds us that our Creator God has made everything beautiful in its time and has set eternity in the human heart.
• He reminds us that there is a time and a season for everything in life and he records his important conclusion about the meaning of life, in chapter 12: The end of the whole matter is this, fear God and keep His commandments.

• Every promise God made to His people and every word that is written in Scripture is true and will certainly come to pass at His appointed time, and in His appointed way.

• It begins with the prophesied 'Time of Jacob’s Trouble', continues into the Millennial reign of Christ on earth – and on into the eternal ages.The 'Day of the Lord' reaches its climax at the end of the Millenium, with the destruction of the first, fallen heaven and cursed earth, and continues with the creation of a new heaven and a blessed, new earth – before continuing into the eternal ages to come.As Church age believers we are living in the 'Day of Man' which began with Adam’s rebellion.
• And although we consider it to be a long time to wait for God’s plan to come to fruition, we are assured that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day.
• Although Christ’s Millennial reign on earth will be a time of righteous rule, when the wolf will lie down with the lamb, the Lord Jesus will be required to reign with a rod of iron for the inhabitants of His earthly kingdom will continue to be born with a sin nature – until ALL thing are made new.

• The historical story of Esther is just one example of the way that God has protected His people down through centuries of time, saving them from ethnic cleansing and national annihilation.
• A day is coming when Israel's escape from Egypt in the time of Moses, and the Jewish delivery in the time of Esther, will be replaced with an even greater celebration - when Christ returns to deliver His people after the seven-year Tribulation period, that future time of Jacob's Trouble.
• The time is coming when both Passover and Purim celebrations will be replaced with the return of Jesus as Messiah to the earth - when He will be hailed as Messiah of Israel and crowned as King of kings and Lord of lords.

• And beginning with Moses and all the prophets, the written Word of God was penned and preached over centuries of time to the people whom God had chosen to be His eternal inheritance.

• The time eventually came when Moses was inspired to pray: O Lord God, You have only begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand.
• But time and again, they did what seemed right in their own eyes and so God withdrew His blessings and postponed His promises.

• He was to bring in the promised time of peace and prosperity for all people.However, Israel anticipated a warrior King Who would save His people by overthrowing their Roman slave-masters.

• As the world in which we live continues to spiral out of control, and as the evil exploits of rich, unscrupulous men and women appears to thunder on unabated, we have an assurance that the Lord is not mocked by the wicked ways of evil men and, at the appointed time, He will bring them into confusion and confound their wicked and satanically inspired activities.
• For the day is fast approaching when Jesus will come, and it will be at the right time.

• Others think it gave Christ time to pray to His heavenly Father for wisdom and guidance, for Jesus only said and did those things that He heard from His Father.

• This wisdom from above is recorded in the Holy Scriptures and is freely available to whosoever will take the time and effort to seek it out.

• But it was only when he sought God in His holy sanctuary and began to reflect on the unchangeable nature of his faithful God, that Asaph started to understand that his question was founded on his own flawed understanding during a fleeting snap-shot of time, and not secured to the unshakable promises of God that stand fast for ever and ever.
• In a moment of time these wicked men would all be swept always into eternal separation from the Lord, while Asaph's own future was secured to the Rock of our salvation.

• And by His sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection, the Lord Jesus Christ became our peace from that time forward, uniting His chosen people, Israel, with those who were once considered to be heathen, Gentile dogs.

• In the time of Israel, the first temple was a physical building which was constructed out of great blocks of hewn stone.
• It is not because of our merit that we are granted this incredible privilege into the throne room of the Almighty and given the right to come boldly to the throne of grace, for mercy to find help in time of need.

• The Law, the Prophets, and Psalms, all point to Jesus Who came, at God's appointed time, to fulfil all righteousness.
• He is the eternally existent God Who is the same yesterday, for He is beyond time, space and matter.

• Finally, the appointed time for Israel's deliverance arrived and God, in His grace, raised up a horn of salvation for His people - Jesus, the Christ.

• It lays out the best approach when praying to our Heavenly Father and gives us a beautiful pattern to follow when we come before the throne of grace for mercy to find help in time of need.
• Although all our sins, past, present, and future are judicially forgiven at the Cross, there are times when we allow the old sin nature to influence us to sin which removes us, for a time, from fellowship with the Father until we confess our faults before Him.

• And when He does provide for our need or should He choose to withhold for a time - like Paul we need to learn to be content in all things... and give thanks to God for His sufficiency at all times - for He is the One who deserves our never-failing honour and our eternal praise .
• We are not only to give freely of our time, our finances and other offerings but we are to give our gift cheerfully and joyfully..

• Let us earnestly contend for the gospel in our time, but let it be done in gentleness and respect.

• Christ was resurrected from the dead 2000 years ago, and because you and I would one day also trust in the Lord Jesus as our Saviour, we ALSO were raised into newness of life at that time, just like all those who down through the centuries would one day trust in Him as their Saviour.
• When Christ rose from the dead, we too were raised up at the same time into a new life, as a new creation in Christ.
• And so, although there was a point in time when, having heard the gospel of grace, we trusted Jesus as Saviour and were born again into His new life, God foreknew that we would one day make that freewill choice.

• However, they refused, even with Jesus teaching them Himself, and so the time arrived when His teaching style changed and Jesus started to talk in parables because Israel's ears were deaf, their eyes were blinded, and their hearts would not believe.
• They could proudly predict an approaching storm or forecast a sunny day and yet failed to recognise the time of their visitation from God. Pride in their Jewish heritage caused them to be haughty instead of humble.
• Was the parable no more than another call for Israel to repent of their sin, rather than an indication that the fig tree would be cut down in twelve month's time and the day of God's judgement be poured out on His sinful nation?

• The Word of God also enlightens our understanding of the angelic conflict that has been raging in heavenly places from the beginning of time.

• We live in a fallen world, and there are many challenges that face the believer who has not only trusted Christ for salvation, but is also ready and willing to deny self, take up his cross, follow Christ’s example, and say without compromise – Thy will, not mine, be done.The newborn baby Christian has to grow in grace and mature in the faith over an unspecified period of time, to reach this level of maturity in his faith, while other who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ may slip in and out of carnality and worldliness for many years, stunting their growth and even regressing in their faith back to spiritual infancy.Many, if not all believers, are called to become mature in the faith by walking in spirit and truth and living godly, Christ-centred lives, but few are willing to exchange the cosy blessings of early Christian infancy, for the difficulties that inevitably follow the mature believer.

• Even in the time of Moses, God knew that His chosen people would be adversely influenced by the worldly mindset of the surrounding, pagan nations which was why God gave very specific instructions to His covenant people concerning the commands He had given them: You shall teach them diligently to your sons, He instructed, and you shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.
• Though this was a mandate given to Israel so long ago, the same two worldviews have marched side by side, traversed centuries of time, and are still very prevalent in the world today.

• Neither their silver nor gold will deliver them on that day; a time which stretches from the start of Daniel's 70th week to the end of the millennial reign of Christ.

• Some time earlier he had rescued Lot and the other citizens of Sodom who had been captured and enslaved by Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him.

• Jesus had taken the time to listen to the question of the rich young ruler, who dearly desired to enter the kingdom.

• We read in this verse that God has made everything appropriate in its time. God made everything suitable for purpose at its appointed time.
• God created us with a yearning for the eternal; a desire to discover all the answers of time and eternity.
• Solomon, who wrote the book of Ecclesiastes, was the wisest person who ever lived, and yet he realised the works of God and the wisdom of God are beyond the limitations of the human mind for after he wrote, God has made everything appropriate in its time He has also set eternity in their heart, he finished by acknowledging, Yet so, man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

• The hour that was coming was that pivotal point in history, when time and eternity met and heaven's hosts must have silenced their praises in astonishment.
• The time was fast approaching when there would be a new and perfect sacrifice, a new living Temple made without hands, a new birth, a new creation, a new dispensation when those that worship God would worship Him in spirit and in truth.

• The vain pursuits of this world and the deceptive pleasures of the life we once 'enjoyed' will perish in our memories with the ever-increasing march of time, as we discover them to be passing vanities.

• It gives power to our Christian life in this world and guarantees our future inheritance with Christ in heaven, to Whom be all praise and glory, through time and into eternity.

• He considered the voice of reason was found in the philosophical platitudes of ancient sages or pious proverbs, developed over time from old wives' tales.

• Although the prophetic 'Day of the Lord' covers both the time of severe judgement (the 7-year Tribulation period) and the following 1000 years of great blessing (the Millennial reign of Christ), verse 17 is specifically referring to the terrible Tribulation period, where God pours out His wrath on a God-hating, Christ-rejecting, sinful world. 
• Zechariah tells us that it will be a time of trouble and distress, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess when the light of the sun and moon will be withdrawn.
• In Matthew 24, Jesus gives an exhaustive description of the Tribulation period to His disciples, when they ask Him to describe the time of His return to earth to set up His kingdom.
• While the Church is raptured before the Tribulation period begins, Israel is destined to go through this terrible Time of Jacob's Trouble.
• May we recognise that the time is short and do all that we can to tell a lost world that salvation is by grace through faith in Christ, Who faced the wrath of God for us when He died on the Cross.

• We saw in the Gospels, the necessity of prayer in the life of the Lord Jesus, and Paul's epistles contain many inspired prayers that have encouraged saints down through centuries of time.

• The believers in the Corinthian church had been converted from the occultic customs of the time; one of which was eating meat that had been offered to idols.

• The very instrument that God gave Israel in order to point them to Christ for salvation, was the very tool they modified to accuse the Son of God of blasphemy, and this particular Sabbath-day healing was a great turning-point in Christ's ministry, because from that time forward: The Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him.

• He reminds us that, even though for a time we have to endure many trials in life, there is wonderful joy ahead.

• The time was getting closer to the day when the Lord Jesus would be betrayed and handed over to wicked men, who would crucify Him by nailing His sinless body to the Cross.
• But as the time for His death drew ever closer, the gulf between those that trusted His Word of truth and those that rejected His Messianic claims grew ever wider.

• Israel did not recognise the time of their visitation, and Jesus reached a point in His ministry when He transferred His attention from the nation as a whole, to individuals who believed in Him.
• This was the time Jesus stopped offering the kingdom to national Israel, began to teach in parables, and started to turn his undivided attention to believing individuals who laboured and were heavy laden, and invited them to come to Him for rest.

• Among other things, it is prophesied that Christ would be preceded by Elijah, be called a Nazarene, spend time in Egypt, speak in parables, and be praised by children.
• Naturally, Joseph was shocked at this news, but being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace Mary publicly, he spent time reflecting on this distressing information but finally decided to divorce his betrothed wife secretly.

• He obviously longed for a time when righteousness and peace would reign on earth, and loving-kindness and truth would be established in the land.

• Paul detailed the time he spent in Arabia and Damascus and that 3 years after his conversion, he travelled to Jerusalem and spent 15 days with Peter and James.

• Everyone who calls out to Him for their deliverance, both now and during that future time of 'Jacob's Trouble' WILL be saved.
• And although we read that many will be slain during this time of great distress and terrible trouble, we also read on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, there will be those who escape, through the supernatural power of the Lord: For they are the remnant whom God, Himself has called and saved. 
• A multitude without number will call on the name of the Lord - but will be slain for their faith in Christ during this time of trouble, while those who are saved to the very END of the Tribulation will become citizens in Christ's Millennial Kingdom.
• It is following this terrible time of 'Jacob's Trouble' - when God's wrath is poured out on an unbelieving world - that Christ will rule and reign on earth.
• However, the complete and final fulfilment of this prophecy of Joel is yet future... and states clearly that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord during this time of 'Jacob's Trouble' will be saved.
• However, a remnant of believing Israel and certain believing Gentiles, will be saved THROUGH this terrible time of Tribulation and they will enter into the Millennial Kingdom of Christ to have children and re-populate the earth.
• Both the martyred saints and the little remnant that survives to the end of this time of terrible Tribulation will be saved because they called on the name of the Lord. Praise His holy name.

• The Lord Jesus was One with the Father in spirit and in truth and so He was well able to judge correctly what to do, and His judgement was just and right because it flawlessly reflected the perfect will of the Father - every time.

• If you were to travel to the furthest reaches of the universe, or go back to the beginning of time, there you'll find love for: God is love.

• The peace we have with God through the forgiveness of sin is an unconditional gift for all who believe, and it remains our present possession through time and into eternity.

• All prophecies relating to Christ's first coming have been fulfilled, while those connected with His return are currently being set up for their eventual fulfilment during the Great Tribulation - sometimes called the 70th week of Daniel or the Time of Jacob's Trouble.
• These prophecies speak of the time when national Israel will repent of their past sin - and the Gentile nations will know that God is the Lord.
• He is speaking of a time in Israel's future history, when all hope seems to have evaporated.
• He is prophesying of the time that Christ is about to return to earth, for Zechariah is delivering a message of great hope to God's people, as well as a warning... for he says, THEN the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fights on a day of battle.  And today we are seeing things being set up for the coming Day of the Lord.
• The Lord will chasten them for a brief time, BUT He will never go back on His promises to Israel.

• This passage, which speaks of salvation, will one day be fulfilled in the Millennial Kingdom of Christ, following the seven-year Tribulation Period which is that 'time of Jacob's Trouble'.
• This is the time when God's wrath will be poured out on an unbelieving world which has rejected His many calls to repentance, both through various prophets of Israel and through the Christian Church, who invite ALL to COME, drink of the living water of life - and be saved.
• The coming Tribulation Period is a time when God purposes to draw His straying nation back to Himself so that He can bless them as He longs to do.
• It is a time when all who call on the name of the Lord, will be saved.

• God's Sabbath rest was rudely interrupted by sin, but God in His grace knew before the foundation of the world that man would disobey Him and His work of redemption would have to begin at a point in time.

• Christ's return to set up His kingdom will be preceded by the terrible time of Jacob's Trouble when the Lord will pour out His wrath on a Christ-rejecting sinful world.

• Prayer is the privilege of people who are saved by grace thorough faith in Christ, for by His sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection, He tore down the dividing wall between God and man and gave us access to His throne of grace, for mercy to find help in time of need.

• It appears that this psalm was written early on in David's life, and yet it seems to be one upon which the elderly king reflected, as the time of his death drew nearer. 

• The Sabbath was to be a time of refreshment and a time of praise in which to glorify their faithful Creator.

• When Christ had stilled the storm, some time before, the question that they asked among themselves was: What manner of man is this..

• God created time, space, mass, and matter, and He anchored this unchangeable Truth in His immutable Word.
• There were no atoms, no elementary particles, no molecules, no modules, no time, and no space, no electrons, and no quarks.
• God moved, and it came into being, for in the beginning God created the 'time-space-matter' continuum: And the earth was without form, and the earth was void. The earth was empty, and the earth was uninhabited.

• He will rule and reign from this time forward and forevermore: And His name will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
• Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever.

• Although unbelieving Israel has had to go through centuries of chastening because of their sin and will also have to endure the coming Time of Jacob's Trouble, a day is coming when the redeemed of Israel will finally realise their fault, repent of their sin, recognise their Messiah, and be ushered into the presence of the Lord their God.
• The time is fast approaching when they will recognise Jesus as the One Who was wounded for their transgressions and pierced for their iniquities, and they will mourn for their sin.
• On that day, the whole believing remnant of Israel will be delivered from the wrath of God, and it will happen in the final days of the coming Tribulation - the 70th week of Daniel - that terrible time of Jacob's Trouble. 
• For the time being, all in this age of grace who have recognised the Lord Jesus as our God and Saviour, both Jew and Gentile alike, are part of Christ's mystic Body (the Church).
• And at the same time, Israel waits for their God and Messiah to return to the earth to rescue them from their enemies and to set up His millennial rule in Jerusalem, when they will say, Lo, this is our God, we have waited for Him and He will save us.

• We do not need a geographical location in which to assemble, nor do we need a specific day to praise God or a special time to come to Him in worship.
• On those occasions when we find ourselves under intense pressure or discover discouragement and disappointment descending into our soul, may we take Paul's words to heart: Reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us, and fan into flames the gift of God that is within us.

• But Jesus came to His own people, and they rejected Him, and the kingdom of heaven had to be postponed until the time that God has appointed.
• He will come at a time when the love of many is cold.

• The Word of God was recorded over centuries of time, starting with the books of Moses where we discover an unveiling of the eternal character, the unsurpassed attributes, and reassuring names of the Lord our God.

• No doubt his mind fled back to that dark night of confused questioning when the 'Light-of-the-world' began to pierce the deep darkness within his proud, unbelieving heart, and he heard those penetrating words for the very first time: As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.

• It was at this critical time in Abraham's life, that God gave His greatest promise to His obedient servant: And when He made this promise, since He could swear by no one greater, God swore by Himself.

• From the time he was a young shepherd boy, David loved the Lord with his whole heart and was able to proclaim that the Lord was his strong Protector and faithful Deliverer.

• This future shaking of the earth and heaven of which Haggai and other prophetic voices foretold, will take place during the time that follows the Rapture of the Church and Christ's return in the clouds to set up His earthly kingdom.

• The eternal Son of God has had life in Himself from before time began, before space was created, before matter was spoken into being, and before man was formed from the dust of the ground.
• And so we read in this verse that the time had finally arrived for the dead to hear His voice and be raised up again, and Christ announced, Assuredly I say to you that an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

• We need to acknowledge Him in the morning time and we need to draw close to Him in the evening hours.
• And when the Word of God says honour Him in 'all' things, it means to draw close to Him with a focused, undivided heart all the time and in every situation.  

• Such are the character traits we recognise in faithful servants of God like Joseph during his sojourn in Egypt, and prayerful men like Daniel during his time in Babylon.

• The words of faith he spoke were factual words that would be realised at the Cross and yet will be fully executed in future time.

• Paul was the tool God used to write much of the inspired, New Testament Scriptures which have become so vital to the Body of Christ down through centuries of time, but he was opposed on all sides by legalists who challenged his apostolic authority and sought to return the early Church to Judaistic rules, rites, regulations, and dogma.

• Paul's church epistles were written to different groups of Christians, dealing with matters that were important to their need at the time, and yet they address issues that remain relevant today. Paul's letters were written as an integrated whole, yet progress from one train of thought to the next.
• It is only by God's grace we have received mercy for help in time of need, so we should not lose heart, knowing that those who wait for the Lord will renew their strength and mount up with wings like eagles: They will run and not grow weary.

• This caused Solomon to reach the understanding that God has made everything beautiful in its own time, and that the Lord has placed eternity in the heart of every-man.
• He realised that in God's economy there is an appointed time for everything, and a scheduled time for every event under heaven.
• A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to gather; a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear down and a time to build up.

• David learned many things about the Lord in his life-time, and one important lesson was that no matter how dark the night of doubt and sorrow, how mountainous the problems he had to face, or how fierce the enemy that stalks our path, God is our help and strength, and He is our shield and buckler.

• The Lord knows His people, but His people must know their Lord and trust in the power of His might, by faith – so they can say in full assurance, The Lord is my strength I will not trust in my own abilities; the Lord is my strength and I will trust in Him.The Lord not only gives us His strength in time of need, but He also blesses His people with peace.

• And just as He honoured His Father, by suffering on our account, we are to be similarly motivated to live for Christ and do only those things that honour Him, especially as the time for His return daws ever closer.
• Having reminded us that the time for behaving like unsaved Gentiles is behind us and living for God should be our priority, Peter gives a very important perspective on suffering for Christ: Beloved, he entreats us, don't be surprised at the fiery ordeal you go through, as if something strange were happening.
• Our time of earth is very fleeting in comparison with the eternal state that awaits all who are saved by grace through faith.

• The Feast of Purim is a day of celebration for the nation of Israel, for it commemorates that joyful time when Esther, the beautiful queen of Persia, was raised up by the Lord for the salvation of her people - the Jewish nation.

• As Paul prepares to bid these beloved believers at Corinth farewell for the last time, he entreats them towards godly conduct... beseeching them to live together in brotherly peace and to maintain godly harmony.
• Indeed, it is often prayed as a parting benediction before brothers and sisters in Christ depart from a time of Christian fellowship and it is often prayed as a beautiful blessing over those for whom we care deeply: May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with YOU.

• He made the decision that he would not regard men from any worldly standards, even though he admitted that at one time he even regarded Christ according to the flesh.

• The whole company of believers who trust in Christ for salvation becomes a sovereign love-gift from God the Father to God the Son, through time and into eternity We are also given God's supreme assurance that all who come by grace through faith in Christ, will be given to Him by the Father and none shall pluck them out of His hands, and this is God's sovereign will.

• Such friends are rare indeed, but even the sting of death can remove such a good and loyal friend from our lives in a split second of time.
• He is the One who will always support and encourage us, help and counsel us, comfort and warn us - and He is the One Whose unconditional love will be poured out upon us without measure, through time and into eternity.

• But He was despised and rejected of men and returned to His heavenly home in glory, for a time.

• He puts his body under subjection, harnesses his time, employs his talents, and fine-tunes his actions and attitude for the glory of God.Such a man keeps his eye on the goal of his calling as he runs the race of life through its many pitfalls and problems.

• The kingdom of heaven had to be postponed, for a time.

• But because of their continued refusal to repent of their spiritual adultery, the time eventually arrived when they would not only be scattered but would find no pity from God Who brought them out of Egypt.

• The seed of the woman had been passed down the centuries of time from our first fallen mother, through Seth and Enoch, Noah and Abraham, Isaac and Judah, David and Nathan, and finally to Mary.