Do you ever feel that God is trying to teach you a lesson, but you don’t have it?
Yes. That’s me. Pushing against class at the moment.
Like real, I am that person who has received a lot of her wisdom by hit her head against the wall.
But I think I would learn to be patient after the 12th concussion and know that my way is not always the best.
Especially when it comes to romantic relationships.
Girl, just hit my head against the wall with every man I chased. Big hint: I was looking for Hardcore Jezebel Energy.
Thank goodness for redemption! But enough about my impatient, impulsive tendencies.
What does it mean to wait with confidence?
To be honest, I just learned this concept just over a year ago.
Learning to wait with confidence requires practice and reformulating the way you experience silence. If you wait with confidence, you are:
- Content regardless of the outcome.
- Under control over your thoughts and they do not allow you to influence you.
- Free from the desire to control everything.
But the most important thing is that you have relatively trust in God for your future, which forfeits the urge to take matters into your own hands.
Why do we have trouble waiting?
There are so many reasons why many of us have trouble waiting. Especially we as women, while we wear the cloak for dealing with everything. We often get lost so that things happen that we lose the one who makes all things possible.
Some frustrations we have with waiting are:
- We have a timeline for our own lives.
- We believe in the culture of this world, where time or occasion nobody is waiting.
- We fear that we will stay behind.
- We still have not accepted the reality of our current circumstances or situation. (And I did not count the blessings of today before they strive for tomorrow’s gifts.)
- We allow the opinions of others to overpower, hurry or make us feel less than when we wait for God.
And I know you probably felt one of these in your season waiting. But I am here to tell you that your way of thinking can change. You can always grow and be better for your next season to wait with confidence.
In the next section I share writings that helped me in my waiting season to keep my mind on things above while I wait.
How do I wait with confidence?
To be honest, we often make things more complicated than they have to be. Many of the changes we have to make in life all start with a choice. Below I will share five choices that you must make to wait with confidence.
Choose to trust and hope God.
Wait for the Gentleman; Be strong and let your heart be brave. Wait for the Gentleman. Psalms 27:14
*Psalm 39: 7
I have written a message about the trust of God, so you know that the focus is faith and believe that God has a great future for you. That does not mean that there will still be hardships; It just means they will not always last.
We often look for God to suddenly get ourselves out of situations, but that is never the case. He usually wants you to learn or grow from things in your life, so a waiting time will always be periodically in your life. Just like when a farmer has to wait for a harvest, we must water and feed the seeds in our own lives.
So look for the son to help you by going the growing process while you wait.
Choose to wait quietly and not to complain along the way.
Silence for the Gentleman And wait for him; Don’t be agitated by someone who is in his own way, By the person who makes bad plans. Psalm 37: 7
*Complaints 3:25
This point speaks for itself. Do you want to see how well you are waiting? The next time you are in the store, are in traffic or delay an Amazon delivery package, investigate how you respond in the situation while you wait.
We all know that person (could be yourself) who can’t wait for anything. Someone who is always in a hurry forces, forces and complains. This is not the way God waits us early. We get the order to wait quietly. Remember that although our tongues have power, nothing can flourish if God does not deduct it. So don’t complain! Release control once.
This is why when movements and cars avoid; I thank the Lord.
Choose to remember every time that God came for you in the past.
They soon forgot his works And would not wait for his counsel. Psalm 106: 13
I don’t know how you are, but God has come through in my past in important ways. Moments when I should have been dead, sick and banned, he kept me. But often focus on what we don’t have and not on what God has already offered to us. We no longer allow God to be our first resort.
For this reason I started dumping the brain most nights. This practice helped me to shift my focus to the goodness of the Lord I have seen and not on the gravity of the day. When was the last time you took the time to sum up the goodness of your day and count the blessings that we often forget to count?
Choose to concentrate on what God has told you and not what others say around you.
But I’ll look at the Gentleman; I will wait for the god of my salvation. My God will hear me. Micah 7: 7
*Ecclesiates 7: 21-22
We are absolutely in an era where opinions are more important than morality. But what I want you to receive by choosing this way is that God’s Word is pure. The perspectives of others, including ours, are infected because of sin.
When we concentrate on the things of God, we do not concentrate so much on the desires and desires. I know for me, because I am transparent, I have many passions. Sometimes a new one every week, but in the end my track record of listening to myself and others did not go well in the past. So to see something else in our lives, we have to do things differently with God.
Choose to enjoy the process.
Because the vision is even for the agreed time; It testifies to the end and won’t lie.
Although it slows down, wait for it, Because it will certainly come and not be too late. Habakkuk 2: 3*Phillipians 1: 6
Okay, the Scripture does not come out immediately, but I notice in waiting, God gives us many visions. He called us these visions to write down. So while you wait, every revelation, every vision, every prayer, every answered prayer must be recorded.
I will be honest; I struggle with consistency in this area. But I ask him to be my strength. The nice thing is that the majority of the blog post you read here are my writing on the tablet. So with all of you I enjoy the process.
All in all,
I always hope that these blog posts would be shorter, but I know I will cut you to the wisdom that God has for you. I hope that this message will help you wait with confidence and receive the blessings that quick solutions can never bring.
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