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A Good Wait or A Bad Weight?

Bringing a child into this world is one of the most amazing works of God I never cease to marvel at. I won’t go into the details of the little we understand about it today but one thing that strikes me the most is the concept of having to wait for 9 months before the delivery of a baby. A pregnant woman may feel uneasy many times with bouts of nausea, backache, sleepless nights but hardly would you see her curse and complain so bitterly; She won’t do that because she knows very soon she will take delivery of her bundle of joy. She may be carrying a weight around but she is going to wait for the set time nature has purposed for delivery, so she waits eagerly and with joy as there definitely will come the "bringing forth" day.

Every one prays to God daily about one need or the other and sometimes we wait for years to receive answers to some of these prayers in spite of promises from God and many confirmations from different quarters. Oh yes, he is ALWAYS faithful to His promises, for His words will never return to Him until they fulfil the purpose for which they have been sent. He opens His hand and satisfies us from His bounty. He is the Immovable Rock and Shelter, His name is a fortress that the righteous run into and they are safe. No doubt He is God alone; The God of all flesh with whom nothing is impossible.

As much as we know that God is dependable and strong for us all, the concern is if He would find us equally dependable and steady in waiting for Him and trusting Him to meet our needs, give us deliverance, healing and whatsoever it is we desire. As we look unto Him for the fulfilment of our requests, He desires to find in us reliable and strong people who would stay focused on Him inspite of what it is they see in the physical. God honours in enormous ways those who dare to trust in and wait for Him when it is extremely hard to do so. People who have daring faith move the hands of God to do gargantuan (large, massive, enormous, mind blowing) miracles for them……

If we have to wait on God for something, it is better to wait well. With so much weight on our minds, we are robbed of the joy that comes with fulfilment of promises.Doctors have said the moods of a pregnant woman is likely to impact on her baby in one way or the other. When we are in school for the purpose of obtaining a degree, we don’t see the sleepless nights of reading as a burden or a weight, why? We are assured of the end results. We are admonished to wait with courage, wait with joy and an assurance that faithful is He who has promised who would also do it. Psalm 27: 14 says "Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord"!

God is looking for:

People who would hold on to His promises tenaciously like Abraham. “Abraham didn't focus on his own impotence and say, "It's hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child." Nor did he survey Sarah's decades of infertility and give up. He didn't tiptoe around God's promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, sure that God would make good on what he had said…. Romans 4: 19(Message version)

People like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego who looked at the King straight in the eye and said: If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. 18But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.” (Daniel 3: 17-18)

People like David who looked at the towering Goliath and screamed “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. 46This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.( 1st Samuel 17: 45-46).

People Like Joshua and Caleb who were part of the twelve spies sent to the promised land and whilst the others were so negative and pessimistic about going on to possess the land, they said “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it”.( Numbers 13: 20)

People like Daniel who after a decree was given that no one should worship God “……….went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days”( Daniel 6:10)

People like the woman who had the issue of blood for 12 years and just wanted to touch the helm of the garment of Jesus secretly “For she said to herself, “If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well”( Matthew 9: 22)

People like the Centurion who came to meet Jesus for the healing of His servant and when Jesus was ready to go with Him to his House (what a great privilege), he said “Lord, do not trouble Yourself, for I am not worthy that You should enter under my roof. 7Therefore I did not even think myself worthy to come to You. But say the word, and my servant will be healed”( Luke 7:7).

People like Esther who had to go in to see the King at a forbidden time knowing fully well that whoever violated protocol would perish. She called for a fast amongst the Jews and said “ My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!”(Esther 4:16b)

People like Ruth who though was a Moabitess knew that there exists a God and she insisted on following Naomi after they both lost their husbands. She said:

“Entreat me not to leave you,Or to turn back from following after you;For wherever you go, I will go;And wherever you lodge, I will lodge;Your people shall be my people,And your God, my God.( Ruth 1:16)

How about the long list of people in Hebrews chapter 11

32And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: 33who through faith subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 34quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. 35Women received their dead raised to life again.

Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.36Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, andof chains and imprisonment. 37They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented— 38of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in dens and caves of the earth

They were Men of like passions as we are but tell me why God won’t honour such Faith. He did it for them and will do it for us. Yes God is willing to come through for us, but let’s dare to stay strong in waiting for Him.

This day is going to be the best you have lived so far....

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