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How to Trust God in a Season of Waiting
By
Rick Warren
“I trust the Lord God to save me, and I will wait for him
to answer my prayer” (Micah
7:7 CEV).
The Bible is
clear that we go through seasons in life, and one of the seasons that God talks
about again and again is the season of waiting.
While you’re waiting, God is working. Don’t think that a
season of waiting means that God has stopped working.
He’s
just taking you through that season because he’s using the time to work in your
circumstances for your good.
You’re going to spend a lot of life waiting. If you don’t
figure out how to trust God while you’re waiting, you’ll spend a lot of your
life not trusting God.
God is never in a hurry. He’s eternal!
He
is watching. He is working. He is seeing how and when you will trust him as
you’re waiting.
You’re saying, “When, Lord? When is it going to
happen?”
And God’s saying, “You can trust me with this.”
The
problem with waiting is that our human nature and our society say, “Don’t
wait! Get things as quickly as you can.”
That’s the way our culture is
wired, but it goes against God’s blessing in our lives, because God’s blessing
comes through these times of waiting.
Ecclesiastes
3:11 says God “has set
the right time for everything” (GNT).
Are
you in a time of waiting? Maybe it’s for school to end. Maybe it’s for the
“right person” to come into your life.
Maybe
it’s for a marriage to happen or a baby to come or a new job opportunity to
arrive. And you may be frustrated with how slowly things are happening. We’ve
all been there.
There’s
a promise in the Bible that tells you not only that God is working but also how God is working, and you need to
claim it while you’re in your time of waiting: “I am the
Lord, and when it is time, I will make these things happen quickly” (Isaiah
60:22 NCV).
That’s how God worked when he sent Jesus into this world.
The
world waited thousands of years for Jesus to come the first time. And he came
at just the right moment.
We’ve been waiting 2,000 years now for Jesus to come
again. When will that happen? At just the right time — God’s time. That’s when
he’s going to return.
You can apply this to your time of waiting and remember
that a delay is not a denial.
When you think God is saying no, he may just be saying, “Not
yet. Will you keep trusting me through this?”
Micah
7:7 says, “I trust
the Lord God to save me, and I will wait for him to answer my prayer” (CEV).
That is the kind of
faith that God blesses.
We
live in a fallen world and Scripture assures us that everyone will face
problems, trials, difficulties, losses, and failures. But there’s hope for any
setback you face!
In his series, How God
Turns Setbacks Into Comebacks, Pastor Rick Warren opens God’s Word
to show how the Lord helps people overcome their setbacks.
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Richard Duane Warren is an American
evangelical Christian pastor and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of
Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch in Lake Forest, California that is
the sixth-largest megachurch in the United States.
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