ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD!

SO CAN WE

Remember Your word to Your servant,

for You have given me hope.

Ps. 119.49

Hope waits for things promised but not yet given.

In this hope we were saved.

But hope that is seen is no hope at all.....

But if we hope for what we do not yet have,

we wait for it patiently.

Romans 8.24-25

While we wait God preserves and prepares us.

My comfort in my suffering is this:

Your promise preserves my life.

Psalm 119.50

While we wait we search the Scriptures, God directs and prepares us to be like "an oak of righteousness for the dislplay of His glory." (Isaiah 61.3)

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,

and in His word I put my hope.

My soul waits for the Lord

more than watchemn wait for the morning,

more than watchmen wait for the morning.

Psalm 130.5-6

The reason and goal of God in "making us wait" is that He sees much more in our situation than we see. There are always more things that need to be taken care of than what we are experiencing.

While we are waiting with God, the Holy Spirit will be leading, directing, correcting, cleansing, instructing, transforming, developing......preparing us to bear fruit, more fruit, much fruit, to become wiser, stronger, better in righteousness and holiness, wisdom and power, with goodness and kindness,

compassion and mercy, forgiveness, genuineness and sincerity of faith and love.

He will identify and free us from the effects of adversity and tribulation that have deep roots within our heart and soul (Hebrews 12.15; Psalm 129.23-24.)

It is our searching the Scriptures for this cleansing and correction that God uses in our troubles that reveal and transform our heart, soul, mind, and body.

2 Timothy 3.16-17; Hebrews 4.12; Psalm 19.7-14.

It is essential that we understand that during our wait we are to read Scripture to find corrections and transforming redirections that will renew, rebuild, and restore the image of God within us, body, soul, and spirit. Ephesians 4. 22-24; 1 Thessalonians 5.23-24.

The Holy Spirit wants to do a thorough work of transformation and freedom that will reflect the glory praise, and honor of the Lord Jesus in and through our lives. Impatience on our part hinders and prevents this from happening.

Patience in tribulation--Romans 15.4, 13; James 1.2-5--will allow God to do far more than we can possible ask or think, things much greater, mightier than we have any awareness at the time of our troubles.

Patience with God, in His word, seeking wisdom and grace to grow in the knowledge and likeness of the Lord Jesus, for this present trouble, will fill us with greater riches from His kingdom than anything we can ask for our own comfort.

Submit yourselves, then to God....

Humble yourselves before the Lord,

and He will lift you up.

James 4.7, 10; 1 Peter 5.5-6