Trust In The Wait Proverbs 3:5-6 Psalms 27:13-14 Psalms 37:1-8 Psalms 37:34 Psalms 40:1-5 Psalms 112:1-8 Isaiah 30:18 Titus 2:11-14 Hebrews 12:2-3 1 Peter 5:6-11 Roman 15:13 03.19.21

 

TRUST IN THE WAIT

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⁵ Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; ⁶ in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.  Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)

 

¹³ I am still confident of this:  I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.  ¹⁴ Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.  Psalms 27:13-14 (NIV)

 

¹ Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of those who do wrong; ² for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away. ³ Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.  ⁴ Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. ⁵ Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this:  ⁶ He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.  ⁷ Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. ⁸ Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret--it leads only to evil.  Psalms 37:1-8 (NIV)

 

³⁴ Wait for the LORD and keep his way.  He will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are cut off, you will see it.  Psalms 37:34 (NIV)

 

¹ I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry.  ² He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.  ³ He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God.  Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.  ⁴ Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not look to the proud, to those who turn aside to false gods.  ⁵ Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders you have done.  The things you planned for us no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare.  Psalms 40:1-5 (NIV)

 

¹ Praise the LORD.  Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who finds great delight in his commands. ² His children will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed. ³ Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.  ⁴ Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man.  ⁵ Good will come to him who is generous and lends freely, who conducts his affairs with justice.  ⁶ Surely he will never be shaken; a righteous man will be remembered forever.  ⁷ He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.  ⁸ His heart is secure, he will have no fear; in the end he will look in triumph on his foes.   Psalms 112:1-8 (NIV)

 

¹⁸ Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!  Isaiah 30:18 (NIV)

 

¹¹ For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. ¹² It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, ¹³ while we wait for the blessed hope--the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, ¹⁴ who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.   Titus 2:11-14 (NIV)

 

² Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.  Hebrews 12:2-3 (NIV)

 

⁶ Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. ⁷ Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. ⁸ Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. ⁹ Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings. ¹⁰ And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast. ¹¹ To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen.  1 Peter 5:6-11 (NIV)

 

¹³ May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.  Romans 15:13 (NIV)

 

BUTTER

 

“When your prayers seem to go unanswered, or even unnoticed by God, it’s easy to feel lost in the dark. Is He there? Does He hear this prayer?  I’m learning that depending on God as we wait in the dark of unanswered prayer is an exercise in trusting His greater plan.  Sometimes we see God’s yes and other times we don’t. But just because it has not happened doesn’t mean it won’t.  Even in the dark, He is working. We can move through uncertain times with a certain God. This is hope in the dark.  Even when we cannot yet see or understand how He is at work, we can find a gift in the waiting.”  Elisabeth Hasselbeck 

“Life holds for all of us, from time to time, desolate places. All that was ordinary and secure and familiar and dependable seems a thousand miles away. Here we are in this strange wilderness- out of work, ill, robbed of something or someone, banished from a privilege that once was ours, no longer needed, confused, forsaken. It is a place of dryness, loneliness, isolation, helplessness, fear. We feel as though we are walking where no human being was ever meant to walk, a place of dragons. Don't despair. Even though you find no signs, be sure that thousands have traversed this terrain. When you reach the far side you will meet them. But there is something that is far more comforting than that. You are not alone now. Always beside you is Another whose voice you may not hear, whose arm you may not feel, whose footprint you may not see. Nevertheless His Word is utterly to be trusted: ‘I cared for you in the wilderness.’” (Hosea 13:5)  Elisabeth Elliot

“Take courage.  We walk in the wilderness today and in the Promised Land tomorrow.”   D.L. Moody

“They who persevere in the power of the Holy Spirit doing God’s will for His glory will not be want of success.  Even in what appears to be failure in the world’s eyes, it is success in the Lords. For He allows nothing to happen to His children which will not eventually be for their ultimate good and His ultimate glory – never one surpassing the other.  Continue on Christian in His power.  God will be no man’s debtor.  Be strong and firm then and wait on the Lord.  ‘¹³ I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. ⁴ Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.’”   Psalms 27:13-14 (NIV)   BHY

 

“Waiting eats away at us not only because our lives feel so empty, but also because others’ seem so full.  When we allow our minds to churn away with thoughts about others, we open our hearts to a bitter temptation: envy. Envy may gratify us for the moment, but it will soon rot our bones away (Proverbs 14:30).  God has better ways for us to spend our waiting.  If we refuse to fix our eyes on others, where will we fix them? On God, who walks alongside us in our waiting.  Waiting forces us to answer the question, ‘Where is your chief delight?’ If our chief delight is in whatever we see at the end of our wait, then this wilderness will begin to feel like a death trap. But if our chief delight is in God himself, then we will find that he knows how to make rivers flow in the desert. And we will learn how to wait well.”    Scott Hubbard

“Keep bringing your prayers to God. If you think your request is legitimate, keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking. God wants to teach us through persistent praying to wait on Him and to watch. While we're praying and waiting for God to answer our prayers, do you know what He's doing? He's working on us, conforming us more and more to the image of Christ. And when we're ready, the answer will surely come.”   David Jeremiah

 

“The conviction of the Holy Spirit is always precise:  He identifies root causes of sin, and He moves the heart to specific acts of repentance and obedience.  All those who trust God sufficiently to desire to obey Him, and who are patient in waiting upon Him, will find unfailingly that HE gives clear guidance.  ‘In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths’, promises Proverbs 3:6.  For those who love God everything is aboveboard.  To know Him is to know what He requires and more than that, it is to have the power to carry it out.  In fact these two—enlightenment and empowering—go hand in hand, and where they do not, then the Lord is not in it.”    Mike Mason

“Waiting is just a gift of time in disguise — a time to pray wrapped up in a ribbon of patience — because is the Lord ever late?”    Ann Voskamp

“Simply wait upon Him.  So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded.”   Vance Havner

“God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.”   John Piper

“Patience is the fair handmaid and daughter of faith; we cheerfully wait when we are certain that we shall not wait in vain.  It is our duty and our privilege to wait upon the Lord in service, in worship, in expectancy, in trust all the days of our life.  Our faith will be tried faith, and if it be of the true kind, it will bear continued trial without yielding.  We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.”    Charles H. Spurgeon

“Immortal, invisible, God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, Almighty, victorious, Thy great name we praise.  Unresting, unhasting and silent as light, Nor wanting, nor wasting, Thou rulest in might; Thy justice like mountains high soaring above Thy clouds, which are fountains of goodness and love.”   Walter C. Smith

 

HEART SAVOR

 

• ·         We can trust Him in the wait joyfully knowing He has our best interest at heart in all that He allows in our lives.  Everything that happens to His child passes through His loving hands.
• ·         Keep your eyes on Him not your circumstances.
• ·         Cast your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.