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Kairos Moments 

Humanity is organized. It isn’t haphazard, or chaotic, it is ordered, planned and strategic, with purpose. 

‘Kairos’ is an Ancient Greek word which means the right, or opportune moment, or, the supreme moment. A Kairos moment can be described as a ‘moment for action or decision’. It is a moment when the future could go in drastically different directions. 

Yesterday we learned about Rahab grabbing a moment that came her way. She had the courage to make her outrageous request to the spies. She recognized the moment that came her way to be a moment that could take her future in a completely different direction. 

The difference between a significant moment, one that might ‘wow’ us, and a kairos moment, lies in the call to action. It is one thing to recognize a significant moment, but it is not a moment for change if it does not lead us to action. 

Acting on a Karios moment often necessitates taking a risk and, with it, facing fear. 

Altering the course of your life by acting on a moment that God has ordained is always going to be contested. The last thing the enemy wants is a generation of people to understand their calling and walk in their gifts with confidence and courage. He will do everything in his power to derail our destinies and bring doubt and confusion to our minds. 

Perhaps the most obvious example of a character in the Bible who exemplifies this is Esther. Esther knew the risk and threat to her people, but it was only when Mordechai says those famous words “Who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this” (Es 4:14) - that the moment turned from a significant moment, to a kairos moment, one that prompted her to ‘wake up’, and act. She acted on this moment, and she rose up above the fear and found courage. 

We are often given moments where we can choose to wrestle for more, like Jacob did in Genesis 32:22-32, or we can continue with life as it is, and not even notice that the moment has passed us by. Esther could have bypassed the three days of prayer and fasting, and gone immediately before the king. Instead she chose to press in and seek a miracle, through the humility of fasting and corporate prayer. She chose to step out into a battlefield - and prepared well in order to do so. 

So often we can spend time admiring the amazing heroes of our faith in their ‘finished’ or end, heroic state, that we forget that along the way they were just ordinary men and women, like us. They were humans like us; what set them apart was that they positioned themselves with the God of Israel and dared to ask for something more.