# His season

Key Passage: Psalm 1:3
Date: June 7, 2024

I just want to look at a phrase. I thought the Lord would want us to go back and look at this phrase here tonight. It’s nothing new. Many of you probably heard something along this line, but it’s just an encouraging thought that I need from time to time. And I figured it would be helpful for you also. In Psalms chapter number one in God’s Word.

We’re going to start in verse number one. By the way, such a good chapter to memorize. And you say, “Memorize a chapter?” Whoa, what are you talking about? It’s only six verses, so it’s doable. It really is. Psalms chapter number one. I remember we used to have our RU program years ago, and that’s one of the first passages you memorize. Some of you are shaking your head. I remember memorizing that. It’s a great chapter of the Bible to memorize—all six of those verses, and not too hard. If you’re there tonight, would you say amen? Good deal. Let’s stand, if you would please. We’re just going to get down to verse number three and one really just phrase. We want to focus on Psalm 1 and verse number one.

The Bible says, “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.”

But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in… Would you say the next two words, please?

Yeah, “His season.” His leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

And just those words: “His season.” I look around, and just every person think: If you follow God’s plan, you’ll have a season. A season—just that thought. His—your—put yourself in there—your season. And just for a little while, I want to focus on that: His season tonight. Let’s go to the Lord in word of prayer and ask Him just to give us what we need tonight. Father, You’re so good, Lord. You always—just amazing. When we’re hungry, You always give us what we need. By the way, we are hungry again tonight. We need from You.

Lord, You meet our needs, and we know You will, Father. We’ll rest in You, in Your Word, Your promise there, Lord. And every person here, Father, would You give them what they need? And would You apply this truth, “His season,” to their lives? Well, thank You for what You do. We’re asking that, Father, in the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.

Thank you so much for standing. You may be seated.

There’s a missionary, a great missionary named Robert Moffat. He was in, oh, South Africa years and years ago before it was so developed. Robert Moffat had so much work to do, and he was getting older and whatnot. He decided to go back. He was a Scottish missionary. He decided to come back to Europe to try to get some other people on board to go over and work and be missionaries. The need was so great. He went back home, but he did not think—he kind of forgot about the winters and how cold they were.

He came back, and it was just a brutally cold winter. He was trying to go to churches and have meetings and generate some support—not necessarily support money, but just some people to go. But he was getting discouraged. He went to a little church. I don’t know if it was that little, but that night it felt little. It was a very cold night, and not many people at all were there. In fact, he just—nobody there—he was a little discouraged about it. In fact, he said when he got there, for the most part, it was all ladies. Praise the Lord for ladies, faithful ladies. Amen. But when he thought about really just going to Africa at that time, ladies for the most part couldn’t really do it.

In fact, his text—let me, let me, let’s see, I’ve got it wrote down—I can’t remember the text, but the text he was going to preach on that night was Proverbs 8:4: “Unto you, O men, I call.” There’s all eighties. He’s discouraged, and nobody’s there. It’s cold that night, and it was getting to him to the point that they almost missed it. There was a young fellow there, and…

He was really—they say back in the day, you know, the organs, the big organs, they had the pump sometimes that somebody had to manually. Brother Frank, 33, and he’s shaking his head, yes, he remembers those days, maybe 33 plus a little bit, you know. This young fellow was there basically to pump the organ. That’s it. And all ladies. He’s discouraged, and he said he just kind of, just kind of made it through the message, and he thought, “What a failure that is, what a flop that is.” And he’s preaching to me, and it’s all age, you know, because I had this one young fellow.

But God did work that night. Years later, the season came to fruition, and it was a great, great harvest of souls. One of the greatest missionaries the world has ever known was kind of born as you go that night. That young fellow pumping that organ heard those stories about Africa and what God was doing there and the need there and the hungry souls there. And that young boy—something happened inside his heart that night. He said, “I’m going to do it.”

He was young and finished school. In fact, he went and got a degree as a doctor, became a doctor, and of course, in Africa at the time, that was so needed. He became a doctor, but he went to Africa and spent his lifetime in Africa. His name was David Livingstone. Maybe one of the most—by far, one of the most famous missionaries.

And what I’m saying is, you just never know when your season—His season—comes. Life is a life of seasons. The older I get, in the years and years and more, you realize, man, there are seasons to life.

You realize if it’s always springtime—I mean, if it’s always, you know, April or May, and everything’s budding and bright and warm—it wouldn’t be a big deal. After a while, you would just kind of be, “Well, there are seasons to life.” It’s like there’s a springtime, summer, fall, and winter. Life’s like that. There are seasons to life. It’s amazing. It seems like there’s—Ecclesiastes three says there are seasons. There’s a season for everything. And soul winning, there are seasons to soul winning.

It’s amazing. I remember several years ago, my family and I were on vacation—kids were still at home—and we went over to East Tennessee to ride four-wheelers and motorcycles in the Cherokee National Forest. We had a ball. We stayed in a little town over there, and I decided, “Man, I’m going to see somebody saved on vacation.” I witnessed to anybody that would. I mean, if they were moving, I would; sometimes if they weren’t moving, I’d witness to them. Literally, there were people stuck in the middle of the four-wheel drive trails; we pulled them out on our four-wheelers. I mean, we couldn’t get the truck unstuck, so we hopped them on our four-wheelers, and I’m witnessing to them. I mean, at gas stations I witnessed, and I mean restaurants I witnessed, and anywhere. I mean, we were running people over so I could witness to them, and they’re dying, you know. I mean, we were witnessing everywhere.

Maybe not quite that much, but we were. My family knew it: “Man, Dad’s on vacation.” Can I be honest with you? Nobody got saved. Nobody, nothing. But I was trying. The amazing thing is, here recently—and I’m not all right, here recently just saying—God says, “All right, you’ve been trying to win souls, you’re trying to get back in there a little bit,” and God’s been giving me a season a little bit. Thursday, I went to buy some tires on Marketplace, Facebook, you know. We met in the Walmart parking lot, and it was cold. I thought, “Well, I might as well try to talk to this fellow.” And he was wide open. He was ready. In fact, he said, “Now, can we pray or something?” you know. “Yeah, let’s pray right now, man.” And he asked if Jesus Christ could be his Savior. Yesterday, the first door I knocked on, God gave me an 18-year-old young man. I managed—he was wide open, ready to get saved.

I’m saying I didn’t do anything different. I was probably working harder on that vacation that one time than I had been recently. But I’m just saying there are seasons to things. I mean, He says “His season.”

In child rearing, sometimes you think, “I’m trying everything I can to raise these children right.” They don’t listen to a thing I say. I mean, the preacher says, “Whip them every once in a while.” I’ve been beating them half to death, and it’s still not working, you know. Parents ever feel like that out there, you know? Miss Painter still has her hand up. Boy, I tell you what, now, you know. But it’s amazing. There are seasons; you just feel like it’s not working. That’s just part of it.

And there are going to be seasons. You turn around, and well, maybe they are getting something. Maybe it is getting in there.

And just life—finances. We were talking yesterday, some of us young men, at McDonald’s. Amen. Notice I said young men at McDonald’s, you know. We were talking about our first lawnmower. The first lawnmower we had when we got married was one of those wonderful lawnmowers. As you push it, the little blade turns not this way, but this way. Anybody know what I’m talking about? Yeah, yeah. First time I was born, we were married. I mean, you got to do what you got to do. There are seasons to finances. It’s just part of life. The Bible says, “Labor not to be rich.” If I’m all about getting, the Bible verse says, “He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.” That’s pretty amazing. Proverbs 28:20. I’m saying there are seasons. I’ve got to realize that there are seasons to life.

Whether it’s soul winning or child-rearing, or finances, or marriage. There are seasons in your marriage. I mean, sometimes, man, it’s just clicking. I mean, man, we’re just getting along great. I mean, I’m in love with her, she’s in love with me. And then sometimes I want to hit her every time I look at her. And we have to work at it. Somebody said amen right there.

There are seasons. There are seasons to life, and it’s helpful to understand that churches have seasons. I mean, sometimes, sometimes it just seems like it’s on, man. Things are hopping, church is full, and God’s moving, baby. And sometimes, “Where’s everybody at? What happened? Man, everybody’s sick. Somebody posted somewhere that they’re not having church tonight?” What is it? There are seasons.

There are seasons to ministry. There are seasons to marriage. You know, it’s interesting—sports. How many, when you got out of church last Sunday night, watched the Super Bowl and finished watching? How many did that? Yeah, yeah, pretty lot of us. There are seasons. For a while in that ball game, I thought the Chiefs were not going to win. I was about ready to go home. I mean, right? Somebody’s house watching. I thought, “I’m about ready, because they ain’t going to win, so I’m going to go home.” I mean, I’m no real big dog in the fight, but I wanted the Chiefs to win. And for a while there, I thought, “Well, they’re not going to win. I’m going to go home.” And then the season kind of came for the Chiefs. I’m glad I didn’t go home. Glad I finished watching the ball game, you know.

Basketball—if there’s any of it—is a game of runs. Basketball is a game of runs. I mean, I used to coach them in basketball. All right, they’re having a run. Don’t get too shook up. Let them have the run. Our run will come. And I’ll tell you, man, if you can stay pretty close in a basketball game at the end, we’ll see what happens. It’s just a game of runs. And life is like that.

Your prayer life. I end up doing anything different; it’s the same thing, but sometimes I’ll just go through a time where I’m struggling to get to the prayer closet. I like crawling to get in there, you know. I just don’t feel it real good. Man, I’m not—no tears, and there’s no intensity. Anybody else ever like that? Am I backslidden? The only one backslidden around? I mean, but not even backslid. It’s just a season. And then before you know it, wow, what happened? I don’t know. Just your season, and you’re excited about getting close to the Lord and excited about prayer, and the intensity is there in the prayers. It’s just seasons to life. And it’s helpful to know that.

And there are a couple of things about that. Number one: Don’t quit when it’s not your season.

Oh, the vast majority of people that quit, they quit when it’s not their season. And it’s so easy when everything’s not clicking, everything’s not going your way. You’re not seeing any fruit. I mean, you’re working hard, nothing’s happened. You just want to quit. Don’t quit. They say Hudson Taylor went to China. In his ministry there—I think maybe it was in church services—they say for the first seven years, he did not have one convert. Wow. I’d probably quit. But he stayed after it for seven years. And boy, after that, God began to pour out His blessings on that ministry. He started the China Inland Mission, and the impact of that lasted for years and years, even after his death. I mean, Hudson Taylor, seven years. And what if he had quit when it wasn’t his season?

Can I say this? You’ll never know what your season will look like if you don’t stick with it when it’s not your season.

Some of these young people, man, God has got some dreams He’d like to do in your life and through you. He’d like to bless you; He has got some great things He’d like to do in your life. But when it’s during the off-season, or the off-season comes, if you quit, you’ll never know what God could do during your season.

That’s what the Bible means when it says over in Galatians 6:9: “And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season, ye shall reap, if ye faint not.” Seasons. So I can’t quit when it’s not my season. Look, He said “His season,” so there’s some time that’s not your season. Can I say this? It’s very important what you—dear, dear—do during the off-season.

You ever ride by? You ever ride by—not this time of year, but ride by maybe a big old field of corn? We don’t have a lot of that down here, but maybe around here it’s a lot of peas or… beans and whatnot. One of our people went up to Indiana, North Indiana, this week, yesterday. They got back today, and they said, “Man, it’s just fields and fields of corn,” a big old cornfield. You see a big field, and it’s got all this great harvest. You realize that harvest—the work wasn’t done during that season, if you will—it was done a little bit earlier when they planted, and they plowed, and they prepped. And life’s like that.

And so, what do I do during the off-season? Look, next year when the NFL comes around, they’ll be getting somebody in it, man, he looked good. I mean, the NBA starts back up next year, and so-and-so looks good this year. Now, they’re looking good because during the off-season, they worked a whole lot. See? And what you do during your off-season is so very, very important.

They say this time right now, wintertime, it’s crucial because springtime’s right around the corner, and by all the trees will be budding, and the leaves and flowers, everything else. But they say right now is when the roots are growing down. You don’t see that. People don’t know about that, but now is crucial because now is when the roots are getting down in the dirt, getting down there where they can get all the nutrients out of the soil. And later on the harvest comes, the season comes, because of right now.

And so what you do during the off-season? When you’re barely crawling to the prayer closet, it’s important that you crawl there. It might not be your best time, but it may be when you get your roots down there. The off-season is so very, very important.

Can I say this about just a couple of thoughts? We’re going to go home. But the best you can do is enjoy the season you’re in. I mean, sometimes you just got to face it: this isn’t my season.

There have been many a time, as far as soul winning, I have to say, “This isn’t my season.” I mean, I’m not having any fruit. I just have to accept it, right? That’s where I’m at. I’m not going to get mad and kick the dog and cat as I walk by. The dog might bite back, you know. I mean, I’m not going to get frustrated and be mad at everybody in the house. I’m just going to—it’s just not my season. And I’m going to accept that. I’m not going to quit and throw in the towel, saying, “Well, this thing doesn’t work anymore.” It’s just—hey, it’s not my season. Now, I’m going to stay faithful because the season’s coming. And I like to be out in the harvest fields when the season comes. But just the best you can, enjoy the season you’re in. Yes, okay. All right, my prayer closet isn’t as hot as I like for it to be. And if I need to change some things and work out, I want to do that. But sometimes this is just where I’m at right now. I’m going to stay after it, but I’m not going to get all mad at everybody in the world and, you know, blame everybody in the world. I’m just where I’m at. And enjoy your season.

I’m not perfect at it, for sure. I think I’m a little better than I used to be, but as soon as I say that, next week I’ll go back downhill. But between years, I think maybe when the church is down and I come out, where’s that about it? You know, the… I’m not always, but I try to. That’s what we got. Let’s just enjoy what we got. Let’s have fun with it. Hey, and I’m saying, look, just sometimes you got to say, “This is the season,” and I’m just going to accept it, and I’m not going to be mad at the world. Just… I’m going to enjoy this season.

Look, when you’re there, say this. Tell yourself, “My season’s coming. My season’s coming.” There it is. Psalm 1:3. His season is coming. And just tell yourself, “I know this is not my season right now, but it’s coming.” Think about old Joseph. I mean, all those years—brothers lied about him in Egypt, foreign country, and Potiphar’s wife lied about him, and I was in prison, forgotten about there. But praise the Lord, eventually his season came.

What about Moses? Those 40 years on the backside of the desert, watching a bunch of stinky sheep? But he just said, “This is my season. I’m in. I’m going to watch the sheep. I’m not going to be mad at the world. Just where God’s got me right now.” And he stayed after it, and God in His time met with him in the burning bush, and his season came. And there are seasons in a life.

What does the Bible say over there in Corinthians? “Moreover, it is required in a steward that a man be found…” What’s the word?

Faithful. And so, just going to be faithful. Here’s a good thing. Here’s a good thing when it’s not His season in your life. Here’s a good thing: God, according to First Corinthians, God rewards you for your labor.

I still see Brother Ricky over here. Brother Ricky has been driving that bus for probably about 10 years now. Yes, faithful. Sunday morning, screaming, yelling kids. I mean, he threw three of them out the window this morning on the bus, you know. I mean, he ran over four other ones—we would have had more kids on the bus, but Brother Ricky sold them off the bus, you know. He didn’t do it, but he felt like doing it at a time or two. All the years, faithful.

Now look, when he goes and he drives that bus, sometimes there are good days. Sometimes kids ride that bus and get saved, and sometimes it’s not so good days. Sometimes there are no kids on the bus much at all. I mean, but here’s a good thing: God says He rewards him for his labor, not his results. So if I understand that over in 1st Corinthians 3, I think it’s verse number 8. I have it wrote down here. Where’s it at? Verse number 8: “And every man shall receive his own reward, according to his own labor.” Even on those days that nobody—no kids—ride that bus, he still got the same reward because he’s laboring.

Yeah, yeah. So when it’s not your season and things aren’t going your way and the ecosystem in your family is all messed up, and marriages, and the greatest kids are in the grave, you’re doing what God wants you to do. God says, “I reward you for your labor.” There are seasons in life. And God says, “Hey, listen, I tell you why, even when it’s not your season, you’re doing the labor, I reward you.”

My first regular job, I did lawn care for a man before. He owned his business, but I just kind of got paid under the table. But then I went to work where you got your own W-2 and all that good stuff. Mr. Sampson, a man, I’m going to see my first day there. We had to cut a tree. They were kind of moving part of the factory from one section to another, and we had to clean up the yard, and we had to cut down a tree, and we were going to get the forklift to pick up this tree and haul it off. And now we’re in Florida, and forklifts in the sand in Florida don’t work good. Man, I thought, “I’m going to pick that tree up.” I mean, just the trunk of it’s still there. Man, that forklift—no problem with that thing. And, boy, I went over there. Man, I got a little running start. Got those forks underneath that tree—no problem. Picked it up, no problem at all. Put it in reverse. And, boy, I tell you what, it didn’t go anywhere. I mean, the tires were moving, but we weren’t moving. I mean, you know. And we thought, “Oh, my goodness. I think it’s my first day there, really.”

So, hey, let’s get the—I don’t know if we started the pickup truck or the one-ton flatbed truck they had. We put chains on it, tried it—didn’t do it. When I was going to get the three-ton flat-bed truck, went and got it. It went and pulled it out. So let’s try to jerk it a little bit. “Won’t pull it out? We’ll try to jerk it.” You know, we got good chains on there. I’ll tell you what, we jerked, and things popped, but that thing didn’t get out of the sand.

And then all of a sudden, Mr. Sampson, the owner of the factory, comes walking down to where we were. Oh, my goodness. I thought, “This is not good. My first day on the clock, fish will work it here, you know, and my last day on the clock, you know.” Praise the Lord, he was a meek man, strength under control. He walked by, didn’t say a word to me. I’m the one driving. He told the man that was kind of over us younger guys working there. He said, “Baron, you’re going to have to dig that thing out.” And he kept walking. I said, “Praise the Lord, he kept walking,” you know. That’s about my first day.

Now, my second or third day, we’re picking up this big, large metal tin sheeting, and one fellow’s over there, Christian Charette, I think it was his name. And I’m over here, and we’re picking this metal up. It’s about 20 feet long, and we’re going to toss it in the back of the pickup truck over there, you know. And one, and two, and three—and, boy, that thing grew wings. I’m talking about it. It started sailing through there, whoosh! Yeah, Brother Eddie’s over there. Oh, no! Right to the back window of that pickup truck. First day I got the forklift stuck; second or third day, broke the back window out of the pickup truck. Yeah.

Boy, and now Mr. Sampson did say one thing about that. He said, “Paul, you keep going, you’re going to owe me instead of me owing you,” you know. Praise the Lord, you got to pay check, amen. He rewarded me for my labor, not my results.

I’ll be honest, there was a group of us boys from church. He had hired us for a couple weeks just to kind of consolidate movement at one factory. But he said, “You know, that old Paul, he’s doing everything wrong, but he’s working.” And all those boys, he hired me, and he said, “I say, you’re doing a lot wrong, but you’re a worker.”

And then look, I’m saying, in your off-season, keep working. You say, “It’s not my season. Things aren’t going my way.” But my season’s coming one day, and I’m going to stay after this saying, “I’m going to keep reading the Bible the best I can.” I’m not understanding everything I read, and you’re not going to understand everything you read if you are. You’re not being honest unless you’re in heaven of the Lord. That book is so deep, nobody gets to the bottom of it, friend. You can preach the Bible 50 years, go to Bible college and all the rest; you’re not going to understand everything in it. You’re going to understand some, so you won’t drown in it. But I’m saying, friend, you stay after that thing. His season. His season. Seasons come.

Life’s just… you know, the funny thing is, talking about going back to the soul winning: When God—one of my seasons is in there—I’m not doing anything different than doing the same thing I was when nothing was happening. It’s the Lord. And God, when He decides to bring His season in there, the Lord does that. I’ve said it so often, but you can plant the seed and water and fertilize and all that, but you can’t make any crops grow. God does that.

And the same thing. You just stay faithful and you keep following that pattern over there in Psalm 1. You meditate in the Bible, and you don’t walk with the sinners, and you don’t hang right and listen to the ungodly counsel, and you don’t sit around and talk about people sitting in the seat of the scornful. And you try to stand the Bible, and you try to meditate. His season. His season. I don’t know where you’re at. I guarantee you it comes to every one of us. Your season’s not there; it comes to churches; it comes to us all.

That friend, I’m just saying, hey, stay in there. His season. His season. Oh, Joseph, I’m sure he got discouraged. Can you imagine him in prison and thinking back to his life? My goodness, man, my brother hated me. The Bible says—can you imagine you’re sitting over there—“My brothers hated me. My brothers hated me. They were going to kill me, some of them, and old Reuben kind of stepped in there. And then finally got over here in Egypt, and I became a slave, and God blessed me there, and Potiphar’s wife kind of raised me up there. And then the old wife, she telling lies on me. I don’t know how many people did and didn’t believe it, but some of them believed it did, because I ended up here in prison. I’m stuck in prison. I mean, just stuck here. I thought I had a way out with old baker and butler, you know, and they forgot about me. I mean, finally, boom, two years later, somewhere along—just, just, boom! God said, ‘All right, Joseph, your season’s here.’”

Can you imagine what went through Joseph’s heart and mind when the guard said, “Hey, Pharaoh wants to talk to you”? “Pharaoh? What?” “Yeah, the old butler remembered. He told Pharaoh you can interpret dreams, man. Come on, Joseph, you got a meeting with Pharaoh.” Can you imagine Joseph? “Me? Boy, George, better get a bath. You stink, man. Need you shave, too. Get cleaned up. You’re about to meet the Pharaoh.” Joseph’s season came.

You can imagine old Joseph. He said, “Man, my brother’s been lying about me, sold me. Potiphar’s wife lying about me, been in prison all these problems. Look at me now. I’m going before Pharaoh.” I’m so impressed with Joseph. He had his limelight. And Pharaoh said, “I hear it’s hinted you to interpret dreams.” He said, “Oh, not in me.” I like it. Even in his season, he’s still humble. He said, “Not in me. It’s the Lord.” And God said, “Hey, Pharaoh, Joseph, your season’s here.” Oh, those people just over the years just stayed faithful, and God comes along and says, “All right, it’s your season.” His season.

Would you bow your head and close your eyes? I don’t know where you’re at. I don’t know what’s going on in your life. Friend, I know the off-season comes to us all. I know the old devil likes to say, “Just quit. Give it up. Get mad. Get bitter. Get grumpy. Get complaining. Get blaming.” That off-season can be a crucial time.

Do you hear tonight and you say, “Preacher, I won’t stay faithful. I don’t stay faithful. I want to stay faithful. I want to stay right during the off-season.” God spoke to my heart tonight. I just want to stay faithful during the off-season. God spoke to my heart about that tonight. That should just raise your hand to the preacher. That’s me. I want to stay faithful during the off-season. I’m going to stay after it. Don’t want to quit. Don’t get a bad spirit. All the other. I just want to stay right. God bless you. God bless you. Many, many, many hands. God bless you. God bless you. Me too. Me too. Me too. God bless you.

Thank you so much for letting the Lord work in your heart. You can put your hands down. You say, “Preacher, I feel like I need to just accept all seasons here. I’m going to do the best I can to enjoy it. I’m just going to face it. All right, it’s not the season. I’m not going to let the devil get the best of me, and I’m going to get flustered over it. This is just where I’m at. It’s where God has me. Now, I kind of need to just face it, that’s where I’m at right now, and I’m going to accept that, and I’m going to stay faithful through it. But I need to just accept it. It’s not my season right now.” Maybe in some area of your life, you just need to accept it. “Preacher, God spoke my heart about that. I need to accept it.” Anybody like to need to accept that? God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. That’s good. It’s good. It’s good.

Hey, let’s just stay faithful during our off-season. Maybe you’re here tonight. You say, “Preacher, you know, as far as me going to heaven, you’re talking about people got saved this weekend, they’re going to heaven, they got a mansion. I don’t know if I’m saved. I don’t know if I’m going to go to heaven and have a mansion up there. I’m not sure heaven’s my home. I’m not sure about that right there.” Preacher, I don’t know that I got a mansion. Don’t know that I’m going to heaven. Not sure of that right now. If that’s you, bow your head and eyes closed. You said, “Preacher, I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know that I’m going to heaven. I don’t know that I got a mansion in heaven.” Not sure of that. Anybody like that? Just lift your hand up. Anybody like that? Hey, Christians, let’s stay faithful in His season. His season. Yes, it’s like a tree planted by the rivers of water. His leaf doesn’t wither, but that means in the season, the fruit doesn’t always come. His season. Let’s just say, “Lord, help me stay faithful. Help me face it. It’s where I’m at, and stay faithful during the off-season.”

Would you please stand tonight? We’ll have a word of prayer as we’re done. We’ll sing 287, “I Surrender All.” Let’s just spend some time with the Lord. “Lord, help me be faithful during my off-season.” Let’s pray.

Lord, thank You so much for Your Word. Lord, help us individually and collectively, Lord, just to face it when we’re there—it’s not our season. Help us to stay faithful during that time. Thank You, Lord, for Your Word and the guarantee of the promise of His season. Bless our people, Lord. Help us stay faithful for You. And Lord, we’re excited about when You bring His season. Well, thank You, Lord, for what You do tonight. In Jesus, we pray. Amen.

Wouldn’t it have been terrible if Joseph would have quit? The Bible says the Lord was with him. What if Joseph just got mean and ugly and said, “Forget it all, forget the Bible and Jesus and Jehovah and all that”? What if Joe just gave it all up? His season probably wouldn’t have come. Hey, let’s just stay after it. I’m pretty sure my kids, my marriage, my finances—but I don’t know what here it is. I don’t understand it all, but I do know there are seasons. There are seasons to life, and He says “His season.” His season. Let’s just let’s stay faithful till His season comes. We’ll sing another verse, “O to Jesus I surrender.”

Amen. Praise the Lord. You’re in church tonight. That’s wonderful. I’m so glad everyone’s here. Good to see a lot of young folk here tonight. They’re about to go to Uncle Max over there. That’s a good thing for them, and I pray they have a good activity. If you’re interested in the hospitality ministry at all, I would love to meet with you real quickly. It won’t be long in the hospitality—in the senior saints’ room back here, and just real quickly we’ll head over there, have a quick meeting, and praise the Lord for the people who have been doing a great job in that ministry all these years. So vital, such an important ministry, and let’s stay after that thing. That’s great, and good to see everybody out tonight. And amen, Brother Tray back there, would you mind dismissing us with a word of prayer, would you please, sir?

Original File: His Season - Pastor Paul Chisgar 2920 Sunday PM