Heaven Is Not Late

There is something in us that wants to timestamp every promise.

If God speaks it, we immediately start calculating it.

When?
How long?
By this year?
Before that other thing happens?

We don't just receive the word.
We tend to schedule it.  

And somewhere between the promise and the process, discouragement sneaks in, doesn't it? Not because we stopped believing God said it, but because it didn't unfold when WE assumed it would.

God has actually been dealing with us personally regarding this.

When He speaks, He gives revelation......and we add expectation.

Expectation almost ALWAYS comes with a clock attached to it, doesn't it?

But God doesn't speak in minutes; He speaks in fulfillment.

The danger is not in believing His promise.  It's assigning it a timeframe that He never gave.

Because when that imagined deadline passes, we start questioning.

Did I hear wrong?
Did I miss it?
Did I mess it up?
Did God change His mind?

But......what if the only thing wrong… was our timing?

God actually called it out (2/22/26) when He mentioned that we get depressed when we focus on time. We DO!  We get discouraged and depressed! 

Scripture reminds us that God doesn't rush to satisfy human urgency.

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time. - Ecclesiastes 3:11

It doesn't say “in the time you expected" ....it says His time.

And then this one, that we could use as a steady anchor...

For the vision is yet for an appointed time… though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. - Habakkuk 2:3

That almost sounds contradictory, doesn't it? 

It may feel slow. 

It may look delayed. 

But...heaven is NOT late.

When God speaks, thankfully, He is not reacting to our schedule.
He is revealing something that already has an appointed moment.

God, help me to believe what you said without demanding a "when".  Help me to trust your  word without building a calendar around it. That I would refuse to let the passing of time talk me out of what you have already declared.

Lord, because I know that a promise does not weaken with waiting. It deepens. I know that your delay is not denial.  It's development, it's alignment, it's mercy.

If YOU gave the word, it stands.
If YOU spoke it, it holds.
If YOU promised it, it has an appointed time.

My job is not to manage the clock.

My job is to have trust and believe without controlling the timeline.