How To Experience Right Happenings

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This is what's gonna happen this year. The Lord is

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saying it's a kairos year. It's a favourable year for

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all of us, all right? That doesn't mean the whole year

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is favourable. It just means that we are entering--God's

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people is entering, not the year itself. We are

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entering. When I say this kind of thing, people of the

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world says, "Okay, it's for all of us." It's not for all

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of us. It's for the people of God.

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It's for God's people, all right? It's not for people

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who don't believe that God speaks.

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Okay, so “time” is “eth” in the Hebrew. This is the

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Hebrew word for “time.” Many times it’s used for

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favourable time. Sometimes it’s used for bad times,

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yes, but there’ll be a qualifying remark before

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that, okay, an adjective to describe. “Evil time” for

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example. Then you know it’s evil time. But for the most

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part, it’s favourable, okay?

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Now in the counterpart, which is the Greek--your

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Bible, Old Testament is in Hebrew. Your New Testament

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is in Greek. So the Greek of "time," right time, and

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there's a Greek version also called the Septuagint of the

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Old Testament. In the Greek, "time" is "kairos." Now,

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"kairos" is most frequently used for favourable

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opportunity.

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Now, is there also some bad news of "kairos"? Yes, but

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like "eth," it would be--there'd be a qualifying

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remark there, like "Evil time," that kind of thing.

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It would tell you. But very seldom so, all right? Most

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of the time, it's favourable. Very few moments

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it's used for in a negative way.

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So there's time, right time, and there's "kairos," all

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right, in the Greek for "time," and chance. One day

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I'll teach on this. It's the word "pega," all right? But

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at the present moment it's the word "chance." "Happen

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to them all." "Happen" here is "qarah." We touched on

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"qarah" last week, Amen. We touched on "eth," "kairos,"

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and "qarah." And like I said, one day I'll teach on

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"pega." But look at this.

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Now, we go to the next verse, but there are people.

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"Man also does not know his time." Again, "eth" and

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"kairos." In the Greek, it is "kairos." They do not

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know God's favourable time. And when they do not know

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God's favourable time, guess what? They are, "Like fish

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taken in a cruel net, Like birds caught in a snare, So

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the sons of men are snared in an evil time." So if

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it's an evil "eth," there's always a word "evil" to

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qualify it so you know it's not, you know? It becomes an

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evil time because they don't take advantage. Then the

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Bible says that now is the time of salvation. By the

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way, the word "time," "kairos." Now is the kairos

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of salvation. There's no right time to be saved,

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Amen. Get saved as soon as you can. Jesus seldom tell

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people--in fact, He tell people, "Come to Me, I'll

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give you rest." He's a preacher of rest, Amen,

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because He finished all the work for us.

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But there's one time He tells you, "Make haste,"

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Amen? What is that? To Zacchaeus, "Come down. Make

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haste." Make haste, why? Make haste to be saved.

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Don't let one moment pass by. If you're not saved,

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your heart should stop beating, and you step into a

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Christ-less eternity, Amen, that's gone. There's no more

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chance after that, Amen? Amen. Make haste to be

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saved. And all the people said, "Amen." So this is

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like, you know, you cannot--with all your

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boastings, and your qualifications, and your

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erudite learning, you cannot put yourself in the right

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place in the right time to avoid tragedy, Amen.

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Accidents can happen on the road. People die through

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accidents on the road, all right? And sometimes--many

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times also it is not because of your negligence. It is

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the other person's negligence. We need the Lord

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to put us at the right place at the right time.

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For those of you who have been with me for many years,

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you know that I shared with you about Jesus has a

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signature in the Bible called Aleph-Tav, Amen? Why

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Aleph-Tav? Now, your English alphabet starts with--come

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on, children. Come on, class. A to Z for our

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American friends, Amen?

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so they will say "zee," we'll say "zed". A to Z,

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Amen? A to Z, right? Now, in Greek, what is it? Alpha,

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you all know this, the last one is omega. Very good.

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Hebrew, first letter is aleph, last one is tav,

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Amen. By the way, Hebrew letters have pictures as

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well as numbers. Aleph is number one. In other words,

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in Hebrew they don't write one. There's no numeral in

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Hebrew. They use the letter as the number. Each letter

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symbolise a number. So aleph is one. You got it, Amen?

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It's also a picture. Aleph is like an ox. Aleph is a

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leader. Aleph is sacrificial ox, Amen? Tav, tav is

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actually--you know how they draw the cross--the tav last

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time? A cross, many years ago. It's like this. The

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sacrificial ox on the cross. That's the signature of

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why is it the signature of Jesus? When Jesus appeared

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Jesus.

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to John, His apostle, His disciple, remember, on the

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island of Patmos to give him the book of Revelation,

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Amen, to give him the revelation for the book of

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Revelation, you know what Jesus called Himself what?

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"Fear not, John, I am the Alpha and Omega." Why Alpha

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and Omega? That is because your New Testament is in

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Greek, right? And in your King James, they leave it

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there, Alpha and Omega. "I'm the Alpha and Omega. I'm the

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first and the last letter, Amen. I'm the first word in

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your life and I'm the last word in your life, Amen?

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Professionals don't have the last word. Your condition in

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your body, no one has the last word, all right? You

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sought second advice, Amen. Have you sought My advice,

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Amen? Amen. I have the first word and the last word."

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Okay, so they translate that from Greek, so they put

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Alpha and Omega, but He's talking to a fellow Jew.

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They wouldn't be speaking Greek. He would speak to him

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in Hebrew, and this is what He would say, "John, I am

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Aleph and I am Tav. I'm Aleph-Tav."

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So go back to Ecclesiastes 9:11. We have, "Time and

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chance happen to them all." In this entire passage,

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Jesus put His signature there. That's not

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translated. "Time and chance happen to them all," is

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actually spelled like this. "But time and chance happen,

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Aleph-Tav, to them all." That means what? He makes

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time and chance happen to you. Can I have a good Amen?

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He makes time and chance happen to you.

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"And he made his camels kneel down outside the city

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by a well of water at evening time, the time when

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women go out to draw water." Notice the word "women,"

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plural. So women are supposed to be there, but

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you all know the story. God stopped all the women for

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some reason. Only one woman came out, God's choice. So

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even before he prayed the prayer, you must understand

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one thing. Even before you pray for the "qarah," right

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time, right place, even before you pray for success

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and favour, God already arranged already. Because

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the Bible says before He finished talking, she

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appeared. That means she must have made her journey

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already before He was praying. This year, the

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Lord told me--many of you have experienced this. You

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told me many of you have experienced this, so when I

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say this, you all will understand what I'm saying.

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Many of you, before you call, He answers. Sometimes

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you say, "I'm gonna pray about this. Okay, I'm busy

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now. I'm gonna pray about that." Then before you know

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it, answer came already. You didn't even have to pray.

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God says you will see more and more of this this year,

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all right? Isaiah, the promise in Isaiah, "It shall

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come to pass, yes, before they call, I will answer;

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And while they are still speaking, I will hear." So

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what he--he prayed that prayer. He said, "O LORD God

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of my master Abraham, please give me," what? "Success

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this day." And the word "success" here is the word

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"qarah," which is same word as "Time and chance happen

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to them all." It's a successful happening. It is

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a favourable happening, Amen? Do you get it? It is

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orchestrated happening and a divinely orchestrated

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happening. He prayed for success. He didn't even know

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he was being led to pray for right time, right place, all

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right, because God already arranging the right time,

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right place. "And show hesed, show kindness, hesed,

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to my master Abraham." That's the word "grace" in

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the Hebrew, "hesed." So the first time "qarah," the

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word "qarah," appears, it is here. The first time "hesed"

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appears, all right, the first time "hesed" appears

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is not here, but--I'm getting ahead of myself. The

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first time "hesed" and "qarah" appears together is

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here, which tells us that to be at the right place at the

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right time, you need God's grace, God's unearned,

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undeserved favour.

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see what happened after this? Now, real quick, go

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back to the part-- Verse 21, "And the man, wondering at

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her, remained silent so as to know whether the LORD had

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made his journey prosperous or not." The first mention

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of prosperity, prosper, prosperous, is found here,

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"tsalach." You know Joshua 1:8, "You make your way

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tsalach, prosperous," Amen. Psalms 1, the meditator on

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God's Word, "Whatever He doeth shall prosper,

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tsalach." But the first mention of "tsalach" is here

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about Jesus and His church. And notice that "tsalach" is

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a journey. Success is a journey. By the way, in

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the Greek version of this verse, Septuagint, it says,

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instead of "tsalach," the Hebrew, it says, "euodoo."

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"Euodoo" is used in 3 John 2, "Beloved--" Show 3 John

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2, "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest

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prosper, euodoo, and be in health, even as thy soul

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prospereth, euodoo." And "euodoo" is used--go back to

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that verse again. "Euodoo" is used in this verse in

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Genesis 24 in the Greek, first mention.

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So the first mention is what? What's the meaning of

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"euodoo"? In the Greek it says, "To grant a prosperous

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and expeditious journey; to prosper, be successful."

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Notice the very first mention is a prosperous

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journey. And go back to the first mention. The word

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"journey" is there, all right? He was wondering

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whether the Lord has made his journey prosperous or

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not. Friend, look up here. Look up here. Don't wait for

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an event to happen, then you say, "I'm prosperous. Yes, I

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made it. I achieved my goal. I'm a success." Goals and

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prosperity is not the destination, it is the

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journey. To God, if you learn to enjoy where you

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are, even times are tough, learn to enjoy where you

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are, while you are going towards your destination,

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your goal, and all that, that to God is success. And

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if you live like that, you will see your goals come to

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pass. You will see that destination.