In the Bible we read God wants us to wait for Him. Wait for an answer
to prayer, wait while He brings us through a trial, or wait for Him to show us
what His will is with regard to a decision we need to make. As humans, we like to
know exactly what is going on in our lives, and we want to do as much as we can to
be able to control as much of the future as possible. We want to be secure and
comfortable in our lives from day to day. We naturally hate change, insecurity and
uncertainty. Waiting on God incorporates all of these! Waiting on God means that
God might change the way we are used to doing things. Waiting on God means that He
might work out our lives to be totally dependent on Him, bringing us to a very
insecure point, humanly speaking. Waiting on God means being uncertain of what
happens in the future, because we are not busy chasing around with our normal
earnest attempts to keep our lives moving along the normal fixed and controlled
path. The question is, can God expect us to wait on Him in all areas of our lives?
What does it mean to wait on God? How do I cope in my situation of loneliness, of
confusion, of hurt, of anger, or whatever my situation might be? If I am down
spiritually, or feel far from God--when I have more questions than answers, can I
wait on God? This is surely the time I need instant answers. Where do I go for
strength and focus to implement this most difficult request . . . to wait on God?
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David, Moses, and John the Baptist - all waited, alone, for God to work through
their circumstances, to prepare them for a special task, and to develop a more
intimate relationship with God. Moses and John the Baptist spent time alone in the
wilderness, and David spent time alone out in the meadows, tending sheep. Each
person waiting on God to work in their lives in the way that He knew best.
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Are You Confronted With Waiting?
Are you trapped by a set of circumstances that you are desperate to get out of?
Have you tried everything in your power to find answers to your unique situation,
and just cannot find any? Do you feel totally helpless and out of control to the
point where your state of well being is effected? Have you been listless and
unmotivated, have you been feeling depressed and disillusioned while you have been
wrestling with the complexity of this mysterious maze? Well, along with so many
others, those in the Bible and those in life around you, God is calling you to
wait on Him. God's heart aches to get involved with your life and bring you the
clarity, the confidence, and the composure you long for. God's timing is not the
same as ours. God longs to give us answers and an outcome which is far superior to
the short term solutions which we might have come up with. God asks us to just
wait. Wait so that He can work slowly and thoroughly through the mess that has
come into our lives due to our ignorance and independence of Him. It will take a
period of time, a period that no-one can determine, for Him to bring us to where
we will find an undisturbed happiness, and to where we are able to save other
people trapped by their circumstances, with whom
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There are times when you can't understand why you cannot do what you want to do.
When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it
with busyness, just wait. The time of waiting may come to teach you the meaning of
sanctification--to be set apart from sin and made holy--or it may come after the
process of sanctification has begun to teach you what service means. Never run
before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is
not guiding. Whenever there is doubt--wait.
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Giving God Room to Work His Perfect Plan
Only when we are in a state of waiting, can God work His perfect plan in our
lives. waiting comes with an inseparable call to intimacy
and oneness with God, and when we agree to wait unconditionally for God, God has a
secure and steadfast foundation to work from as He gets more and more involved in
our lives. God is not bound by time. He might take many years to accomplish the
miraculous, magnificent purpose that He has planned for each of us, but If we are willing to be still and look to him and not give up, His will our heats desire will come to pass at his time when he knows we are ready for the assignment and we are now secure in him, That even in the hard places we will not fall, but call on the one that knows all.
