Time To Prove

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You're listening to the My Morning Devotional podcast, episode 1212. Today's Devo is called Time to Prove. Hey there. We're the Alessies, a ministry family working together in our church in Miami, Florida.

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And if you're like us, when days get busy and to do lists get longer, it can be hard to find devotional time. That's why we've partnered with our friend Allison to produce a five minute daily dose of heaven. This is the My Morning Devotional podcast.

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Well, welcome back, everybody. This is Gabby, your host for the week. And yesterday I tried my best to explain the story as, as quickly as I could. Obviously there's so many layers to it and there's a lot that happened. If you have not heard, I am engaged and it's been super exciting. And my fiance and I, Christian, we have been dating for the past year and a half. And so it's been really fun to share this story and the engagement story with everybody and finally be open and with that, you know, I know a lot of people, they commented or they texted me or even at church on Sunday. It was funny. Even in our own church, they came to me and they're like, we didn't even know you were dating. And so I have a lot of people questioning or just wondering they're curious about, you know, why do we keep that covered? Why is it something that in our relationship we don't share? Why didn't I post about it? Why didn't I tell a lot of people? And so I felt like this could be a good time to talk about it on the podcast because, you know, a lot of people can see it as private and they see it as we're keeping something hidden. When I see it as we're keeping something protected and we're keeping something covered.

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And I see it as, you know, when you're making bread and you're making the dough of, of bread, when you put like yeast in the bread and you put all like the first ingredients, One of the first steps to do when you're making this dough is to let it rise.

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And in order for it to rise, you have to cover it and put it in a either dark room or in a room temperature room in order for it to prove.

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Now the proving stage is to see if the ingredients in the bread, what you just put together and then the elements in the room and covering it. You need to see if the bread is able to rise on its own. You need to see if the bread has what it takes to go through the proving Process, the rising process. And if it rises, then you can continue to make it bread.

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It's not really bread yet. It's still just dough. It's not at the finished product yet. You can't put just yeast, water, flour into the oven just yet. It has to prove itself through that time in order for it to become a beautiful loaf of bread that we can enjoy and just carb up on.

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And what that or what that takes is a covering process, a proving process. And that especially if you're a baker and you've made bread a lot, there are certain parts of the environment and the element that. That that dough is in. There are things in the air that the dough is not prepared for. The dough cannot receive yet. So it needs to be covered. And so the same is true when it comes to how we saw our dating relationship.

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You know, we started dating October 2023, and we fell hard instantly. We fell in love with each other really quickly. It didn't take long for us to. To know we were it for each other. We've known each other our whole lives. We have a picture of us as babies. We were four years old and it was like his fourth year or his four, his fourth birthday party, excuse me. And we were together in that photo. So we've known each other a long time, but we didn't really know one another in that way. We've known of each other, but we didn't really know each other. And so Christian and I had to take time covered with the right people knowing. Our parents, our pastors, our leaders, you know, the right people knowing. But we had to take a season where we were covered in order to prove ourselves and in order for us to see if our relationship and our dynamic and just the two of us alone without the. The. I think you could say the limelight or. I don't even want to say that, but like the leadership and the authority that we have in our church or even the following that we might have on. On social media, even with this devotional. We wanted to see if we were able to prove ourselves without all of those things. And we were able to sustain and actually become something and rise as a couple and rise to the occasion without having the stage and the attention and everybody looking at us. And so that's why we felt like we needed to be covered and we needed to cover our relationship in that season. And it reminds me of this verse in ecclesiastes. It's

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1, and it says there is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens. And it continues and it talks about there's a season for. There's a time for mourning, there's a time for dancing. And I do believe there's a time to. To reveal something, and then there's a time to cover something. And so the last year and a half was the time that Christian and I covered something and we developed our relationship with just our family and our friends.

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But now we're at the season, and this is the time that we can show people and we can now come out of that covering and. And share with everybody and celebrate what God has done in our relationship. And so we're super excited about it. But if it wasn't for that proving time, man, we wouldn't be ready for the oven. We wouldn't be ready for. For maybe the opinions of others. We wouldn't be ready for what God is calling us to. We needed that time alone. And so that's something that we did and we value and I. I even encourage people to do, especially because living your relationship on social media can be so intense and there's so many different voices and there's just a high expectation on social media. It could just be a lot. But when you use that time to say, let's develop a relationship between the two of us and, and with those who it concerns, you know, I don't believe in. In hiding something.

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I just believe in covering it in a good way, then you'll see if that relationship proves itself, if it rises or not. And praise God, it rose to the occasion. And now we're going to be getting married in October, and we're super excited about it. So let this encourage you.

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Today, there's a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.

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As Ecclesiastes says, there's a time to share the good news, and there's a time to just hold the good news and wait for that season. And I'm. I'm grateful that now I can be open. Even on the podcast, it's been so hard to not say anything. I've been like, I'm going through a season using very vague terms. But now it feels good that this is the time that we can share this news and share this information with everybody and just share this excitement. So I gotta go. We gotta end this episode because I'm taking what too long? Father, we just thank you for today. I thank you for the season of proving. I thank you for the time to prove that all of us will enter into whether it's a relationship God whether it's a job, whether it's a new opportunity, a new door, whatever it is Father, there is a time for everything. There is a season for every activity under the heavens and I thank you for that God. I thank you that you use time for our advantage and even though we might not see it Father, you are using using time to bless us. You are using time to open doors and we receive that blessing today so we thank you for it all. In Jesus name I pray amen and amen. So there you have it your 5 minute daily dose of heaven. Thank you so much for tuning in today. We pray these devotionals empower you to take on your day. If you found value in this devotional, share it with a friend, leave a comment or review for us on the app you're using right now right now until tomorrow. We pray that your latte is strong but your love for Jesus is stronger.