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Welcome back to the Prosperity With Purpose podcast. I'm Jessica Hefley. We have a quick episode for you today. I like these like quick ones so sprinkled in there. Okay, so this one we are going to I want you to go listen to the song. It's called Seasons by Hillsong I'll put it in the show notes. I can't play it for you right now because of copyrights and all the things. So I'm going to literally read the lyrics to you. This was a song that someone shared with me. It's actually from their Christmas album and they shared it not during the Christmas season. I consider this an all year round song. Okay because talks about Jesus and the birth and anyways, you'll you'll find out soon enough. But I just think it was in when it was years ago and I was in a really hard season and this song just spoke to me and it's actually called Seasons that we actually are in different seasons of our life. So I'm just going to read these lyrics to you kind of. Process with you out loud why it was so powerful to me and encourage you to cling to hope this book is litter of this book. This song is literally called Seasons and so it talks about the different seasons that you are in in your life but to cling to hope. Cling to the promise. So even though this song was first introduced to me years ago in a very painful hard season of my life I still get so emotional when I hear this or when I observe someone else going through a hard season and not giving up or going through a hard season and feeling like they might give up. I will cling to hope for them, even if they don't, even if they don't know about it, and so for you as high-level entrepreneurs as overwhelmed business owners, my plea my invitation for you is to cling. Hope if you are in a hard season cling to hope that that a next season can be completely different for you. So I'm just going to read it I'll probably stop along the way and talk. But here we go: Like the frost on a rose, Winter comes for us all, oh how nature aquaints us. With the nature of patience like a seed that is like a seed in the snow I've been buried to grow for your promise is loyal from seed to Sequoia, I love that theme,. We're gonna hear it over and over in the song seed to Sequoia like represent. Let's pause okay, how little is a seed? Okay oh it is little. How big is a Sequoia? Have you guys ever been to a Sequoia forest me and Rob did before kids we went up the California coast up highway ten or highway one.. Anyways, we went from the bottom all the way to the top and this pro tip 30 minutes north of San Francisco is Muir woods M-U-I-R it's one of my most favorite. It might be my most favorite place I've ever been to in the United States of America. It's a redwood forest. It's Sequoias. They're humongous and it's like this mythical land. It was just so. I want to go back I want to take my kids back but they're just so huge. They're huge and you just feel so small I think I love that anytime that I am able to be near something that reminds me of how small I am, and how big our creator is that's why I love going to the mountains. That's why I love going to the ocean because being around and while I'm going to Sequoia Field it's because Sequoias are so much bigger than me. So anyways, back to the song from so okay, your promise is loyal from seed to sequoia right? from the tiny seed to the human, good Sequoia your promise is loyal okay. And it says I know kind of want this thing and I know though the winter is long, even richer the harvest, it brings though my waiting, prolongs even greater your promise to me, like a seed I believe that my season will come, Lord, I think of your love. Like the long winter sun and as I gaze I am blinded in the light of your brightness and like a fire to the snow, I'm renewed in your warmth, melt the ice of this wild soul till the barren is beautiful. And I know though the winter is long even richer the harvest it brings though my waiting prolongs even greater your promise to me, like a seed I believe that my season will come, oh and here's my favorite part, and it's like the rift and the song and it changes tempo and it changes tone and it's just like I can't lets it do it without crying. Okay, and this part says, I can see the promise, I can see the future, You're the God of seasons, and I'm just in the winter, and all I know of Harvest is that it's worth my patience, then if you're not done working God, I'm not done waiting. You can see my promise, even in the winter because you're the God of greatness, even in a manger for all I know of, seasons is that you take your time you could have saved us in a second but instead you sent a child, I can't. It's a process! This is in the end of the song but we're pausing for a minute. It's a process. Your life is a process! Cling to hope! He could have saved us in an instant but he sent a child. He sent a baby in a manger who had to grow and mature. And it wasn't even until he was thirty years old until he started his ministry. Okay, it took around 33 years actually it took you know thousands of years for the Promise. Okay, and but it was just like ah. Could have done it in a second but he is so sovereign and he sees the bigger picture. He knows what's happening and so if you're and so my favorite line of all that we're not even done is, if you're not done working God, I'm not done waiting. Oh. It's so hard in that season. Of waiting in that season where you wish you weren't in and or in that season that you wish were over, that season that you wish you were having a different results, or a different outcome or whatever is so painful for you. I want if you're not done working God then I'm not done waiting and there is such an element of trust. And that in release in that and believing there is a purpose in the waiting, believing that there is a bigger picture and clinging to hope I kind of want to read that last paragraph again. So I am okay so I want to read that favorite part just again and then I'll finish up the song. It says I can see the promise, I can see the future. You're the God of seasons, and I'm just in the winter, and all I know of harvest is that it's worth my patience, then if you're not done working God, I'm not done waiting, and it's my favorite part. You can see my promise even in the winter, because you're the God of greatness, even in a manger. For all I know of seasons is that you take your time, you could have saved us in a second, instead you sent a child though. The winter is long even richer the harvest it brings, though my waiting prolongs even greater your promise to me, like a seed I believe that my season will come. And when I finally see my tree still I believe that there's a season to come, like a seed you are sown for the sake of us all from Bethlehem's soil grew Calvaries' Sequoia.
That seed that you're in cling to that seed of promise because that will grow into a Sequoia that promise that he is giving you who okay, that's all I mean um i. This is pretty self- explanatory. Go listen to the song the end that's your homework. Go listen to the song. Allow it to speak to you. Listen to it with the lyrics, listen to it on repeat. It's one of my songs on the playlist that was from a couple episodes ago, I need to get my list in front of me that tells me the episode numbers I'll also put that in the show notes where I have a playlist that is all about like gratitude and expansiveness so enjoy be blessed. Thanks for being here with my tears. Thanks for letting me share something that was really meaningful to me and still is I know will bless you! Bless ya, see you later.