Jesus, in His death on the cross, shows us how to refuse that which attempts to alter our destiny by altering our mind and heart. Instead, Jesus drank of the vinegar so we could drink from Living Water. In doing so, Jesus taught us of the value of endurance and perseverance in the most painful of circumstances.

Sadly many are happy with their salvation and stop there, but I beseech you not to stop there! There is so much more on this side of Heaven to experience. Won’t you become a living sacrifice reflecting Jesus in the earth walking in love and power?

The season of fruitfulness! In other words the season of your promise! This is a time in your life where everything starts paying off, all your faith, all your obedience, all your prayers and all the time spent with God and in His Word.

So, Jesus had a choice of five different areas to heal people. He chose this one area and this one man; why? Was it that this man was the one who had suffered the longest? Could God want us to know that those of us who have suffered for long periods of time have not been forgotten?

When I think about the word wait or rest, I think of how committed Elisha was to Elijah in second Kings chapter two right up to his departure. It showed how he followed him through each stage and the instructions were hold up meaning stop, wait, rest cause if you don’t see it you won’t receive it.

Acts 9 tells us of a man, Saul, going around and persecuting any Christian he could find. God desired to change that and in an awesome way. One day, Saul gets knocked down by a brilliant flash of light. Saul then proceeded to have a one-on-one conversation with the living Christ.

In life, there’s a system that works in cycles, and patterns throughout the year called seasons, seasons are all about change, these times can be very confusing. God made seasons, and cycles, and expects us to know about them, and understand them.