What is a season with the Lord?

[Esther]

A friend of mine called me today with a message that the Lord had given him regarding seasons.

We began discussing what is a season?

Anyone have any suggestions?

I think of spring, summer, fall, winter as seasons.

Ecc refers to there is a season to laugh and a season to cry...

He said that Daniel refers to a season as being 6 months.

What do you think?

[Ronzo]

A season is simply an unspecified period of time.


There are a few different words translated as 'season' in the KJV. They all pretty much just mean "a time" or "an appointed time". They're not definite in specific amount of time like we think of in the Western world.

Could be a day, a month, a year, a lifetime... etc...

[scotty]

The bible speaks mostly of the weather and harvest times of year as being the seasons.

[Esther]

He was given in 6 seasons.......... so it would have to be a time line of some sort I would think???

[scotty]

He was given in 6 seasons.......... so it would have to be a time line of some sort I would think???


I guess that would mean a year and a half to me.

I don't think they call it spring, summer, fall...etc.

Maybe winter, but then , Planting season,growing season, harvest

the bible speaks alot of fruits and planting when it speaks of the seasons

[Barb]

Esther, I hope you don't mind me inserting this here, but I posted this some time ago re seasons...maybe it will add some to the discussion. :friend

The Bible is rich in it's description of seasons. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 states...

1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
KJV

These words are familiar to those of us old enough to remember the song recorded in the 60s by The Byrds, Turn, Turn, Turn...even now when I read these verses, the melody from the past haunts me.

We can clearly see from the above that seasons involves so much more than "spring turns to summer, summer to fall, autumn brings winter..."

Seasons involves every emotion and every life changing event, and the Scripture declares that there is a "purpose" for them (v.1).

And so, taking this into account, that there is a purpose for the seasons, it then behooves us to recognize the season we are in and the purpose for it.

Verse 2 tells us that there is a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted...a time or season of harvest.

The dictionary at hand shows me that harvest means the process of gathering in (crops, etc.). It further means reaping, gleaning, yield, produce, fruit, garnering, taking in, collecting.

This process was described to me thus..."the farmer plans for his crop through the long days of winter, cultivates the soil in spring, and plants the seeds of a new crop as the spring ends.

All summer long he works on maintaining and protecting his crop from drought, weeds, and pestilence. At the end of the summer, he begins his harvest, gathering in this crop that the has worked so hard to grow."

As it is in the natural, so it is in the spiritual.

There are seasons when we are planning...preparing ourselves for the service ahead. Bible School can be described as the planning stage or season of our life.

A home missions work or associate pastorate is another place of preparation for what is ahead.

Times set aside for fasting and consecrated prayer are seasons of preparation.

And then the time comes that we step out and begin to plant the seed of the Word, through the spoken word or song, and get our feet wet in the field of experience.

We then find it is not always easy maintaining. Sometimes the buzzards hang close and try to steal that which God has given. Buzzards don't appreciate life...they live among the ruins with death and decay. But we fight them off with the Word of faith in diligence knowing there is a harvest.

We work and toil, knowing in the end that if we have planted on good ground...if the Word hasn't been thrown to the wind among the thorns and thistles of self-will and greed without real concern for the harvest...if we have laid a true and lasting foundation in fertile soil...if we would rather die than not have a plentiful harvest, than God will not deny us, and that which we have planted in faith will spring forth.

Some if us today are in the process of reaping that which we have planted.

We have given and planted and sacrificed for the sake of the harvest, and this is our season.

There are churches where there have been difficult times of beating off the buzzards and maintaining when it would have been easier to give in. But the integrity of the sower has insured the prosperity of the harvest, and this is your season.

So for this, we say, to God be the glory!! Thank God for the season of harvest in our lives.

I hear the sound of abundance of rain!!
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[Esther]

I guess that would mean a year and a half to me.

I don't think they call it spring, summer, fall...etc.

Maybe winter, but then , Planting season,growing season, harvest

the bible speaks alot of fruits and planting when it speaks of the seasons

That is what I said also. Sounds like a year and a half.

But as Ronzo stated sometimes it is hard to know if it is a stated time per se.

[tstew]

I hate to put my sermons out here but... :)
God gave me a message concerning the differences between a "change of seasons" and a "season of change". The cliff notes are that there are times when you have done all and you just have to stand and wait for a season to pass. However, there are also times when God has you in a season of change (like the refiners fire). In those cases, you will remain there until you make the changes that need to be made and no one can pray/prophecy you out of it.
That's why it is necessary to search ourselves and try to become more like God even in the difficult seasons.

[Fiyahstarter]

I hate to put my sermons out here but... :)
God gave me a message concerning the differences between a "change of seasons" and a "season of change". The cliff notes are that there are times when you have done all and you just have to stand and wait for a season to pass. However, there are also times when God has you in a season of change (like the refiners fire). In those cases, you will remain there until you make the changes that need to be made and no one can pray/prophecy you out of it.
That's why it is necessary to search ourselves and try to become more like God even in the difficult seasons.

Excellent point.

[Pressing-On]

A season is simply an unspecified period of time.


There are a few different words translated as 'season' in the KJV. They all pretty much just mean "a time" or "an appointed time". They're not definite in specific amount of time like we think of in the Western world.

Could be a day, a month, a year, a lifetime... etc...

This is what I believe! :thumbsup

Psa 1:3 "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season;"

This scripture speaks volumes! We are planted not buried. Planted by rivers of water - good clean flowing water. So much involved in that!

We will bring forth fruit in our season and that is why we need to be careful in comparing ourselves with others. Everything is in God's timing.

Joseph, Moses and David had to be prepared, in many ways, for what God had planned. We are no different. You can't rush God and we must be patience so that we can be equipped to fulfill His will - in His time.

[Esther]

Several good post given here.

Please keep it up. :)