(Understanding the Power of
Trusting in God and Manifesting the Virtues of Patience and Purity in waiting
times)
This year is gradually going to an
end; what a privilege to be alive! Thank God for your life and all yours. I
hear something like “WAIT” in my spirit and I want to share with you.
When the year began you had
positive and God-centred plans as well as divine promises made by God to you. For
some it is in the area of marriage, others it is their career, and yet others
it is ministry, and altogether the list is endless. You not only had the plans,
you prayed and you believed God, but now the year is ending and it seems
nothing is changing. If this is you, then the Lord is telling you to WAIT and
trust Him.
The salvation of the Lord is to
them that trust in Him and wait upon His promises. “It is good that a man should
both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD” (Lam. 3:26).
I charge you to have hope in God and look beyond the present condition of
things around. There is a bigger glory ahead: see with the eyes of faith: “For
I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18).
It is not possible to wait for God
and be ashamed in life “for they shall not be ashamed that wait for
me” (Isaiah 49:23c). You cannot be a “waiter” and be a loser! Yes, it
may appear you are behind and others have gone ahead. But your life is not built
on competition; you have a better covenant of manifestation (Romans 8:19).
What then does it mean to wait on
the Lord in the context of keeping hope alive in His word?
1)
It means to
stick to God whether or not things are working.
This is
called faith. It is believing and confessing that GOD IS REAL even when you
cannot explain situations around you.
It is not
turning attention from God to man, for: “If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall
I help thee?” (2 Kings 6:27). It is making His throne (prayers) your
first point of call in distress and hardship and not your phone.
2)
It means to
continue in prayers without ceasing and setting up an altar of thanksgiving in
your heart
It is
thanking God even when nothing has shown forth. It is lifting up (holy) hands
when life is down. Ephesians 5:20;
Colossians 3:17; 1 Thessalonians 5:17; John 16:24.
3)
It is
maintaining positivity even when it appears negative
It entails
not allowing your five senses to override your heart (which is of faith). It is
professing the positive when in the storm and calling the things that be not as
though they are (Romans 4:7).
4)
It is
maintain holiness and absolute integrity no matter the delay or frustration.
There is no
need to compromise and ‘attempt’ to help God. People will suggest to you
worldly and smart ways out of your situations, but you must follow the WORD and
not the world, for: “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly” (Psalm
1:1a).
Others will
mock you as if to say: “Dost thou still retain thine integrity?
curse God, and die” (Job 2:9). But you, like Job, must maintain purity
and hold on to God (Job 27:5-6).
5)
It is
focusing on Heaven and being rapture-ready
There are
people whose search and pursuit of happiness and greatness have taken them
miles away from Heaven. The hardship they faced sailed them away from spiritual
commitment and effective service. They have made money but have ‘lost God’ in
the process. They are now existing but not living because any life not lived in
God’s will does not count for eternity.
Beloved, that point where you get
to and sound it loud and clear to anyone who needs to hear (including the
devil) that what defines your life is not the abundance of resources and
materials but the presence of God; this is the point of genuine followership of
God. It is the point where you believe with no shadow of turning that no matter
the situation and irrespective of whatsoever delayed promises, GOD IS REAL!!!
And as you wait on the LORD, I
announce to you that God shall glorify and beautify your life. He will take you
beyond your imaginations (Ephesians 3:20). You
cannot look upward (waiting for Him) and end up backward in destiny and
eternity, for: “they that wait upon
the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint” (Isaiah
40:31). God shall give you a reason to be joyful this season in Jesus’
name!
(TreasuredHouse International
Ministries, www.treasuredhouse.org)
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