Identity Retreat Pt 3

This powerful message invites us to examine how God orchestrates our lives through divine timing and purposeful placement. Drawing from Psalm 16:5-6, we're reminded that the Lord is our portion—not just in eternal inheritance, but in the very neighborhoods we live in, the seasons we walk through, and the communities where we're planted. The sermon weaves together stories of biblical figures like Abraham, Moses, Paul, and Esther, showing how each was positioned at a specific time and place for kingdom purposes. What's particularly striking is the honest testimony about expecting God to change someone else, only to discover He was actually working a rescue mission in the speaker's own heart. This reminds us that our finite nature—being limited in time, place, and resources—isn't a weakness but God's loving design. We're called to steward well the specific season we're in, whether it's the hope of spring, the abundance of summer, the transition of fall, or the necessary dormancy of winter. Like an oak tree that maintains its identity through every season, our purpose doesn't change even when our capacity does. The urgency becomes clear through Acts 17: God has placed us exactly where we are so that those around us might seek Him and find Him. The question isn't whether we wish we were somewhere else—it's what God is doing right here, right now, in the places and among the people He's entrusted to us.