While I’m Waiting

Often, we don’t see the answers to our prayers right away. Do you agree that it’s hard to wait with full patience? Sometimes we ask ourselves if we are doing the right thing, thinking then that God will grant our every prayer exactly how we want it to be answered. But while it is God’s promise that whatever we ask for in prayer, we will receive if we believe that we have (Mark 11:24), it is of utmost importance that we seek and desire His will in every request and petition we make (Matthew 6:33).

When we begin to pray for something, we jumpstart in faith, confident that God hears and answers.
Then hope begins to waver while going through the waiting process. This is where the real challenge is.
After the prayer is answered we suddenly get hyper in faith, giving us all the reasons to praise, give thanks and even testify.
Wouldn’t it be better if we had a steady, active, consistent and increasing faith in all of these seasons?

While waiting on the Lord’s answer, worship brings us back into recognizing and appreciating that God is present in and in control of every circumstance. No matter how short or long the process is, worship is the fuel of our strength to wait patiently. When we offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving, we truly honor the Lord (Psalm 50:23). It is the intentional praising, done during the hardest times where discouragements and hurts are present, that is most sincere and genuine because our motivation is hope. And we know that hope does not disappoint (Romans 5:5). It is trusting that something good will come even when we don’t see it yet, because hoping is living by faith and not by sight (2 Cor. 5:7). So, we rejoice in hope, patient in tribulation, and constant in prayer (Romans 12:12).

As we worship, we begin to see clearly that Jesus is the center, then we focus less on anything else and set our eyes on the True Source of everything good and perfect (James 1:17).

“I wait for the LORD, my whole being waits, and in His word I put my hope.“-Psalm 130:5