Fire Conference 2026 Day 9 San Antonio Usa by Apostle Joshua Selman: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

I want to teach tonight on times and seasons. There are many believers who are ignorant of the mystery of times and seasons, and who do not know how to align with spiritual things.

Ephesians 5:15-17 says to walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time because the days are evil, understanding what the will of God is. Psalm 102:13 speaks of the Lord arising to have mercy on Zion because the set time to favor her has come. God is a God of times and seasons. Daniel 2:20-21 says he changes the times and the seasons, removes kings and sets up kings, gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. Acts 1:7 confirms that it is not for us to know the times and seasons, which the Father has put in his own power.

Nine Things You Should Know About Time

1. God Made Lights to Signify Times and Seasons

   The lights he made were instructed to signify seasons, days, and months.

2. Time Is Tripartite in Its Operation

   Past, present, and future are woven together. Something in the past can affect the present, and something in the present can define the future. Many people fail today because of their past, and many will abort tomorrow through negligence today. This tripartite pattern shows up throughout creation, in man, woman, and child, in root, vine, and branch, in water as ice, liquid, and vapor, and time follows the same structure.

3. Time Under Normal Circumstances Only Goes Forward

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   Days cannot be reversed. No functioning clock runs anticlockwise. This is why scripture tells us to number our days.

4. Time Like Money Can Be Wasted, Spent, or Invested

   Exactly how this happens with money is how it happens with destiny.

5. The Unit of Destiny Is Time

   Whatever and whoever you give your time to, you are also giving a part of your destiny to that thing or person. Whatever takes your time did not only take your hours; it took part of your destiny. When you hear of a "time waster," understand that what they are really taking from you is not hours but a portion of your life.

6. Time Is a Fruitful Soil

   Any seed planted in it grows and produces a harvest. You can sow diligence in that soil and reap a harvest; you can sow laziness in it and reap a harvest just as surely. As scripture puts it, he who sows to the flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the spirit will of the spirit reap life everlasting. There is no such thing as sudden greatness; greatness is simply a harvest, a testament of fruitful investment in the soil called time. Everyone alive has the same twenty-four hours; the poorest and the richest, the laziest and the most diligent all receive the same measure. The difference between them is the seed each one sowed into it. When you call someone anointed or outstanding, you are also describing a farmer who sowed well; when you call someone spiritually lazy, you are also describing someone who sowed a certain kind of seed.

7. All Human Activities Happen Within the Frame of Times and Seasons

   Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 declares that to everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven, a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to pluck up, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build up, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, and on through every contrasting pair listed there. The word "time" recurs in nearly every line, which means that whether you fail or succeed, whether you move forward or stagnate, time participated in the outcome.

8. There Is a Dimension of Grace and Beauty Attached to Every Season

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   Ecclesiastes 3:11 is commonly misquoted. The King James rendering, "He hath made everything beautiful in his time," is often read as though it refers to God's own timing, but more accurate translations render it "in its time," meaning there is a time attached to each thing, and once that time arrives, the beauty and grace connected to it arrives with it. If you are discerning, you can insist that the beauty and grace due your season be revealed now. Weeping, too, is bound by time. Psalm 30:5 says weeping endures for a night, but joy comes in the morning, and a "night" in scripture is not defined by the clock but by the absence of light; you can be in the middle of the day and still be in your personal night if your light has not yet come. Once light arrives, it breaks the night and ushers in a season of joy.

9. Time Can Work Against a Man

   For various reasons, ignorance, carelessness, or human and demonic interference, time can work against a person, and seasons can be wasted. Israel was prophesied to spend four hundred years before their exodus but actually spent four hundred and thirty, defying the original word through avoidable delay. The prodigal son wasted his substance and his season through riotous living among people who misled him. When your prophetic destiny does not match your present reality, it usually means something happened to your use of time. Paul told one church that by now they should have been mature, yet they remained babes; there are certain milestones that should naturally appear with the passage of time, and their absence is a warning sign, not a neutral fact.

Two Forces That Redeem Lost Time

Scripture shows two forces God can activate to redeem lost time: restoration and speed. Speed refers to accomplishing in a short period what would ordinarily take much longer. Restoration refers to God routing back to you, by his mercy, relationships, opportunities, and advantages you lost along the way, so that what was lost in time is featured again in your life.

Chronos and Kairos

Psalm 102:13 uses two different words that both appear simply as "time" in English translation. The first is chronos, the sequential passage of time, seconds into minutes into hours into days into years, the everyday accumulation from which we get the word "chronological." The second is kairos, which does not refer to that sequential passage but to an opportune moment, a defining season. A pregnancy's daily development is chronos, but the delivery day itself is kairos; a student's daily coursework is chronos, but the final exam that determines advancement is kairos. There are not many kairos moments in a person's lifetime, and missing one can mean waiting years, sometimes a decade or more, before a comparable opportunity returns.

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Blind Bartimaeus understood this. Mark 10:46-52 records that as Jesus was passing through Jericho for what would be the last time, Bartimaeus cried out for mercy and refused to be silenced, because he recognized that this particular passing was his kairos and might never come again. Pain can actually help a person appreciate kairos seasons; those who have everything working smoothly tend to trivialize special moments, while those who have waited and prayed and watched for signs recognize the defining moment the instant it arrives.

The woman with the issue of blood is another example. Jesus had no scheduled business with her that day; he was on his way to the house of a ruler whose daughter was dying. But she reasoned within herself that he did not always pass that way and she might not get another opportunity, so she pressed through the crowd to touch the hem of his garment, and power went out of him in response to her discernment of the moment, even though the crowd pressing around him had no idea it was anyone's kairos at all.

By contrast, the man at the pool of Bethesda missed his kairos for thirty-eight years. Once a year an angel stirred the water, and only the first person into the pool after the stirring was healed; he had an entire year each time to prepare and position himself, yet year after year he failed to move in time, and offered Jesus only an excuse about having no one to help him into the water.

Chronos Is the Buildup to Kairos

A person maximizes their kairos by faithfully investing in their chronos long before that moment arrives. Every day spent in prayer, studying the word, or building capacity is building a memorial in the spirit, even without visible results, even without invitations or a platform yet. When Jesus rose early to pray before dawn, according to Mark 1:35, he was not praying out of fear; he was building the strength that would be measured on his day of battle. His disciples, by contrast, did not understand this and were caught unprepared when their moment of testing came, scattering rather than standing.

Joseph offers a full picture of this principle. He received a dream of eventual authority as a young man, a genuine kairos vision, but the fulfillment of that vision depended entirely on what he did with his chronos in between: serving faithfully in Potiphar's house, maintaining integrity under pressure, interpreting dreams in prison without any immediate reward, simply because it was in front of him to do. When the day came that Pharaoh needed an interpreter and the cupbearer finally remembered him, Joseph stepped into his kairos moment already prepared, and everything shifted for him in a single day.

Acts 3 tells of a lame man carried daily to the temple gate called Beautiful. He did not know that any single day might be his last day of being carried there rather than walking away on his own; he simply kept showing up, maximizing his chronos, until the day Peter and John came by and he received his healing.

I once traveled several hours to attend a crusade led by a well-known evangelist, arriving early while others treated the event casually. I asked to help serve, was initially turned away as untrained, but stayed close to the ministry team anyway, wheeling people to the front and praying quietly the entire time, standing for six hours without sitting. That was the night I experienced my first visible manifestation of the Holy Spirit's presence. What looked like a single dramatic encounter was really the product of consistent private preparation meeting one specific moment. Every meeting that changes one person also passes over another sitting right beside them, not because of the anointing present, but because of the preparation of each individual heart.

Three Keys to Redeeming Time

1. Discernment

   You cannot gain dominion over time without discernment. 1 Chronicles 12:32 describes the sons of Issachar as men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do. God is not always doing the same thing; there are seasons of incubation, seasons of birthing, seasons of pruning, and seasons of visibility, and those who remain relevant are the ones who can read which season they are actually in rather than assuming it never changes. There are three levels of anointing worth knowing: the anointing that comes simply from being a believer and produces Christlike character; the anointing that comes with finding your place in a particular office or calling; and the anointing that comes specifically from discerning what God is doing in a given season and aligning with it, which is why a person can be relevant in one season and lose relevance in the next purely through insensitivity to the shift. Discernment also means knowing when to stay silent, the way Jesus responded to those trying to trap him over the woman caught in adultery; silence is not the same as ignorance, and there are moments an answer should come through someone else entirely rather than from you.

2. Wisdom

   You must press for wisdom. Matthew 25:1-13 tells of ten virgins who all had lamps and all fell asleep waiting for the bridegroom; the difference between the wise and the foolish was never about their humanity growing weary, since all of them slept. The difference was that the wise had brought extra oil, anticipating that the bridegroom might be delayed, while the foolish had only what their lamp already held. Time reveals whether preparation matched the actual length of the wait. Esther spent a full year in preparation under the care of the king's attendant before ever appearing before the king, and when she did, she found favor above all the other candidates because of that season of preparation, not despite it. Time invested in prayer, in learning the word, in building character and administration before promotion arrives, functions exactly like that extra oil: it does not show up as a visible achievement in the moment, but it is what actually determines the outcome once the defining moment comes. Luke 2:52 notes that Jesus grew in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man before he was later filled with the Holy Spirit and with power; wisdom prepared the ground so that power, once it came, could actually be retained and used well, rather than being poured, as it were, into a basket that cannot hold it.

3. Favor

   Exodus 12:36 records that the Lord gave the Israelites favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that the Egyptians granted them what they asked. Favor is what moves things toward you that you did not manufacture yourself; Nehemiah did not even need to make his case fully before the king noticed his countenance and granted his request along with additional protection. Esther 2:8-9 notes that Esther quickly received the things allotted for her purification once she obtained favor, ahead of the other candidates, which shows that speed is itself a function of favor. When something comes to you unusually quickly, a job, a resource, an open door, that speed is often a signature of favor rather than mere circumstance, the same principle behind Isaac's surprised question to Jacob about how he had found what he sought so quickly.

To recap: discernment is built in the place of prayer and the study of scripture. Wisdom comes both through the word and through impartation from the Holy Spirit. Favor shows up as unusual kindness, unusual access, and unusual acceptance from people around you. What you do with your everyday chronos, in prayer, in the word, in building capacity, is what determines whether you are ready when your kairos day finally arrives.