Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, on the Lord. Psalms 27:14
When we wait for the Lord, He will give us clear direction, guide us, encourage us, protect us, heal us, comfort us, empower us, answer prayers and reveal his will for our lives! The way to achieve this is through rejoicing through worship and praise to our Lord and Savior!
If we learn to wait for God's timing and direction from God, we learn to grow as believers. We all have self will. We need to will ourselves to wait for him. If he answered every prayer before we asked and waited, then what need would we have to seek Him! Give God his perfect timing in all that we do, remember, he never forgets anything except our sins.
There is great courage in someone to face temptations without giving in to immediate gratification and waiting for God's perfect timing for us. Great character is built in those that wait for the Lord!
People always want to know why do I have to wait? God is having us wait because He is readying the circumstances (there is never a coincidence), He's purifying our motives (making sure we're not being lustful, greedy or in self-will), He's teaching us to trust him, He's protecting us from something we haven't seen in the natural and what an awesome testimony we have when we are patient and wait for the answers to our prayers! He wants to be praised for these and this is His way of making sure everyone knows He is really there and listening!
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God is always working in the background. He is orchestrating things just for us and always for our own good.
ReplyDeleteWaiting is hard! But when we are waiting on the creator of the universe to line things up in perfect alignment just for our own good...it is worth the wait every single time!