Abiding: Waiting on the LORD

Psalm 27:14

*Wait for the Lord;

 Be strong and let your heart take courage; 

Yes, wait for the Lord.*

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Waiting.  It seems like nothing, but it is something.  

Waiting is huge.  

Waiting is trusting the LORD.  

Waiting is great anticipation as we seek His face.

Waiting glorifies the LORD.

Waiting is not sitting still, but is very active in our inner being, using a lot of energy.

Waiting builds up our faith because we trust Him, and trusting Him more and more even as we seemingly “see” no answers

Waiting builds up our faith so we are stronger in our faith.

Waiting is not nothing, but it is something!

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Hebrews 10:35-39

35 Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, 

which has a great reward. 

36 For you have need of endurance, 

so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

37 For yet in a very little while, 

He who is coming will come, and will not delay.

38 *But My righteous one shall live by faith;* 

And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.

39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, 

but we are of those who have faith to the preserving of the soul.

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Habakkuk 2:1-4

 I will stand on my guard post

And station myself on the rampart;

And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me,

And how I may reply when I am reproved.

2 Then the Lord answered me and said, “Record the vision And inscribe it on tablets, That the one who reads it may run.

3 “For the vision is yet for the appointed time; It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay.

4 “Behold, as for the proud one, His soul is not right within him;

*But the righteous will live by his faith.*

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Romans 1:16-17

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, 

for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, 

to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 

17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; 

as it is written, “But *the righteous man shall live by faith.”*

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So what does this mean to all of us who love the LORD?  

We need to continue to stretch our faith muscles in trusting and waiting, knowing that He is not slow in hearing us, nor answering us.  

*He will answer us in His time and in His way*——even if the answers are not what we expect.  

Even so, we need to be at His feet in obedience trusting Him.  We need to walk by faith even when we can not “see”. 

May we glorify Him as we wait!