Welcome to the blog of Pastor Alton Stone, from Simpsonville, SC. Pastor Stone is a retired Ordained Bishop of The Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee with over 45 years of pastoral ministry.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Seasons

Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven…”

Psalm 90:10 “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.” 

(1) The Foundational Years of Childhood!
(2) The Experimentation of Teen Years!
(3) The Preparations of the Twenties!
(4) The Location of the Thirties!
(5) The Advancement of the Forties!
(6) The Peak Years of the Fifties!
(7) The Ticking Clock of the Sixties!
(8) The Changes of the Seventies!

(1) Former seasons are just that-former.
Ecclesiastes 1:3, 4 “What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.”

(2) Your present season has an ending as well.
Ecclesiastes 5:6, 7 “Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands? For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.”

(3) God has prepared you for every season.
Ephesians 2:10 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” 

(4) The challenge of the next season.
Ecclesiastes 7:14 “In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: Surely God has appointed the one as well as the other, so that man can find out nothing that will come after him.” 

(5) Planning for your new season.
Ecclesiastes 11:8-10 “But if a man lives many years and rejoices in them all, yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that is coming is vanity. Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these God will bring you into judgment. Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity.” 

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