Waiting for the Lord
TDW Stack | Newsletter | Apr 18 2025
Waiting for the Lord
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Wait for the Lord
Ps 27:14
Ps 37:9, 34
Ps 130:5
Ps 147:11
Prov 20:22
Is 40:31
Lam 3:5
Ever feel like you have been waiting forever?
Waiting for illness to clear.
Waiting for injuries to heal.
Waiting for financial struggles to turn around.
Waiting for someone to repent.
Waiting for someone who walked away to return again to the Lord.
Waiting for children to learn to obey.
Waiting for people to get along.
Waiting for grieving to turn to rejoicing again.
Waiting for repairs to be done.
You name it. What do you feel like you have been waiting for?
How long did it take for you to give up?
How long before you decided, “God must not want that for me”?
Luke 8:43
And a woman who had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and could not be healed by anyone
Genesis 11:30
Sarai was barren; she had no child.
John 5:5
A man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years.
Acts 3:2
And a man who had been lame from his mother’s womb was being carried along, whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, in order to beg
Twelve years with a health issue that is not killing you, but is obviously not right. Doctors are out of options. No cures handed down through the ages work.
I can’t say how long Sarai was married to Abram, we aren’t told. A woman who has already been barren her whole married life, is told around age 65 that she will have a child - because her husband is promised it by God. This promise is not realized until she is 90 years old. When you do the math - that’s 25 years of hopeful waiting. We know she wavered, because Ishmael was born. But he wasn’t the son God had promised. Twenty four years of trying to get pregnant and failing, until visitors come and say, “next year”.
A man waits for the right moment to access the help of waters moved by an angel to find healing of something that has plagued him for 38 years. But he can never make it to the water first.
A man who has known nothing other than not being able to walk. He is now an adult and requires the help of friends to bring him to a place where he can beg for help. They do this every.single.day.
All of them found the answer in God and Christ Jesus.
But I’m fascinated that they never gave up hoping for something to be different!
They had learned to live with their imperfections. Life was going on in its fashion for each of them.
Yet they were still looking. They still had hope.
Sometimes they tried to find a way to solve the problem themselves.
Sometimes they were asking for the lesser thing and found the thing they had really wanted.
What are you waiting for?
Are you on your timing or God’s?
Don’t give up waiting. Just because life goes on, don’t tell yourself God is done hearing you. Don’t put Him in a box. Don’t put your hope and trust on a timer that ticks away in this life.
Wait for the Lord.
Praying is an active part we can play in the process during that time of waiting, and Thank the Lord, you can ask others to do it with you. You never need to be alone in your struggles!
What are you waiting on? What are you asking the Lord about?