"Lord, Help Me to Wait"
Text: Psalm 27:14
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart:
wait, I say, on the LORD.

      A person that is impatient is a very unhappy individual because they
are in a hurry to get what they want. And we all have battles with being
impatient
and these events can try our very souls. Everyday our patients or ability to
wait is tried; we are tried waiting in line a various business
establishments,
we are tried on the phone waiting to speak to someone and not to a machine
giving us a number menu. Our nature is hurry, hurry, hurry. Not being able
to
wait peacefully causes stress and many times it causes anger. And none of
these conditions are good for the natural man or your spiritual man.

      Sometimes we even call upon the Lord expecting him to move upon our
behalf at the moment we call upon him and when nothing happens we become
impatient
and disappointed. Some people even begin to blame themselves believing that
they have offended God because he has not given them what hey asked for.
They
allow their impatience and inability to wait to cloud their thinking and
weaken their belief in God as a prayer answering God. They never realize
that
God knows what is best and when the best time is to give it to you. They
never realize that they may not be ready for what they want.

      We need to call upon the Lord and say to him "Lord help me to wait",
help me to stand steadfast in believing that you will provide for all that I
ask in your own time. The way we measure time is not how God measures time
because he is not governed by time but he is the Lord of time. Things come
and
things go at his will and in his time. We can't bind him to our schedule for
getting things done on time. What seems to be an eternity to us may be only
a moment of time with God.

      Learning to wait in spite of everything that appears to be hindering
the coming of your blessing is building up your most holy faith. In spite of
everything that Job saw happening in is life to his hurt, he never loss
faith in God. Job said, "If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of
my
appointed time will I wait, till my change come", (Job 14:14). Solomon pick
up the same thought when he said,"Better is the end of a thing than the
beginning
thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit",
(Eccl 7:8).

      Each of us is encouraged to wait for the appearing of Christ when he
comes to take his bride the church back to glory. Be like a world renowned
chief
and learn to wait as he cooks his foods in slow perfection to bring out the
best quality of flavor. And that is what learning to wait will do for us, it
will bring out the best in us as people of God.

Psa 25:3
Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which
transgress without cause.

Psa 31:24
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in
the LORD.

Psa 33:20
Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he [is] our help and our shield.

Psa 62:1
[[To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David.]] Truly my soul
waiteth upon God: from him [cometh] my salvation.

Psa 130:5
I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

Gen 49:18
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

Isa 8:17
And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob,
and I will look for him.

Isa 25:9
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this [is] our God; we have waited for
him, and he will save us: this [is] the LORD; we have waited for him, we
will
be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

Isa 26:8
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the
desire of [our] soul [is] to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.

Isa 30:18
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and
therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD
[is]
a God of judgment: blessed [are] all they that wait for him.

Lam 3:26
[It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the
salvation of the LORD.

Hab 2:3
For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall
speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely
come, it
will not tarry.

Luk 2:25
And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name [was] Simeon; and the
same man [was] just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and
the
Holy Ghost was upon him.

Rom 8:25
But if we hope for that we see not, [then] do we with patience wait for
[it].

Psa 31:24
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in
the LORD.

Act 28:15
And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far
as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God,
and
took courage.

1Cr 16:13
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

2Ti 4:5
But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an
evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

Psa 138:3
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, [and] strengthenedst me [with]
strength in my soul.

Isa 40:31
But 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.

2Cr 12:9
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is
made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my
infirmities,
that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Eph 3:16
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be
strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

Eph 6:10
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Phl 4:13
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Col 1:11
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all
patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;


A fruitful harvest requires faithful service.
 Galatians 6:9 states,
And let us not be weary in well doing:
for in due season we shall reap,
if we faint not.
YBIC, Thomas, And YSIC, Linda.
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