Navigating Our Spiritual Seasons
God always wants to move in your life. But the breakthrough of God is not automatic. God is calling us to a partnership with Him. If we do that, we will the fruit in our lives. A part of our mandate is to lead peopled into a new season of their life.
We have seasons in the natural world. Natural seasons are governed by time. Natural seasons are characterised by atmospheric conditions that produce a certain environment. Each season will have an environment conducive to producing a certain fruit. You cannot respond to summer in the same way you respond to winter. Each season requires a different response. Natural and spiritual seasons parallel one another.
Spiritual seasons are governed by revelation. A spiritual season must be discerned correctly otherwise they become cycles. Scenery changes in a cycle but you always end up in the same place. There are times in life when you plan and dream. At other times, you prepare and get yourself ready for what God is bringing you next. Sometimes, you cultivate what you already have, appreciate it, and stay with what you are and what you’re doing. And in some seasons, you get the harvest of your labour.
Every season has a purpose. 3 Purposes of a seasons::
- Remove the old
God took Israel out of Egypt but He needed to get Egypt out of Israel.
- Produce fruit
Every season, if navigated correctly is to produce spiritual fruit in your life.
- Give glory to God
Each of our season are to point back to the goodness of God.
“what am I supposed to be (un)learning?”
18 Do not [earnestly] remember the former things; neither consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. 20 The beasts of the field honor Me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to My people, My chosen, 21 The people I formed for Myself, that they may set forth My praise [and they shall do it].
Isaiah 43:18-21
5 keys to navigating seasons:
- Forget the former things
And not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and the perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2
- Discern the change in seasons
Discernment is the ability to have the correct perspective in a given situation and have the appropriate response.
Behold, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:19
- Heed to what God is doing
Every new thing God wants to do requires us to submit (heed to Him)
Behold, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 43:19
- Act from faith, stand firm and fight from place of victory
Therefore put on the full armour of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand, stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place
Ephesians 6:13-14
- Don’t harden your heart
7 So, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, if you hear his voice,
Hebrews 3:7-8
8 Do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion, during the time of testing in the wilderness
2 “Clear lots of ground for your tents! Make your tents large. Spread out! Think big! Use plenty of rope, drive the tent pegs deep. 3 You’re going to need lots of elbow room for your growing family. You’re going to take over whole nations; you’re going to resettle abandoned cities. 4 Don’t be afraid – you’re not going to be embarrassed. Don’t hold back – you’re not going to come up short. You’ll forget all about the humiliations of your youth, and the indignities of being a widow will fade from memory.
Isaiah 54: 2-4
