Tired of Waiting
I remember my father Dick Mills preaching a great sermon, “Tired of Waiting.”
The important point being was the waiting. Waiting for God to do what only He could do. When the wait lasts and lasts, then we often get tired. Tired of praying, tired of asking God to intervene. Yet the wait is where God meets us. The wait is where God lets us find Him.
Waiting comes by praying and positioning yourself to hear from the Lord. Knowing that when He speaks you want to be ready and listening. Waiting on Him to answer, waiting on Him to give you direction and answer your prayer. And then be obedient.
Isaiah 40:31 says “Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint.”
Isaiah 30:18 “Blessed are all those who wait for Him.”
Waiting is Purposeful
Waiting on the Lord takes purposeful action. Not in-action. It is purposeful. Waiting, and during the wait you exchange your exhaustion over the situation with strength, the ability to run rather than collapse because of the waiting. It also takes patience. Those are choices that we make or choose not to make.
Do you know why you are having to wait? You are waiting because God has spoken and given you a word, through a message, perhaps a scripture or scriptures in the Bible. Something you can hold on to and say ‘yes this is a Word for the Lord for me in this season.’
But then the waiting begins. Along with the waiting can come confusion and frustration.
Wondering why God hasn’t responded or answered the prayer.
The good news is God can be trusted because He is trustworthy.
God is faithful to fulfill His promise because He is faithful.
God is not a liar. If He spoke it, it will come to pass.
But we wait on the Lord because He has spoken and what He has spoken has given us hope. It has given us strength and endurance to purposely focus our eyes on Him while we wait.
We Wait Because God Has Spoken
We also wait on the Lord because He is not a liar and if He has spoken a Word then we can trust Him because He is the trustworthy one. His Words can be trusted.
He promises in His Word there is an exchange with Him during the wait. We wait and in exchange we are promised that our strength will be renewed. (Isaiah 40:31)
We will mount up with wings as eagles.
We will be able to run, not be weary. And we are promised in exchange for waiting on the Lord we won’t faint.
The exchange is strength and empowerment by God Himself. The waiting is our part.
The exchange is His part.
We live in a finite world with a measure of days, a measure of skill and ability.
God Promises to Help
God says when you wait on Him that you will have strength for your days (Deuteronomy 33:25), (Isaiah 40:31) that you will able to do all things through Christ who strengthens you (Philippians 4:13) and you will see the goodness of God here on the earth, while you are living. (Psalm 27:13,14)
Psalm 27:13,14 “Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart. and wait for the Lord.”
Psalm 33:10 “Our soul waits for the Lord. He is our help and shield.”
Psalm 130:6 “My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning.”
Isaiah 33:2 “O Lord be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.”
God promises to His believers that there is a desired outcome. That He will hear them when they are praying and crying out to Him.
That He will come, He will speak and He will deliver.
Lamentations 3:26 “It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.”
You Won’t Be Ashamed When You Wait on Him
Isaiah 49:23 “For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”
Psalm 37:34 “Wait on the Lord and keep his way and He shall exalt you to inherit the land.”
(Scriptures compiled by Dick Mills and Debbie (Mills) Booth
We may grow tired of waiting on God because in all truth we think it would be expedient for Him to respond quickly when we pray and those prayers be answered. That is our thought process.
We grow tired of waiting and then we begin to think “Did God even hear my prayer?”
While Waiting…
Why is He waiting? God’s plan for waiting is a plan with purpose.
That purpose draws us closer to Him. We lean in more. We pray more. Seeking Him becomes an ongoing thing every day because we need God to respond, to help, to give us the breakthrough we have been praying for.
Our hope is in Him.
Psalm 25:4,5 “Show your ways Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.”
Excerpt from “He Spoke and I Was Strengthened”
(Excerpt from Dick Mills’ Book He Spoke and I was Strengthened.)
“You have grown weary in waiting,
You have grown tired,
You have grown anxious,
You have become fatigued,
You are carrying within you a desire which has not yet come to pass.
You have yearned and longed many times to sit down and rest…
But in my wisdom I am leading you in the way you should go. I am guiding you in the paths which are best for you.”
“There shall be no more delay.”
Isaiah 25:9 “And it will be said in that day: Behold, this is our God; We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is the Lord; We have waited for Him; We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”
We wait because we trust God. We trust in His Word. The trustworthy one is worth waiting on and trusting.
To God be all the Glory,
Debbie (Mills) Booth
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