You're Still On Schedule Steven Furtick

This is where I want to encourage you.

If you feel like a seed that is in the

ground of uncertainty, the ground of disappointment, the ground of doubt,

I know God's going to fill in the blank for

what you need because you know what your seed is.

And if I ask you, you wouldn't say the real

thing that's working in your life.

You would say the churchly.

Acceptable thing, the spiritually acceptable thing. You wouldn't talk about

the real dirt that your life is in. You wouldn't

talk about the real process that you're trapped in.

You wouldn't talk about the real thought patterns.

So you just substitute whatever you need for seed, okay?

And God knows what it is, and you know what

it is.

And I want to preach about that seed. Because one

thing I found out about the seed is that the

seed is protected. I need you to know when you're

in a soil season in your life, in a season

where you can't see anything happening. See, God knew that

the seed would need to survive a period of vulnerability.

So every seed is wrapped in a hard protective coating.

The seed is wrapped in a hard protective coating so

that until it produces what it's meant to produce, nothing's

going to be able to get what's inside of the seed.

I see Moses in a basket trying to kill off.

All the Hebrew children.

But until the seed was ready to be released, the

seed was in a basket floating down a river to

protect it. Touch three people, say, I'm protected. I need

you to know that I'm protected. I need you to

know that God has covered me. I need you to

know that God has wrapped me up. I need you

to know that God didn't just put purpose inside of me.

He put protection all around me.

And until it.

Comes to pass, I need you to know I'm protected.

The devil can try to snatch me up, but I'm protected.

The rain can fall really hard or I can.

Go through a dry season, but I'm protected.

I'm coated.

I got something on the outside protecting what's on the inside.

God's got me covered and it shall come forth because

I'm protected.

I'm protected.

God said to tell somebody, your child is protected. You're

praying about him. But while you're praying about him, you

need to know that God already wrapped him. There are

some things in life you can't do for your child.

But how many are grateful? When the seed leaves your hands,

it never leaves God's eye.

His eye is on the sparrow and he's got your babies.

It's protected.

It's protected. It's protected.

And the seed is in a stage right now where.

It doesn't have the roots to be able to get

the nutrients from the soil. And it doesn't have the

ability through photosynthesis.

You would think I.

Was an agricultural, horticultural expert preaching this sermon.

I got excited about the seed.

And i discovered that the seed has its own food

supply until the time that it is able to derive

the nutrients from.

Another source what am i trying to say.

The seed has not only protection but the seed has

provision help me preach everything i need for life and

godliness is inside of me and what i can't get

from others in the soil stage god will give it

to me from the inside i'll take myself love myself

help myself Bless myself.

Encourage myself.

The stuff that the seed needs is already in the seed,

so don't even worry.

About it because it's protected. Protection and provision.

If you're looking at somebody who's shouting right now and

you don't understand their enthusiasm, the reason they're shouting is

is they've got some stuff in the ground. They've got

some dreams in the ground. They've got some potential in

the ground. And when it rains, farmers don't get annoyed.

When it rains, everybody who has something in the ground

reaches up to receive I hear a sound of an

abundance of rain in the house today.

Come on, you better stretch and catch this rain. You

better catch this.

So the protection is on the seed.

The provision is in the seed. And it's just a

matter of time before the potential is released from the sea.

I'm preaching this message to somebody.

Who is in the soil stage. We will all sow

and we will all reap. And sometimes we'll sow in

tears and reap in joy. But can the seed of

your faith survive the soil? When the seed goes down

to die, Jesus said in John chapter 12, if a

John 12 · chapter mention

grain of wheat doesn't fall to the ground and die,

it just remains a single seed. But if it dies,

it becomes many seeds. He was saying this to signify

the kind of death.

That he would die.

You do understand that Jesus wasn't preaching about okra. He

was prophesying about his own death. That he needed his

guys to know, I'm going to be in the ground

for a little while. I'm going to be in the

ground for a little while. But when it looks like

I've lost, don't worry. We're still on schedule. The word

of the Lord for somebody today. You're still on schedule.

You're still on schedule. Grace accounts for the years that

you've wasted and the time that you lost and even

the opportunities that you didn't know how to seize. And

I'm going to say it seven times. You're still on schedule.

You're still on schedule. You're still on schedule. You're still

on schedule. You're still on schedule. You're still on schedule.

You're still on schedule. How else could Jesus have been

interrupted in Mark chapter 5 on the way to Jairus'

Mark 5 · chapter mention

daughter's healing? And yet when he got there and the

people were making loud commotion because the little girl died

while Jesus was interrupted by the woman with the issue

of blood who had been subject to bleeding for 12 years.

And Jesus just keeps going to Jairus' house.

And they said, don't even bother to come now because

she's dead.

And Jesus says, she's not dead.

I'm still alive. on schedule.

I might look late to you, but for what I

want to do, I'm still on schedule. When he got

to the house, he said, everybody shut up because she's

not dead.

She's sleeping.

Touch somebody and.

Say, shh, she's sleeping.

Jesus shows up at the house and he dismisses all

the doubters who are in the room because what you

see is dead. God sees as sleeping. What you see

is dead. God sees as sleeping and he healed the

little girl and made her a sandwich because he was

still on schedule.

Jesus, you should have got.

To Lazarus' house early. It's a little late to show

up after his body has been in the tomb for

four days. But Jesus said, don't even worry. If I

had gotten there according to your timetable, you'd have called

me a healer.

You already knew I was a healer.

I need to reveal a different dimension of my ability

in your life. So for your sake, I'm going to

be late. But when I look late in your life,

don't worry about it. Roll the stone away and I'll

speak a word because we're still... on schedule god i'm

a hundred years old i don't see how i can

have a child at this age god said abraham go

into sarah and do your thing because you might feel

old and it might seem too late but i am

the god of the impossible and you're still on schedule

One thing that the seed, whatever state it was in,

could say, one thing that you can know about your life,

no matter if you're plowing, no matter if you're reaping.

Or no matter if you're waiting, you're still on schedule.

Still on schedule.

I'm still on schedule.

God's got this way, you understand, of making sure.

Tell somebody next to you, you're still on schedule.

God's got a way of making sure that if one

thing got bumped and if one thing got missed and

if one thing.

Got left out. You know, the Bible is so great.

The Bible says that there's coming a time where the

reapers will overtake the sowers. Do you know what that

means in your life? It means that grace has the

ability to bring it in where life didn't even throw

it out.

So God is saying in.

This season of your life, I'm in something now, man.

I don't even know who I'm preaching to.

But the problem is you're so close to quitting in

the soil stage that you're about to walk away from

your hope and miss your harvest because you can't see

it in the ground. That's where faith comes in because

I can plow in the season of sowing and I

can reap in the season of sowing. of reaping but

what do i do while the seed is in the

soil i have a suggestion and i took it from

the text here's my suggestion when you've done all you

can do prayed all you can pray sowed all you

can sow, prepared all you can prepare.

Get some sleep. Get some sleep.

He said that whether the man was awake or sleeping,

the soil was producing. So when you've done all you

can do, Prayed all you can pray. Altered all you

can alter. Fixed what you know how to fix. Get

some sleep. And trust the soil. I read this scripture

one time that said that the Holy One of Israel

neither slumbers nor sleeps. It means that God And it

means that he's also an early bird. So I read

that scripture one day, and I realized, well, if God

never slumbers or sleeps, I might as well take a nap.

if you're already going to be up all night looking

out for me and watching over me.

There's no use in both of us.

Being up all night so you got this.

Good because i need some sleep i need you to

touch your neighbor because they're stressed out and tell them

you need.

Some sleep.

Come on tell them you look kind of tired I

see some circles.

Over your eyes. And you need some sleep.

Because you've already sowed all the ways that you know

to sow. And you can't reap yet because the seed

isn't done doing what it's going to do.

So you might as well get some rest.

You know what?

You reap better when you're rested. I said you reap

better when you're rested. I said you reap better when

you're rested. What you need to do in.

This season after you've sowed all the seeds.

Who am I preaching to? I need to know.

I'm going to find it. I'm scattering seed. I want

to see where it's hitting. I want to see where

the plowed ground is. You're going to need your strength

to reap. So rest while you can. Sleep while you can.

Get some Z's while you can. Because when the harvest comes,

you're going to need all that energy and all that

strength and.

All that mental capacity to.

Bring it in.

So why don't you get some sleep? You know, when

Jesus was on a ministry.

Assignment one time, he left one place, come with me,

and he was going to another. Now he was ministering

on one side of the lake and he was going

to minister on the other. You know what he did

on the boat? He went to sleep. Why did he

go to sleep? Because there's nothing I can do about

what's on that side while I'm on this boat.

Nothing I can do about it right now. And they said,

they said, Jesus, wake up. There's a storm. He got

up to the storm and said.

Shh, I'm sleeping.

Leave me alone. I'm sleeping right now.

Cause when I get up, I got work to do.

You know, that's what the seed is saying in your

life right now. You're getting frustrated, but the seed is saying, shh,

let me sleep.

I'm working down here.

I gotta get a little bit of breakthrough from this

hardcore I got to get some roots in this soil.

I got to bring forth what I'm meant to bring forth.

I got to get ready to burst forth because I'm

about to become something spectacular. Let it sleep.

Don't rip it up out of the ground. Don't walk

away from the field. Don't get frustrated. Don't even be annoyed.

Don't get irritable. Just let it sleep. Just let it sleep.

Just let it sleep. But when you go to sleep,

make sure when you sleep, make sure you sleep next

to your sickle. Because you want to be ready when

morning comes to say, here it is.

I'm ready for you. I'm rested.

I'm rested. I'm ready.

I'm rested. I'm ready.

I trusted in sowing and I'm ready for reaping because

I rested in the middle and my life.

Is still on schedule.

Hey, thank you for watching.

Make sure you subscribe to this channel so you don't

miss a single video or live stream and share this

video with a friend.

And don't forget, you can join me live every Sunday.

Thanks again for watching.