Subscribers who receive the Destiny Word of the Day by e-mail will have noticed that yesterday’s DWOD was rather late in showing up in their inboxes.

The delay was due to a difficulty we experienced in sending it out on time through our autoresponder.

(An autoresponder is a program we use to send out the DWOD daily at a specified time to all who choose to subscribe to our mailing list).

Yours truly, not being the most tech-savvy blogger on the planet, had quite a time figuring out why the post was not sent out at the specified time.

After a while, it dawned on me that the clock on the autoresponder and the one on my laptop were not in sync. You see, we had crossed over into a different time zone when we left Montreal, Quebec on Friday and settled in at a hotel in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

The clock on my laptop had been automatically adjusted to reflect the new time zone, while that on the autoresponder lagged behind by an hour.

Once the clock on the laptop was synced to the autoresponder’s…no problem! The e-mail went through just fine.

This episode reinforced the significance of timing as a key factor in reaching our prophetic destiny.

At a wedding in Cana of Galilee, when Jesus tells his mother Mary that there was a shortage of wine, his answer to her is rather surprising and his seemingly abrupt mannerism rather shocking, especially when you read in The Message:

“Is that any of our business, Mother—yours or mine? This isn’t my time. Don’t push me.”

Yes, Jesus was perfectly capable of meeting the need, but He would not do it according to His mother’s timetable, but His Father’s…and He did.

Many years ago, a business mentor shared a conversation he had with one of his protégés. The young man assured Rex that he had done everything that had been counselled, yet he had not achieved the impressive results he had hoped for.

“Everything?”
“Yes, everything, Rex.”
“You’re sure you didn’t leave anything out?”
“Yes, absolutely sure, Rex.”

He turned to his protégé and said: “You know what, if you’ve done everything I’ve prescribed, there is only one explanation: God’s timing.”

Scripture says very clearly: “For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.” And again: “God makes everything happen at the right time.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 11).

When our clocks are not in sync with Heaven’s, we can expect delays. Conversely, when both clocks are synchronized, look out! You will accelerate into your destiny, as described in Amos 9:13–“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman and the planter by the one treading grapes.”

I pray that you will experience these blessings of synchronicity very soon.