It’s Time!

By Morgan Butcher in Deep Thoughts in Prayer on 1/16/12

In the grand scheme of things, I really haven’t been a Christian for very long.  I have although noticed that there is a common sense among Christians that God moves slowly. And often that is true, especially when we are waiting for Him to answer a prayer. Yet there are many instances in scripture when God made a move very quickly.
“The people grabbed their bread dough before it had risen, bundled their bread bowls in their cloaks and threw them over their shoulders. They baked unraised cakes with the bread dough they had brought out of Egypt, but hadn’t raised, they’d been rushed out of Egypt and hadn’t time to fix food for the journey.” Ex. 12:34,39
The children of Israel had lived in Egypt for 430 long years, and the latter ones as slaves. Then Moses began his work to pry free from Pharaoh’s hand. But despite nine attempts, there was no sign that Pharaoh was softening, nor any sense of impending release. But after Moses brought that 10th fateful judgment, and most of Egypt’s’ first born sons died in their sleep, the dam broke. The Egyptians woke up the Hebrews in the night and ushered them out. Israel didn’t even have time to prepare food for travel. Here’s the point; God prepares definite chapter changes for us. But I have observed we rarely see it coming. But when God is ready to switch gears in our lives, it switches fast doesn’t it?
I think back to when my wife Nicole and I just got married and had been at the church for about 3 months serving as youth leaders.  The whole time we were debating on whether or not to accept a job as directors for a Christian camp in Australia.  We had prayed and debated for months on whether or not to take it, until one night we decided finally that we would take the job.  We were ready to call down to Australia and accept the position when the next day our church flipped upside down.  We were asked to stay at the church to help transition into new leadership for the youth ministry.  It hit us like a ton of bricks.  We didn’t see it coming, God switched gears on us, and He changed the chapter.  But because we had submitted to prayer in this decision, our hearts were already aligned with what He wanted us to do.
From one day to the next the entire universe seems to see us differently, and we see a different kind of freedom. Don’t be one of those who are so addicted to the status quo that you can’t expect God to change a chapter or ever hear him say, ITS TIME!
-Morgan

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