WAITING

 In the thanksgiving mood, am thankful for life, salvation, friends, family and readers.

Thank God for his grace, love and constant out pour of patience. I mean! Is it just me or this happens to other people? you know that moment you are expecting things to happen as  planned,  like you are so sure things are going to fall in place with time (faithfam team) but it seems like it’s taking  a long time or even forever to manifest.

When you have finally resulted to believing and trusting God, just when you have taken the bold step to keep hope alive and enjoy the waiting period, people come with words like " so what next, "so when is the date? And am wondering are you God? If you are really bothered about my future, please go on a 3 day fasting and prayer, perhaps 40 days will do the job perfectly. Don’t get me wrong, I know they are asking or speaking out of love, but please think about how it feels, i am  obviously not happy things aren't going as planned but wetin man go do? The pressure is real! The only thing that keeps a person going is the ability to trust God, keep hoping and praying.

Doing God’s will sometimes means waiting patiently, most especially the manifestation of those promises you have inculcated into your daily confessions, wheeew! Trust me, I know the feeling, but those waiting periods thought me a whole lot of things, I have learnt to remain a happy person, not just happy but joyful, not giving the enemies any opportunity to rejoice over me. During my study moments I came across this bible passage and I tell you, it changed me, kept me going and increased the intensity of my love for God.

Delight yourself in the lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. (Psalm 37:4)

To delight in someone means to experience great pleasure and joy in his or her presence or absence, this happens only when we know that person well, so delighting yourself in the lord means you must know him better. We all patiently await the manifestation of God’s promises because we know there are great testimonies to be shared, I learnt to laugh out loud and hang out with friends leaving no room for any negative thoughts or imagination.. So my friends, I advice you do the same, quit the self pity, get up and be happy.

While you wait, please enjoy your waiting moment, you should love God more, take your mind off the things you need or want, take it off your worries, cast them away, dwell more on how you can grow with God, Serve others and tell others about him. Waiting for God to help us is not easy, looking at the story of David; he was facing so many difficulties causing him to feel rejected.

We sometimes think God is punishing us for our sins or something like that ( even if you think that’s what it is, why not ask for his mercy, even the bible says come boldly to the throne of grace. His grace is made available and sufficient. On the other hand, shall we continue in sin that grace may abide? God forbid).

He is not an author of confusion; He loves us more than we can imagine. Through David’s hard times, he consistently submitted himself to the will of God. Waiting for God to show up is sure not easy but David received four benefits from waiting:

1)      He was lifted out of his despair,

2)      His feet was set on the rock,

3)      He was given a firm place to stand

4)      God put a new song of praise in his mouth.

On a conclusive note, know that no matter how long you wait, God will certainly show up, don’t take the short cut, don’t give up, ask God for the grace to wait patiently. You will laugh at last just like David did.

Please leave your comments below and share your testimony to help some other person out there, we need each other.

Oh! By the way am reading this book by JOHN P. FOPPE, “WHAT’S YOUR EXCUSE” it’s awesome, I think you guys should check it out. (That’s if you've not read it)