Time Is On My Side (c) 1/11/07

The song, “Time Is On My Side” has kept playing in my spirit, not the one by the Rolling Stones but the one by Jesus, the Cornerstone.

Lately I have been thinking more and more about TIME, especially because of the dreams that I had at the end of 2005.  I grew one year older in December, then came the New Year. However, what I am sensing has much more to do with the spiritual realm of time than the natural. Most of us can sense that TIME is indeed on a collision course with ETERNITY. For those in the kingdom this can seem bittersweet. We look around us and see so many lost and hurting people.  It seems there is too much to do and too little time in which to do it.  And yes, we must work while it is still day, but we must work from a position of DOMINION not fear that TIME is running out.  We must be sensitive to the times and seasons we are in ...making the most of time (redeeming the time), because the days are evil. Eph 5:15-16 NRSV paraphrased

After the Lord began to work in me for the piece, “Time Is On My Side”, I began to sense it is a word for 2007 and 2008.  I was compelled to bring out the TIME collection, ponder, and focus on them. I am including them in this mailing.

Time Is On My Side

The piece could easily fit into the Harvest Time or End Time Collection, but I really felt it was to be a part of the Time Collection because it was so influenced by the visions and dreams about time of late. I will share a bit about the piece and then the insight that influenced it.  Just after 9/11, I had a vision of Time running upon people suddenly and overtaking them –it was as if time was traveling more rapidly toward a collision course with eternity, yet at the same time it continued seemingly as the same pace in the natural.

As I created this piece, all sorts of things were racing through my spirit.  One thing that is difficult to explain or understand is that not everything that is in these art pieces can be seen.  I have felt that I would do a piece on the harp and bowl and still may, but I sensed that these were also elements of this piece as well. You may notice a number of my pieces have lightning, which is symbolic of God’s power and intervention. If it fit, water (the Spirit of revelation) and eyes would be in each one

• I felt the Angel of the Lord descending the stairs, closer to the worship (harp) and incense (prayer).
• The incense is rising to the nostrils of God and the lightning is a prelude to the Angel pouring out fire from the altar into the earth.
• I also sensed the influence of the eleventh-hour workers realizing the urgency of gathering the harvest.
• When the Father says, IT’S TIME the scythe is readily available. Matthew 13:39 says that there are reaper angels who will come and separate the wheat from the tares.

I know that that seems so contrary to what many might think. In the natural, time is indeed not on our side, but once we are in Christ we are not bound to the natural in any way.  The Ancient of Days is our Father and He has dominion over time. In this season, the Lord is releasing a supernatural comprehension of dominion over TIME.  Years ago, the Lord said, “If you can see it, you can have it”.  This is precisely what He does through the art –He provides us a visual upon which to meditate, so that we can indeed see and have what we see.

It has been almost a year since I had the extraordinary dreams about dominion over TIME. In the dreams, I remember saying, “I get it, I see it”.  But, when I woke up, I could not say it.  I still cannot put the revelation that I experienced about it into words.  I do know that since then, every time I hear someone say, “It takes time to accomplish something”; the remarks just grate on my spirit.  Righteous unrest and indignation rise up in me such that I can hardly keep quiet about. When your mind cannot confidently articulate something in understandable terms, you may as well not bring the argument.  Even now as I bring this subject to light, if you do not tap in and just soak it up with your spirit you will still not get it. Even then, like me you may have to watch it unfold. One thing we must remember is that revelation is not revelation until one is walking in it. I cannot explain gravity, or many other things that are absolutes in the universe, but I see them work each day.

Throughout this past year, I have had a number of experiences that were suddenlies. I have not seen consistencies of such incidences, but have begun to see them with more frequency.  As I ponder the unlimited capacity of the spirit, I see more and more possibilities.

I know many of you look at situations, which never seem to change; they just look hopeless. But, listen, we are in a season of acceleration.  We get what we expect; we must stop expecting according to what we have seen in the past.

Eccl 3:11 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. NIV

The writer of Ecclesiastes states that God has planted eternity in man’s heart and mind, yet he cannot fathom it.  I believe that our spirit however can.  While many people are saying, God, hurry up”, they do not realize that the end from the beginning is within them. Before the foundations, our spirits were with and in Him –now He is in us.  In us is His timelessness as well as dominion over time. Our minds simply cannot comprehend the dominion that has been restored back to us, so we talk ourselves right out of it.

I do not yet know the extent of our dominion over time –I believe that much of it depends on the motives of the heart and not crossing lines where we are affecting the wills of others. I do know that there are some clear-cut things within His will and purpose for RIGHT NOW IN THIS TIME. Use NOW Faith and instead of fearing time, say –“Time Is On My Side and begin to work the dominion that you have over it.

• It is TIME for the hearts of the fathers to turn to the children. Mal 4:6

• It is TIME for us to realize there are no limitations or impossibilities in the spirit realm. Matt 17:20

• It is TIME for us to become instruments through which the Lord can exact vengeance on His enemies - Isa 41:15

• It is TIME for us to STOP saying, yet four months and then comes harvest. John 4:35

• It is TIME to seek the Lord until He rains righteousness. Hosea 10:12 

We see numerous examples of human beings circumventing time, yet somehow we do not believe that it can happen to us.

2 Kings 7:1 THEN ELISHA said, Hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord: Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will sell for a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel in the gate of Samaria!  AMP

This passage in 2 Kings was at a time when Samaria and its inhabitants were in dire straights.  Then Elisha comes and says –“by this time tomorrow things are going turn around totally”.  We hear this, and we want to believe it, but it seems too good to be true.  I want you to notice that Elisha had what he said. Had he not said it, I wonder how long the famine would have continued.

Josh 10:13  And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance upon their enemies. Is not this written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of the heavens and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. AMP

This is an astounding example of time actually standing still because a righteous man prayed.  Even today, scientist cannot reconcile the loss of that day. I have heard many stories where people arrived at a destination in such a short amount of time that it seemed as though time stood still.

2 Kings 20:9-10 And Isaiah said, This is the sign to you from the Lord that He will do the thing He has promised: shall the shadow [denoting the time of day] go forward ten steps, or go back ten steps?

In Revelation, Alpha and Omega are used describe God or Christ. (John 1:1) In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:14)  And the Word became flesh and lived among us… “Alpha and omega” refers to God’s sovereignty and eternal nature. It is beyond human comprehension for the beginning and the end- the first and last to occupy the same space of time.  But, we must remember that the Word says, Christ in us, the hope of Glory.  If or since He is the beginning and the end –all that is in between and since He has dominion over all things, then so do we.