{"id":9126,"date":"2020-10-21T12:15:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T17:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/?p=9126"},"modified":"2022-10-05T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:33:08","slug":"foursquare-truth-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/2020\/10\/21\/foursquare-truth-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Foursquare Truth of Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A great author once said, \u201cGod lends us time in order for us to receive his instruction and perform his Service.\u00a0 If we consider time, how precious it is, its speedy passing, its uncertainty, how irrevocable that it is once it has passed, we would be very diligent in the proper use of our time.\u00a0 Moments have wings and they fly upward to their creator, bearing witness to our wise use of it, or to our foolish abuse of it.\u00a0 If we will be wise according to the scriptures, we will not allow moments to fly away empty or burdened down with corruption, but we will take those moments and as much as possible fill them with the wisdom, understanding, knowledge and prudence from GODS holy word, so that when the moment arrives when our time is no more, we will step into eternity prepared to meet our Savior and Lord.\u00a0 If we are foolish, we will sadly wish our moments away because things are not the way we wish they would be, or we will consume our moments fulfilling the lust and desires of the flesh.\u201d<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">THE FOURSQUARE CORNERS OF TIME ARE THIS\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1.SOLITARY TIME\u2026\u2026 A TIME OF HEARING\u2026..<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. SEEING TIME\u2026. A TIME OF UNDERSTANDING<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3. SPEAKING TIME\u2026. A TIME TO COMMUNICATE WHAT WE HAVE HEARD AND\u00a0 UNDERSTOOD<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">4. SHARING TIME\u2026.A TIME OF DOING AND PRACTICING WHAT WE HAVE HEARD, SEEN , AND SPOKEN\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Many times we get out of God&#8217;s wheel of time, and enter into the &#8220;wheel&#8221; of our flesh&#8230;.and we end up doing the wrong thing at the wrong time, or we miss the right time to do the right things!\u00a0 We must first find the time to remove all the voices in our life and stop to hear ONLY the voice of GOD.\u00a0 It is so important that we hear from HIM!\u00a0 If we do not consistently hear from GOD, we will not know HIM and we cannot follow HIM, and may find ourselves following the wrong voice, and the wrong shepherd.\u00a0 In the solitary time, we can hear the voice of the Great Shepherd and Bishop of our souls, Jesus Christ the Savior.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 13.33px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We must hear from God <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 13.33px; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 13.33px; color: #000000; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We must understand what we are hearing<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 13.33px; color: #000000; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><em>Eph. 5:17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 13.33px; color: #000000; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We must speak what we have heard and understood.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 13.33px; color: #000000; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><em>Eph. 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 13.33px; color: #000000; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We must share what we have heard and understood and spoken<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0px 0px 13.33px; color: #000000; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><strong><em><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">I John 1:3 That which we have SEEN and HEARD declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You and I today are at one point of time or another. If you are in a place of solitude, you may feel like you have no friend or anyone who really understands what you are going through. What a precious time you have been given!\u00a0 It is in that place of solitude and aloneness that you can find JESUS to be the sweetest friend you will ever have, the one who &#8220;sticks closer than a brother&#8221;.\u00a0 After all, it is not in the monstrous cathedrals, and the limelight of the world that you will find JESUS, but you will find him standing somewhere in the shadows, seeking out the forgotten and the weary, the broken hearted and hurt, and you will know HIM by the nail scars in his hands.\u00a0 Be thankful for the precious times of solitude that GOD sends your way&#8230;it is a chance to hear from HIM.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you have been through that time of solitude recently, and if you have allowed HIM to speak with you, and to share your sorrows and pain, then you have heard from HIM! Now that you have a better revelation and understanding of who HE is, you must speak about the wonderful things HE has done in your life. The valleys only HE could have brought you through, with only the peace that HE could bring, and only the love that HE could love you with! <\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can now share and fellowship with those who are hurting, as you see them open their hearts and life to the ONLY ONE who can\u00a0satisfy their souls and fill the needs in their life.\u00a0It is also in these times, where we choose to put into practice what we have heard, understood, and spoken to others to do. Here is where the rubber meets the road!<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ecc: 3 :<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><em><strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">10. I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it. 11.\u00a0He hath made everything beautiful in his time:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/em><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oh the beautiful wheel of GODS time&#8230;.he knows what is best for us, so wherever you find yourself in HIS corners of time, make the most of it. You will not forever be in solitude, or in revelations, or in speaking, or in sharing.\u00a0 He will take you back around again, with higher heights and deeper depths of understanding of who HE is and how much YOU mean to HIM.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">THIS POEM BY BENJAMIN MAYS SUMS IT UP NICELY:<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #606060; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I have only just a minute, Only sixty seconds in it. <\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #606060; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Forced upon me, can\u2019t refuse it. Didn\u2019t seek it, didn\u2019t choose it.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #606060; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">But it\u2019s up to me to use it.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #606060; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #606060; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Just a tiny little minute, but eternity is in it.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Know that GOD loves you and desires a close relationship with YOU!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Be blessed in HIM and read HIS word today, finding the treasures of great price within!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0Pastor Stephen Dubois<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great author once said, \u201cGod lends us time in order for us to receive his instruction and perform his Service.\u00a0 If we consider time, how precious it is, its speedy passing, its uncertainty, how irrevocable that it is once it has passed, we would be very diligent in the proper use of our time.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/2020\/10\/21\/foursquare-truth-of-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Foursquare Truth of Time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encouragement-and-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9127,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions\/9127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforbibletruth.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}