Preparing for a New Season

Ministry Wednesday: Preparing For a New Season

Kenneth Hagin once said, preparation time is not a wasted time and I believe it strongly. If we must maximize our gifts and potentials to give birth to our divine and eternal purposes, we must recognise our time of preparation and subject ourselves diligently to it till its over before we get to the stage of performance. Proper preparation must precede perfect performance and profitable productivity.

God is committed to preparing us in the best way possible even before we become conscious of it. He takes us through different situations and circumstances to bring the best out of us. We would learn, for instance, how to be full and how to suffer want, how to abase and how to abound, we would learn first how to be the same person in whatever position we find ourselves and we will learn to be able to work with the strength Christ gives.

One area of preparation is to review the assignment given. How clear is it now compare to when we first received it? What details are being highlighted now that were blurred in the vision before?

I understand that divine assignments and their seasons don't run according to our calendar, they have their own schedules. There are times of waiting and times of movement that may not coincide with our months, years and decades. But these new moons help us to know the mind of God as pertaining to seasons and schedules and we can use them to organise our activities.

So, a new year and a new decade is dawning and we need to review how far we've done of the assignment God gave us.

We need to be ready for whatever God would have us do in the coming year, either we are continuing with what we've done or what we are doing or we have a new phase of the assignment to execute.

Preparation can't be done without an anticipation for performance.

We know we have God to please and to impress. We must seek to be well pleasing to Him. We want to continue to do His work and to complete it per time and per phase. We don't want to be workmen that would be ashamed.

So, we seek to receive strength and wisdom for the new season. We would need fresh grace, we would need the anointing and required wisdom. Challenges will come with the new year, we need all that it takes to overcome. If we fail in the days of battle, it'll be because our strength is small...we need to be prepared like a horse is prepared for battle even though we know the victory is of the Lord.

There shall be fresh temptations to overcome and there will be need for progress, momentum, speed and fresh eternal impacts to make but we won't wait till then to prepare, now is the time to fellowship with God and in His word to gain strength, wisdom, power and all we'll need to make the expected impacts.

What if Christ comes on the 1st of January or even before then? How prepared are you? Will the work already done stand the test of fire? If we hear 'Time up', how would we react?

These calls for personal preparation for us all. Some of us still yearns for new levels in God, we yearn for the mark of the prize for the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, we yearn to be delivered of divine pregnancies we'd carried for so long...and many are due for this coming year and decade... We need to prepare for the delivery...

We are not in darkness for the day to catch us unawares, we should not be carried away by the activities of darkness, they may look legitimate but they will keep us oblivious of the times and the demands. Nothing must catch us unaware... Nothing that God demands of us should... We are children of light!

We would need extra oil for our lamp as unto the wise virgins, only with the extra can we survive the night. We must prepare for the long haul, loaded with those spiritual materials that would last us the night! We must not burn out in the middle of the night before the bridegroom shows up.

It's time to prepare! The new year is coming and only the prepared will ride on the waves of the storms its coming with... Be prepared, start now! Seek God's face and live!

Shalom to you!

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