Due Season
Pastors Rodney & Adonica Howard-BrownePublish date: 04/13/2025
Foundation Scriptures:
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land. 7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. 8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword. 9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you. 10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new. Leviticus 26:3-10 KJV
1. Rain in Due Season.
a. The Lord promised to give us rain in due season, causing the land to yield its increase and the trees to yield their fruit (Lev. 26:4).
b. “Due season” means the right season, the proper, appropriate, or appointed season, or the usual time.
c. It could be used to denote a certain time, or a particular time or season.
d. It could be used to mean right now.
e. Or it could mean continually, repeatedly, or always.
f. Deuteronomy 11:14-15 AMPC –– I will give the rain for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil. 15 And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, that you may eat and be full.
g. It is not just rain that the Lord sends in its due or appointed season, but anything else He has promised.
2. Provision in Due Season.
a. Psalms 104:27-28 AMPC –– These all wait and are dependent upon You, that You may give them their food in due season. 28 When You give it to them, they gather it up; You open Your hand, and they are filled with good things.
b. Every creature on earth is dependent on Almighty God—our Creator—for their life, breath and food.
c. Psalms 145:15-16 AMPC –– The eyes of all wait for You [looking, watching, and expecting] and You give them their food in due season. 16 You open Your hand and satisfy every living thing with favor.
d. They wait expectantly for Him to give them their food in due season.
e. He opens His hand—generously—and fills us with good things and satisfies us with favor.
f. Matthew 6:25-26 NKJV –– Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
g. If our Heavenly Father watches over and provides for even the littlest birds, will He not watch over you, provide for you, and give you everything you need at the time you need it?
3. Appointed Seasons to Bring to God.
a. The Lord promises to bless us in due season and people are very happy about that.
b. But let us not forget to bless Him in return, in due season, as well.
c. Deuteronomy 16:16-17 AMPC –– Three times a year shall all your males appear before the Lord your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths. They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed: 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you.
d. The feasts, where the people brought God their tithes and offerings, coincided with their harvest times.
e. In the same way, when we receive our income, we are to bring our tithes and offerings to the Lord in due season—promptly and without delay.
f. We do not have to wait for a particular season of the year to give, we can give anytime.
g. We can give daily and be a blessing daily.
4. Due Season to Sow and Reap.
a. Galatians 6:9-10 AMPC –– And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint. 10 So then, as occasion and opportunity open up to us, let us do good [morally] to all people [not only being useful or profitable to them, but also doing what is for their spiritual good and advantage]. Be mindful to be a blessing, especially to those of the household of faith [those who belong to God’s family with you, the believers].
b. Do not get discouraged, do not lose heart and give up; continue giving and being a blessing.
c. Just as there is an appointed time for a woman to bring forth her child, so there is a due season for your harvest to come forth (Gen. 18:14; 2 Ki. 4:16-17).
d. Our promise from the Lord is that in due time, and at the appointed season, we shall reap our abundant harvest.