Is it a coincidence or is it God?

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How do you know if something's a coincidence or if it's God? There was once this royal official who had a really sick son. Fever, almost died. And he heard this man named Jesus who had turned water into wine in the same city was back and visiting. Now this man lived over 20 miles away, over a 7-hour walk from where his son was. But he was bold enough to beg Jesus to say, "Come, please help heal my son." But Jesus said, "Go, your son is healed." Royal official took him at his word and started to walk home. And the next day he's still walking home and he runs into one of his servants who is actually coming to find him and said, "Hey, your son is healed." This man freaks out and he's like, "When was he healed?" And they tell him, "About 1:00 in the afternoon." And this man realizes that is the exact same time that Jesus said his son was healed. So why is this specific detail noted in the Bible, recorded for everybody to see? Was it a coincidence? Was it God? For me, 10 years ago I was visiting a church 8 hours away and I made the decision to get baptized. And as I'm going to think, I get this feeling from God that tells me in my heart, "You're going to meet your wife here." When I got back home another word from God that told me, "Don't kiss anybody until your wife on your wedding day." Now I didn't want to do this because I'd never lived like that before. And after praying about it I got confirmation that I should. Now 6 months later my future wife would walk into the church. She would give her life to Christ. And 1 year later, almost to the week, my wife and I would kiss for the first time on our wedding day. Coincidence or was it God? How do you know the difference? Well in the Bible it has two different words for the word time, chronos and kairos. Chronos is used when it's talking about the chronological order of time. Kairos is a specific God-ordained moment. My pastor once said it this way, "Any chronos moment, normal moment in time, can be turned into a kairos moment, God moment, if you're willing to see God in every moment." The royal official got a word from God and held on to it. As I was getting baptized I got a word from God and held on to it. We didn't chase after it, we believed it and moved in faith in the next thing that God told us to do. For him, he was walking back to his son. For me, it was making the decision to not kiss until my wedding day. What is the next thing that God is asking you to be in obedient right now. And will you let it turn into a kairos moment? Let's give God credit in every moment. We love you, Lord. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. God bless you, friends.