WHILE YOU ARE WAITING, GOD IS WORKING
I don’t know if there is anyone who likes to wait. Do you? Waiting is hard, frustrating and at times can test our faith. Desires we long for, prayers we’ve been praying about or news we’re waiting to hear can tempt us to be impatient, to be discouraged, to worry or to even wonder if God really cares. When God tells us to wait, trust Him. Trust Him completely. God has your best interest in His mind. Here are three things to remember even as you are waiting. 1. God prepares you inwardly to receive the blessing or in other words God is working on your character God uses your waiting periods to prepare godly character in you. Interestingly in ladder of faith that Peter writes about in 2 Peter 1:6, godliness follows perseverance. Godliness does not follow faith or knowledge but it follows perseverance. When you wait, you develop patience and thereby godliness. The period of 40 years, from the time Moses received the vision from God to when it was actually f...