Time: Quality vs. Quantity

Ac 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

Time- 1 a: the measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues : duration b: a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future
2: the point or period when something occurs : occasion
3 a: an appointed, fixed, or customary moment or hour for something to happen, begin, or end (arrived ahead of time) b: an opportune or suitable moment (decided it was time to retire) —often used in the phrase about time (about time for a change)

Time, all of us face it everyday. We all get the same amount of it.
The question is what do we do with it?

All of us get 365 days a year, 52 weeks, 24 hours in a day.
There is a difference though in time. There is quantity of time and there is quality of time.

According to Acts 3:19-21 there are two different periods of time. The one period of time is what is called chronos. The other period of time is called kairos.

Acts 3:19 Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times (kairos) of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;

According to Strong's 2540 kairos kahee-ros' is an occasion, set or proper time, opportunity, a convenient or due season, (due, short, while) time, a while. This is quality of time.

Ac 3:21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times (chronos) of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

According to Strong's 5550 chronos, khron'-os is a space of time (in general, and thus properly distinguished from 2540, which designates a fixed or special occasion.

We have 365 days in a year. This is length or quantity of time. This is the chronos that sets parameters for a given year. Within that year though there are individual days. The days that are designated as set or special days like anniversaries, birthdays, celebrations are quality of time or kairos.The same way it is in the natural so it is in the Kingdom.

We are in the dispensation of grace. From the work of Calvary until the end of the age there is access to the throne of grace to receive salvation. From the beginning until the end is length of time or quantity.Through repentance many individual though will have a quality moment.

The scripture says when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;
the word refreshing means properly, a recovery of breath, revival.

Just like a person who would drown in water so are people drowning in sin. Just like water has to be removed from the lungs to let oxygen in to save a life so must sin be removed to save a soul.
When we repent it removes what keeps us from breathing spiritually and allows the breath of God back into our lives. These moments of refreshing are literally little revivals happening on the inside of the individual.

There is a set period of time where the Lord is desiring to restore all things.
After He restores the soul He wants us to have many mini revivals on the inside of us.
The word restitution also means reconstitution which means to recompose or to return.
When we are reconstituted we are literally receiving the constitution of the Kingdom to become aligned with the Father and His Word. We receive the Government of the Kingdom and His Law becomes the rules we operate by.
We are coming back to a justified state of being to be in the same state of being as the Son of God.

How many of us know that humanity is in spiritual dehydration as is the Body of Christ. When we begin to repent the spiritual barriers that keep spiritual life away will be removed and new life will come.
We must cry out like never before so that spiritual deprivation will not be upon the land.

 Things to cry out for

• repentance
• times of refreshing
• restitution of all things

Will we allow the quality moments in, that we may enjoy the quantity of life we live?

In His Service,

Apostle Jesse

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