"WAITING ON GOD"

By: Donna Selma Lind

                  Dear God, I'm waiting. Where are you?

There have been times in my life when I feel like I am in God's waiting room. Do you know the place? Have you ever been there? It's that in between place. That place that is neither here nor there. It's a place of pause and delay. A time between two acts. A holding pattern.

PLEASE STANDBY!

God's waiting room, the place where I sit and wait...and wait...and wait.

 What are you waiting for?  
Directions. 
Directions for where? 
I don't know. That's why I'm waiting!

There are nearly three hundred references in the Bible in regards to waiting. 
The Heroes of the Faith chapter in Hebrews 11 contains an All Star line up of folks who waited on God for something. Noah, Moses, Abraham, Sarah, Joseph, David and many more spent a "time out" in God's waiting room.

We are not the only ones that have endured a period of waiting. A test of  time requires an unwavering faith in a God whose ways are not our ways. 

"My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts," says the LORD. "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine." Isaiah 55:8

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord , plans to prosper you and not to harm you,to give you hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11

What does your waiting room look like?

Are you waiting for test results from the doctor?
Are you waiting for a new job or promotion?
Are you waiting for someone to love or someone to love you?
Are you waiting to know if you should stay or go?
Are you waiting for a financial miracle?
Are you waiting for your marriage to be restored?
Are you waiting for an addiction to be broken ?
Are you waiting for a divorce to be final?
Are you waiting for a prodigal child to return home?

What are you waiting for? Whatever it is God has not forgotten you! He loves you and if He is allowing you to wait it is for a reason! Trust Him!


 The Bible has given us some very clear answers and promises to ponder while we are waiting.

SEEK HIM:
"The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him." Lamentations 3:25

BE STILL:
"Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him."Psalm 37:7

BE STRONG:
"Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!" 
Psalm 27:14

HOLD FAST:
"Hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God." Hosea 12:6

PRAISE HIM:
"I will praise you forever, because you have done it. I will wait for your name for it is good in the presence of the godly." Psalm 52:9

I love the lyrics to John Waller's song from the FIREPROOF Movie:

Click on this video below, turn up the volume and ENJOY!

"But they who wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:31

WORSHIP WHILE YOUR'E WAITING!

HALLELUJAH!   PRAISE THE LORD AND SHARE THE GOOD NEWS!

DONNA SELMA LIND