#Wait on the Lord

[ae-cha08]

When we become frustrated with God’s apparent delay in answering our prayer, it is good to remember that He is interested in developing faith and perseverance in our character (James 1:2-4). Wait on the Lord!

[alwaysrememberjesus]

Wait In God’s Presence

[lightfromthelighthouse]

Good Morning!☀

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. Isaiah 40:31

One of the secrets to success in life is first deciding that giving up is not an option. That decision has to be made first. Once giving up is removed as an option, the only option left is to stay at it until you succeed.

When you add actively seeking God and his wisdom and timing to the mix, you have a powerful and unbeatable combination! As you wait on him and move in his timing, your strength is renewed. You get closer and closer to victory as you walk in God's will and way.

Giving up is not an option for the child of God! Waiting on God is!

[theinwardlight]

Quaker worship is not based on silence, which is neutral and depends on what it’s filled with. Instead, we are brought together to wait on the Lord, and we expect Him to show up and lead us.

Epistle from a gathering of young adult Quakers, Jordans UK, 2024

[iipeleng]

So, wait on the Lord 🙌🏽

[aniah-who]

I don’t know who needs to hear it, but go and read Psalms 27:14, friend. The drought you’ve been in is coming to an end.

[troubledontlast1]

Waiting on God isn’t punishment.

It’s preparation.

[thomastanker02]

Taken from Prayer That Changes Everything by Stormie Omartian. God bless, Jesus loves you ✝️❤️

@cosmicfunnies @babyimlosingit @cottonpuffmouse

[dearjewels22]

[maxeiil]

something i was thinking bout not too long ago

I was reading James 4 and specifically verse 3 caught my eye; "When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures."

a while ago, I had a crush on this boy, my friends and I called him plum (because my sister said he looks like one lol). I was always praying to God that I would get to know him and he'd love me too-- and it was like that for months. I was absolutely infatuated with the boy. I always brushed off his wrongdoings and just saw them as his personality traits. I was just blinded by 2 things. 1, he was Christian, and 2, he was kind to me when I was the new girl.

Even though I was indirectly rejected so many times, I was just so stubborn about Plum. The boy literally said he liked tall, white, light-eyed, blondes, the complete opposite off what I am, and I was still delusional. When I found out he really hated me, I was crushed... But a while after, I finally snapped out of it and realized.

I didn't really like him, did I. I just wanted someone pretty to obsess over, someone so beautiful, I'd put them on some "holier than all" pedestal. My feelings for Plum were so superficial. And James 4:3 made me think.

I wanted it so bad, but at the same time I didn't really want it. If I did, I would have went for it. Because isnt it ironic how every chance I got to talk to him I didn't? I wasn't meant to. Plum wasn't mine. He may have loved God, but that doesnt mean he would love me.

And like I said, I was just grossly infatuated and obsessed. It wasn't even love. It was all wrong--It was just a silly delusional beyond delusional crush. I did want Plum for my own pleasures and just to be happy. But I never had anything with him. And I was never supposed to.

And you know what? I'm now really glad it went that way. God sent me another boy; I'll call him Ari. Now, the story between me and Ari is definitely for another testimony, but I really hope this was clear. You won't get everything you want just because you ask for it. No matter how good you are. God has a plan for you. Wait for Him; Your time will come.

God bless all, Maya <3

[walkswithmyfather]

Amen! 🙏🕊️🙌

[ae-cha08]

It may take a while but what's meant for you will not mistakenly be given to someone else. God doesn't miss any targets. God doesn't give someone else your piece of the cake. So rest assured, that if something is meant for you, even if the whole world is competing for it, it will be yours and yours only.

[alwaysrememberjesus]

He Will Do It Again!!!!!

[lightfromthelighthouse]

Good Morning!☀

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Psalms 27:14

If we remember that we are not our own, we were bought with the blood of Jesus, then waiting on God becomes a lot easier. Some things take longer to work out in our lives than others. Just like the "Coming Soon" signs you see on vacant lots that are often there for quite a while before anything comes, if ever, much has to happen in the background before any construction can even begin.

Our waiting is not idle waiting. God is working in the background with us and those he will use to help us, moving things where they need to be for us to make another step. We can rest in the fact that God knows how to care for those who belong to him and is looking much further down the road than we could ever see. Meanwhile, we walk in what he has already revealed to us.

Do not rush the process. God has not forgotten about you!

[theinwardlight]

It has been the experience of this Yearly Meeting in the past to know that Friends have met in division and uncertainty, and that then guidance has come, and light has been given to us, and we have become the finders of God’s purpose. This gives us ground for confidence.

London Yearly Meeting, 1936

[momentsbeforemass]

I don’t know

“I don’t know.”

Whether it’s someone else asking us questions. Or it’s just us, struggling with something we don’t understand.

There’s something in us that craves certainty, that wants an explanation. That desperately wants the emotional payoff of knowing.

That’s why “I don’t know” is one of the hardest answers to give. And an even harder answer to live with.

If you’ve ever wondered why good, kind, thoughtful people fall for conspiracy theories? Why some people make stuff up and then believe their own made-up stuff?

Letting their desire to know run away with them is a big part of it.

It’s also one of the big reasons that waiting on the Lord is so hard.

The thing is reality – including God, the ultimate reality – is full of seasons where we can’t see what’s happening. And yet, something is happening.

This is what today’s Gospel is pointing to, when it says, “This is how it is with the Kingdom of God; it is as if a man were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how.”

When it comes to seeds, we all know that there’s a time after you plant it that nothing appears to be happening. At least nothing we can see. But if we could see it, we would see a lot of things going on.

We would see the seed bursting its shell, sending out roots, gathering strength. Building the foundation that it needs to support the plant that you and I will see when it breaks through the surface.

If we can stand waiting on the seed, we’ll get the payoff of what we planted. In the seed’s good time. Not ours.

But if we keep digging it up to check on its progress? It’ll never happen.

So it is with a lot of things in life. Especially God.

Just because we can’t see what God’s doing right now doesn’t mean that it’s not happening.

The hard part for you and me? Getting over our need to know exactly what’s happening. Learning to trust God. Which is what waiting on the Lord is all about.

Today, ask God for the grace to not have to know everything. Ask God for the grace to avoid jumping to conclusions while you’re waiting.

Trust that God will take care of all of it.

Receive God’s best. In God’s good time.

Because the best things in life are worth waiting for.

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