FROM BUD TO BLOOM
Galatians 6:7-9 (NIV) Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. 9 Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
The GREATEST THREAT to your BLOOM isn’t the WORLD – it’s WAITING
Going from BUD to BLOOM takes TIME
Psalm 92:12 (NLT) But the godly will flourish like palm trees and grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon.
“God never makes us wait just for the sake of waiting. He is preparing us for something greater than we could imagine.” Oswald Chambers
The DISTANCE between your DREAM and your DESTINY is your DEVELOPMENT
1 Samuel 16:13 (NLT) So as David stood there among his brothers, Samuel took the flask of olive oil he had brought and anointed David with the oil. And the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David from that day on. Then Samuel returned to Ramah.
2 Samuel 5:1-4 (NLT) Then all the tribes of Israel went to David at Hebron and told him, “We are your own flesh and blood. 2 In the past,[a] when Saul was our king, you were the one who really led the forces of Israel. And the Lord told you, ‘You will be the shepherd of my people Israel. You will be Israel’s leader.’” 3 So there at Hebron, King David made a covenant before the Lord with all the elders of Israel. And they anointed him king of Israel.4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in all.
David had 15 years between his ANOINTING and APPOINTING
HUMBLED BY GOD
TRUSTED IN GOD
CHARACTER OF GOD
Acts 13:22 (NLT) But God removed Saul and replaced him with David, a man about whom God said, ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart. He will do everything I want him to do.’
“bloom where you are planted”
Isaiah 40:31 (ESV) but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.