18 September2011
Waiting on God is the special process through which the Lord turns our eyes to Him for help in times of need. It is process with a crucial step in which our dependence is only on God.Our faith has been tested here to get an answer to our prayer. Waiting actually gives an assess to submit ourselves to God, with the belief in His Authority. Our life has been brought under God's umbrella of authority and direction. Do not run ahead of God, we will be corrected ,sometimes it ends up in total confusion, exhaustion, and failure.
What do we learn while we are waiting?
We can learn the
- Power of God,
- His perfections,
- His flawless ability,
- He is omnipresent and omnipotent,
- His authentications and assurances ,
- His grace, unfailing mercy and
- His abundant love.
How Do We Wait?
- Prayerfully – ‘Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long’. Psalm 25:4-5
- With strength and courage –‘Wait for theLORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD’. Psalm 27:14,
- Rejoicing and trusting in His holy name – ‘In him our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name’. Psalm 33:21
- With fear of the Lord and His unfailing love- ‘But the eyes of the LORD are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love, ……… May your unfailing love be with us, LORD, even as we put our hope in you’. Psalm 33:18,22
- With hope - ‘We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield’. Psalm 33:20,
- Patiently ‘Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; Psalm 37:7,
- Obediently- ‘I wait for your salvation, LORD, and I follow you commands’. Psalm 119:166;
- Desiring Him – ‘Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts’. Isaiah 26:8-9
- Single-mindedly – ‘Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him’. Psalm 62:5
- Expectantly - ‘Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, So our eyes look to the LORD our God, Until He has mercy on us’. Psalm 123:2,
- ‘….., I watch in hope for the LORD, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me’. Micah 7:7
- Believing His Word- ‘I wait for the LORD, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope’. Psalm 130:5
- Always – ‘But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and wait for your God always’. Hosea 12:6
- Eagerly - For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. Romans 8:19
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GOD BLESS
