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IT IS TIME!


Last week John was so much in a hurry that he couldn't see the traffic light!  Wasn't intentional but the police arrest you in spite of you great intentions. At the sight of the police stopping, he even got madder.
He was all focused on getting to the meeting before his "no-nonsense" boss gets there.
Carol set the her food on fire, gently paced to the living room barefoot to catch up with her daily soap. What an episode she watch yesterday!
Now she wants to see what happened after that! Did the man die? What happened to his dog? How will that couple separate, she was lost into the television when the anger infesting smell of her burnt food hit her. She jumped hysterically but it was late. She ruin her meal.
The two stories above have one thing in common, TIME.
Jesus' mum requested a miracle for the wedding in Cana, from him. And Jesus said, 4 “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
Jesus knew his time had not come. In fact, it is amazing to observe that Jesus worked with time. When the time to begin came, he walked toJohn at the Jordan to be baptized.
The watch/clock is probably the most used invention daily.
From personal use, to family to the office, television,  aviation, geographers, sailors, schools, international corporations to sports and politics, time is essential.
What is the time for the church today?
Sometimes we are confused and then get overwhelmed with personal projects and the pursuit for approval that we miss it all.
The prophet Haggai spoke to the Jews in Haggai versus 2 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the Lord’s house.’”
3 Then the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai: 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”
5 Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. 6 You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”
7 This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. 8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the Lord.  9 “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house. 10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. 11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.” NIV
I'm very sorry to say that the people of Israel missed the time.
They were busy with a good thing at a wrong time. God blocked the heavens.
What is the time now for the Church?
It is time to go back to the most important thing Jesus left for us. We need to go back to winning the lost, and disciping them.
Unfortunately, the devil is conscious that his end is near and he is working hard to ruin all for everyone.
We need to listen to Haggai, let us go back to doing the right thing. 
Jesus articulated it by the Spirit this way:
John 4:35 Don’t you have a saying, ‘It’s still four months until harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the Fields! They are ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 37 Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.” NIV
It is very clear!
The fields are white and ripe! Only open your eyes and see.
It is time for us to focus wholesale on the harvest! To take entire nations for Jesus.
Are you going to respond to the masters harvest field!
Act now!

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