We live in a world where the word “wait” or “waiting” carries a lot of negative connotations. The culture is so fast-paced that we consider delays to be (almost) a crime. We view delay as an enemy to our progress…..but, sometimes, God loves to communicate using a register of waiting. God promised Abraham a son when he was seventy-five years old. But God fulfilled His promise after twenty-five years. Abraham was a hundred years old when he had Isaac. The point here is that we cannot rush God. His ways are not our ways. There is a popular saying that God has three replies: Yes, No, and Wait!
So, how do we deal with times when God tells us to wait?
Abraham throughout the twenty-five years of waiting, after God had promised him a son, kept God’s promise in his heart. Although there were times he doubted, one thing was sure: He never let go of God’s promise.
“And God said Unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her. Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, shall a child be born into him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?” (Genesis 17:15-17).
We can see in these Bible above verses the moments of Abraham’s doubts but, lo, it was at that age God answered him. Are you expecting an answer concerning a situation from God? Are you waiting for God’s approval concerning a decision you want to make? While you wait, keep holding on to God’s promises for you. Sometimes, God allows us to wait in order to teach us lessons that will eventually mould us into what He wants us to be. It could be lessons about patience, kindness, or deep love for Him. God also uses our waiting period to build and sharpen our character. So while He asks us to wait, it is not because He does not want to give us what we asked for but because He wants us to build our capacity to be able to carry or manage it.
Also, Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” Therefore, God might tell us to wait because the time of the manifestation of that which we are asking for is not yet right. We just need to align ourselves to God’s desire. God is not incapable of doing what we ask of Him. God told Abraham in Genesis 18:10, ” I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.” In the 14th verse of the same chapter verse 14 says, we are told: “Is there any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.” This verse shows that God has specific times and seasons for the manifestation of our requests. We do not always have the answers to life’s questions and, sometimes, we do not know what decisions to make and actions to take. While you approach God concerning a situation and He tells you to wait, constantly remind Him of all His promises for you and do not allow doubt in your heart. Do not also doubt God’s love for you. ” Like as a father pitieth His children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him” (Psalm 103:13). Do not keep moving when God tells you to wait because others are moving. Every man’s walk with God is peculiar. Overall, waiting can be the most difficult thing to do but it would be worth it in the end. May God
Also, Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” Therefore, God might tell us to wait because the time of the manifestation of that which we are asking for is not yet right. We just need to align ourselves to God’s desire. God is not incapable of doing what we ask of Him. God told Abraham in Genesis 18:10, ” I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.” In the 14th verse of the same chapter verse 14 says, we are told: “Is there any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.” This verse shows that God has specific times and seasons for the manifestation of our requests. We do not always have the answers to life’s questions and, sometimes, we do not know what decisions to make and actions to take. While you approach God concerning a situation and He tells you to wait, constantly remind Him of all His promises for you and do not allow doubt in your heart. Do not also doubt God’s love for you. ” Like as a father pitieth His children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him” (Psalm 103:13). Do not keep moving when God tells you to wait because others are moving. Every man’s walk with God is peculiar. Overall, waiting can be the most difficult thing to do but it would be worth it in the end. May God
Also, Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” Therefore, God might tell us to wait because the time of the manifestation of that which we are asking for is not yet right. We just need to align ourselves to God’s desire. God is not incapable of doing what we ask of Him. God told Abraham in Genesis 18:10, ” I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.” In the 14th verse of the same chapter verse 14 says, we are told: “Is there any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.” This verse shows that God has specific times and seasons for the manifestation of our requests. We do not always have the answers to life’s questions and, sometimes, we do not know what decisions to make and actions to take. While you approach God concerning a situation and He tells you to wait, constantly remind Him of all His promises for you and do not allow doubt in your heart. Do not also doubt God’s love for you. ” Like as a father pitieth His children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him” (Psalm 103:13). Do not keep moving when God tells you to wait because others are moving. Every man’s walk with God is peculiar. Overall, waiting can be the most difficult thing to do but it would be worth it in the end. May God
Also, Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” Therefore, God might tell us to wait because the time of the manifestation of that which we are asking for is not yet right. We just need to align ourselves to God’s desire. God is not incapable of doing what we ask of Him. God told Abraham in Genesis 18:10, ” I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.” In the 14th verse of the same chapter verse 14 says, we are told: “Is there any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.” This verse shows that God has specific times and seasons for the manifestation of our requests. We do not always have the answers to life’s questions and, sometimes, we do not know what decisions to make and actions to take. While you approach God concerning a situation and He tells you to wait, constantly remind Him of all His promises for you and do not allow doubt in your heart. Do not also doubt God’s love for you. ” Like as a father pitieth His children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him” (Psalm 103:13). Do not keep moving when God tells you to wait because others are moving. Every man’s walk with God is peculiar. Overall, waiting can be the most difficult thing to do but it would be worth it in the end. May God
Also, Ecclesiastes 3:1 says, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” Therefore, God might tell us to wait because the time of the manifestation of that which we are asking for is not yet right. We just need to align ourselves to God’s desire. God is not incapable of doing what we ask of Him. God told Abraham in Genesis 18:10, ” I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.” In the 14th verse of the same chapter verse 14 says, we are told: “Is there any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.” This verse shows that God has specific times and seasons for the manifestation of our requests. We do not always have the answers to life’s questions and, sometimes, we do not know what decisions to make and actions to take. While you approach God concerning a situation and He tells you to wait, constantly remind Him of all His promises for you and do not allow doubt in your heart. Do not also doubt God’s love for you. ” Like as a father pitieth His children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him” (Psalm 103:13). Do not keep moving when God tells you to wait because others are moving. Every man’s walk with God is peculiar. Overall, waiting can be the most difficult thing to do but it would be worth it in the end. May God give us grace to wait even in the hardest of times.
Author: Temilade Oluwanifemi
