When God makes you wait
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Intro and Tension
Intro and Tension
It’s really annoying when you have to....
Wait. I hate waiting;
Stop Sign | Traffic Lights | Airports
Funny Concert Story - Instead of Waiting, he had to walk, and then wait some more
Had to take a step of Faith - I would find something better - Caused more waiting.
So often, God says STOP, or redirects, or works on us, or makes us wait_ and I find myself asking - GOD why are you so slow?
Anyone else? Sometimes, I don’t want to wait for miracle - I want it now
Title: Faith in the Waiting
My Hope: Today we will have faith in the waiting - We will build our faith in WHO GOD IS, not just WHAT HE DOES.
**prayer**
New Sermon Series; Strapped In!
**Aeroplane flying** Stop trying to see | just get strapped in.
We usually sit in plane and wait, because we know the promise is it’ll land - Where are we at with promises of God?
Faith move mountains
What a topic / Tension. Series to be ALL IN
Week 1: Wrestled tension between God holding all things | yet invited to pray - Invited to pull miracles down from Heaven.
We said we pray because we are invited | Miracles are for;
the demonstration of Jesus’ Power, and for the proclamation of Jesus’ Name for Revival all over the world
Last week:
We saidwalk with Yahweh - invitation to start prayers with Possibility, but like Jesus - End with - Your Will ,not My Will -Glorify your Name - We said we are to be completley dependant on Him.
Today - I want to wrestle the tension in waiting.
What are we going to do? Spend some time in Acts | What got into Peters heart | Paul | garden | let’s go
[context] - Day of pentacost - Spirit has just descended on earth | Peter gets up | Starts preaching to jews |
he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption. This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses. Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.
The end of Jesus Life is that he will be with GOd |presence of God, fullness of God | Restore all things
God is working | Last week, spoke on Garden of Gethsemene
but while He was on Earth, there was tension in the mix.
saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
God is saying: I know there is tension, but what do you do in this tension? Pray for possible, in the impossible, then commit it over to God -
Point: When you pray NEVERTHELESS, it’s NEVER THE LESS.
What I say to GOD” I beleive it’s possible, but nevertheless your will not my will” - Never the less.
Told to Pray for Miracles | Sometimes don’t happen | Waiting. Sometimes we hit the STOP SIGN.
What I want you to know - IS that while you’re waiting, God is working.
From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.
We all have something we are waiting on | **Examples**
What do we need to know in the waiting?
God is accomplishing His Will in a Broken World; Decaying world | Working with a fabric that’s flawed and failing | That’s why it doesn’t look like Heaven
God supersedes the broken world. God uses it to achieve His purpose |
this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.
Handed to you | not becasue clever, tipped off, no- pre-determined plan of God | God knew | For it to unfold, God needed the partnership of the broken world | To work his plan, so he could supersede the failed and flawed environment | He is using something broken, to do something impossible, that couldn’t be done without God |
we have no idea what’s going on.
Jesus was being arrested, same time crushing satan under his feat - Jesus worked with traitor, to accomplish impossible
3. Our present reality doesn’t always affirm supernatural activity. We say “Same yesterday, today and forever” = 100% true - then turn into storm, and be like, where are you lord?
Let’s change our mindset - My God is the God of the impossible, and I am strapped in to His Plan, I am passenger, not pilot, just becasue my reality doesn’t affirm that doesn’t mean he is not ABLE.
No if he is asking me to WAIT, I know there is reason.
God is the GOD of the impossible.
Let’s wake up to the God of the impossible.
We live in Tension | In John, Jesus says; You will do GREATER Things - Tension - What GREATER things? Greater than what? Walking on water? walk on water with friend? raising dead? come out juggling - Has this created tension for anyone?
Greater doesn’t mean MORE in this case, it means GREATER. What’s GREATER?
Well, When Jesus was a alive on the earth, He was not dead | But then Jesus Died | Tehre was waiting, doesn’t mean no working
| HE ROSE | We have the privelage of testifying that | and then He sent the HOLY SPIRIT - Lives in US.
So when we prayer bold prayers of FAITH it’s to TESTIFY the RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST.
Miracles are never the mission, but they are to POINT TO and exclaim the MISSION.
Straight away - He says; I will do what ever you ask…in my name | In my mission, in my will, why? so that the SON through YOU may bring GLORY to the FATHER.
Jesus is the SON OF GOD, he did Miracles, but you, are a FLAWED and FAILED Person, with the HOLY SPIRIT in YOU, who wants to do MIRACLES through YOU to TESTIFY about HIS RESURRECTION to BRING PEOPLE TO CHRIST…He is using us, as agents, to further His Kingdom and that…is GREATER.
What a PRIVELEGE!!!
Let’s go to a story.
Paul - Going to Malta | Stormy seas | Break in Wind | Sailors say let’s a go | Storm comes | Paul doesn’t stand there and say “WAVES STOP” | Doesn’t jump out of boat and walk on water | no, HOWEVER, he DOES get a WORD FROM GOD - Wanna see it?
Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and incurred this injury and loss.
Yet now I urge you to take heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. For this very night there stood before me an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I worship, and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’
So angel came = told him, Ship is gonna break, go to Rome, get arrested and DIE - Great thanks, but going to be OK
What Happened to Paul?
Got to the island | Viper comes in an Bites his Hand - Look at the accusation
When the native people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer. Though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”
What did Paul do? Weight of the World’s expectations on him | You might feel this “Where is your God now” Ever been here? *Examples*
God offers peace in the storms, not absence of them.
He, however, shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm.
Don’t let a broken world determine your view of an almighty God.
No, He knew Who HE WAS. Satan’s trying to stop plan, Not on My watch Paul says,Been Defeated. Paul knew the GOSPEL.
Revival breaks out on Island | Healings happened | It was amazing | all because someone made a dumb decision tno sail.
We might say “Well I want angel to speak to me” - Well if Paul had the BIBLE in HIS hands, he wouldn’t NEED an ANGEL to SPEAK TO HIM.
**Story** - Our present reality doesn’t always affirm supernatural activity | Girl I know, 3 Miscarriages - Infertility - went to doctor - no hope, couldn’t get into hospital in Perth | Waiting - Praying, Having Faith - God gave her vision, woman with Blood | She thought it was a faith issue | Doctor | Turns out, it was a blood issue | Wanna know how they found it | During this time, God was working in a failed and flawed Environment | Making her wait, cause God was working | Inferdility Specialist.
You have to remember…you walk with YAHWEH. Mircales is not mission | GOspel is mission | You walk with God of the Impossible. it won’t look like you | Look at Gospels = No Formula.
Listen, Your tension will resolve - Sins are forgiven, future is heaven, Tension will resolve. Ultimate Restoration - If committed | believing | Hope in | Cover in case this is real | Genuine | It all resolves in ultimate restoration.
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
If you are in holding pattern, if it doens’t feel like He is working, I want to remind you - Just because he is silent, doesn’t mean he is absent.
Inspo and Close
Inspo and Close
What do you need to know at the Stop Sign?
Faith is uncomfortable
Faith is unfamiliar
Faith will force vulnrability
Faith requires surrender (footy player)
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Things hoped for | Don’t hope for Heaven, It’s a reality | Hope that the people that you love will see gospel, will experience in such way, they will turn to Lord.
Hope that Miracle, God is doing through your PRAYER of FAITH, leads to MISSION.
When, Abram was going to a new land, God said;
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.
Go, and I will show you | Some of you are at the stop sign, but you haven’t handed it over and God is saying, Go, hand it over, and I will show you |
Ultimate impossibility -”This JEsus God Raised UP” - It was IMPOSSIBLE for DEATH to KEEP Him down | Do you believe it?
JEsus was saved from the AGONY OF DEATH | and DEATH can not KEEP ITS HOLD ON YOU.
Do you believe it? Do you have FAITH in WHO GOD IS.
He is using you, a broken person, in a broken world, to achieve His Mission - and THAT is GREAT.
It’s not about your preferences, it’s about HIS GLORY, Not my ways lord, your ways - We serve YAHWEH - The God of the Impossibles. Glorify your name.
We believe He will heal the cries of our hearts | He will restore | We believe He can | We believe he is moving | We believe we are a part of it | We believe he is ABLE |
But he might NOT.
And even if he doesn’t - We still believe, because we stand on the FIRM FOUNDATION OF JESUS - So LORD, in our WAITING and IN OUR TENSION, let our prayer be; GLORIFY YOUR NAME.
**prayer**