GOD’S TIME Athena Morrison
Considering where we are in our “waiting” period and the things for which we are awaiting, we may think we are never going to have those things or maybe they are not what God has in store for us. In times of hardship, we sometimes feel our prayers and cries to God are not being heard because we do not see an immediate change in our situations. In 2 Peter 3:8, we see the following “But, beloved, do not forget this one
thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
(NKJV) This should tell us that our earthly/fleshly timing is not in sync with the timing of God. We must therefore be in constant communication with God through fasting and prayer to see that He has a plan and time for all His children.
As we read the book of Genesis, we see that Sarah prayed daily to bring forth children but was not able to, and finally gave up believing that she could ever be able to conceive, which we all think of as the natural course of a wife and a woman. When God told Abraham that Sarah would become the mother of a son, Sarah laughed, thinking “I am past my childbearing age and my husband is old!”
In Genesis 18:14, it states “Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return to you at the appointed time next year and Sarah will have a son” (NIV). This tells us that with God, timing is in His hands no matter when we think the right time should be.
No one can change the timing set by God, no matter how it seems, we must remember that the tough times we go through are the times the enemy fights us the hardest. He knows that God has something great in store for us and he knows that our waiting period is about to come to an end and his agenda is to make us believe that God has forgotten us. The reward of waiting is shown in Lamentations 3:25-26 “The Lord
is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him. It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord” (NKJV)
Salvation is offered to all of God’s children along with all the other things we pray and are waiting for. The price for this was paid in full when Jesus gave His life for us. Let us therefore stay in a prayerful state and as our relationship with Him progresses, we will have the ability to be patient, still and obedient and we will know without a doubt, that all will happen in God’s perfect timing.
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