What are You Waiting For?

One of the greatest challenges in working with God and serving the Lord is learning how to wait. If you're going to be a disciple of Christ and a servant of the Living God, you're going to have to wait on Him. This, at times, appears challenging because, a lot of times in our minds, it seems like God is moving "so slow." In reality, this is not the case; but it "feels" that way anyhow.

The question that I want to raise today is: "What are you waiting for?" A lot of us have been in "wait mode" for some time now, holding on to the promises of God. Some of you are waiting for financial breakthrough. Some of you are waiting for healing. Some of you are waiting for ministry expansion or for God to promote you in a particular office or position. What are you waiting for?

Saints, part of the challenge of waiting, that the believer faces, is that a lot of times we're waiting for something in the natural. Whether it's a car, a job, a spouse, a promotion: many times it's something that we can see with our "eyes" and feel with our senses. This type of "natural expectation" from God is what fuels our frustration and makes it difficult, at best, to wait on God. What we must remember is that God is not a "physical" God, He is a Spirit (John 4); which means His Essence is Invisible. So if you're going to "wait on God", taking the phrase literally, you have to make a shift from having a "natural" expectation to a spiritual or "Super-natural" expectation.

Let me clarify very quickly, this is not the same as "expecting a miracle." Whatever it is, in the natural, that we're waiting on from God, most of us need some type of "supernatural manifestation" in order to receive what God has promised. This is not what I'm talking about. What we want to do is shift our expectation from a "natural" expectation to a spiritual expectation. Meaning, what are you expecting God to do in and with you?

The secret to waiting on God is to wait for your "change" to come. When Job was waiting for God to change his situation, he said in the fourteenth chapter of Job, "all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come."  In speaking of the Rapture, Paul says "we shall all be changed" (1Corinthians 15). The key is not the physical, the key is the supernatural change that God wants to create on the inside. And once your hope gets focused on the spiritual and not the natural, you're no longer "restless" in your waiting, because you've learned how to rest and abide in Him. It takes work to achieve that type of rest (Hebrews 4), but believe me saints, He's worth the wait.