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Letting Go | Waiting on God’s Timing · Divine515 Podcast

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  - Welcome to the divine five one five podcast.
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  - Here is today's prayer.
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  - Hello, and welcome to daily prayers with Valerie
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  - Rocha.
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  - Today's prayer focus is
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  - waiting on God's timing.
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  - Scripture text comes from Psalms twenty seven fourteen
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  - and says, wait for the Lord. Be strong
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  - and take heart and wait for the Lord.
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  - Now let's just be honest.
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  - Waiting becomes especially
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  - difficult
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  - when we've already prayed.
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  - And unfortunately,
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  - we are challenged with wanting the answer the
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  - day before yesterday
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  - when God is just telling us to wait
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  - until.
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  - I mean,
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  - we've prayed for the opportunity,
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  - the healing,
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  - relationship,
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  - breakthrough,
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  - the answer,
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  - and yet nothing seems to be changing.
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  - In fact, waiting can make us wonder whether
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  - God even hurt us at all,
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  - but
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  - let me reassure you, he has.
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  - But we often interpret delay as inactivity.
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  - If we can't see movement, we assume nothing
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  - is happening, which quite frankly and honestly couldn't
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  - be farther from the truth.
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  - But that's when we're tempted to force a
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  - door, rush a decision, or create our own
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  - answer.
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  - What's important to remember, though,
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  - is that god's silence
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  - doesn't mean god's
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  - absence.
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  - I often use the example
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  - of this as
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  - the student and the teacher in the classroom.
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  - Whenever the teacher gives a test,
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  - he never
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  - says anything. Why?
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  - Because the student needs to be able to
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  - concentrate
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  - and figure out the answer to whatever the
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  - problem is
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  - on the test.
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  - That does not mean that the teacher's not
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  - present.
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  - It just means that they are presenting
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  - the room
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  - for the student to process.
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  - Waiting
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  - prayer sounds different
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  - from asking prayer.
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  - So today's challenge is instead of
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  - only saying God when,
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  - try saying God how do you want me
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  - to live while I wait?
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  - After all, scripture does tell us to wait
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  - until, whatever that until is, because God's more
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  - concerned about
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  - your character
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  - than he is about your impatience.
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  - Waiting isn't wasted time when God is developing
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  - something in us while we're waiting for something
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  - around us to change.
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  - That being said,
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  - let's take
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  - all of our uncertainties
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  - and our questions of why and when to
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  - the throne.
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  - Heavenly father, waiting is difficult when we don't
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  - understand your timing.
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  - Keep us from forcing what you haven't released.
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  - Give us patience,
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  - strengthen our faith,
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  - and help us remain faithful in this season.
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  - We intentionally
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  - trust that you are working even when we
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  - cannot see, and we will bless you in
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  - Jesus' name.
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  - Well,
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  - if you're waiting on God, don't put your
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  - entire life on hold.
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  - Just remember
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  - that he welcomes the conversation
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  - and ask him what can I
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  - be faithful with while I wait
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  - and trust that he will answer?
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  - If this encouraged you,
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  - share it with someone who's
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  - maybe in a waiting season also.
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  - And remember,
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  - waiting doesn't mean nothing is happening.