His Appointed Time

Written By Kara Palmer
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“As everything around you continues to change, people come and go, you are hurt or let down, there is a constant. You can ground yourself into the constant. His word. His presence. His promises..

Open your heart to the only one that can provide peace in difficult times. Jesus has an appointed time for you, love. Hold on. Eyes to the King.”

- Kara Palmer

I haven’t done this in awhile, writing for Walking Gospel. I have been in a really hard season that has me processing, protecting and planning. It is bitter and sweet. Kind of like the feeling I will get when I put my Christmas decorations up (yes, they are still up. I am out of town and you know what, they’ll be there when I get home).

The changing of seasons is bitter and sweet. I will put the Christmas decorations up with a tinge of sadness as I say goodbye to the joy contained in each ornament and seasonal accoutrement but sweet as the excitement of a new year fills my heart space. 

With the changing of seasons, I continue to hold onto God’s promises. I believe in a God that is true to his word, that is good and just and merciful, no matter how many seasons have come and go where my landscape has been dark and difficult.

His word tells us, “At the appointed time” (Genesis)” or “at his appointed season” (Titus) or “he set a definite time”(Exodus) or “as the time of the promise approaches” (Acts) or “yet for the appointed time” (Habbakkuk).

I hold onto nothing but hope in these words.

I believe in his appointed time. I believe in his promise.

So I cling and hold to his word.

The seasons come and go. But the word of God is everlasting and his character is the one constant I can hold onto that will not disappoint me. 

Can I encourage you?

 Whatever you are going through. 

This is such a simple encouragement but so easy to let slip from our mind, heart and fingers. As everything around you continues to change, people come and go, you are hurt or let down, there is a constant. You can ground yourself into the constant. His word. His presence. His promises.

Open your heart to the only one that can provide peace in difficult times. Jesus has an appointed time for you, love. Hold on. Eyes to the King.


Kara Palmer

Kara Palmer is a founding writer for Walking Gospel Inspiration. After sharing her testimonies at a yoga retreat, one of the group leaders spoke the name “Walking Gospel” over her. This happened repeatedly as she shared stories of God’s redemptive work in her life though significant trauma and hardship. Kara loved the nickname she had been given, returned home and created an instagram account which she called “walkinggospelyoga” to document her love of yoga and Jesus.

Over the years, God revealed a movement centered around the Walking Gospel concept which Kara eventually turned into her corporation. “The path of creating Walking Gospel has been one of greatest joys and significant hardships,” she shares. “Some of the people closest to me have been tools of the enemy as they claimed I was no Walking Gospel and would not accomplish the vision I had been given. But when you have been given something to birth into the world, it must be born, regardless of the skeptics or those trying to hold you back.”

Kara is eager to inspire people in their journey of finding Jesus, deepening their relationship with Christ, enduring seasons of great trial, celebrating the goodness of God and encouraging others in their obedience and faith walk. She says, “Your relationship with God is personal. It is intimate. It is the greatest comfort and hope we have in the world. I cannot imagine going through this last decade of my life without Jesus. I look forward to sharing testimonies of desperation, redemption and revelation as I strive to walk this gospel into the world.”

Kara will begin Fuller Theological Seminary in 2021 where she will obtain her Master’s in Divinity. She is on the coaching team with Coach Micheal Burt, owns the Yoga Hive Studio, and resides in Daphne, Alabama with her children, Shiloh Rose (3) and Noah (8).

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