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Waiting Training Part Two

Waiting Training Part Two

  1. We saw His Desperate Condition and now we see;
    II. His Determined Choice
    Notice David’s conclusion in verse 14Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!

    It’s like David is saying, “Try this…it worked for me when I was in a desperate situation, and it will work for you.”

    Notice the process by which David came to this conclusion: we will approach the verse in reverse order.

    A. Seeing 13I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

    1. Seeing is believing…. believing is seeing. verse 4 One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple.

    2. David’s faith helped him to see past his present situation and look to his powerful Savior.

Michael Youssef said: Faith is not believing despite the evidence, but Faith is obeying despite the consequences.

  1. To wait upon God means to expect from God. A real “waiting meeting” according to Scripture is an expectation meeting. It implies dependence.
  2. “I would have quit if not for my faith…I believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”
  3. “Heaven is a long way off…. I need some help from God now.”
  4. Psalms 62:5 – My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

expectation = literally, a cord (as an attachment – expectation = hope,  thing that I long for.

  1. Seeing,
    B. Supplication,     7Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice! Have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
    8When You said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to You, “Your face, LORD, I will seek.”

    What to do when waiting? You pray, He prayed for three things:
    1.) Presence of God
    9 Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in anger; 10 When my father and my mother forsake me, Then the LORD will take care of me.

2.) Path Of God 11 Teach me Your way, O LORD, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies.

3.) Protection Of God 12 Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And such as breathe out violence.

Proverbs 20:22 (NKJV) Do not say, “I will recompense evil”; Wait for the LORD, and He will save you.

Psalm 37:34 (NKJV) Wait on the LORD, And keep His way, And He shall exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

He prayed for the Presence of God, the Path of God, and the Protection of God.

Lamentations 3:25 (NKJV) 25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him.

  1. Seeing
    B. Supplication
    C. Singing,     6And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD.

    Acts 16:25-26 (NKJV) 25But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

Praise + Prayer = POWER

26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed.

  1. Our attitude is important as we wait on God.
    2. As we see His promised help and we seek His powerful hand…it should inspire us to sing praises to His holiness!
  2. Seeing
    B. Supplication
    C. Singing,
    D. Silence, 5For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.

    1. It is as if in some great trial or pressure, he had found great comfort in prayer and had encouraged his heart in the hope of God’s help; then in quiet faith, casts himself upon God.
    2. Prayer has been made, and now the soul is hushed and, bowing in silence (in faith), it waits before God.
    3. Prayers are needed. They are the winged messengers to carry the need to God. But it is in the silent hour before Him, quietly waiting in His presence, that the miracle is wrought.
    4. When you are hiding, you don’t make any noise…you are completely silent.
    5. We do the praying but not the waiting. Let us not be afraid to be silent before Him, thinking it is wasted time. He does not want us to be talking all the time talking–telling Him so many things about which He already knows more than we do. Time is needed today for proper adjustment to Him, our vision properly focused, our hearts hushed, and our minds subdued.

  3. Lamentations 3:26 (NKJV) It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the LORD.

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

  1. Seeing
    B. Supplication
    C. Singing
    D. Silence
    E. Serving,     Psalm 27:4 (NKJV) One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple.

  2. Another meaning of wait, is to serve, or minister…
    2. As we wait on God, He puts a desire in our hearts to serve Him.
    3. David’s desire was to just be in the house of God and serve the Lord.

  3. Seeing
    B. Supplication
    C. Singing
    D. Silence
    E. Serving,
    F. Success
    1. His Triumph
    2 When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

    2. His Testimony
    1 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

“Wait”
Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried
Quietly, patiently, lovingly, God replied.
I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate,
And the Master so gently said,
“Child, you must wait.”
“Wait? You say, wait!” my indignant reply.
“Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!
Is Your hand shortened?
Or have You not heard?
By Faith, I have asked and am claiming Your Word.
My future and all to which I can relate
Hangs in the balance, and
YOU tell me to WAIT?
I’m needing a ’yes’,
A go-ahead sign,
Or even a ’no’ to which I can resign.
And Lord, I’ve been asking, and this is my cry:
“I’m weary of asking! I need a reply!”
Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate. As my Master replied once again,
“You must wait.”
So, I slumped in my chair,
Defeated and taut, and grumbled to God,
“So, I’m waiting… for what?”
He seemed, then, to kneel,
And His eyes wept with mine,
And He tenderly said,
“I could give you a sign.
I could shake the heavens,
And darken the sun.
I could raise the dead, and
Cause mountains to run.
All you seek, I could give, and pleased you would be.
You would have what you want –
But you would never know Me.
You would not know the depth of My love for a Saint;
You’d not know the power that I give to the Faint;
You’d not learn to see through the clouds of Despair;
You’d not learn to trust just by knowing I’m there;
You’d not know the joy of resting in Me
When darkness and silence were all you could see.
You’d never experience that fullness of Love
As the peace of My Spirit descends like a Dove;
You’d know that I give and I save… for a Start
But You’d not know the depth of the beat of My Heart.
The glow of My comfort late into the Night,
The faith that I give when you walk without Sight,
The depth that’s beyond getting just what you Asked
Of an infinite God, who makes what you have LAST.
You’d never know should your pain quickly Flee,
What it means that ’My Grace is sufficient for Thee.’
Yes, your dreams for your loved one overnight would come True,
But, Oh the loss! If I lost what I’m doing in You!
So, be silent, My Child, and in time you will See
The greatest of gifts is to get to know Me.
And though oft’ may My answers seem terribly Late,
My most precious answer of all is still, ’Wait. ’”

Such wonderful blessings hang upon this one condition–to wait. Do we wait?
Are we willing to trust God to work out our troubles or will we continue to trust ourselves and make a mess?

Tony Evans “storms in the night through the valley of death, when we get in his presence, the circumstances don’t change, but we do.

Perhaps today you find yourself waiting for God …ready to throw in the towel…don’t give up now!

After all that Job went through, we see him saying in the last chapter of his book,
Job 42:1-6 (NKJV) 1 Then Job answered the LORD and said: 2 “I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You. 3 You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. 4 Listen, please, and let me speak; You said, ‘I will question you, and you shall answer Me.’ 5 “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees You. 6 Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes.”

If we wait, He (GOD) will show us things we could not have learned any other way. It is up to you to give up and walk away or WAIT on THE LORD and see what He wants to show you.

As a pastor and mentor once told me when I was in the middle of one of the hardest times of my life, “When you come through this, and you will come through this, God is going to use you like you never imagined!” and He did!

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