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Are you being patient with God? continued...
You've got to wait expectantly.
Like the farmer in vs. 7, I need to wait expectantly. What does a farmer do while he's waiting? he prepares. He doesn't plant the seed and then go spend a year in Florida. The whole time he's anticipating, expecting, that there's going to be a harvest, so he starts getting ready for it.
Psalm 130:5 (LB) "I wait expectantly trusting God to help..." What have you been waiting for God to do in your life? For your marriage to be turned around? For a financial situation to be reversed? For a loved one to come to or back to Christ? To heal a hurt? For a physical healing? For your teenager to get his/her life back in line?
Of these things you're waiting on...One, are you really expecting it to happen? Because, "According to your faith it will be done to you." Some of you really don't expect it to happen. Two, if you expect it to happen, what are you doing to get ready for it? Because faith prepares. That's what it means to expect. It means you prepare in advance. While you are waiting, be preparing, because that demonstrates faith.
I've discovered that many times I thought I was waiting on God, when actually it was God waiting on me. You need to get your act together. You need to get prepared for the blessing God wants to give you. Once you're ready and once you've learned patience and once you've built the character you need, God will answer. "You're not waiting on Me," says God. "I'm waiting on you! I'm waiting on you to make the changes necessary so I can bless your life."
Isaiah 49:23 "The Lord says, 'No one who waits for My help will be disappointed"
You wait quietly.
We don't mind waiting as long as we can complain about it. If we grumble about it, we can handle it. I don't mind standing in line or having to wait if I can gripe and mumble and complain. In this passage, James gives us two things to do. "Don't grumble against each other brothers or you'll be judged." The New English Bible says, "Don't blame our troubles on one another." He says if your are going to learn to wait, you wait expectantly and you wait quietly. That means you don't gripe about it while you're waiting.
Do your rise and whine in the morning? Do you grumble? Do you gripe? The Bible says, don't grumble.
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Like the farmer in vs. 7, I need to wait expectantly. What does a farmer do while he's waiting? he prepares. He doesn't plant the seed and then go spend a year in Florida. The whole time he's anticipating, expecting, that there's going to be a harvest, so he starts getting ready for it.
Psalm 130:5 (LB) "I wait expectantly trusting God to help..." What have you been waiting for God to do in your life? For your marriage to be turned around? For a financial situation to be reversed? For a loved one to come to or back to Christ? To heal a hurt? For a physical healing? For your teenager to get his/her life back in line?
Of these things you're waiting on...One, are you really expecting it to happen? Because, "According to your faith it will be done to you." Some of you really don't expect it to happen. Two, if you expect it to happen, what are you doing to get ready for it? Because faith prepares. That's what it means to expect. It means you prepare in advance. While you are waiting, be preparing, because that demonstrates faith.
I've discovered that many times I thought I was waiting on God, when actually it was God waiting on me. You need to get your act together. You need to get prepared for the blessing God wants to give you. Once you're ready and once you've learned patience and once you've built the character you need, God will answer. "You're not waiting on Me," says God. "I'm waiting on you! I'm waiting on you to make the changes necessary so I can bless your life."
Isaiah 49:23 "The Lord says, 'No one who waits for My help will be disappointed"
You wait quietly.
We don't mind waiting as long as we can complain about it. If we grumble about it, we can handle it. I don't mind standing in line or having to wait if I can gripe and mumble and complain. In this passage, James gives us two things to do. "Don't grumble against each other brothers or you'll be judged." The New English Bible says, "Don't blame our troubles on one another." He says if your are going to learn to wait, you wait expectantly and you wait quietly. That means you don't gripe about it while you're waiting.
Do your rise and whine in the morning? Do you grumble? Do you gripe? The Bible says, don't grumble.
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