Waiting for the appointed time
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1 I will stand my watch And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected. 2 Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision And make it plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry. 4 “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith.
When God almighty has a call on an individual, he will reveal to that individual his vision for his life.
God has his own vision for our life.
He manifest that vision to us and writes it in our heart.
God once he has made clear his vision for his people, he expects them to run with the vision and wait for it. He expects them to be faithfull to the vision.
Things to notice.
Abraham may have left his hometown full of faith in what God has promised to do.
He may have left the place with full of passion and drive to accomplish the will of God.
What was the condition of Abraham and Sarah when the appointed time was aproaching,
15 Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. 16 And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from her.” 17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?” 18 And Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!” 19 Then God said: “No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his descendants after him.
10 And He said, “I will certainly return to you according to the time of life, and behold, Sarah your wife shall have a son.” (Sarah was listening in the tent door which was behind him.) 11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing. 12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?” 13 And the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?’ 14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”
What we see, is that Abraham’s struggle with faith and unbelief (faith chrises). Sarah’s unbelief did not stop God from fullfilling his purpose in their life at the appointed time.
The message is this
As we wait for our appointed time, our spirit may fail, our strength may fail. We may lose our faith and even come to a place of hopelessness. However, as long as we are faithful, In spite of all of these weakness God will still do what he has purposed in our life in the appointed time.
11 This is a faithful saying: For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him. 12 If we endure, We shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us. 13 If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.
Moses as an example,
when God manifested his vision to Moses. That one day the Lord will deliver his people from slavery.
Moses being full of faith and passion began to move and act but it was not the appointed time. So he failed
He departed to the wilderness, 40 years passed
The Condition of Moses
Exodus 3, 4 Moses gives all kinds of escuses not to go to Egypt to deliver God’s people.
he does not have that drive anymore, he does not have the faith that he used to have, he does not have the passion anymore.
However God was not gonna let him go, whether he felt like it or not, because God has spoken, he was going to use him to accomplish his will,
As we wait for the appointed time, we may lose our faith, we may lose our passion or our drive, yet God will still fullfill his purpose, use us, at the appointed time.
God was telling Moses, this goes beyond you, God had promise Abraham, Isaac and jacob that he will bring his people out of Egypt and bring them to the promise land. Even the stubborness of the People of Israel did not stop God from fullfilling his word in their life.
Once God has spoken, He is going to do it
10 “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, And make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater, 11 So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
This is the reason in so many places in scripture, God says that “I have spoken it, i will do it”
14 So he said, “What then is to be done for her?” And Gehazi answered, “Actually, she has no son, and her husband is old.” 15 So he said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the doorway. 16 Then he said, “About this time next year you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord. Man of God, do not lie to your maidservant!” 17 But the woman conceived, and bore a son when the appointed time had come, of which Elisha had told her.
In spite of her faithless, what was spoken by God through the prophet came to pass in the appointed time.
Zacharius as an example
He did not believe the angel, yet the word of God spoken by the angel came to pass at the appointed time.
19 And the angel answered and said to him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and was sent to speak to you and bring you these glad tidings. 20 But behold, you will be mute and not able to speak until the day these things take place, because you did not believe my words which will be fulfilled in their own time.”
Moses as an example,
when God manifested his vision to Moses. That one day the Lord will deliver his people from slavery.
Moses being full of faith and passion began to move and act but it was not the appointed time. So he failed
He departed to the wilderness, 40 years passed
1 Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. 4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets and the servant of the Lord died in Hope, they waited for the slavation of God but never saw it.
13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
They all died in faith, they never saw it.
When the appointed time came, even death could not stop God from fullfilling his promise.
19 by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,
Our condition.
While waiting on God we could be swalled up by death,
We can be surrounded by the darkness of unbelief and hopelessness.
These however will not stop God from fullfilling his word at the appointed time.
God will open our graves and bring us out.
11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They indeed say, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. 13 Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up from your graves.
1 I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me, And heard my cry. 2 He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, Out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, And established my steps.
so let us wait for the appointed time. It will come to pass. God will visit his people and fullfill his word.
How shall we wait upon the Lord.
25 The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, To the soul who seeks Him. 26 It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the Lord.
Wait on the Lord quetly.
wait on the lord while seeking him. that is in prayer.
We show our faithfullness to God, by consistantly coming to his presence in prayer regardless of what we feel
Romans 12:12 tells us to be faithfull in prayer
20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
34 Wait on the Lord, And keep His way, And He shall exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
Keep his way while you wait on the Lord.
as you do this, inspite of your weakness he will act and accomplished what he has purposed in your life in the appointed time.