Thriving and Surviving through Any Season (Understanding The Seasons of Plenty and Season of Constraint) || Kingdom Summit 2023 || RCCG The Kings Court || Lagos Nigeria || Apostle Joshua Selman
1 Chronicles 12:32 KJV
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 KJV
1. Nothing aside from God is eternal
2. All activities under the sun are regulated by times and seasons
3. All activities under the sun by divine injunction have been mandated to submit to the law of times and seasons
What is a Season?
A season is a time period when certain and almost predictable occurrences happen
There are two kinds of Seasons
- Predictable Seasons
- Unpredictable Seasons
Esther 6 KJV
Genesis 41 KJV
You don’t pray seasons away, you build a spiritual system through understanding that helps you to rise and you can have dominion over seasons.
Every season comes with a letter from the other season that I am coming.
The key to maximizing seasons is not just to enjoy them but to read the letters they bring.
If you do not understand the realities of seasons, you will live a very defeated Christian life.
The seven years of plenty represent:
- Moments of Ease
- Moments of Opportunities
- Moments of Life goes on as expected
- Moments of Abundance
Stability in life happens when you learn to taste of these Seasons (failure and success).
The seven years of famine represent:
- Moments of Inconvenience
- Moments of Constraints
- Moments of Disappointment
- Moments of Insufficiency
Everyone on Earth will have to experience these seasons repeatedly for as long as you live. What you make out of them or what they make out of you depends now on your faith and your understanding about God.
Psalm 23:5 KJV, John 9:4 KJV
The believer in Christ has the advantage of remaining victorious regardless of what season comes. 2 Corinthians 2:14 KJV
When you are in your season of plenty, Start Preparing. Genesis 41:24 – 41 KJV
Biblical Recommendations on how to maximize your 7 years of plenty
- Build Capacity (Spiritual Capacity)
Moment of Ease
Moment of Opportunities - Build Strategy Relationship. Ecclesiastes 4:8-12 KJV
If the only thing you have is money and you do not have relationships, life will pierce you in a way that will make you feel like a failure.
You are as stable as the relationships that you have in life.
Relationships are currencies you can use it to pay for it and buy things. The capital that buys money.
Learn to honor and respect people without verifying who they are.
No matter how high God lifts you, learn to honor people.
Ways to Invest in Relationships:
1. Gratitude (Say Thank)
- Selflessly Invest in blessing and transforming as many lives
Giving is truly living. - Study and carefully follow those who have maintained relevance and maintained consistency through all seasons.
Consistency is proof of mastery
Adaptation is proof of honor
What do you do when unfavorable seasons appear:
- Learn to protect your Joy. Habakkuk 3:17-18 KJV , James 1:2-4 KJV, Isaiah 43:1-2 KJV
- Learn to keep your Praise even when it does not make sense. Turn your pain into praise.
- Call upon the God of your Salvation. Psalm 18:3 KJV, James 5:13-16 KJV, Psalm 46:1-2 KJV
- Thriving and Surviving through Any Season (The Prophetic Advantage) by Apostle Joshua Selman
