UNDERSTANDING YAH’S TIMING: THE KEYS TO UNLOCKING YOUR SHIFT

Galatians chapter 4







Today we are walking in: Understanding Yah’s Timing: Keys To Unlocking Your Shift




Today we look to the word-FULFILL- H4390 male'--to fill, be full; to be full, fulness, abundance, be accomplished, be ended, to consecrate, to satisfy









The Torah testifies...............





Genesis 29:21

And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, H4390 that I may go in unto her.




Genesis 29:27

Fulfil H4390 her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.





The prophets proclaim..................






2 Samuel 7:12

And when thy days be fulfilled, H4390 and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.






Jeremiah 44:25

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled H4390 with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.






The writings bear witness...........................





1 Kings 8:24

Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled H4390 it with thine hand, as it is this day.






2 Chronicles 36:21

To fulfil H4390 the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil H4390 threescore and ten years.







The Fullness of Time




When Yah shifts us from a general chronos time to an opportune kairos time, it doesn’t mean that the process and the fight of faith are finished. It means we have shifted into a very strategic season where the opportunity is great, but we’re not yet to full fruitfulness. There is still a persevering that needs to happen.




The Bible speaks not only of chronos and kairos, but also of a pleroo, or fullness of time. Galatians 4:4 Open in Logos Bible Software (if available) reads, “But when the fullness of the time came, Yah sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law.” This word “fullness” indicates fully completing or finishing something. Whereas kairos indicates opportunity to perform a task or produce fruit, pleroo means it has been accomplished.




This could be likened to the process of bringing forth children. After conception, a woman goes through all three stages of timing: chronos, kairos and pleroma.




For nine months, she faithfully endures the challenging but important developmental stage of chronos. Much is happening in the hidden place of the womb, but she cannot yet hold and fully enjoy the fruit she knows is coming. She then moves into the kairos stage of labour and delivery. She hasn’t yet come to fullness, but it is near.




A kairos time can be difficult, critical and crucial, and opportunity doesn’t guarantee success. Often, there will be much work, pain and pushing if the fullness stage if birth is to be reached.




The Nature of Birthing Something New




Spiritual births are also difficult and dangerous. Unlike a woman in labour, however, we can give up during these strategic times and stop the delivery process. It is often a hazardous and precarious time; disillusionment, weariness, confusion and other problems can easily arise.




We can use the illustration of a beehive to compare the struggle of bees to that of the Hebrews: A beekeeper told me the story of a hive how, when the little bee is in the first stage, it is put into a hexagonal cell, and honey enough is stored there for its use until it reaches maturity. The honey is sealed with a capsule of wax, and when the tiny bee has fed itself on the honey and exhausted the supply, the time has come for it to emerge into the open. But, oh, the wrestle, the tussle, the straining to get through that wax! it is the strait gate for the bee, so strait that in the agony of exit the bee rubs off the membrane that hid its wings, and on the other side it is able to fly!




Without any strain or trouble, they would not be able to fly. Are you struggling to get to the next stage? Don’t give up. Your struggles won’t be wasted; they may even be necessary. The key is not to quit.




Consider the disciples of Christ. They went through three intense years with Yahusha. Then came kairos the Crucifixion Stake, the Resurrection, the Ascension and Pentecost. They were very close to their fullness of time. But like many of us, they came extremely close to losing the “baby” in this transition between kairos and pleroo.




At one crucial point, they were confused because they didn’t understand what was happening. Yah was truly moving behind the scenes, but things were not unfolding the way the disciples had envisioned. In their confusion, they came to a point of frustration where they basically looked at one another and said, “What are we going to do?”




For three years, Yahusha had been there; then they watched Him die. He was raised from the dead and they were excited, but He left again and something about it seemed permanent this time. He was gone. He had talked about the Holy Spirit coming, but that didn’t make much sense. It would have seemed more logical if Yahusha had lust stayed.




Peter spoke up first (can you believe that?) and said, “I am going fishing” (John 21:3Open in Logos Bible Software (if available)). He was essentially saying, “l’m going back to what I was doing three years ago. I’m returning to the only thing I know and understand. The dream is over. I don’t know where Yah is going, but I’m going back to my business. I’m going fishing.”




He and the others had come through the chronos season and had shifted into the kairos strategic time. Just before fullness, they came extremely close to losing the “baby.” Only a few days later, Pentecost occurred, and we see what they almost lost. Through Peter’s first sermon as a born-again believer filled with the Spirit of Yah, 3,000 people came to Christ. As a group, the disciples then proceeded to turn their world upside down (see Acts 17:6 KJVOpen in Logos Bible Software (if available)). Fullness had come.




Be Ready When the Divine Shift Comes




At the Pool of Bethesda. Yahusha came to the man who had been in his paralyzed condition for 36 years and asked him what seemed to be a strange question: “Do you want to get well?” (John 5:6, NIVOpen in Logos Bible Software (if available)). The man’s answer revealed that although he was waiting at the pool, he really had no hope of being healed. He was in a kairos moment, close to fullness, but hopelessness had set in.




“We must not become so accustomed to working hard and seeing little fruit that, when the time for the divine shift comes, we don’t have the faith to move into the new.”




Yahusha asked him this question to make him realize that, although he was waiting for the miraculous stirring in the pool, he had lost all hope of actually being healed. Only seconds away from experiencing the new, just a handclasp away from total restoration, the man was too disillusioned to recognise it. Somewhere along the way, as he went through the processes of time, he lost his expectation. There wasn’t anything within him that could respond in hope to Yahusha’ question.




When Yah brings a shift, we must be ready to shift with Him. If we’re not careful, we won’t believe that He can bring us from the chronos stages through the kairos seasons and into fullness. We must not become so accustomed to working hard and seeing little fruit that, when the time for the shift comes, we don’t have the faith to move into the new.




Yah wants to bring the divine shift to our lives, our churches, our communities and our nation. When He says it’s time to shift, we must take His hand and shift with Him, knowing He can and is willing to do it.