I have been listening to this really great series on what it means to wait on God. I am sure much like the rest of you, waiting on God seems like a constant saying that comes flying out of our mouths. Much to my understanding until now, I felt waiting on God was just a task one must walk through. It seemed frustrating and tiresome.
What I have learned this last week, has changed my entire perspective on the "waiting room" so to speak.
but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. IS 40:31
Wait on the LORD; be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the LORD. Psalm 27:14
I have always found it interesting that the word wait and renew were in the same scripture. It never really seemed easy to wait on the Lord and often felt like a dead end rather than a renewing. I have realized that often times as Christians we can use the term "waiting on the Lord" as an excuse not to get out of the boat. Often we are waiting on the Lord, which also can be translated as trusting, hoping, believing for things yet to come and miss that it is already right in front of us.
Example... I am praying for the Lord to give me more joy. Here's the light bulb goes on moment. You can't pray for the Lord to give you more of what he has already given us. He has given us everything when he put His son on a cross for us. Through that single act, he gave us access to life abundantly. So rather than praying for more joy, I need to exercise my faith (believing & speaking) and increase this fruit in my life.
See I would be paralyzed if I just prayed and prayed and expected the Lord to change my emotions rather than me tapping into the power, He has already placed in us guiding us with the Holy Spirit. Praise is our passport to all things unleashed in our faith. When I am praising, how can I be joyless, depressed, focused on the earthly rather than the heavenly.
All hell breaks loose when we open our mouths and give thanks. We can do it with affirmation, encouragement, through music etc... Praise is the gateway to getting out of the cycle of waiting on God to change this. When we begin to give thanks and put faith into action our waiting becomes, renewing and we mount up and soar.
We need to change our waiting room into a work room. Getting busy doing what the Lord has called us to and while we are waiting, trusting, believing in the areas that we haven't see the fruit, the burden becomes light and our focus shifts to the eternal.
Life Changing for me this study has been and I encourage you to challenge your believing and speaking to match up to what the word has said and sealed in our lives.
Hugs
Trish
