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Key Verses
- There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every matter under heaven Ecclesiastes 3:1 NASB
- For there is a proper time and [appropriate] procedure for every delight Ecclesiastes 8:6 AMP
- He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. Ecclesiastes 3:11 AMP
Insights
1. Know the times
- And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. Romans 13:11 NKJV
- You hypocrites (play-actors, pretenders)! You know how to analyze and intelligently interpret the appearance of the earth and sky [to forecast the weather], but why do you not intelligently interpret this present time? Luke 12:56 AMP
- But He replied to them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but are you unable to discern the signs of the times? Matthew 16:2-3 NASB
- As He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it [and the spiritual ignorance of its people], saying, “If [only] you had known on this day [of salvation], even you, the things which make for peace [and on which peace depends]! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. Luke 19:41-42 AMP
- Like apples of gold in settings of silver, Is a word spoken at the proper time. Proverbs 25:11 NASB
2. You can know the right time
- Sons of Issachar: From the sons of Issachar, men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do, their chiefs were two hundred; and all their kinsmen were at their command. 1 Chronicles 12:32 NASB
- King Ahasuerus’s wise men: Then the king spoke to the wise men who understood the times [asking for their advice]—for it was the custom of the king to speak before all those who were familiar with law and legal matters— and who were close to him [as advisors]: Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven officials of Persia and Media who had access to the king and were ranked highest in the kingdom. Esther 1:13-14 AMP
- Jesus: Jesus said to her, “[Dear] woman, what is that to you and to Me? My time [to act and to be revealed] has not yet come.” John 2:4 AMP
- So Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come; but any time is right for you. John 7:6 AMP
- You go up to this feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, for My time has not yet fully come.” John 7:8 NKJV
3. No one could harm till ...
- So they were eager to arrest Him; but no one laid a hand on Him, because His time had not yet come. John 7:30 AMP
4. Always the correct time for ...
- For He says, “AT THE ACCEPTABLE TIME (the time of grace) I LISTENED TO YOU, AND I HELPED YOU ON THE DAY OF SALVATION.” Behold, now is “THE ACCEPTABLE TIME,” behold, now is “THE DAY OF SALVATION” 2 Corinthian 6:2 AMP
… getting saved!
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5. Our times in His hands
- My times are in Your hand Psalm 31:15 NKJV
- He changesa times and seasons. Daniel 2:21 ESV
aGOD can shorten the season if you are going through a difficult time. He won’t let it get prolonged beyond what you can endure. See
- Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it. Isaiah 28:28 BSB
6. We can get times changed
- And when the wine was all gone, the mother of Jesus said to Him, They have no more wine! Jesus said to her, [Dear] woman, what is that to you and to Me? [What do we have in common? Leave it to Me.] My timea (hour to act) has not yet come. His mother said to the servants, Whatever He says to you, do it. Now there were six waterpots of stone standing there, as the Jewish custom of purification (ceremonial washing) demanded, holding twenty to thirty gallons apiece. Jesus said to them, Fill the waterpots with water. So they filled them up to the brim. Then He said to them, Draw some out now and take it to the manager of the feast [to the one presiding, the superintendent of the banquet]. So they took him some. And when the manager tasted the water just now turned into wine, not knowing where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew—he called the bridegroom John 2:3-9 AMPC
- In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet
Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says:
‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not
recover.’ ” Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly. Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, “Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD. I will add fifteen years to your life. 2 Kings 20:1-6 BSB
aIt was not yet the Lord Jesus’s time to do miracles. He still did it because of Mary’s trust in Him.
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