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Why the Waiting Season Feels Personal · Purpose of Heart Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Purpose of Heart, the podcast, where real stories meet God's promises.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Priscilla Allman, and every week we dive into powerful conversations about purpose and the pressure, through caregiving, illness, grief, addiction, and more.
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• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: Hello.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: And welcome to Purpose of Heart, the podcast.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: I'm your host, Priscilla Allman, and today we're going to talk about why the waiting season feels so personal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever noticed how waiting just doesn't feel inconvenient?
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  SPEAKER_00: It feels personal.
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  SPEAKER_00: It feels like everyone else is moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everyone else is advancing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everyone else is hosting the announcement.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you're still praying, still hoping, still believing, still wondering.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if we're honest, waiting doesn't just test our patience, it tests our identity.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today I want to talk about why the waiting season feels so personal and what God might actually be doing under the surface.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because what feels like delay is often deep design.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waiting feels personal because it touches what we care about the most.
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  SPEAKER_00: We don't struggle to wait for things we don't value.
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  SPEAKER_00: But when it's your calling, your marriage, your child, your healing, your promise, your job, it hits differently.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm 27, 14 says, wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wait, I say, on the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice something.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't say waiting strengthens your schedule.
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  SPEAKER_00: It says it's he strengthens your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because waiting is a heartwork.
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  SPEAKER_00: The reason it feels personal is because it is personal.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is not managing your timeline, He's forming your inner life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And strengthening the heart requires pressure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waiting confronts the illusion of control.
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  SPEAKER_00: My mind, doesn't it?
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the hardest parts about waiting is that it exposes how little control we truly have.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can prepare, you can plan, you can pray, you can fast, you can show up consistently, you can do a whole lot of things.
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  SPEAKER_00: And still wait.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs 16:9 says, A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps.
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  SPEAKER_00: We plan, he directs.
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  SPEAKER_00: And direction often involves pauses we did not schedule.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waiting feels personal because it confronts our desire to orchestrate outcomes.
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  SPEAKER_00: It asks us, do you trust me?
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  SPEAKER_00: Even here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not when it makes sense, not when it's predictable, but when it's unclear.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that question hits the soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waiting often feels like rejection, but it's refinement.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's be honest, sometimes waiting feels like you weren't chosen.
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  SPEAKER_00: The door didn't open, the email didn't come, the opportunity went to someone else.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the enemy whispers, maybe you're not enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Isaiah chapter 40, verse 31 reminds us but those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength.
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  SPEAKER_00: They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice what waiting produces: renewal, elevation, endurance, stability.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waiting is not punishment, it's preparation for altitude.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you ascend too quickly without inner strength, the height will exhaust you.
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  SPEAKER_00: God would rather strengthen your capacity than rush your platform.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at the pattern.
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  SPEAKER_00: Abraham waited decades for Isaac.
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  SPEAKER_00: Joseph waited in a prison cell before receiving a dream.
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  SPEAKER_00: David was anointed king and then sent back to the field.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waiting has always been woven into promise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ecclesiastes 3.11 says he has made everything beautiful in its time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Also, he has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work God does from beginning to end.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everything beautiful in its time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not your time, not their time, his time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we cannot see the full design from beginning to end, which means waiting requires humility.
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  SPEAKER_00: It requires surrender.
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  SPEAKER_00: It requires trust in God that sees what we cannot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waiting magnifies whatever is already in your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: If there's fear, it rises.
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  SPEAKER_00: If there's insecurity, it surfaces.
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  SPEAKER_00: If there's comparison, it intensifies.
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  SPEAKER_00: But this is not to shame you, it's to purify you.
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  SPEAKER_00: James 1:4 says, but let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let patience do its work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not rush out of the process.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't numb it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't resent it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't quit in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because patience is completing something in you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waiting is producing wholeness.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want the outcomes, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: God wants transformation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Romans 8.28 says, and we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to his purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: All things.
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  SPEAKER_00: The delay, the silence, the unanswered prayer, the closed door, the long application cycle, the stretching, working together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Even when you can't trace it, even when it feels so, so personal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Especially when it feels personal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because God is not just preparing what you're praying for, He's preparing you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's something we don't talk about enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waiting builds intimacy.
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  SPEAKER_00: When everything is moving quickly, we can drift into self-sufficiency.
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  SPEAKER_00: But in waiting, we lean in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Lamentations 3, 25 to 26 say the Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the world, of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice the connection.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wait, seek, hope, quiet trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waiting draws you into deeper relationships.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes the gift isn't just the promise, it's the closeness you develop while trusting.
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  SPEAKER_00: What if waiting is protection?
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  SPEAKER_00: We rarely consider.
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  SPEAKER_00: What if the timing you want would actually crush you?
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  SPEAKER_00: What if your the door you're praying for isn't stable yet?
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  SPEAKER_00: What if God sees something ahead that you cannot?
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalm 84.11 says, For the Lord God is a son and shield.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord will give grace and glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: No good thing will he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
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  SPEAKER_00: No good thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: If it's being withheld, it might not be good for you yet.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not rejection, that's protection.
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  SPEAKER_00: Waiting asks one powerful question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is God enough before the outcome arrives?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or if the outcome arrives?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is his presence enough?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is his promise enough?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is his word enough?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because if he becomes enough in the waiting, the outcome will never be your idol.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's freedom.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're in a waiting season right now, and it feels personal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it feels heavy and it feels confusing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hear this.
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  SPEAKER_00: God has not forgotten you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your delay is not denial.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your silence is not abandonment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your waiting is not wasting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your strengthening is happening, the capacity is growing, the character is forming.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when the door opens, you will step into it with depth you could not have developed any other way.
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  SPEAKER_00: So today, wait with courage, wait with hope, wait with expectancy, because he is faithful and he makes everything beautiful in its time.
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  SPEAKER_00: If this encourages you today, share it with someone who is in a waiting season.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, the most personal seasons are the ones where God is doing his deepest work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, friends, I'll see you soon.
• 10:14
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  SPEAKER_00: I can't wait to walk with you again in next week's episode.
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