Learning to Wait
on the Lord

1. Start a journal today to record the things that are heavy on your mind; things that you yearn to see how God will use it all to bring glory to himself, things that look impossible to you.  Write them down.
    
2. Make a prayer list out of these burdens.
    
3. Stay in God's Word, studying, praying and waiting.
   
    "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needed not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
                                      II Timothy 2:15
    
4. Keep up with your journal, recording the exciting things that you see happen as you wait. 

The Hebrew word for Word, (daw-bar') prime root; to arrange, to subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, daw-bawr'; a matter or thing, a cause.  Advice, affair, answer, counsel, report, concerning thought, tiding, works.
 

In our women's Bible study, we were talking about prayer requests and one woman was updating us on some answers to a prayer request that we had kept up on.

She mentioned how she had waited over three years, wondering and praying, what would become of the mess in her family. What she thought was working out wrong, had now all fit together like a puzzle.  That it all made sense now; how God had been working with every situation  (what seemed good and what seemed bad).  She used her arms as if she was trying to show how all these things were like entwined and twisted all together to make one goal. She was amazed that the whole mess had worked into a wonderful outcome of love and salvation for her father. 

As she illustrated the twisting with her arms, I realized that what she had just said, was the exact meaning of the word I had been studying for our next lesson, which was the word WAIT.

I visualized a vine wreath, that has knots, twists, squigglies, and leaves along with thick branches and delicate fragile branches.  Someone could take this pile of branches and rake them together and see a mess and have a bon fire to rid the trash and mess. But it takes someone special to see the good in all this, to pick up those ends and pieces, twist them all together and create a beautiful wreath that now can become useful.

Remember, she had said she waited and prayed for three years?  It was new to me that the word wait, used in these verses means to bind together.

Wait on the Lord: be of good courage,
and he shall strengthen thine heart:
wait, I say, on the Lord.

Psalms 27:14
 

The Hebrew word for "Wait" (qavah, kaw-vaw'); means to bind together, by twisting.  as in; collect, gather together, look patiently, tarry, wait  (for, on, upon).   Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.  Psalms 31:24 Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.  Psalms 62:1,5  I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. Psalms 130:5  My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.  Psalms 119:81 Thou art my hiding place and my shield:  I hope in thy word.   Psalms 119:114

 

 Wow, life makes a lot of sense
when I look at it from that view.

G od is working in His own timing and we are to wait, look patiently, and wait upon the Lord.  We are also to stay in God's Word.  His Word gives us strength, and hope.  It causes us to become closer to God so that we can be sensitive to His voice and His working in our life.

~ Julie Bergeron  
 

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