HORAIOS: THE RIGHT TIME

Last week, a sister chanced upon this sermon preached by Dutch Sheets on 7 June 2014 at Cornerstone church and she emailed me to tell me. It was titled 'Entering a Season of Transition'. http://www.cscc.org.sg/index.php?option=com_restaurante&task=detail&Itemid=80&id=681 It was really apt, like she said because last year was a year of transition for me, ever since God came to tell me that my season was changing in Feb 2014.

Dutch Sheets began by talking about the sons of Issachar and 4 phases of time in the NT: chronos, kairos, horaios and pleroo. This is the first time I have heard of horaios time, pronounced hor-ray-os. I have been researching a lot more about kairos but I have not read about horaios. It is an even shorter window than kairos and is literally defined as the right time. A time where we decide that now we are going to do it.

In every season you will come to a time of kairos and horaios. You will come to the right time. You will shift into a new season. You got to let go of the old, renew your mind to receive the new things. Your thinking has got to change. Don't get stuck in old paradigms and methods. God is going to shift things in your life and He is going to do it very quickly. There will be an acceleration of what He is doing in your life.

When the gears are grinding and the shift is coming, you got to say 'God, if this is really You, then I am going to walk through this gate now.' All the pieces will come together and it will be a beautiful thing. The seasons are trying to connect. The winter season is coming to an end. The end has really come. The river of the Holy Spirit is about to rise. Now is the time for God to fulfil the promises you have received years ago but not yet come to pass. We have truly come to such a time like this.

Dutch Sheets gave the scripture reference from Acts 3. The lame man who laid at the temple gate called Beautiful was healed to walk again. The name for the gate, Beautiful, is "horaios" in Greek. When all things come together at the right time, it is a beautiful thing. Dutch Sheets explained that God was saving this miracle for the right time for more people were saved by Peter's message at that time than at Pentecost. If we can pass through this gate, God will do something beautiful.

The Strong's Concordance number for "horaios" is 5611 and there are only 4 occurences in the Bible. It means properly, a particular hour (a "season" of time); (figuratively) beautiful in timing, hence fruitful because fully developed (prepared, as in Romans 10:15). It also means ripe, mature (of fruits, of human age), hence it connotes blooming, beautiful (of the human body).

Horaios could be a moment or a day or a week or a month. A short period of time when you pull the trigger, when you decide that you are going to do it now. Get it now! When you discern the timing and seasons of God, have enough faith to say 'Let us take possession of this land now!' After you go through the gate Beautiful, you come to the fullness of time. Where the harvest is in the barn, when your dreams come to pass.