This post is all about how to wait on God.
“Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!” Psalms 27:14 NKJV
Waiting on God is one of the hardest things to do as a Christian. Many times, we want to rush our plans and get them accomplished early. We have personal deadlines we want to meet by a certain age or stage of life, and we get frustrated when we don’t see much progress happening, if any at all. These goals can include our future spouses, potential careers, having children, or healing from a health crisis.
If you find yourself struggling to wait on God today, take heart. God loves you and is not making you wait for no reason. He has a plan for your life, just like he has a plan for everything in life. He is the God of details, and if nature and the stars and the earth is so precise and complex, God will be even more attentive with you, his prize creation. (Luke 12:28)
Here are the four best tips of how to wait on God and sticking it through until the promised land.
How to Wait on God
1. Trust is Blind
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;” Proverbs 3:5 NKJV
When we become a Christian, we completely surrender our lives to Jesus. Every. Single. Part. We surrender our past, present, and future into His hands so He can do as He pleases with our lives. This means that if something goes wrong, or something is taking longer than we wanted it to, we must know that God allowed it to happen. When we give God our everything, we must allow him full control to do what he needs to do to make it good. God makes everything perfect, beautiful, and good in his own time. Once we realize what being a Christian truly means (Our lives no longer belong to ourselves, but fully to God), we will understand that God is in the driver seat and where he leads, we must follow.
Why? Because God knows and sees everything. He knows what is best for you more than you know yourself! God requires our full surrender because he cannot work the full perfection in our life with only full access to certain parts of it. We must give him total control in all decisions, all choices, all paths.
Secondly, we must trust that God is who he says he is. If God tells you in his word, “I will be with you, I will never leave you, I will provide for you, I will protect you, I will supply all your needs if you put me first”, we have to trust him.
Even though it looks like there is no hope for your situation right now, we have to rely on his Word. It is only when we have complete faith, that Jesus will deliver us. Remember, before Jesus healed many people, he would always ask them, “Do you believe that I can do this?” This is important because faith can either stop our blessing or push it forward.
2. Look at his Proven Work
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,” Hebrews 12:1 NKJV
God has a track record of always coming through. It may not be when we want it, or how we want it, but it always happens according to his greater purpose and for our greater good. Take a look at your life. Has God ever let you down before? You may be thinking, “Well, sometimes things don’t work out the way I planned it.” But it always works out how God designed it if He has your full trust and surrender. We may not see everything now but recognize that this is just part 1 (and a very small part) to our whole story. There is a life after this! God sees far into the future and he does what needs to be done for your perfection in Him.
Look around to the men and women of God in your life. I am one hundred percent sure they have life-changing testimonies of God coming through for them. They may recall a time they had to wait on God but will tell you that they are so happy they did because God gave them something better than they originally wanted!
For further and stronger testimonies, look to his Word. The Bible has countless of examples of how God has taken care of his people time and time again. Abraham had to wait 25 years. Noah waited 120 years. Joseph waited 13 years. And yet, God came through for them.
3. Know He wastes nothing
“But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” I Corinthians 2:9 NKJV
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28 NKJV
A key thing to remember during your waiting period is that God wastes nothing. You may ask the question, “But why does God make us wait?” Everything you are going through is for a reason. Sometimes its hard to understand or believe this during a very dark time. If a family member died, if your health is struggling, or if you just lost your job, it may be extremely challenging to truly believe that any good could come from this. This is where I circle back to point #1: blind trust. God is God. We are not. Sometimes he allows certain things to happen because he wants to change us, grow us, lead us. Sometimes it is so we can help others based on the experience we have just gone through.
Take Job as an example of blind faith and perseverance. Job lost all of his children, all of his wealth, and his health started to suffer. However, in all of this, Job remained faithful. He didn’t quite understand what God was doing but God reminded him that He is in control. In the end, Job was restored twice as much as he had before! And Job lived a long and happy life. Sometimes its hard to see why we are going through so much pain, but we must understand that God uses everything in our lives for a purpose, as long as we love him and choose him as our King.
We are not like others that are living in this world; we are children of the Most High God. We have purpose, we have a calling, we are chosen. When we look at our lives through the lens of a greater mission, we can trust that even the delay of blessing/healing/deliverance is for a better cause we could ever imagine.
4. Patience builds character
“My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” James 1:2-4 NKJV
God is building our character for his kingdom. During our waiting season, He is creating us, molding us, preparing us for what is already prepared for us. Sometimes if we get the blessing immediately, we will not be able to handle it. This waiting season builds us into the man and woman of God that we need to be in order to receive the awaited promise and be able to maintain it.
Many people rush into things, and they become unstable and eventually lose the blessing or gift. Many cheat their way to success and are found in worser states than they were before. Be patient! Pray, work hard, and God will do the rest. (Psalms 37:5)
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