WAYS WE NEED TO WAIT ON GOD

I recently read the most wonderful article about waiting on God. There is more than one way to wait on Him.

Psalm 27:13-14 and Psalm 28:6 are the verses God gave to me five months before I received my kidney and liver transplants. The verses read (Psalm 27:13-14) “13 I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. 14 Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. (Psalm 28:6) “6 Praise be to the Lord, for he has heard my cry for mercy.” I believed that God was going to heal me, and I was waiting on His timing. After my transplants, he gave me Psalm 30:2 which reads, “2 Lord my God, I called to you for help, and you healed me.” God kept His promise to me!

That is only one way we should wait on God. We should also wait on God during our prayer times. We may tend to think about our own needs, and we let God know what those are and then close our prayer. There is so much more to prayer. We need to think about God and Who He is because He is the One that we wait on. We need to adore Him and think of reasons to do that. Then we should quietly wait in His Presence and realize He is right there with us, wanting us to be quiet in His Presence. He wants to come and reveal Himself to us by speaking to us in our quietness, letting us know we need to be dependent on Him and thoroughly trust Him. Keep waiting on God in stillness until you know you have met with Him, and then continue with your prayer which will now have a different purpose to it because you have humbled yourself before Him.

You now need to confess your sins and repent of them. After that, wait on God and be quiet again. Continue praying with thankfulness to Him for all He has done for You and has given to You. Then, wait on Him, once again in His Presence. And last, but not least, bring your personal requests and the requests of others to the Father and wait on Him one last time. If you take the time to allow God to reveal Himself to you and focus on Him during your prayers, your prayer time will stop being self-centered and become God-centered. That is definitely what we need and want. So there is more than one way to wait on God.

If you don’t yet know Jesus as both your Savior and Lord through faith, the only prayer that Jesus is waiting to hear from you is one of confession, repentance and humility, admitting you need Jesus to forgive you of your sin penalties and thank Him for His resurrection from the dead, which conquered death for you so you can spend eternity in Heaven with Him instead of in hell where you would be completely alone. Salvation requires humility and repentance, which is turning away from our human arrogance and seeing God as God, instead of ourselves as God! We make Him Lord. We need to let God be in control, and when we do, we will have peace.

God says in the Bible, “Be still and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10)

Sharon