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The 9 Seasons of the Kingdom of God · Self-Assessment

A Reason for Your Season

The farmer doesn't try to pray winter into spring. He learns what season he is in and works with it. These 63 statements will help you discern which of the nine Kingdom seasons God has you in right now, so you can cooperate with what He is doing instead of fighting it.

All these men understood the signs of the times and knew the best course for Israel to take.1 Chronicles 12:32

RefinementRepentanceRevivalReformationRecalculateRevolutionReleaseRewardRepeat
Answer for right nowThink about the last three months, not your past or the season you hope for.
Answer what's true, not what's rightThere are no correct answers. Honest answers give you a clear reading.
Take it prayerfullyAsk the Holy Spirit to "watch the film" with you before you begin. It takes about 12 minutes.
Read the 9 seasons before you begin (2 min)

Natural seasons follow a fixed order. Kingdom seasons don't. We enter them through obedience or rebellion, faithfulness or doubt, and sometimes through someone else's choices. But they are never random. Every season has a reason, and the wise learn to discern it.

  1. Refinement: Divine Training
    God purifies your faith and character under pressure. It is training, not punishment.Model: Job · Job 23:10
  2. Repentance: Orphans No More
    God confronts specific sin and compromise so you can come home as a son or daughter instead of living as a spiritual orphan.Model: The Prodigal Son · Luke 15:21–22
  3. Revival: The Cost of Discipleship
    God awakens fresh hunger and reveals your assignment, and Jesus Himself becomes the reward.Model: Peter leaving his nets · Matthew 4:19–20
  4. Reformation: Make the Church Great Again
    God tears down man-made traditions and rebuilds your life on His Word. Revival is the fire; reformation is the structure that keeps it burning.Model: Josiah · 2 Kings 23:3
  5. Recalculate: Why Revival Tarries
    When your will has overruled God's direction, He reroutes you back to the ancient paths. The delay is mercy, not rejection.Model: Israel's 40 years on an 11-day journey · Ezekiel 33:17
  6. Revolution: Driven by Eternity
    God sends you to carry the Kingdom into the marketplace and the world, beyond the church walls.Model: Joseph, Daniel, and Esther · Acts 13:36
  7. Release: Divine Pruning
    God prunes relationships, roles, and communities that have finished their season so you can bear more fruit.Model: Paul and Barnabas (Acts 15:39) · John 15:2
  8. Reward: Surviving the Anointing
    God entrusts you with increase in money, power, and influence. In the Kingdom, power is the test, not the goal.Model: Joseph in Egypt · Matthew 20:26
  9. Repeat: Break the Cycle
    God calls you to do for others what was never done for you: to father and mother the next generation.Model: Paul and Timothy · 2 Timothy 2:2

These seasons are not fate. They are God's invitation: He guides them, and they respond to our repentance, intercession, and obedience.

Part 1 of 70 of 63 answered
1 = Not true of me now5 = Very true of me now
1My influence, income, platform, or responsibility has noticeably increased.
2I see my job, business, or school as a Kingdom assignment, not only a paycheck.
3A relationship, role, or community that once fit me now feels like it is ending.
4I am in a delay or detour I can trace back to decisions I made without seeking God.
5I have a hunger for prayer, worship, or the Word that I didn't have a few months ago.
6The Holy Spirit keeps bringing up a specific sin or compromise I have been excusing.
7God is challenging a belief or tradition I accepted without ever testing it against Scripture.
8I am facing pressure or loss that I can't trace back to a specific sin or bad decision.
9I am intentionally investing in someone younger in faith or in life.
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