25/07/2025
HOMECOMING'25
TOPIC: Understanding the times
TEXT: Ecclesiastes 3: 1 and 11
MINISTER: Revd. Kola Ojo
Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11 NKJV
[1] To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven:
[11] He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.
- Zeman (season) -is an appointed time, fixed time or set time which means to designate or assign a specific time for something to happen.
- Seasons are not random in life; there is a purpose for everything that happens.
- Purpose is something that brings delight or intentional pleasure.
- The idea behind Ecclesiastes 3: 11 is that there is a set time for everything to happen.
- God set time in life for His own purpose, pleasure or will.
- God works with men based on time.
- The time in question is not under your control because God has made everything beautiful for His time.
- To everything there is a set appointed time and a time to every God delighted purpose under heaven.
Ecclesiastes 3: 1
[1] To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven:
- Life is not haphazard; God did not design life that way.
- Your ability to design times and seasons is a strategy 1st chronicles 12: 21-32
- Wisdom is not just knowing what to do, it is knowing why and when it must be done.
- One of the characteristics of a good decision is time.
- Procrastination is not just a thief of time but a killer of destiny.
- God makes everything beautiful in His time;bit is not your time it is His time.
- To make impact, you need to understand the times.
- A wise man moves with the times and seasons and he sees with purpose; We must see with purpose and divine alignment.
- Strategy is the offspring of discernment and foresight. Spiritual strategy begins with an understanding of the times and divine instruction for that time followed by divinely aligned actions.
- To discern times is to live beyond impulse and to embrace insights.
- One of the ways to understand times is to understand God's intention behind somethings; if you know the purpose of the thing, you will know the time for it.
- There is a season for everything but it is tied to divine intent and purpose.
- Discernment will turn noise into instruction and confusion into direction.
- God doesn't just give you a purpose, He appoints a time for the purpose to find expression.
- Discerning seasons will help you to align with God's intended purpose.
- Misaligned timing often leads to frustrated purpose no matter how sincere the effort.
- It is possible to do the right thing at the wrong time and miss the fruits that God intends.