A Time for Everything – Day 6

Gift of God

“I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good as long as they live; and also that every man should eat and drink and see and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.” Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 (AMP)

God has given us the gift of life, including the winter seasons. As we learn to see His beauty in everything, we can rejoice and enjoy our labour. Labour refers firstly to the spiritual faith we are exercising in staying focused and positive despite our challenges and secondly our physical hard labour.

“The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance [to the full, until it overflows].” John 10:10 (AMP)

Abundance is referring to overflow, a large quantity, bearing fruit. The enemy comes to kill and steal from us, if we allow our perspective to change and allow God to work within us, our winter seasons can become a time of preparing for the overflow, a time where the seeds are planted and grow slowly in the dark until harvest time. A time of labour; God’s heart for you is to have overflow in your life, sometimes we need to be emptied or plucked in order to make a place for what is to come. Be expectant for your harvest as you labour for God and wait expectantly to see the good from His hand.

Prayer: Abba Father our enemy has come to kill and destroy, thank You for coming and giving us life in abundance. As we endure our winter seasons, help us to labour for You and peruse You will all our hearts, minds, and souls. Thank You for the promise of overflowing. Amen