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(Matt 22:14)
“UNDERSTAND EACH SEASON”

In our life we face different seasons,
Season One: Autumn the leaves turn brown and the colors change as the season changes, as the sap goes into the ground and the winter begins.

Season two : as winter comes on, the trees began to break away and hit the ground then comes spring.

Season three : Spring is the time of new life and new birth, birds are hatching and flowers are blooming and trees are growing new branches in place of the old one's...

UNDERSTAND YOUR SEASON!

In life we face different seasons, when the autumn and winter comes we get week and weary and life seems to be killing us. We become venerable to things and often fall, but when we lose precious stuff in our life just as the tree loses limbs that fall from the tree.

As we weather our storms in life and see our (spring) approaching breakthrough, through all the heartache and pain we come out on the other side refreshed and revived. In closing I want to encourage you to fight through the storm and never give up.

God has us all in his hand and through the storms he is there... with open arms and a loving heart Jesus is saying "Come my child I will give you rest,

(WEEPING MAY ENDORE FOR THE NIGHT BUT JOY COMES IN THE MORNING)

In our life we go through seasons of change, from a boy to man or a girl in a woman. We face seasons for a reason, to keep us on our toes and checked out with everything remember “God will not put you through something you can’t handle”.

Everyone faces different seasons in their life, but just like the four natural seasons such as autumn , winter, spring and summer.

So many times our season start in the summer and we get dry and needing a feel and a move of God in our lives,
I knew this lady who had lost her son and mother in the same week. He son was about thirty- five years old, and had died in a house fire; her mother went on to be with Jesus a few days before him. so you can imagine how she felt, she was the only rock in her family, but her sisters were great women of God as was she but she felt as though God did her wrong by leaving her with thought of “did my son make it to heaven” she was walking through a season that God wanted her to stand as her rock and on his word, and keep her mind on Jesus, though tears were shed and hearts broken, she almost lost her mind but she knew where her strength came from.

We will go through a season of drought and plenty we go through seasons of joy and sadness, we don’t understand it but it happens all we can do is stay faithful to Jesus and know that through it all he will provide and sustain you in every way and help you keep yourself. I went through a season of depression as I mentioned earlier, that was the darkest time in my life. I know that you have probably faced far worse, but for me that was the worse time of my life.

I see now what was happening to me, I was being prepared for who I was going to be in the future. God knew what he was doing when he changed my life that week, it was like he was saying “come to me all ye that are heavy laden and I will give you rest (Matt 12:28). When a see that you are getting weak while in a season all you have to do is come to Jesus and let him wrap his arms around us as we cry on his shoulder. Men, don’t be afraid to cry! For years it’s been said that men shouldn’t cry, I’m here to tell you, I will cry with you, laugh with you, and pray with you. We have gotten hard in our hearts and turned off our tender Godly heart, not to say that we can’t’ be men but it helps to come to Jesus and ask him to make you tender before him. Being tender for Jesus doesn’t change the rough cut testosterone driven man it just makes him more aware of Jesus and more
compassionate toward people.

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“Your Attitude Determines Your Outcome”

When you face a season always have the right attitude, if you start into a season mad or flustered at your season you will lose out on why you are in the season. You need to stay focused! The devil would love nothing more than to see you lose out on a blessing.

He operates through people, he will send a family member in the room and they will have a look about them that really works your nerves and the devil hopes up on your shoulder and asks “what are you going to do about it?” at that moment refrain from any words at all, stand up go to that
restroom or a room that is private and ask God to strengthen you in that area.

Go through the seasons, understand your seasons, recognize what you are facing and always above all consult with God before you make any hasty choices.