I believe that the purpose of this last season of your life has been to tear and break down. This may seem like a negative thing, but it’s really a great thing! It has been the tearing down of old thoughts, ideas, methods and relationships. It is important to know and understand that God controls the times and the seasons in our lives. David declares in Psalm 31:15, “My times are in thy hand.” Daniel 2:21 lets us know that God changes the times and the seasons. God is not governed by time, He is eternal. Yet He controls the times and the seasons in our lives if we submit to His perfect and divine will. Whatever season we are in, we can rest assured that God has ordered us to be there!
What God has been doing in the “tearing down season” is allowing us to experience the devastation of loss so that reconstruction can take place. He has ordered a season of tearing down and breaking down, however it has a time limit. When the fullness of time has been accomplished for tearing down, the season shifts to the buildup season!
Well,
what is God building? As I was riding home from a mini-family vacation today
(Labor Day) with my extended family, God instructed me to look outside of the
car window. Every time we would pass construction on the highway, He would ask
me, “What are they building?” I could tell by the structure of the building
what was being built, even though the work wasn’t finished yet. On most of the
buildings, no bricks had been laid and no signs had gone up but I could tell; a
bank looked like a bank, a church looked like a church, a neighborhood Walmart
looked like a neighborhood Walmart.
So
what’s the point? It doesn’t matter what or who you lost in the last season of
your life. That was simply “a time to tear down”. Take a close look at what God
has already started constructing in this next season of your life and know that
what God is building next is greater than what you lost in the last season of
your life.
You’re
about to break forth on the left and on the right. He’s using the same foundation
but He’s building you stronger, bigger, wider and greater than ever before! Don’t
weep too long over what you loss. The prophet Isaiah declared that God will
give us beauty for ashes and the oil of joy for mourning.
Arise
out of the ashes! It’s a time to build. God is doing a new thing in your life,
in your career, in your ministry, in your finances and in your family. He's the only God that can take something ugly like ashes and bring beauty out of it! Your new thing is
springing up right before your very eyes. Pay attention to what God is
building. He's revealing it to you by His Spirit. It’s greater than what you lost. This is your greatest season and it’s
called reconstruction!
Be
confident in this very thing; He who has begun a good work in you will perform
it until the day of Jesus Christ!
~Selah
Good morning. Thank you for this. It's an on time word. A few years ago I had a dream where I saw this huge blue wall(that wall that goes around a building that's under construction) inside the sanctuary where I worship. When I woke up and inquired as to what the dream meant,the Holy Spirit said, everything and everyone who's foundation is not built on me will be torn down, But, I will rebuild.
ReplyDeleteThe past few years have been the most trying, painful, confusing and overwhelming that I would ever have been able to imagine that I would ever experience or have to experience, But in the midst of that, healing c ame, breakthrough came, strength came, delivered center came...clarity as to the call and purpose from and in me came. And yes, a re-building is taking/has taken place. #exhales.
Reading this just helped connect some of the dots for me.
Thanks much. GOD bless you for your obedience and diligence.