It has been a great week hasn't it? And I have had some brilliant ideas come to me in these last few days. I hope that yesterday I sparked you off a little bit to get some new ideas as well.

Okay I am assuming that you have had at least one good idea. Now the question is,

“Should you put that idea into practice right away or not?”

No not necessarily. If you put it into practice right away you might fail.

The Perfect Time

You see there is an appointed time for every good idea. How do I know that? Because the wisest man Solomon said this in Ecclesiastes 3:1:

Everything has an appointed time, and there is time to fulfill every desire under heaven.

I love that verse. I love especially the AMI translation, which is a whole lot better than the way that verse is normally quoted. If you are too hasty you could lose the opportunity that your idea will create.

Solomon told us something else in Proverbs 21:5. He said:

The ideas of the diligent result in prosperity, but those who are hasty end up in poverty.

You see there is a moment in time when an idea is released that will bring forth fruit and will bring forth success.

Now somebody made this statement a long time ago. It is actually quite a famous statement and I haven't a clue who said it. They said,

“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”

Whoever said that must have known this verse in Proverbs. It said that there is an appointed time; a specific time for every idea. And there is nothing more powerful in this world than an idea whose time has come.

Success or Failure

I would like to add my own touch to that. You know I don't mind quoting other people's ideas, but I like to change them and make my own quotations.

You see I like to be original, because I get revelation from my spirit and I get new ideas. So here is my version of this famous saying.

Success is an idea whose time has come. But failure is an idea whose time has not yet come.

You see all ideas are good ideas. In fact even the ideas that somebody else thought of are good. All ideas are good ideas because they are original. They are created out of spirit. But there is an appointed time for each and every one.

So if you rush in and you don't wait for the right time, it is not the idea that was bad. It is the timing that was wrong.

If you try and follow through an idea and the time is not right, that idea will fail. Though it may have been a brilliant idea, it will fail because it is not the right time for it.

Now here is the mistake we often make. We think,

“Life is short and I am running out of time. I am just not going to have enough time to fulfill all the ideas and brilliant plans that I have.”

Well you know Solomon told us something very different. Let me remind you again what he said in Ecclesiastes 3. He said:

There is time to fulfill every desire under heaven.

There is more than enough time to fulfill every desire and every plan that you will ever have.

So here are two very important qualities, revelations and brilliant ideas. Without these brilliant new ideas concerning business or ministry you will never succeed in either realm. In fact there is nothing in this life that is more powerful than ideas.

The other factor is timing. When these two come together they produce an explosion. They produce and release a mighty power.

That is what resulted in the original statement, that there is little as powerful in this world as an idea whose time has come.

That is why I said to you yesterday that when you get an idea you must write it down. Meditate on it and think about it. But don't get all impulsive and emotive and go out and try and conquer the world with your new idea. Wait until the time is right.

When the Time is Right

How are you going to know when the time is right?

Well you will get some extra revelation on that, but you just need to keep your eyes open. You see when it comes to business there is an exact time to release a product.

Somebody wrote a famous book on this called 'The Tipping Point'. The idea is that there comes a time in the market when the tipping takes place. The scales will swing in your favor and you need to recognize that time. You need to watch for it carefully.

To do that you must know what is going on round about you. You need to be very observant and know the signs of the times by looking at the market place.

You need to look at the economic and political situation in your country. Look at the state of the church, the people round about you and their needs.

You need to examine the whole set of circumstances that exist around you right now and make sure that your brilliant idea is going to work. Make sure that people out there are waiting anxiously for you to unleash on the world this great new project or plan that you have.

If you rush into it and you don't wait, you are going to come up with this brilliant idea that people are not ready for yet. Nobody will be interested in it. Your idea is ahead of its time and will fail. And if you try and do it a little later on, people will say,

“We tried that and it didn't work.”

Has that ever happened to you?

“Been there, done that.”

Do you know that expression?

You say, “We tried that but it didn't work.”

A Time for Revelation

In the early days of Apostolic Movement we tried many things and we had some wonderful ideas. We had the idea to beat all ideas. We were going to conquer the world for the Lord.

We had revelation of what God wanted to do in the Body of Christ and we just couldn't wait to share these brilliant ideas with the people out there. But most of them weren't ready for it, and sometimes God just told us to close it down. There is a right time for it.

In the book of Revelation John was told by the Lord,

“Seal up the books until the time. It is not time yet. “

There is a time for revelation. There is a time to take your ideas and reveal them to the world. But until then don't lose that idea. Write it down. Keep it in the back of your mind, on the back burner as we say.

It is a very good idea, but you must wait until the time is right. Then when you release that idea, launch that new product or open that new business and the time is right, success will come.

Because you see success comes when the time is right. Success is an idea whose time has come. If you can learn to wait for the time and release your ideas you will always succeed.

Why don't you go out and try that and write down some of your ideas this weekend. Discuss them and share them with people. As you begin to share things together you will get a lot more ideas.

Let those ideas come up. Write them down and think about them. Then do some research and look at the circumstances.

Say, “Okay the market is ready now for this idea. Let's launch it.”

Or, “No this is a brilliant idea, but there are not enough people interested in it. The time is not right. Let's just put it into abeyance; keep it on the back burner for a while. Later on it will be time.”

You will always have new ideas and there will always be time. Don't worry about it. Don't think that your idea is dead and will never happen.

Your idea will come to fruition and you will know that the time is right. Then you will step forward, and that is when people will say,

“Wow you seem to be an overnight success.”

But you got that idea 10 years ago already. It has been burning in you for that whole time, but now is the time for the manifestation.

While other people are trying to come up with new ideas, you have already thought it out, planned it out, and laid out everything that you need and you launch it. And you are instantly an overnight success.

I don't know about, you but that is the way I want to be.