Waiting for Answers
I’ll give the link to a new video below, but want to share something that encouraged me recently, and is in line with the video, Waiting for God’s Answers to Prayer.
David’s song, Psalm 27, has two threads to it and he switches from one to the other throughout the song. The first is about his desire for God; he wants to spend his life admiring the Lord. The second thread is about his enemies’ desire. They want to devour him and are planning his downfall.
Some lines of his song bring the two threads together. He sings of not being afraid of his enemies, because his life is the Lord’s. David is sure that the One he desires will protect him when his enemies launch their day of trouble. So, he asks God to rescue him.
And then David sings to himself. Twice, he urges himself to wait for the Lord , and between the two, he tells himself to be strong (14).
It takes strength to wait for God’s answers. Desperation for a quick solution, or doubt that the Father has heard, can find us trying to create our own answers. It takes inner strength to wait for the answer God wants to give. Our own strength reservoir is small, but the Lord opens his to us. That’s what David was drawing from when he urged himself to be strong and wait for the Lord.
It’s wonderful when the Father answers us immediately. However, there’s often a gap between our ASK and his ANSWER. But the gap isn’t an empty space. He is present, giving strength for the wait. Not a passive wait. There’s something in particular that his strength makes possible for us, something that makes a big difference to our time in the gap. I share about it in the 12-minute video, WAITING for God’s ANSWERS to Prayer.
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