God's Timing for Your Life
By Dutch Sheets
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Dutch Sheets
Dutch Sheets is an internationally known speaker and author of many books, including Authority in Prayer and the bestseller Intercessory Prayer. A former pastor, Dutch has also taught in Bible colleges and led numerous prayer gatherings around the world. He leads Network Ekklesia International and travels extensively throughout the United States, challenging believers to fervent prayer and radical commitment to Christ. His greatest passion is to see awakening in our day and reformation in our lifetime. For more information, visit www.dutchsheets.org.
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Endnotes
The Divine Shift
The story is told of a man who rushed into a suburban railroad station one morning and, almost breathlessly, asked the ticket agent: When does the 8:01 train leave?
At 8:01,
was the answer.
Well,
the man replied, it is 7:59 by my watch, 7:57 by the town clock, and 8:04 by the station clock. Which time am I to go by?
You can go by any clock you wish,
said the agent, but you cannot go by the 8:01 train, for it has already left.
God’s time is moving forward hour by hour, minute by minute. There are multitudes who seem to think they can live by any schedule they choose and that, in their own time, they can turn to God. But His time is the right time.¹
Jesus wept over Jerusalem, saying, You did not recognize the time of your visitation
(Luke 19:44). They missed the train.
A group of Israelites decided to try and possess the land of Canaan the day after God told them the opportunity had passed. They were routed by the Canaanites (see Num. 14:39-45). The train had already departed.
Ecclesiastes tells us that God is a God of timing: There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven
(Eccles. 3:1).
We need to understand the timings and seasons God ordains for our lives, ministries, cities and nations. Too often we try to reap during planting season, plant during harvest, run when we should be resting and rest when it is time to run. Doing even the right thing at the wrong time, well intentioned as it may be, will cause us to miss the train every time.
Discerning the Times
One of the tribes of Israel, the sons of Issachar, had an ability to discern timing: men who understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do
(1 Chron. 12:32). Notice that it was their ability to understand the times that gave them insight as to what to do. Understanding God’s timing is often one of the keys to taking the proper action.
Several months ago, while ministering in Washington, D.C., I was meditating on Daniel 2:20,21:
Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever, for wisdom and power belong to Him. And it is He who changes the times and the epochs [seasons]; He removes kings and establishes kings; He gives wisdom to wise men, and knowledge to men of understanding.
As I reflected on these verses, the Holy Spirit clearly spoke to my heart, I am shifting things in the Spirit over this city. I realized immediately that the prayers of God’s people were making a difference. We were moving into an opportunity for great advances, perhaps even revival in America. I spoke that morning on The Divine Shift
and have shared the message several times since.
I want you to understand and recognize the divine shifts in your life—moments when God changes the times and seasons. That is the purpose of this book. Never again do I want you to be sitting in the train station with your bags packed and ticket in hand, watching the train that was to carry you into God’s purpose for your life disappearing into the distance.
One of the great disasters of history took place in 1271. Nicolo and Matteo Polo (the father and uncle of Marco) were visiting the Kublai Khan, at that time a world ruler over China, India and all of the East. He was attracted to the story of Christianity as Nicolo and Matteo told it to him and said this to them: You shall go to your high priest and tell him on my behalf to send me 100 men skilled in your religion, and I shall be baptized. And when I am baptized, all my barons and great men will be baptized and their subjects will receive baptism, too. So there will be more Christians here than there are in your parts.
However, nothing was done for about 30 years. Then two or three missionaries were sent—too few and too late. It baffles the imagination to think what a difference to the world it would have made if China had become fully Christian in the thirteenth century and the East had been given to Christ. These men missed the opportunity, and God’s purpose was frustrated.²
Could it be that God was trying to create an incredible shift that would have changed the course of history? We may never know, but it certainly sounds possible. It is my belief and desire that nothing like that will happen in our generation. When God wants to change the times and seasons or change the heart of