Are you haunted by your past or anxious for your future? Did you know that as a believer, you can invite Jesus into your personal timeline to supernaturally redeem your past and miraculously prepare your future?
Troy Brewer has been a pastor for nearly three decades, he’s rescued children from sexual trafficking, and he’s an author.
Brewer loves time—how it works, that it has a beginning and an end, and he believes that time has a purpose. In his book “Redeeming Your Timeline,” he explains that God is not subject to time, and time is part of God’s creation. God created the material universe, and on the fourth day when He created the sun, moon and stars, the book of Genesis tells us that He created them for signs, seasons, days and years (Gen. 1:14). God began the time process then.
God created time in such a way that time, space and matter are in perfect continuum, which means you cannot separate them. If God were to create wood for a table, He has to create space to put it in, and then He has to create time because it takes time to get one side of the table to the other. So it is all part of the same creative package.
In the beginning (time), God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter) (Gen. 1:1). God placed time, space and matter in the very first verse of the Bible. Brewer says, “God is not subject to time, and time is not a part of God’s playground. Time is a playground that He made for us, therefore He can interact within it however He wants to.”
God took the apostle John and brought him 2,000 years into the future to show him the Antichrist, the Tribulation, the rapture of the church and the coming of the Lord. Then He took John another thousand years into the future and showed him the great white throne of judgment (Rev. 20:11), the new heaven and new earth (Rev. 21:1), and then dropped him back into his own time, giving him instructions to write down what he had seen.
Brewer describes it this way: “God is not subject to time and can see it all at the same time. At the same time He’s looking at you, He’s looking at Jesus being raised from the dead, and Abraham offering his son and David fighting Goliath. God is not on the train of time, He’s above the train and He can enter into any car he wants to.”
Unfortunately, people struggle because of something that has happened in their past, and they can get stuck in that. It’s a huge hindrance, but it’s something that the Lord wants to redeem. Even if an incident is 40 years in the past, Jesus can redeem it. “If I can invite King Jesus into my presence now, I can also invite Him into my then, and I can also invite Him into my future,” Brewer says.
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One of the biblical scenarios of time is this: Is it redeemed or not redeemed? In unredeemed time, you are losing everything. In redeemed time, you are gaining everything. Paul said, “For me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Phil. 1:21, NKJV).
How is that possible? It’s possible because the kingdom is coming. God caused every human being to enter time at the fall of Adam. But God says, “If you’re going to walk with Me, you’re going to gain everything. If you’re not, you’re going to lose everything.” It doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor, if you’re smart or not, what matters is if you’re in relationship with Jesus in your timeline.
Any time the Bible references that the fullness of time has come, it’s speaking of redeemed time, and from that event everything is blessed. When the Bible says the time has passed, it’s talking about a cursed time that comes from a nonredeemed situation. So, if that situation gets redeemed, it changes the timeline.
To deal with unredeemed time, you have to turn that time into the territory of the Lord and make Jesus the Lord by submitting everything to Him, finding Him in that place and worshipping Him. The manifest presence of Jesus changes everything. The Redeemer lives and bring redemption with Him. He changes slavery into freedom, a curse into a blessing and death into life.
Redemption changes everything once Jesus shows up.
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Marilyn Hickey founded Marilyn Hickey Ministries more than 45 years ago with God’s vision to cover the earth with the Word. Marilyn co-hosts a daily television program, “Today with Marilyn & Sarah,” reaching a potential viewing audience of over 2 billion households worldwide. Marilyn communicates deep biblical truths in a way that is understandable and practical for everyday life.
Sarah Bowling is on a mission to connect everyone with the heart of God while loving those who are overlooked, excluded and ignored. Led by Holy Spirit and anchored in the Word, Sarah seeks to inspire all to know the unconditional and transformational love of God in our daily lives. A Bible teacher, author, international speaker and global humanitarian, Sarah also co-hosts a daily television program, “Today with Marilyn & Sarah.”
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