Tis the Season

Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11  To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven:

11 He has made everything beautiful in its time.

Ecclesiastes is the 21st Book of the Bible; 12 chapters; 222 verses; 5,584 words.

Each year nearing the end of the year, we often begin to think more about seasons - deer season, rabbit season, turkey season, basketball season, and yes . . . Christmas season.

We often talk about seasons even when we don’t realize it.  When we talk about the weather, we are actually talking about seasons.  In fact, I think it is during the latter part of the year that the most thought or attention is given to seasons, particularly the seasons of life.  As the year begins to close, many of you are already beginning to make plans and even resolutions for a new year.  You may be filled with anticipation or perhaps dread at the thought of turning the last page of each year.  Some of you long for a new season.  Others wish the season they are in would never end.

The four seasons that we live through each year - winter, spring, summer, and fall - will come and go.  So will “seasons” of your life, whether good, bad, or indifferent.  Just as they come, they will go.

ENQUIRE OF THE LORD!

TEXT:  1 SAMUEL 30:8  And David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

Enquire means to ask; seek counsel; find out.

This is what God wants us to do – to ask, seek, to find out.  

• Matthew 7:7  Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

Why?  Because He said:

• 1 Chronicles 16:11  Seek the LORD and his strength, seek his face continually.
• Exodus 18:15  The people come to me (Moses) to enquire of God.
• Proverbs 8:17  I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
• Jeremiah 29:13  Ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

The Philistines were always at enmity against Israel.  They are strangers, immigrant foreigners, forces foreign to Spirit, opposed to all true spiritual discipline.  And the “religious system” is at enmity against God’s Anointing and His Anointed!  

David was always “enquiring” of God.  As we read in 1 Samuel 30:8, he enquired about going up against the Philistines.  And every time he “enquired”, God gave him a clear and definite answer.  The religious system, like the “Philistines, was and is always at enmity against Israel (God’s people).  Those bound by the “religious system” are strangers, immigrant foreigners, forces foreign to that which is Spirit, and opposes all true spiritual discipline.  I again remind you, the religious system is at enmity against God’s Anointing and His Anointed.