While you wait
We’ve all come to terms with the fact that not all things in our lives will happen over-night. We’ve grown to realize that sometimes we’ll miraculously leave Egypt in one night but sometimes we’ll take forty years to get into Canaan. So we’ve learnt that we need patience as a fruit of the Spirit because we’ll have to wait for some miracles. But the issue is not just the waiting, but how we wait.
Just a day ago God impressed in my heart the issue of waiting without anxiety for His promises, He said “anticipate without being anxious”. He was re-teaching me a few things about His promises concerning offering and it really refreshed my spirit.
To anticipate is to expect something; and this is the life of faith, we live constantly expecting the answers to our prayers and the fulfilment of God’s Word in our lives. We live like the disciples after Jesus had ascended into heaven. They had to wait in Jerusalem for the promise of the Holy Spirit; not knowing when and how He’d come, but they knew He’d come, so they waited. And the Bible tells us how they waited; they continued with fellowship while waiting (Acts 1:14). They didn’t sit around doing nothing, which I believe would have lead to them being anxious, questioning God’s Word, worrying if the Spirit was really going to come or if He had already come and they missed it.
I believe I wait on God while continuing in every other service that I’m due to perform, I don’t idly wait, I’ll get frustrated. By this I don’t imply that I need to ‘make’ the promises happen, I’m not of that movement. My heart needs to be at rest while I wait, I need not labour for the promise, but I have to keep fellowship with the One I’m expecting from and service is part of fellowship. Part of that fellowship is also Him reassuring me and teaching me to trust Him, strengthening me in my anticipation. And as I fellowship, I free myself from all anxiety. Remember when He said not to be anxious about anything (Phil 4:6)? That ‘anything’ includes His promises.
So rest and trust that God will do what He promised to do and keep doing what you’re called to do.
“The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.” 1 Thes 5:24
Just a day ago God impressed in my heart the issue of waiting without anxiety for His promises, He said “anticipate without being anxious”. He was re-teaching me a few things about His promises concerning offering and it really refreshed my spirit.
To anticipate is to expect something; and this is the life of faith, we live constantly expecting the answers to our prayers and the fulfilment of God’s Word in our lives. We live like the disciples after Jesus had ascended into heaven. They had to wait in Jerusalem for the promise of the Holy Spirit; not knowing when and how He’d come, but they knew He’d come, so they waited. And the Bible tells us how they waited; they continued with fellowship while waiting (Acts 1:14). They didn’t sit around doing nothing, which I believe would have lead to them being anxious, questioning God’s Word, worrying if the Spirit was really going to come or if He had already come and they missed it.
I believe I wait on God while continuing in every other service that I’m due to perform, I don’t idly wait, I’ll get frustrated. By this I don’t imply that I need to ‘make’ the promises happen, I’m not of that movement. My heart needs to be at rest while I wait, I need not labour for the promise, but I have to keep fellowship with the One I’m expecting from and service is part of fellowship. Part of that fellowship is also Him reassuring me and teaching me to trust Him, strengthening me in my anticipation. And as I fellowship, I free myself from all anxiety. Remember when He said not to be anxious about anything (Phil 4:6)? That ‘anything’ includes His promises.
So rest and trust that God will do what He promised to do and keep doing what you’re called to do.
“The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.” 1 Thes 5:24
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