Adjusting the the Seasons of God
by Dr. John Tetsola

If we are going to effectively embrace the benefits of the Kingdom, we must realize that the nature of walking with the Lord involves constant adjustments to His seasons. God does not change in personality, but He changes in direction, in moves, and in operation. It is during these times of adjustment that God lays the very foundations of faith, building and preparing us in private for our public promotion. Each adjustment is the beginning of a new day. The darkness of our adjustments announces the arrival of the morning—the new thing that God wants to do in our lives.

The Need for Adjustment

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Ecclesiastes 3:1

A season is a division of the year as determined by the earth’s position with respect to the sun, as marked by the temperature, moisture and vegetation. Seasons are an integral part of God’s program for the earth and for His people. As believers, we must understand that there are certain seasons that God brings into our lives in order to adjust us, our ministries, our churches, and families to what He is doing, or to what He is about to do and accomplish. Sometimes this may involve the Father’s “sentence of death” on a good thing that was originally given to us. In order to flow with the Spirit of God, we have to be willing to submit to the Father’s sentence of death and allow Him to adjust us to His seasons and timing for our lives.

In order to bring necessary adjustments in our lives, God can sentence a good thing to death. This death or adjustment has to do with the Father’s will. At God’s command, that which has been promised by Him, birthed of Him, anointed by Him, and protected by Him in our lives and ministry must be committed to death. Why? Because the Father says so. We have had the wrong understanding in this area. We think that because God birthed it and gave it to us, it is forever. Sometimes that which God births is forever, but not always.

The Different Kinds of Death

Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Hebrews 10:9

There are four kinds of death. First there is natural death. This is when a thing lives to its full circle and dies. Second, there is death from war or warfare. This is the death that comes out of persecution, out of satanic intervention or some kind of aggression where people’s lives are cut short. Third is the death that comes as a result of judgment. That is when the Lord cuts a life short because of sin. For example, Herod boasted that he was a god, and God smote him with worms and he died. We also have the example of Ananias and Sapphira who lied about their tithe and God killed them. The devil did not kill them. God did.

The fourth kind of death is the Father’s sentence of death, and this is our focus. This death comes before full circle. Your ministry, church, vision, business, or calling may just be maturing, blossoming, or just picking up momentum and getting successful. In the midst of this, God releases a sentence of death upon it. It may involve a career, a friendship, or even a successful business. The reason God sentences it to death is not because He is mean, but because He wants to establish the second in your life. The second is much better. In order for the second to be established in our lives, there has to be some form of adjustment. Our proper response to God’s adjustment and His sentence of death imposed upon us produces the “second” in our lives. God promises that He will take away the first. The first can be something that is successful right now in your life. It can be something that you have worked hard for, and you’re beginning to see the fruit. Yet the promise is, when God takes away the first in our lives, He is going to establish the second. The darkness of our adjustments announces the arrival of the morning—the new thing. So trust God in 2005 and know that every time He takes something away, He is about to establish something better for you in His ordained season. He will not leave you disappointed or desolate.

by Dr. John A. Tetsola