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This Is Your Time

City of Refuge • Dec 24, 2025 • 45 min

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Summary

God operates from eternity, having already ordained spiritual blessings and victory for believers before the foundation of the world. Because God sovereignly controls both time and human circumstances, believers do not need to strive in impatience but can wait expectantly for His promises to unfold. Even when spiritual opposition intensifies, believers can rejoice in faith knowing that severe attacks are evidence that their appointed season of deliverance, elevation, and sudden breakthrough has arrived.

Themes

God's Sovereignty and EternityDivine Timing and KairosFaith and Patience in WaitingSpiritual Opposition and WarfareElevation and Vindication

Key Points

1.
God chose believers in Christ and bestowed all spiritual blessings in eternity before the world was made, meaning those promises are destined to catch up to you in time.
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Spiritual opposition often escalates right after God reveals your future in your spirit, serving as evidence that your appointed breakthrough is near.
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A promise from God requires patient waiting rather than frantic striving, because God cannot lie and His unchangeable word transforms how you live while waiting.
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God distinguishes between chronological time (Kronos) and appointed, critical seasons (Kairos) where He brings believers into foreordained opportunities.
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God sovereignly controls circumstances and can cause people to act out of character to clear the path and position His servants for elevation.
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Believers must learn to guard their vision and remain quiet in secret before God brings them out into the light to fulfill His purpose.
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God can shift circumstances overnight, placing His servants on the minds of key decision-makers to turn enemy plots into sudden honor and deliverance.

Sermon Moments

“If it's already mine and it has already been given, then it's not a matter of me going to get it, it's a matter of it coming to get me.”

“The reason you're going through so much hell is because the devil knows it's getting to be your time.”

“Five people called you and you told five people you had a ride. You didn't have a ride. You had a promise. A promise changes your life.”

“Kronos just moves. But in Kronos is Kairos—a critical, epoch-making period that is foreordained by God.”

“While you're waiting, don't complain. While you're waiting, praise. Because no matter what you're going through, it's got to pass.”

“God will have folk act out of character in order to put you where He wants you to be.”

“God's getting ready to bless you, but you blab too much... hold your mouth. Praise God in your spirit and be God's little secret weapon.”

“They went to bed with your enemy on their mind, but in the morning you'll be in the place where the enemy was, cause God's going to switch names in the morning.”

This Week

Wait patiently on God's promises without striving in impatience, trusting that He cannot lie.

Reframe intense opposition and trials as positive evidence that your divine breakthrough is approaching.

Choose to praise, dance, and rejoice while waiting for your breakthrough rather than complaining or giving in to despair.

Guard your vision and plans by staying quiet before God, avoiding premature blabbing that invites enemy interference.

Trust that God is sovereign over leaders, bosses, and circumstances, capable of making people act out of character to position you.

Stand your ground in faith when encountering haters or spiritual opposition, knowing that God has the final word over your destiny.

Actively seize divine opportunities when you feel the Holy Spirit's prompting rather than putting off what God has prepared for today.

Remember This

God has already established your destiny in eternity, and no opposition or delay can stop His appointed time of deliverance and elevation from coming to pass.

A Challenge for You

Step out in faith, run to the altar, and declare that it is your time to be delivered, blessed, and empowered by God.

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