By Christine Greyling
I want to share something with you that has been sitting with me from Psalm 81, a psalm that I believe has a word for many of us right now, no matter where you find yourself in life. Because here is what I know: the most critical thing you can do in any season of your life is seek God’s voice and actually listen to what He is saying.
Not what your friend thinks. Not what your pastor assumes. Not what logic and common sense are telling you. What is God saying to YOU, right now, in THIS season?
You Have to Know What Season You Are In
Before you can do anything else, you need to understand the season you are in. This sounds simple, but so many of us are applying yesterday’s instructions to today’s assignment and wondering why nothing is working.
God speaks to the season. His voice and His direction are not one-size-fits-all. What He called you to do last year, the way He led you to pray, the way He provided, the relationships He placed around you — all of that may look different now. And if you are still trying to run last season’s playbook in a brand new season, you are going to exhaust yourself.
The Heavy Seasons Are Doing Something
Some seasons are hard. And I don’t mean a little uncomfortable, I mean heavy. The kind of heavy where you wake up and the weight of it is already on your chest before your feet hit the floor. These are what I would call wilderness seasons, and if you are in one right now, I want you to hear this: the heaviness is not a sign that God has abandoned you. It is a sign that He is building something in you.
Think about it this way. When you lift heavy weights consistently, your body changes. Muscles form where there were none. Shape and strength develop that couldn’t have come any other way. The weight was the point. It was doing the work.
Wilderness seasons are the same. They are not punishments. They are not mistakes. They are formation. And the outcome, on the other side of it, is for your good — even when every single part of it feels like the opposite.
Manna in the Wilderness, Abundance in the Promise
Here is something that has brought me so much comfort in the hard seasons: in the wilderness, God fed Israel with manna. Every single morning, it appeared. They didn’t earn it. They didn’t grow it. God just provided it, supernaturally, faithfully, consistently and for forty years.
And then when they entered the Promised Land? The manna stopped. Because now there was grain and honey and abundance to eat from the land itself.
Two completely different seasons. Two completely different ways of being fed. But fed they were, in both.
That is the nature of God. You will not go without. In the wilderness seasons and in the promise seasons, He will take care of you. The provision may look completely different from one season to the next, but it will come. It always comes.
A Change of Season Demands a Change of Approach
This is where I see so many people stumble, and I include myself in this. When a new season arrives, we often don’t recognise it. We keep doing what we did before, praying the same way, moving in the same direction, using the same strategy and we can’t understand why we feel like we are running into walls.
A change of season means a change of approach. Full stop.
If you try and carry the methods of the previous season into a new one, it will break you. Not because God is harsh, but because what worked then was designed for then. The new season has new assignments, new grace, new direction, and you can only access that by going back to the Source and asking: God, what are you saying NOW?
Psalm 81:10: Open Your Mouth Wide
God says in Psalm 81:10: “Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.”
He is not saying open it a little. He is not saying be cautious and ask for just enough to get by. He is saying come to Me with an open, expectant, wide-open hunger, and I will fill you.
That is an invitation. In every season, whatever you are facing, God is saying: come to me hungry. Come to me needing direction. Come with your mouth open and your heart ready to receive whatever He has for this specific moment in your life.
Psalm 81:16: Honey from the Rock
And then there is Psalm 81:16: “But I would feed you with the finest of wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy.”
Honey from the rock. What an amazing image. Rocks are not where you expect sweetness to come from. Hard places, dry places, immovable places, and yet God says, I will bring something sweet out of that.
That wilderness season you are in right now? That impossible situation that feels like solid rock? He is not finished with it. He is not finished with you. He is capable of drawing something sweet and satisfying out of the hardest season of your life.
Hear and Obey, This Is the Key
The thread that runs through all of this is simple, and it is the same thing I find myself coming back to over and over again in my own walk with God: hear His voice, and obey it.
Not hear it and think about it. Not hear it and wait until it makes more sense. Hear it, and do it.
In whatever season you find yourself in right now, whether you are in the wilderness eating manna one day at a time, or whether you are just stepping into the abundance of a promise finally fulfilled — the instruction is the same. Seek His voice. Understand what He is saying for this season. Apply it. Obey it.
And He says something remarkable in return: you will be satisfied.
Not partially. Not sort of. Satisfied.
That is a promise worth holding on to.
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