Ga 6:9
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season [an occasion of opportunity; a set or proper time] we shall reap, if we faint not.
Seasons [appointed, set, proper occasions of opportunity] in our lives that are sure. You will hear people say things like:
- windows of opportunity
- seasons of ministry
- winter years
- rainy seasons
According to Eccl. 3:1 To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose.
To read this text in its original form, it would read similar to this:
- To everything in the recesses of your mind (will) that are within the reach of God's Word there is a season, and a time [tide] for all those acceptable desires, and valuable pleasing things.
Then in Gal. 6:9 find that, "if we do not weary in well doing; we will reap [harvest / draw unto ourselves for proper usage] if we refuse to grow lax with the vision [desires] of the heart."
Dreams, Visions, Purposes are for seasons. Some seasons are longer than others. Just like some tides are higher than others. But if you wait ... that huge tide is sure to come!
In Joseph's case his dream after many years of refusing to faint and grow lax in well came. But for many years he had to serve and often slave beneath other men's hands and plans. I am sure there were many times when he felt the bondage unbearable, but he kept his integrity. And the day came when Joseph gave birth to the very thing that had incubated in his heart for years.
The endurance of Joseph was greatness of integrity. A cross reference to Gal. 6:9 is actually Mt. 24:13 which reads: "But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." And directly following verse 14: "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations ..."
To grow weary and faint in your heart with the seed plan of God within you is to leave a world without witness of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is to leave nations in bondage to sickness, disease, hopelessness, poverty, death and hell.
What dream have you that the enemy has nearly squished from weariness? What vision has the enemy tried to darken?
To faint in the mind ... would be to grow illusive, [distraught with the intent to deceive and rob you of the final harvest], or to cause you to act in a way that would be out of character [integrity], causing you to have to go back and redo God's original plan.
- For example, we could say that when Moses, came down from his forty days of Glory [forty days in the presence of God], after allowing God to write with his very own finger his plan for the people, he [Moses] became distraught by outward circumstances and allowed the plan to be crushed.
- However ... Thank God, the gifts and callings of God are without repentance. The plan remains and lies (often dormant) waiting to be fulfilled. And Moses was allowed to regain the very plan that had been crushed.
A well know minister of integrity once said, "Most ministers will live and die and never enter into their first phase of ministry." He did not expand on all the whys that I know of, but I can tell you one reason would be allowing the enemy or fits of carnality (loss of integrity) to cause you to faint in your heart.
I can tell you from personal experience ... waiting is never easy, and usually not very comfortable. But those who wait [on the Lord] shall renew their strength, that shall run and not grow weary, walk and NOT FAINT.
I have experienced times when I nearly fainted, but in the presence of the Lord's waiting room, I chose to draw strength, and because of it, I am still standing, allowing God's to order my seasons.
According to Heb. 6:12 we are not to be slothful but rather followers of those who through faith and patience inherited the promises. The word slothful in Heb. 6:12 relates to giving birth to something that is spurious or illegitimate. The word spurious meaning: not genuine, and illegitimate meaning: born out of covenant or we could say, "out of season."
Psalms 37:1-9
1 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
4 Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. 6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Hab 2:1-4
1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
