“Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. He calls us to wait patiently on Him while He prepares us for the next step. God uses times of waiting to allow us to demonstrate our obedience and faith. Waiting can bring out our impatience, worry, discouragement, and lack of trust in God.
Rather than taking matters into our hands, we should wait patiently for God to answer. Throughout the Bible, you see countless examples of God’s faithfulness and love displayed for those who believe in Him.
“And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:19. You can read about God’s faithfulness, here. He makes everything happen that He has set out to do.
God views waiting as a good thing because He is preparing us for what is on the other side. Waiting periods are used to show God’s faithfulness. The Importance of Waiting on God’s Timing Before God makes His out of this world move, we are called to wait on God’s timing. My God will hear me.” Micah 7:7.īut God doesn’t make you wait out of spite but in His purpose for all things. “But I will look to the Lord I will wait for the God of my salvation. The anticipation makes me want to scream “Tell Me!” Tell Me Now!” If you are at all like me, I HATE waiting. We push forward, move forward, and often forget God exists along the way. Our natural tendencies are to rebel against waiting and find other ways to get what we want. We deserve everything we could ever want. The world tells us everything that we could ever want is at our fingertips. As time moves on, so do you, wondering if God will ever answer. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.Have you ever been praying and waiting on God’s timing for a situation that is out of your control? You have prayed and waited for on God to answer for what seems like an eternity, yet you still don’t have an answer. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Our youth leader intern, Duncan Kusant, will deliver the message and Craig Wasner will be leading us in song. Lent begins this Wednesday and we will have an Ash Wednesday worship service at 7:00 pm, March 2. Speaking of timing, it’s that time of year. So I will not worry, and just trust in God’s timing. But I think the One who holds all of time in His hands has a better idea of when things should happen than we do. We are so sure that our timing is the correct timing. It’s never easy when things don’t go according to our plans. One time I even wrote a song with that title. I know that I am often thanking the Lord (after the fact) that my prayers were answered according to God’s time, not mine. Think of all the times in your life when you had plans but found God’s schedule was a little different. God is good.īut God doesn’t operate according to our schedules. People have been very generous and we have maintained our budget, given thousands to missions, and paid down our mortgage at an accelerated rate. We have started several new efforts and plan on starting several more in 2022. We have brought back most of the ministries that were affected by COVID and many of them are bigger and better than before the pandemic. Just a little preview of that meeting: The state of the church is very strong. So we are going to try again and have rescheduled our state of the church address for Tuesday, March 22, at 7:00 pm. In January I was sick and last week we had the snowstorm. God laughs.” I don’t know if God was laughing last Tuesday but for the second time we had to postpone our annual church conference meeting. There is an old expression, “People plan.
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