Have you ever struggled with a word some people consider common place in conversations to explain their situation? I have never liked nor agree with the word delayed when it pertains to God. The reason being is because God lives outside of time, but enters into time at just the right time. I do not believe anything has the ability or power to delay what God wants to do in us, through us or with us.

Delay gives power to something other than God and I just always struggled with that word as it pertained to something not happening in our idea of timing. Today, the Lord gave me the word I have been searching for to counter this so easily spoken word called delay. The word is dormant or dormancy.

Dormancy is the state of rest or suspended activity in which a living organism temporarily slows down its growth and metabolism to survive unfavorable conditions. Its natures pause button. A seed might look dead but it is alive on the inside, just inactive. Only when the right conditions appear does the seed “wake up”, sprout or begin to grow. Dormancy is not death, it is strategic waiting. It’s a season of preperation, pruning, unseen development before a time time of fruitfulness. (ChatGPT)

I was reading John 12 and this verse opened up understanding which brought liberation. “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” The seed was never dead, it was not delayed, it was dormant. Fully alive, just strategically awaiting the right conditions for maximum fruitfulness.

Many of us are seeds that are not dead, we have not been delayed, we are dormant by design. The conditions have not been right, but the preperation, pruning and development has been happening. The conditions are calling for the dormant seeds and when it begins to rain, those seeds which have been lying dormant will suddenly sprout overnight. It was not delay, it was dormancy by design.