Pastor Mike - Embracing Your Season of Change
- Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 MSG “There’s a Right Time for Everything.” 1 There’s an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on the earth: 2 A right time for birth and another for death, A right time to plant and another to reap…
- Ecclesiastes 3:1 AMPC “Everything Has Its Time.” 1 To everything there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven: 2 A time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted…
- Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter are constant, as are the SEASONS of our lives.
- Embracing Your Season of Change
- “As we transition from one season to the next, our perspectives and actions must be progressive – like the complex stages and cycling of our environment.”
- Springtime of Life - 10 – 25yrs old - Youthfulness Blooming - NO FEAR SEASON
- “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, and in purity.” 1 Timothy 4:12
- “Young people, it’s wonderful to be young! Enjoy every minute of it. Do everything you want to do; take it all in. But remember that you must give an account to God for everything you do.” Ecclesiastes 11:9
- Summertime - Growth & Vitality - 26 - 45 yrs Old “A time of moving toward productivity, Growing & developing as spiritual beings in our own right.”
- Titus 2 NKJV (Summertime Season) 4 So that they will wisely train the young women to be sane and sober of mind (temperate, disciplined) and to love their husbands and their children, 5 To be self-controlled, chaste, homemakers, good-natured (kindhearted). …adapting and subordinating themselves to their husbands, that the word of God may not be exposed to reproach (blasphemed or discredited).
- Pattern yourselves after me [follow my example], as I imitate and follow Christ (the Messiah). 1 Corinthians 11:1 AMPC
- Titus 2:6 NKJV (Summertime Season) Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded, 7 in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility, 8 sound speech that cannot be condemned, …that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.
- Fall Season of Life - 46 - 64 yrs Old - Reflection & Transition - Processing past experiences: analyzing our thoughts for insight. It’s about understanding our behaviors, values, and the impact of our actions.
- FOCUS ON LEGACY, FAMILY & PERSONAL FULFILLMENT: 65 – 99 yrs old, maintaining physical health and perhaps managing medication.
- Participate in wellness activities that promote emotional, social & intellectual well-being. Staying active to enhance quality of life. Balance diet, etc.
- What’s working well?
- 2 Corinthians 4:16 AMPC “Treasure in Fragile Clay Jars.” Therefore, we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self (Spirit Man) is being [progressively] renewed day after day.
