Anointed Messages: A Matter of Timing

“Go and look toward the sea,” he told his servant. And he went up and looked.
“There is nothing there,” he said.
Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
The seventh time the servant reported, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”

1 Kings 18:43-44a NIV

A Message from Anointed Messenger

Some time ago I got a great bargain on portraits and I posted one of the "glamorous" headshots as my Facebook profile picture. I received maybe two likes — from two of my first cousins. I thought, "Oh well, maybe the picture isn't so great." Like many of us, I recycle my profile pictures, and I posted the picture again later, but this time I received a huge outpouring of likes and positive comments. It was the exact same picture; the only thing that was different was the timing.

It was a reminder to me that some things that didn't work out before will work out when the timing is right. It's tempting to assume that if it didn't work before it will never work. After all, no one wants to waste their time. It's also painful to go back to something that brought heartache and/or disappointment when it didn't work in the past. I admit there are some things that I really don't want to pick up again, because of all the problems I encountered when it (apparently) wasn't the right time.

It takes faith to keep going back to something that doesn't seem to be working. I think about when Elijah prayed for rain. He told his servant the rain was coming, but every time the servant looked he didn't see anything. Elijah kept saying go back and look again, and finally on the seventh time there was a small cloud the size of a man's hand in the sky. Shortly after there was a sudden heavy rain.

God's Beloved have you looked away from something that you were certain God placed in your spirit? Maybe God is saying GO BACK AND LOOK AGAIN. If God promised rain there's going to be rain — in God's timing.