Have you ever been praying about a situation in your lifeand found yourself waiting for a breakthrough? Are you wondering why the answer hasn't come yet? Do you feel as if victory is passing you by? Sometimes when we pray long and hard about a situation in our life without recieving any answers, we just learn to live with it. We go on our business, wondering if and when God will send the answer. But God does hear those prayers, and He's working out the answers even though we may not know all the details. Our situation can change suddenly-quikly without warning! But one thing is certain: Before God move suddenly, we will wait. Waiting for answers is a fact of life-nobody gets out of it. So the questions is not that if we'll wait, but rather how we'll wait. And i believe how will determine how long. There are two ways to wait: One is to wait passively, and the other is to wait expectantly. A positive person hopes something good will happend and is willing to sit around waiting to see if it does. After a short time, he gives up, saying, "That's it! I've waited and waited and nothing's happend." The positive person have a lot of wishbone but not a lot of backbone! The expectant person, on the other hand, is hopeful, believing the answers just around the corner, due to arrive any minuite. His belief is not passive thing. His heart is full of hope, expecting his problem to be solved at any moment. He wakes up every morning expecting to find his answer. He may wait and wait, but suddenly what he's been waiting for happens. Is just like when a woman is pregnant; its said that she is expecting a baby. She carries inside her a promise of a baby, and even though she cant see it, she knoes its there. The moment he learns of her pregnancy, she begins to plan for her baby's arrival. She starts collecting items she'll need and busily gets the nursery ready. She actively prepares for the arrival of the baby because she knows the promise will be fulfiled-its just a matter of time. She is expectant and she'll wait as long as it takes. We know the word wait means "to expect" or "to look for". But remember it also means "to serve"- just like a waiter waits on your table at a restaurant. Our act of waiting isnt suposed to be spent sitting around passively hoping that something will happend sometime soon. Once we've ask God to answer question or solve a problem, we need to be eagerly waiting His answer.We need to serving activitly, aggressively and expectantly.When our hearts are eager to hear from god, He love to rush in suddenly with his solution.In many cases this waiting period actually server as a time of perparation for the answer. If God answered right away,many of us would be ill-perpared to handle His solution. Sometimes we find ourselves in such horrible messess that it's hard to imagine waiting one more second. But we need to keep waiting on God and trust in him with a sweet and simple faith. Then, in a way we never could've figured out-God moves suddenly! In the Bible Paul and Silas knew about waiting, and they waited well. Acts 16 tell the story how they were attacked by a crowd, beaten and thrown in jail. Verse 24 says the jailer...put them into the inner prison (the dungeon) fastened there feet in the stocks. He was making sure they couldn't escape. But about midnight, God showed up. Now it would have been nice if he'd come a little earlier , but Paul and Silas did'nt seem to mind-they just decided to start singing and began to start worship the Lord. The began to wait on the God. Verse 25 and 26 say,But about midnight, as Paul and Silas were Praying and singing hymns of priase to God, and the [other] prisoners were listen to them, suddenly there was a great earthquake, were shaken; and at once all the doors were opened and everyone's shackles were unfastened. God answered then suddely! When people patiently and expectantly wait on God in the midst of horrible circumstances, suddenly God breaks through. So don't give up! Don't stop believing! Stay full of hope and expectation. God power is limitless, and He'll break through for you.
Jan Jan! Thanks for the B.Day graphics... you always know how to make a brotha' feel like drinking a hot cup of coco ina di lawn cheer and just reminisce about how good God is. lol, Thanks man! Bless up to the fullest...
PS. because of your kindness and generous act, i'm making you co-presiding Bishop of Renaldo's Region... he's out the mix! and you're in! lol, im' too lagga' headed and we can't have that in di mix! so pack your bags and fluff up your pillows... next-stop... Russia!!
O please!!! Don't believe him deh yah jan jan... Ren Ren have pix!! he just being conceited again, like anybody really would care to gaze all day and night at that big ol' funnel he calls a nose... lmto!
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Have you ever been praying about a situation in your lifeand found yourself waiting for a breakthrough? Are you wondering why the answer hasn't come yet? Do you feel as if victory is passing you by?
Sometimes when we pray long and hard about a situation in our life without recieving any answers, we just learn to live with it. We go on our business, wondering if and when God will send the answer. But God does hear those prayers, and He's working out the answers even though we may not know all the details. Our situation can change suddenly-quikly without warning!
But one thing is certain: Before God move suddenly, we will wait. Waiting for answers is a fact of life-nobody gets out of it. So the questions is not that if we'll wait, but rather how we'll wait. And i believe how will determine how long.
There are two ways to wait: One is to wait passively, and the other is to wait expectantly. A positive person hopes something good will happend and is willing to sit around waiting to see if it does. After a short time, he gives up, saying, "That's it! I've waited and waited and nothing's happend." The positive person have a lot of wishbone but not a lot of backbone!
The expectant person, on the other hand, is hopeful, believing the answers just around the corner, due to arrive any minuite. His belief is not passive thing.
His heart is full of hope, expecting his problem to be solved at any moment. He wakes up every morning expecting to find his answer. He may wait and wait, but suddenly what he's been waiting for happens.
Is just like when a woman is pregnant; its said that she is expecting a baby. She carries inside her a promise of a baby, and even though she cant see it, she knoes its there. The moment he learns of her pregnancy, she begins to plan for her baby's arrival. She starts collecting items she'll need and busily gets the nursery ready. She actively prepares for the arrival of the baby because she knows the promise will be fulfiled-its just a matter of time. She is expectant and she'll wait as long as it takes.
We know the word wait means "to expect" or "to look for". But remember it also means "to serve"- just like a waiter waits on your table at a restaurant. Our act of waiting isnt suposed to be spent sitting around passively hoping that something will happend sometime soon.
Once we've ask God to answer question or solve a problem, we need to be eagerly waiting His answer.We need to serving activitly, aggressively and expectantly.When our hearts are eager to hear from god, He love to rush in suddenly with his solution.In many cases this waiting period actually server as a time of perparation for the answer. If God answered right away,many of us would be ill-perpared to handle His solution.
Sometimes we find ourselves in such horrible messess that it's hard to imagine waiting one more second. But we need to keep waiting on God and trust in him with a sweet and simple faith. Then, in a way we never could've figured out-God moves suddenly!
In the Bible Paul and Silas knew about waiting, and they waited well. Acts 16 tell the story how they were attacked by a crowd, beaten and thrown in jail. Verse 24 says the jailer...put them into the inner prison (the dungeon) fastened there feet in the stocks. He was making sure they couldn't escape. But about midnight, God showed up. Now it would have been nice if he'd come a little earlier , but Paul and Silas did'nt seem to mind-they just decided to start singing and began to start worship the Lord. The began to wait on the God.
Verse 25 and 26 say,But about midnight, as Paul and Silas were Praying and singing hymns of priase to God, and the [other] prisoners were listen to them, suddenly there was a great earthquake, were shaken; and at once all the doors were opened and everyone's shackles were unfastened. God answered then suddely!
When people patiently and expectantly wait on God in the midst of horrible circumstances, suddenly God breaks through. So don't give up! Don't stop believing! Stay full of hope and expectation. God power is limitless, and He'll break through for you.