While God often says to us: Don't just do something, stand there. We live by the adage: Don't just stand there, do something. Waiting on the Lord requires patient trust In waiting they would catch the wind of God's Spirit. When Jesus told his disciples to wait in Jerusalem, he was telling them that that this was a means of experiencing his peace, his prosperity, and his power. Waiting is the confident, disciplined, expectant, active, and sometimes painful clinging to God. Those who wait on God can go about their assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and conclusions to their lives and the harvest to their toil. The farmer can wait all summer for his harvest because he has done his work of sowing the seed and watering the plants. ![]() Those who wait are those who work, because they know their work is not in vain. It is not a way to evade unpleasant reality. Waiting, biblical waiting, is not a passive waiting around for something to happen that will allow us to escape our troubles. What God does in us while we wait is as important as what it is we are waiting for. Waiting is the process of becoming what God wants us to be. Waiting is not just something we have to do while we get what we want. But we wait in traffic, in car pool lines, in holding patterns, in grocery stores, for the foursome ahead of us, for the doctor, for a spouse, for a baby, for retirement, for sermons to get over, or for Jesus to return. Waiting on God increases my strength Introduction Waiting on the Lord allows God to do his work Waiting reminds me that I am not in charge.Waiting on God reminds us that God is in control Waiting is God's way of seeing if we will trust him before we move forward.Waiting means that we give God the benefit of the doubt that he knows what he is doing.So what do we do in the meantime? What do we do while we wait? This sermon helps the hearer understand what to do while they wait on Jesus' return. When Jesus promised that he would return, he instructed his followers to wait. ![]() Waiting on the Lord may be one of the most difficult aspects of the Christian life.
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