06/11/2022
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW EVEN WHILE WAITING ON THE LORD
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The thing about waiting is that Satan knows you are waiting, too. And many times, he preys on your anxiety and impatience in waiting, and fashions doors that look like God’s promise to you.
This is why your greatest ally in waiting is prayer—that hard thing to do when waiting.
Not just prayer for the answer to come quickly, or for strength to wait on the answer, but also for the ability to discern which “answer” is *good*, and which is *God*, when it comes.
It is important that even when it looks like what we have waited for has finally come to pass,
we are yet patient and wise enough to employ the technology of prayer in inspecting and sifting through it.
They told David, when Saul unknowingly landed in his jurisdiction, “See, this is the day that God told you about! The day that He hands your enemies over to you!”
It seemed like the answer had come: God Himself has handed Saul over to me. Let me kill him while I have the chance and become king. I am tired of running for my life. After all, God has already anointed me.
It seemed simple enough.
But after David tore a slice out of Saul’s robe, he knew that this was not God. It seemed like a good opportunity—I mean, if David was the one who unknowingly landed in Saul’s territory, Saul would surely have killed him—but it was not God. That was not God’s answer.
And thank God David did not get his hands bloodied with Saul. Thank God David ascended the throne nobly, as God had surely intended for him.
Heaven knows that you are waiting, but Hell knows it too. And while Isaac is being readied, Ishmael can be used as a distraction.
While both are sons and both seem like answers, only one of them is the son of promise. So pray thoroughly. Weigh and sift things in prayer. God is merciful, if you ask for discernment, He will give it to you.
Pray before the answer comes, prayer after the answer has come.
I pray that your obedient waiting will pay off. I pray that even as you wait, mighty strength is multiplied to you. And that when something of an answer comes, you have wisdom to discern what is God and what is not. You are exempted from making costly mistakes, in Jesus’ name.