If there is a word that has blessed us this year, it is when God told us that we are right on time as a congregation. I am going to share that word again, even as we review the things that brought us into that perfect timing of heaven. And it is by doing those same simple things that we shall keep in step with the Holy Spirit.

On 26th June 2019 I had this dream: LAT and other churches were holding their services in one auditorium at the same time. At a certain point during the service, I excused myself from the auditorium. On returning, I realized that all the other pastors had already started their sermons. This frightened me because I took it as a sign that I was very late to deliver my sermon to LAT. I felt very embarrassed to even walk up to the pulpit. For that matter, I literally ‘duckingly’ slipped into the section LAT had gathered and sat at the back. When I looked at my watch, it was 11:30a.m., the time the sermon normally starts at LAT. That did not matter; since other pastors were already preaching, I knew I was very late and I felt terribly bad with myself. However, as I was waking up from the dream, in my heart I was singing the song: “Who has the final say? Jehovah has the final say.”

That dream meant that according to God’s calendar, we as a congregation are right on time. My problem, in the dream, was that I was comparing LAT with other congregations. Although I returned for the service at the right time to deliver the sermon, I felt I was late just because other pastors had gone ahead of me. I was not late – and we are not late. God’s opinion concerning our progress is that we are doing the right things at the right time and so we are in His time. Glory to His name!

Now, why are we exactly where we should be? Simple. We have up until now kept Jesus as our focus, our praise and worship has been directed to Him, and we have endeavored to walk in His written and specifically revealed commandments. Basically, we have kept in step with God because we have done that which I wrote about in the last three articles of this series. We have not been perfect, and we shall never be; however, we obeyed the best we knew how and God considered that as ‘very good’.

This makes our 5th anniversary celebration worthwhile. You see, we could celebrate it as a tradition even when there is nothing – according to God – to be celebrated. However, since we now know for sure that we are where we should be at five years, there is cause for a thanksgiving service to honor Him who has effectively worked through us. Therefore, do not miss 8th September.

I pray that we shall remain in the perfect timing of heaven in this coming year. This will be achieved if we do the exact same thing that has brought us this far: having Jesus at the center of our aspirations. When we do that, we also shall achieve all the great things to which God has called us in this country and in the nations. Of course He will also reward us with His manifest presence and other spiritual and material blessings with which He blesses those who please Him.

Our latter days will be greater than the former.

May God help us.