1. The freedom of simplicity
From exhausted to energised: looking at time
From isolated to connected: looking at friendship
From stuck to moving on: looking at the seasons of life
From restless to fulfilled: looking at work

2. From stuck …
… to moving on

3. Looking at life’s …
seasons

4. Ecclesiastes 3: (NIV)
1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,

5. Ecclesiastes 3: (NIV)
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.

6. God is the Lord of times and seasons
2 Cor 6:2 (NIV)
For he says, “In the time of my favour I heard you,
and in the day of salvation I helped you.”
I tell you, now is the time of God’s favour, now is the day of salvation.

7. Humility and Trust

8. James 4:13–17 (NIV)
13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”

9. God has his timing Psalm 31: 14 – 15 (NIV)
14 But I trust in you, LORD;
I say, “You are my God.”
15 My times are in your hands;

10. We go through different times and seasons
Developmental seasons
Spiritual seasons

12. Humility and Trust
Wait in Faith

13. Isaiah 40:30-31 (NIV)
30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

14. Discerning the season 1 Chronicles 12: 32 (NIV)
from Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do—200 chiefs, with all their relatives under their command;

15. Humility and Trust
Wait in Faith
Pray for wisdom

16. Next week:
From restless to fulfilled: looking at work