I love the concept of being “next” for something. No matter where I have been in life, I’ve always had to wait in line and wait for my turn. I’ve found it doesn’t matter how old you get, this never goes away. Being “next” for something is exciting. Being next in line for a promotion, next in your family to get married, being next in line at Dairy Queen, being the next in line for something awesome is an exhilarating feeling. Being next implies that your time is coming. Your time of waiting is over. We all hate waiting… well read this post and this one too… they might help 🙂 …but yeah, we all hate waiting so when it is our turn we get excited, we get all pumped up!

We all seem to struggle with feeling left out from time to time but the fact is God is the Father of all. He has blessings reserved just for you. I think maybe we struggle with a spiritual form of FOMO. That’s right… FOMO, the Fear Of Missing Out. We look at social media and Instagram and see how God is blessing someone or a certain family or whatever and we seem to think that God has forgotten about us but let me tell you! God has not forgotten about you! You are not missing out! God doesn’t just have one blessing for someone and nothing for another! He is an infinite God with infinite blessing, possibility, and opportunity that He can open up just for you!

You have not missed out, your time has not passed, and God has not forgotten about you! I’m going to be crazy enough to proclaim that, “YOU’RE NEXT!” Your time is coming. Keep yourself and your heart right before God. Not in a self-righteous-rule-following kind of way but in a I’m-trusting-God-with-everything kind of way. You can’t earn God’s blessing but you can experience it by walking in the fruit of the Spirit. When we produce the fruit of the Spirit, God’s blessing just chases us down. You won’t be able to get away from God’s blessing when you walk in the fruit of the Spirit!

This week, I want you to say this over yourself and your life…

“I am not forgotten. God has specific blessings just for me this week. This is my time. I’m next!”

I’m believing and trusting God with you that your best days are ahead of you and your time is now!

So this past weekend I had the opportunity to speak at my buddy Jeff’s church over in Durham, NC. What a great church with some great people! I admit this next scenario happens quite often, I have a set of sermon notes and I just can’t seem to preach the same message twice in a row. There’s always something new I’m saying or that God has dropped into my heart. So this particular message I was talking about the process of a dream and it seems there is so much that goes into it. I wanted to unpack a little bit here in this post because I think there’s more to it than just what I said in the message.

As I’m preaching away, God reminded me of a message I heard from a friend a few years ago. A couple little thoughts were dropped into my heart. The first was, “God is a God of process.” The next was, “Time doesn’t matter to God.” and the last one was “God works by process not time.”

It’s interesting that when God is preparing us for His great dream for our lives, He doesn’t view it in how much time has been spent preparing, He views it from how much growth and fruit has been produced. Time is something man made up. So God doesn’t look at the process through time, HE looks at it through development and growth, in my opinion. How have we grown in character, love, and relationship with Him? These are what God is looking for. Sometimes we like to get upset with people or situations but in actuality the process God has us on, is His doing! If you want to get upset with someone, get upset with God! God is sovereign, He has a plan for your life and every dream has levels, every level requires change and transformation. This is where the God of the process has to be acknowledged and we acquiesce and allow God to have His way, not ours. This isn’t always easy because we like our way, we like how we do things even if it’s not beneficial! We have been trained in society to get everything right now. We live in a microwave society but serve a crockpot God!

There’s something about the process of God that helps us get to know the God of the process. That’s the point right? To love God meaning to know Him and have relationship with Him. So if you find yourself in a tough spot and you are questioning God, I encourage you to pray and ask God what in us needs to change? What can I do to go to the next level? Usually the process is spurred on by changing not by complaining.