Wait for the Lord’s help. Be strong and brave, and wait for the Lord’s help. Psalm 27:14 NCV “Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.” ―Elisabeth Elliot My grandfather used to say that waiting on…
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Winter waiting is hard. (I know.) But it develops all of these: – above all, patience – then, composure – and, of course, endurance – steadiness – stability – trust. All aspects of waiting. Which ones do you think you can do without? Patience? (…hardly.) How about composure? (Have you ever seen a chicken without…
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I was told that my grandfather used to say, “The most difficult thing in his Christian life was waiting for God.” Can I hear an amen? Waiting is not my best thing. I’ve said this before but it bears repeating. Waiting for stuff in our instant I-can-have-it-now society is a real struggle for me. Waiting…
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How long will you forget me, Lord? Forever? How long will you look the other way when I am in need? Psalm 13:1 “I spoke of an Army on the point of entering an enemy’s territories. Answering the question as to the cause of delay: ‘Waiting for supplies.’ The answer might also have been: ‘Waiting…
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When God calls us to something, especially to something with great import, it is not unusual to be many years in His School of Preparation. I remember when I was young in my faith. I believed that all I needed to do was pray a sincere prayer and then step back and watch God bring it to…
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You rule the oceans when their waves arise in fearful storms; You speak and they lie still. Psalm 89:9 Mother Teresa said, “In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you… souls of prayer are souls of great silence.” ~~~ God speaks in…
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We all have those desperate days when we have prayed, and anxiously waited, but no answer comes. In fact, the silence of God seems stone deafening! We wait, we hope, we pray some more, but there is only silence—and that only increases our desperation. We know God knows our predicament, we know God sees, yet His silence seems…
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I believe that perhaps the most difficult days in our waiting are those days when it seems as though God has disappeared. Perhaps we once felt Him to be close to us, saw His hand move in our lives—but now? Now we look for Him, listen for His Voice, and it seems as though He is not…
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TRANSFORMATION: A thorough and dramatic change in form or appearance. a metamorphosis during the life cycle the induced or spontaneous change of one element into another by a nuclear process ~~~~~~~~ C.S. Lewis left his childhood Christian faith to spend years as a determined atheist. After finally admitting God existed, Lewis gave in and knelt…
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Waiting is HARD to do. There it is plain and simple. But for the one who is treading water in the dark waiting for the break of day? It goes beyond hard. It is excruciating! No one knew that better than the psalmist who wrote, Help, God—the bottom has fallen out of my life! …I…
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