Waiting with God

From technology to food, everything today is geared around speed, making it very easy to get frustrated when things take too long. But God designed something very beautiful in the waiting. Waiting with God allows you to see more of who He is and who He created you to be.

God isn’t off doing other things and leaving you all alone without a plan. He has given you this day as a gift for you and Him to be together. Focus on His promise that He is with you, just like He was with David.

David's waiting reminds us that as you wait with God, He shifts your heart from fear to faith. No matter how overwhelming your circumstances seem, He goes before you to help you be victorious in your battles.

To an outsider, all Joseph’s life looked like was prison and abandonment, but to God it was something much different. Joseph stayed connected to God and let his heart be changed in the waiting. Eventually, the Lord saved many lives through his faithfulness.

Even though everyone and everything seemed stacked against Moses, his heart changed in the waiting. When you are in the middle of the long, confusing wait, don’t forget you are loved and God is right there with you, carrying you on to kingdom-changing purposes.

Abraham trusted in God to keep the promise that Abraham’s descendants would be more than the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Day after day. Week after week. Month after month. Year after year. His waiting kept his hope in the One who gave the promise. 

Waiting for things to change can be unnerving, but Job found a way to remain connected to God despite all the suffering he had to endure. Waiting softens our hearts to be willing to consider life from God’s perspective.

Noah chose to trust God, even though he had no idea of the outcome. Noah’s obedience in waiting becomes a forever blessing to those of us on this side of history. Whatever you are waiting with God for, believe that He only wants what’s best for you.

Like Daniel, as we wait with God, we will begin to see prayer as our spiritual arms holding us in a tight embrace with our Savior. God holds you as you wait for your prayers to be answered, and you are closer to Him in the waiting than you’ve ever been!

Jonah is a perfect example of how waiting with God in difficult situations makes things better. Waiting in the water and the whale, Jonah realizes that his life never left God’s hands. And when he obeys God's plan, he becomes a blessing.

Waiting with God helped Mary say no to her own desires and yes to everything God had planned for her life. Surrounded by unknowns, she never wavered in her faith in the one true King who had called her to a purpose both humble and glorious.

The greatest example of waiting with God is Jesus! He waited to come into this world and begin His ministry, then to give His life for us, rise from the dead, and ascend to heaven. He waits to return again, and He waits for us to see that waiting with Him is better than forging our own path.