What Are You Doing While You Are Waiting On God?

Sometimes situations in our lives become overwhelming.   There are times when you won't know what to do and all you can do is trust God.   It is those times that tend to send you into a place where you are constantly calling out and crying out to God and that is what He wants you to do.   He wants us to seek Him with our whole heart.   He wants us to call on Him and to cry out to Him and He wants us to also wait on Him.    

 

What are you doing in the waiting?   Are you gaining His peace and understanding while you wait and allowing yourself to be comforted by His Word?   Are you being still and knowing that He is God while you wait?   Are you trusting God while you wait and leaning NOT to your own understanding?   It matters what you do while you wait.   

 

Today I want to encourage you to wait on the Lord.   I want to encourage you to have faith in God.   I want to encourage you today to be still and to know that He knows the things you have need of and He is faithful and just to provide you with those things.   I want to remind you today that God is God and He has never left you nor forsaken you and He never will. 

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Psalm 40:1-3

King James Version

1 (To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.) I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Are You Getting Stuck In What You Are Going Through or Are You Trusting God To Bring You Through?

There are times in life when it it is hard to see your way through.   Sometimes the storms of life can be so tumultuous that the winds of life begin to knock you down to the point that you can't see how to get back up.   It's at those times that you have to know that God is ready and willing to pick you back up if you let Him.   

 

Understand there are many storms that come with life but there is no storm too strong for God.    Even if the storms of life leave you feeling broken because of the people, places, and things you may have lost in life, know that God can mend your brokenness.    

 

Never let what you are going through get you stuck in a place where you lose hope for the future.   Never let your situations keep you from moving forward with God.   Always remember God is with you and He will take you through the tests and the trials that come in the form of storms in your life and bring you into a place of peace in and with Him.    

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Psalms 147:3

King James Version

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Who's Reaching Their Goal (You or The Enemy)? The Enemy Is Trying To Take You Out, But You Have The Power To Take Him Out First.

The enemy is busy.   The primary goal of your enemies is to take you out?   Are they being successful?   Are they proving that they can take you out of your walk of faith and get you to walk in fear?   Are they proving that they can steal your joy and get you to walk in anger, bitterness, and strife?   Are they proving that they can keep you from walking in the love of God to the point that you fail to forgive, knowing that you have been forgiven?   Understand the rationale of the devil.   Is so that he can cause all of what was just said to happen in your life.    

 

What's your goal?   Are you striving to walk in faith and constantly casting down fear?   Are you rejoicing in the Lord and allowing God to strengthen you so that you can consistently walk in the love of God?   Are you forgiving others just as God has forgiven you?   

 

Choose today who will reach their goal.   Will it be you or will you let the devil achieve his goal concerning your life?   Understand, when you achieve your goal, it cancels out what the devil is trying to do to you and through you.   

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

James 4:7

King James Bible

“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

  

Have You Take The Time To Read Your Book of Benefits? You Have To Know The Benefits You Have When You Seek and Serve God.

You have to understand, the Bible is a book of benefits.   Take a moment and think about your Benefits Guide at work.   Your benefits guide tells you your entitlements.   That is what the Bible does.   It tells you your Kingdom entitlements.   It also lets you know your restraints.   In other words, it tells you the things you can and cannot do.   So, know the importance of reading God's Book (the Bible) of Benefits.    

 

There are many benefits that come with being a child of God.   When you surrender your all to God and invite Jesus in to be your Lord and Savior, you come up under the covenant promises of God.   As you think about the benefits that you receive on a job, it includes health insurance and life insurance.   It includes time off where you can rest.   It includes a savings plan and some places of employment also include legal insurance.    

 

Now take a moment and think about the benefits of God.   Those benefits cover your health.   For God said in His Word that He is the Lord God that heals you.   You are also covered under God's life insurance plan for when You accept Jesus as Your Lord and Savior, you receive eternal life.   Another benefit of seeking and serving God is that you get to rest in Him.  As you are resting in Him, He will cover you, keep you, and make a way for you.   Not to mention He is your source and supply and all that you will ever need is already stored up and God will supply whatever it is you need.    Also remember, God is your counsel, your judge, and your jury so you are protected in and with Him.   

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Psalm 103:2

Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

What Do You Do When You Don't Know What To Do? There Will Be Times When You Have To Be Still and Let God Be God So That He Can Perfect His Good Work In You.

Not knowing what to do can prove to be very stressful.   When you don't know what to do, so many options tend to pop up in your head and you are left with choosing which option to follow-through on.   

 

When you don't know what to do, you can move based on how you think and how you feel, you can move based on what a friend or family member is telling you to do, or you can move (or not move) based on what God has told you to do. 

 

You may think you know what is best and people may think they know what is best for you BUT ONLY GOD knows what is best.   Our lives are designed according to His plan and we have to trust Him to perfect His plan in and for us.   

 

So if you get to a place in your life where you don't know what to do next, follow God and His plan and remember, sometimes His plan just requires that you be still while He does what He needs to do for you. 

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Psalm 46:10

King James Version

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Do You Trust and Believe What God Has Done In The Past (Whether It Is Biblical Days or Your Personal Past), He Can Do Again If Necessary?

 Do you understand what it means to be faithful?  Faithfulness says I believe and I'm with you no matter what.   It is a stand that we take no matter what else is happening in our lives.   When you are faithful, you don't give up and you don't quit based on the appearance of a situation.    You don't stop believing even though what you are experiencing doesn't feel like it is going the way you want.   Faithfulness is not redirected by someone else's opinion.  God wants us to be faithful and our faithfulness to Him must be rooted and grounded in our belief and our trust in Him. 

 

When you think about the word faithful, think about how God wants you to be "full of faith".   Think about how He wants you to trust Him and to believe Him.   His Word is true and He wants us to take Him at His Word.   As you walk in faith, remember, God is not a man and He does not lie.   What He has done in the past (whether in biblical days or in your personal past), He can do again if necessary.   God does NOT lack power or ability.   He can do all things.   Trust Him to honor His Word in your life. 

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Revelation 1:8

“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”

Are You Growing Impatient Waiting On God or Are You Patiently Waiting On Him To Do What He Said He Would Do?

Change is not always automatic.   Sometimes change takes time.    Are you becoming impatient because of the time it is taking for change to take place?

 

The thing is, we live in a world that wants everything fast.   Society has changed in a way where everything is done quickly and because everything is done quickly, we want everything in our lives to happen quickly.    We have to understand that God said in His Word that He changes not and He said that it is through faith and patience that we obtain His promises.   We have to learn how to wait on God even though we are living in a fast-paced society, we have to trust, believe, and wait on God to do what He said He would do. 

 

So as you pray today, pray knowing that your faith is in God and timing is of God.   Don't grow impatient waiting on God.   Just know that God will do what He said He would do and His promises are worth waiting for.    

 

SCRIPTURE MEDITATION

Psalm 27:14

Wait on the LORD: Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.