Sermon for Sunday 23rd Feb. 2014

Topic: Your season of Flourishing and Enlargement

Key Scripture Genesis 26:12-22


22 Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac named it Rehoboth, saying, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land."

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

We serve a God of season. We see it in creation. God created the four seasons that are based upon the rotation of the Earth as it orbits the Sun.

The seasons change as the earth moves, but the sun in our planetary system remains constant, and everything revolves around it.

1. Stepping into a new season brings NEW CHANGES

Change is inevitable. It’s going to happen. We look outside at the world around us and notice things are different today than they were 10 years ago, last year or even yesterday. But remember we serve a God of seasons.

Even in His creation, He created the seasons. And each season is different than the others. Some are meant for things to grow, and others for things to die off. Hello, anybody. In some seasons the days are longer, in others the night.

Some times it seems your days, your mountaintop experiences with God last a long time, but then there are those seasons when the nighttime seems as if it will never end. In those long nights when the tears seem like they will never stop flowing, but it might have taken a little longer in some seasons than others, but the morning did come, and the tears ceased and joy returned to your spirit.

But God gives us revelations and truths to propel us into new and different seasons. Why? Because we are creatures of habit and if He didn’t change things we would become complacent in one place.

2. Stepping into a new season brings NEW CHALLENGES

There is no doubt that when Isaac called to stay Gerar, he was faced not only with many changes in his life, but many challenges.

3. Stepping into a new season births NEW CHAMPIONS

Isaac was transformed from poverty and lack  into a prosperous man. I believe those who knew Isaac three years before were amazed to see the new champion that he had become.

4. It is your Season to flourish

A. Psalm 92:12-15: “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; to show that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.”


1. Flourish (Hebrew) = to flower, blossom, bloom, break through, spread out
2. Enter into a state of prosperity
3. Increase in wealth, favor and honor
4. Grow vigorously and exuberantly, enlarge and expand
5. Become extremely successful

B. Proverbs 14:11: “The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.”

C. Psalm 52:8: “I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.”

1. Green (Hebrew) = flourishing

D. Psalm 112:3: “Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness
endure to for ever.”

E. Jeremiah 17:7-8: “Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be
careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.”

1. Leaf shall be green—prospering, thriving, flourishing

2. NLT: “...Their leaves stay green [and flourishing], and they never stop
producing fruit.”

3. MSG: “...They’re like trees replanted in Eden, putting down roots near the
rivers—never a worry through the hottest of summers, never dropping a leaf, serene and calm through droughts, bearing fresh fruit every season.”


F. Psalm 36:7-9 (AMP): “How precious is Your steadfast love, O God! The children of men take refuge and put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. They relish and feast on the abundance of Your house; and You cause them to drink of the stream of Your pleasures. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light do we see light.”

G. Song of Solomon 2:4: “He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner me was love.”

Proverbs 11:28: “He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch

5: Conclusion

Look at somebody and tell them, “God didn’t save me to be a chump, but he saved me to be a champion.”

God has transformed us by His power. And God is calling His champions to step into a new season.

We are stepping into a season of power and prosperity

We are stepping into a season where all the peoples of the earth shall see that we are called by the name of the Lord

We are stepping into a season where the Lord is going to open up His good treasure to you and bless you, where we’re gong to lend and not borrow, where we will be the head and not the tail, where we will be above and not beneath

We are stepping into a season where God is about to tear back the veil off of the heavenlies to release some things

Those who were once held under are now going to be coming over

Those who were once forgotten are now going to be remembered

Those who were depressed will once again begin to rejoice

Those who were once rejected are now accepted

Those who are down trodden will have their heads lifted

Those who grieve will have their joy made manifest

Those who were once poor will say I am rich

Those who are afflicted will once again walk in wholeness

We are stepping in to a new season where those things that have been taken from you will be restored 100 fold.

I believe I’m talking to some people this morning who have been through some seasons

Some of you had to learn how to praise God all by yourself

You had to praise God through a lot of tears

Some of you had to learn how to lay hands on your own head

Some of you had to hold up your hands while you were praying for somebody else, hoping somebody was praying for you.