Isaiah 40:31
Waiting involves being patient, enduring, continuing to trust, service and being still.
Waiting is not always an easy thing, especially when it comes to waiting on God.
Perilous/difficult times will try your patience and test your endurance.
Waiting on God in life's journey will be required for every believer at different times and phases of the believers life.
Patience is an aspect of waiting.
To wait on God will require being patient with God and for God.
It requires being patient for God's direction, instruction, and signals.
Patience is necessary to avoid unnecessary mistakes in our lives and to make our faith work, for faith and patience work together.
Hebrews 6:12
Enduring is also a part of patience.
Endurance is necessary to go through the process successfully that God requires us to go through.
Endurance is necessary for making it to the end and receiving rewards from God.
Matthew 24:13
Waiting on God also implies trusting God.
It is to not take steps we wish to take until God instructs, it is to not do a thing until God gives the go ahead signal, and it is trusting that God will speak, inspire, and give solutions when there are other options outside of God you can choose.
Waiting also involves being still.
Psalm 46:10
It refers to looking to God the way young birds look up to their mothers to feed them.
Going into God's presence is a big aspect of waiting on God.
This is done in the place of prayer, worship, and meditation.
Trusting God is refusing to take a shortcut but being assured God will come through for you despite the storm.
To wait on God is to trust God.
Trusting God helps you to keep still before God.
It is clear difficult times have come upon the earth.
These are times students of the scriptures knew would come.
The challenge to wait on God is more needed than ever and there is no short cut around it.
A part of waiting upon God is to serve God.
Taking our place in God's kingdom, carrying out the duty God has assigned to us is a big part of waiting upon God.
Anyone you wait upon is someone you respect and serve.
What are the factors that help us wait upon God in perilous times?
At a time when there's pressure to be restless and impatient, what helps making the wait upon God possible?
In an age when people want speedy results and resent going through process, what encourages us to wait on God?
1) Good understanding- Proverbs 14:12, Proverbs 3:5-6
Life's intricacies and complexities will require you tapping into the supernatural understanding available in God. Divine understanding, good understanding available in God.
2) Study & Learn from history- history shows us human beings don't always know what's best for them.
What has been the outcome of people who refuse to wait on God?
Great examples to learn from can be found in the Holy scriptures. They are called the cloud of witnesses.
Hebrews 12:1
3) Understand the benefits of waiting on God- waiting on God becomes easier when you know the benefits of waiting on God.
Isaiah 40:31
4) Know that God has the answers you seek- waiting on the one who has your solutions, answers and rewards can never be a waste of time.
Matthew 28:18
Olutosin Ogunkolade, a Pastor, Teacher and spiritual blogger shares this message
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