Dear Covenant Partners,
With Mother’s Day approaching, I have been reflecting on the many wonderful lessons my mother taught me as I
was growing up, and Spirit-Filled reminders from my mentors.
I can still remember going into the backyard and enjoying the fruits and vegetables that had grown and oh!, how
beautiful they were. This was the result of the seeds she had planted in its proper season. I also remember helping
her sometimes to plant seeds, and learned that the harvest would come in another season.
In the beginning stages of my learning I was impatient and at the first sight of growth, the moment I saw fruit, I
would pull it up and try benefiting from it, by consuming it before it was fully developed.
I did not realize that it took that fruit time to mature, and because of my impatience to allow it to fully grow to
maturity, I would destroy the fruit. Then there were times when my Mother would find out what I had done, she
had a way of taking that immature fruit from me and nourish it back to health.
Even though the fruit was able to be saved and used, I learned by watching the other fruit yet still in the garden, being
developed from its roots, were stronger, healthier, colorful, more seasoned to taste, and we were able to enjoy the
benefits of it in more ways than the one I had pulled at its early stage of developing.
I learned that not only had I interfered with the growing process of that fruit and sometimes destroyed it. I also
destroyed the seeds within it.
That experience and watching how my Mother consistently was planting and nourishing the Word of God in me, as
she patiently waited for me to grow to maturity. It has taught me a lesson about being patient and waiting for God’s
timing. Every day He arranges the circumstances of our lives and works to bring us into maturity and an intimate
relationship with Himself. Even when we cannot see His activity, and what He is doing within us He is drawing us
closer, teaching us His ways and fulfilling His promises to us and in us. The Lord has a schedule for how He will
answer our prayers and mature each of us spiritually, conforming us to be the image of Jesus Christ (His Son).
However, we should not allow ourselves to become so impatient or try to take control because there can be destructive
consequences to our actions.
Perhaps you have been sowing seeds of love, prayer and faith in God’s promises.
Perhaps you’ve been waiting, but you still haven’t seen any indication of growth or evidence of the Lord’s
involvement in what you’re doing. I would like to share a very special promise of god that will help you avoid the
temptation of running ahead of His timing in your life and ministry.
First Corinthians 2 teaches, “Eye has not seen and ear has not heard…all that God has prepared for those who love
Him. For to us God revealed them through the Spirit…So that we may know the things freely given to us by God”
(vv. 9-10, 12). In other words, you may not be able to imagine all that God is doing in and through that small seed of
love and hope you’ve planted, but you can be assured it is absolutely awesome and shall come to pass. Just wait for
Him and obey the prompting of His Spirit, you will certainly see the fruit of your obedience.
Here are four requirements for waiting on God’s timing:
1. You must humble yourself before Him. You must agree with God that He is right about His timing. His plan and
even about sin He has revealed in your life. You must also admit that God can grow what you can sow. That only He
knows what the seed needs to develop properly. John 15:5
2. You must have faith that He will do as He has promised you. Trust that God will keep His Word to you. “Not one
word has failed of all His good promise.” First Kings 8:56.
3. You must be patient. God has an important purpose to accomplish during this season of waiting. Will you dare
rush in and interrupt His work before it has had time to take root and grow? Instead, claim the promise of God,
“God…acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him.” Isaiah 64:4.
4. You must remain courageously obedient. At some point, you must overcome your feelings of fear with the truth of
God’s Word. It’s a decision you make to honor God with your attitude in whatever He commands you to do. As the
Lord instructed Joshua, “Be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My
servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you
go…Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord you God is with you” (Josh 1:7,9).
When you do these things, humbling yourself before Him, having faith in Him, being patient and remaining
courageously obedient, you allow His Holy Spirit to guide you and place you in the center of His schedule for your life
and ministry.
We must learn how to cultivate ground without destroying or interfering with the seed growth.
Again, thank you so mush for your continuing support to ROAM with your faithful prayers and gifts. May God bless
you as you stay in the center of His will and His timing.
Happy Mother’s Day to all our Mothers!
Prayerfully yours,
Robert Williams
Pastor, ROAM
With Mother’s Day approaching, I have been reflecting on the many wonderful lessons my mother taught me as I
was growing up, and Spirit-Filled reminders from my mentors.
I can still remember going into the backyard and enjoying the fruits and vegetables that had grown and oh!, how
beautiful they were. This was the result of the seeds she had planted in its proper season. I also remember helping
her sometimes to plant seeds, and learned that the harvest would come in another season.
In the beginning stages of my learning I was impatient and at the first sight of growth, the moment I saw fruit, I
would pull it up and try benefiting from it, by consuming it before it was fully developed.
I did not realize that it took that fruit time to mature, and because of my impatience to allow it to fully grow to
maturity, I would destroy the fruit. Then there were times when my Mother would find out what I had done, she
had a way of taking that immature fruit from me and nourish it back to health.
Even though the fruit was able to be saved and used, I learned by watching the other fruit yet still in the garden, being
developed from its roots, were stronger, healthier, colorful, more seasoned to taste, and we were able to enjoy the
benefits of it in more ways than the one I had pulled at its early stage of developing.
I learned that not only had I interfered with the growing process of that fruit and sometimes destroyed it. I also
destroyed the seeds within it.
That experience and watching how my Mother consistently was planting and nourishing the Word of God in me, as
she patiently waited for me to grow to maturity. It has taught me a lesson about being patient and waiting for God’s
timing. Every day He arranges the circumstances of our lives and works to bring us into maturity and an intimate
relationship with Himself. Even when we cannot see His activity, and what He is doing within us He is drawing us
closer, teaching us His ways and fulfilling His promises to us and in us. The Lord has a schedule for how He will
answer our prayers and mature each of us spiritually, conforming us to be the image of Jesus Christ (His Son).
However, we should not allow ourselves to become so impatient or try to take control because there can be destructive
consequences to our actions.
Perhaps you have been sowing seeds of love, prayer and faith in God’s promises.
Perhaps you’ve been waiting, but you still haven’t seen any indication of growth or evidence of the Lord’s
involvement in what you’re doing. I would like to share a very special promise of god that will help you avoid the
temptation of running ahead of His timing in your life and ministry.
First Corinthians 2 teaches, “Eye has not seen and ear has not heard…all that God has prepared for those who love
Him. For to us God revealed them through the Spirit…So that we may know the things freely given to us by God”
(vv. 9-10, 12). In other words, you may not be able to imagine all that God is doing in and through that small seed of
love and hope you’ve planted, but you can be assured it is absolutely awesome and shall come to pass. Just wait for
Him and obey the prompting of His Spirit, you will certainly see the fruit of your obedience.
Here are four requirements for waiting on God’s timing:
1. You must humble yourself before Him. You must agree with God that He is right about His timing. His plan and
even about sin He has revealed in your life. You must also admit that God can grow what you can sow. That only He
knows what the seed needs to develop properly. John 15:5
2. You must have faith that He will do as He has promised you. Trust that God will keep His Word to you. “Not one
word has failed of all His good promise.” First Kings 8:56.
3. You must be patient. God has an important purpose to accomplish during this season of waiting. Will you dare
rush in and interrupt His work before it has had time to take root and grow? Instead, claim the promise of God,
“God…acts in behalf of the one who waits for Him.” Isaiah 64:4.
4. You must remain courageously obedient. At some point, you must overcome your feelings of fear with the truth of
God’s Word. It’s a decision you make to honor God with your attitude in whatever He commands you to do. As the
Lord instructed Joshua, “Be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My
servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you
go…Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord you God is with you” (Josh 1:7,9).
When you do these things, humbling yourself before Him, having faith in Him, being patient and remaining
courageously obedient, you allow His Holy Spirit to guide you and place you in the center of His schedule for your life
and ministry.
We must learn how to cultivate ground without destroying or interfering with the seed growth.
Again, thank you so mush for your continuing support to ROAM with your faithful prayers and gifts. May God bless
you as you stay in the center of His will and His timing.
Happy Mother’s Day to all our Mothers!
Prayerfully yours,
Robert Williams
Pastor, ROAM
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