Discipline Of Waiting On The Lord (Daily Devotional)

Greetings and welcome to Living supernaturally. Thank you once again for giving us this opportunity to minister to you through God’s word. This week, we’ve been talking about godly discipline and today is the last day, we talk about the discipline of waiting on the Lord. Psalm chapter 27 and verse 14, ‘Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!’ Waiting is something that many of us don’t like to do. We’ve waited on the Lord for so many situations; for employment, for retirement, for a doctor’s appointment, in traffic, anticipating for a diagnosis from the doctor. Many times, our waiting has turned into a slow, prayerful waiting, a waiting upon the Lord. Waiting is hard work and too often we end up moving on and doing our own thing because we are so impatient or anxious that we end up taking matters into our own hands. When it comes to waiting on the Lord, we look at the example of Abraham and Sarah. God’s promise for them was to bear a child. God’s promise came to Abraham in the middle of his life. I am sure because of his age; Abraham must have thought it could happen this year or the next or in the next 3 years. Sarah had been barren as well but by the time we get into Genesis chapter 15, we find a very anxious and uncertain Abraham trying to sleep. He tossed and turned on his bed, probably trying to get his pillow right so that he could get into a comfortable position to sleep in, but those words that he wanted to hear was ‘I’m pregnant.’ It was his darkest and most worrisome hour and, in that time, Abraham received a vision from the Lord. In the vision, Abraham pleads with the Lord to let him know when will that promise of the offspring come to pass, it had been many years. His anxiety was thick and his fear still great but God still encourages him to wait. ‘Do not be afraid’, God told Abraham, ‘I am your shield and your reward will be great, you shall have an heir and your offspring shall be as many as the stars in the sky.’ Instead of seeing our waiting on the Lord as a journey, we think of having to wait on the Lord as if it is waiting for an appointment. We get frustrated, tired, we are tempted to take the next exit and turn back and go back home. Remember that waiting is not passive. The biblical sense is being pregnant with purposeful anticipation. When God encourages us to wait on the Lord, it is an active waiting. It is filled with hope, to expect the unexpected, at the least expected hour and to place our trust in God every step of the way. Maybe some of us have been waiting on the Lord, continue to wait for His promise will surely come through, for He is a faithful God. Let us pray, Father, we thank you for this word. Even as we wait on you, your word says that you will rise us up with wings like eagles, you will strengthen us, you will empower us and I pray that even as we go through those waiting seasons, we will not be passive but we will continue to do what you have called us to do knowing that you are walking with us, that you will bring it to pass in your own time. Help us to walk in this kind of faith, we commit each of our lives into your hands, in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

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