Make Your Day Count

LR:  –but while we’re there, while we’re expecting our miracle, be content carrying Jordan for seven months, eight months, nine months. Now let me tell you, after seven months and when you gain 51 pounds, you’re not very content.  You’re big as a barn and you want to say, “I want this over with now.”  I said to Richard one day, I said, “Richard, I want this baby born tonight,” when I was seven months pregnant.  I said, “I can’t get any bigger.  If I get any bigger I will burst.”  And I was so huge.  And Richard said, “You don’t want that baby born tonight.”  I said, “Oh, yes, I do.”  He said, “Oh, no, you don’t.”  He said, “That baby is only seven months along.  If that baby is born now, it’s premature.  Your harvest isn’t complete.  That baby doesn’t have all the parts ready.  If you have that baby now, it’s wrong, it’s not in God’s perfect harvest time.  You want that baby born when that baby is ready to be born, in God’s perfect timetable.”  And I said, “You know, you’re right.”  We try to hurry our harvest along.  We try to be–we’re so discontented during the growing time that we sometimes want our harvest too soon and it’s the wrong harvest.  It’s not ready.  It’s like an apple, you want it red and ripe and if you eat it when it’s green and too soon, it will sour your stomach and make you sick.  You want it when the harvest is right and ripe.  You don’t want it too soon.  Be content where you are during the growing time, knowing, knowing that God has the perfect timetable for that harvest.  Don’t get so down and dwell in that little puddle that you’re never going to get out.  But have an attitude of expectancy–my harvest is coming, my harvest is coming. I’m not going to moan and gripe and complain about where I am because my harvest is coming.  And expect that miracle.  Expect it, and make a statement of faith right now that you’re going to get out of the mess you’re in by faith, by planting your seeds of faith unto God and turning your life over to God and God will work that miracle and that harvest time will come in due season.  (Applause)