3 | THERE IS A TIME FOR EVERYTHING

Last year, on the 1^st of November I was scrolling on TikTok, and I came across this post where they had referenced Ecclesiastes 3:1 encouraging the viewers that there is a time for everything. Just because something doesn’t work out when we sought for it to work out, that doesn’t mean God isn’t still working on fulfilling that goal for us.

1^st November was the day that I opened up my physical Bible, after some time of being distant, and brought myself back to God and His presence. I remember that evening so clearly because the song in the background of the TikTok video was an instrumental called ‘Hammer and Felt’ by Beneath The Mountain. I felt God speaking to me through the video. I had been doom scrolling prior but as soon as that video came up, everything came to a standstill and that video was played on loop 3 times. I then went to search the song on Spotify and for that next hour that song was on loop. You know when you go to speak to God and you don’t even have the words to say what you want to say so you cry it out- yeah, that was the case for me. I was crying from just looking back on life, looking back on 2025, no joke it was the most mentally exhausting year I’ve had to date and think that night I just let out that exhaustion and came before God. I knew I was a shell of myself because there had been so many times prior to that evening that I needed to go to God, I wanted to go to God but for some reason I felt ashamed to do so because I hadn’t been reading His word, so I didn’t feel worthy of being in His presence.

People that know me in real life knows that me and emotions are so parallel, the idea of being emotionally vulnerable freaks me out and I extended that fear to me coming before God and being emotionally and mentally vulnerable before Him. I think because of that, I lived with a sense of guilt stored in my heart for some time and it made me grow even further from God. The Bible says to cast your caress to God because He cares for you (1^st Peter 5:7) and I never did. I still kept trying to do things my own way, but time after time has always proven to me that’s not the way to live. Living in God means following His Word so me not practically applying the words in 1^st Peter 5:7 was me not abiding by His words and it ate me up inside.

That was the old me.

That me died on the 1^st of November and now only God lives in me. There is a time for everything, there is a season for everything. I had to go through the trials and turbulences 2025 threw at me to get to that day, 1^st November, and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I knew that was my day of revival as Sunday the 2^nd of November, I attended church and the very first Bible verse the pastor preached in the sermon, the very first thing he had said when he started the sermon was:

“There is a time for everything which God seeks for you to achieve and fulfil- Ecclesiastes 3:1.”

That was all the confirmation I needed to know that it was time for me to let go and let God. To come back into His presence, to live in faith and know that His time for me is the only measurement of time I need to follow.

I now choose to follow forevermore.

One day I will share my testimony of how I overcame the trials, what the trial was and the day of achievement but for now I just want to say this: we may not always have it figured out on what exactly will come in life. We may try but the effort in trying to figure it out in our humane strength is incomparable to the effort we should be putting in our faith in God to work it all out for us. Things change, people change, seasons change. Nothing will always remain the same but God. God is our constant. He is the fuel we need to keep on going despite whatever may come our way. So, we must lean on to God. We must seek Him in all that we do. We must trust Him with the changes and seasons we will endure in this life. We must have faith in Him knowing that at His appointed time it shall speak and so when He has willed for us to receive the blessings He has in store for us, it won’t be at a time where we just wanted it. No. It will be at a time where we needed it, and we had the character traits of God to fully embrace it and dwell in such blessing not for a temporary glory but eternal light. God has that all in place for us, all we need to do is grow in our relationship with Him by actively seeking to learn and know more of Him and His Word daily not just as a way for us to know, but to believe, to truly believe and live firm on what He says. There is a season for everything. There is a time for everything and everything happens for a reason. Trust God always and watch what He will do for you.

Philippians 1:6 NKJV- being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Remember that God isn’t done He’s just getting started. God doesn’t give you something to start that He won’t help you to finish. In times where you feel like giving up, lean on Him, lean on His word, love and promises and know that He will see you through and make a way.

I will forever stand by the fact that everything happens for a reason. Whether if it was good or bad: it was for a reason. Reasons aren’t always there to make sense but to make us inquisitive to wanting to learn more about the situation or circumstance we had found ourselves in and yearn for God to show us His plans for said situation or circumstance not only in why He made it to be so but also in how He has planned for us to overcome and get through it. In whatever steps you may have to crawl, climb, swim, run, jump or walk through, just know that God will see you through to completion and it will work out. Trust me with God, everything always works out.

I wanted to end with a prayer. It’s a prayer I had made before November 1^st as I was in and out of my walk in faith. Now I’m fully in, the words mean something bigger and if you can relate to what’s been said in this episode, I hope this prayer gives you a sense of peace and assurance to trust in God and let Him lead-

Lord, I thank you for your glory, I thank you for your honour, I thank you for your blessings. I thank you for all that you do in my life and all that you will continue to do in my life. I seek you in all that I do, and I will remain in faith in your works over my life. I trust you in every aspect of my life as I know that you will make mountains move, you will make my seeds grow, you will make my scars heal. At your appointed time it shall speak, and I thank you God because according to your will, I live in answered prayers daily, because you are my constant and there is nothing that you cannot do. I love you God and thank you. IJN Amen

Remember, Trust in the Lord, Love like the Lord, Walk with the Lord.TLW

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