We need to learn how to wait on God, God does things in His timing not ours, we need to learn to wait with patience and a good attitude, everybody waits.
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Joyce Meyer, one of the world’s leading practical Bible teachers and New York Times best-selling author, shares encouragement and advice to help us enjoy our daily lives.
With a heart to share Christ and love people, Joyce’s messages help people in all walks of life to grow in their faith, learn to study the Bible, find healing from the wounds of life, get answers to life’s questions and encounter the love of God in a powerful way.
we need to live in
what the bible calls the rest of god
it’s a special kind of rest that you can
have
even in the midst of the storms of life
everything doesn’t have to be perfect
you don’t have to know everything
you don’t have to have everything
figured out you replace all that
with trust that god is good
that he knows what he’s doing and that
he will do the best thing for you at
the right time
i want you to get that
matter of fact we should say if you say
god will do the best thing for me
at the right time
and i know we’re in a hurry and god’s
not
but being frustrated about how long you
have to wait will not
get god to hurry
god gives us dreams and visions or i
just put
hope he gives us hope for change
we want to change we want to see our
loved ones change we want to see the
world change we want our finances to
change
there’s always something that we want
to change and god is in the business
of changing things but he never tells us
when and it’s frustrating of course when
you have
something real big in your heart it
seems to you like it should happen right
away at least that’s the way it seems to
me
and it rarely ever does happen right
away
because to be honest whatever it is
we’re wanting god to do
in our life usually we have to go
through some kind of a preparation
period in order for that to happen
and we don’t get to skip over those
steps
and waiting doesn’t have to be a time of
misery
if we trust god that he will do things
not on our timing
but in his timing and at the right time
and might i add
just because you feel like you’re ready
in no way means that you are ready
and another thing i want to mention is
when you’re praying for other people
god can’t override their will
just to answer your prayer
because everybody has a free will
so when you pray for somebody else
you’ve got to give god
time to deal with them and the best
thing to do is just be a good example to
them while you’re in the process
of waiting and obviously when we pray
for somebody else there’s no 100
percent guarantee that they’re going to
give in to god but one thing’s for sure
if nobody prays for them god will never
even have an opening to work in their
life
and sometimes you just have to keep that
in mind that when you pray
it gives god an opening to work on them
my husband always has said several times
when you start praying for somebody
they’re going to act worse before they
act better
you know why because when god starts how
many of you when god is dealing with you
you don’t act so good all the time
well so when you pray for somebody
and you see them acting worse you should
say great
[Laughter]
god is working
god exer reserves
the knowledge of timing
for his own wisdom
why does god withhold information from
us
why doesn’t he just tell us why
when well a handful of reasons number
one if we knew how long we had to wait
so god uses this little word soon
don’t you love it when somebody with a
prophetic gift comes through town and
they
give you a word the lord says soon
you’re going to be sent out into your
ministry you get so excited but you
don’t know any more than you did before
they came in
it took me a while to figure that out i
back in the 70s there was a lot of the
gifts of the spirit
that were operating more heavily in the
church at that season than they
seem to be now and
different people with different gifts
would come to our church and
it seemed like invariably they’d call me
out and give me a word and it was almost
always the same thing be not weary and
will doing for in due season
you shall reap if you faint not and to
be honest i thought if i get that word
one more time i am going to scream
because after about the seventh or
eighth time i figured out that it wasn’t
really telling me anything
didn’t tell me anything and god finally
told me he says all you got to do is
just keep on keeping on
until the time comes you know everybody
waits
it’s not a matter of whether you will
wait or not i can just
if you’ve got any questions about that i
can tell you tonight you will wait
it’s nobody just has a dream or a vision
or a plan or a desire or a hope and they
just
get it immediately everybody waits
moses had a desire to deliver his people
from the bondage that they were in as
slaves in egypt
and he went to the desert for 40 years
in the wilderness
have you ever noticed that when you’re
waiting sometimes you feel like you’re
in the wilderness
and what was he out there for for
training
i wish god could train us on a
mountaintop but it seems he always has
to do it in a furnace or a wilderness or
a desert or at a job we hate or you know
something like that joseph waited
13 years in prison
for something that he didn’t even do he
wasn’t even guilty
but you know the interesting thing about
joseph is
it appears i don’t know if he ever had a
grouchy day but
none of them are listed in the bible
and it just appears that joseph had such
a great attitude about
all these unfair things that happened to
him and the result was that
everywhere he went god gave him favor
when he was in potiphar’s house he got a
little too much favor with potiphar’s
wife
and she went after him and then
that favor ended up putting him in
prison
but he also got favor in prison
and no matter where he was he got favor
and see that can happen to you
and it can happen to me if we learn to
wait
with a good attitude
you know what the best thing is that you
can do while you’re waiting
help somebody else
if you want to know well what am i what
am i supposed to do i’m just waiting on
god
help somebody else that’s the very best
thing
that you can do we hope you enjoyed this
teaching
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