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!!! *Dealing With Delays*
!!! *TEXT: Daniel 10:10-19 Luke 18:1-8*
*Introduction:* All of us one time or the other have prayed and asked God for something and have had to wait on the answer.
Waiting is perhaps one of life's most difficult tasks.
We hate the fact that we have to wait for something.
We live in a society where everything is instant.
We have instant potatoes, we have instant cameras, we have instant credit and we have instant pudding.
All of this simply says you can have what you want without the wait.
We have become a society where delays are not accepted or tolerated.
We have become a society of impatient people and now it is pouring over into the church.
But the fact of life is delays are an everyday occurrence.
We hate to admit it but we all face delays in our lives.
If you go to the doctor you have to wait in the waiting room for your turn to see him.
If you go shopping you have to wait in a line.
If you go out for fast food you have to wait in a slow line to get your fast food.
When we are facing delays it is easy to become discouraged and give up on what we are waiting for.
As it relates to your life in the Spirit things don't always happen at the snap of a finger.
Sometimes God does something instantly and at other times He say's wait.
You must understand that waiting time is testing time and not wasted time.
Anytime that you spend waiting on God is never wasted if you do it wisely.
(Just a note for those of us who are stubborn and hard headed.
Sometimes it's God that does the waiting.
He's waiting for us to obey Him so He can bless us.
God will not bless us if we are living in disobedience.
When we face times of delay we can become frustrated, discouraged, and even angry.
All of this combined together can become a breeding ground for the enemy to tempt you to quit and give up.
Jesus said in */Luke 18:1/*/ That men ought to always pray and not faint/.
In other words we need to be constant and persistent in our prayers.
There is no need to grow faint and weary to the point that we quit and give up.
What Jesus is saying, keep on praying and don't give up.
In short, don't give up….
look up.
The Apostle Paul said it this way in Galatians 6:9 9And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
In the parable that Jesus used in Luke 18 about the poor widow woman and the unjust judge, He was teaching His disciples a lesson on persistence.
This powerless woman got what she wanted from this powerful judge because she was persistent and she never gave up.
Don't miss the point of this parable.
If you do you will leave here thinking that you have to wear God down to get what you want or need.
This is not what Jesus is teaching.
Jesus is not saying that we can wear God down or wear Him out with our persistence.
He is saying by being persistent you can experience a breakthrough.
What is a breakthrough?
A breakthrough is an act of breaking through an obstruction; an offensive thrust that penetrates and goes beyond the line of defense in warfare.
There are things in this world and the spiritual world that cause delays in our lives.
If we can understand these things about the delays in our lives then we will be better equipped to handle them.
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I. Who Causes These Delays?
!! A. Demonic Activity Can Cause Delays In Your Life.
Daniel 10:13
!! Let me share this with you from another translation.
The New Living Translation say's, "13 But for twenty-one days the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia blocked my way."
!!! 1. Daniel's answer was delayed by the activity of demonic forces sent to disrupt the plan of God.
Look at v 13 of our text: "... for twenty-one days the mighty Evil Spirit who overrules the kingdom of Persia blocked my way".
!!! 2. This delay was only temporary!
God's plan will always be accomplished.
Verse 13 continues, "Then Michael, one of the top officers of the heavenly army, came to help me, so that I was able to break through these spirit rulers of Persia".
*/1 Thess.2:
18/*/ Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us./
!!! 3. Satan will continue to try and hinder us from being all that God wants us to be and from doing all that God wants us to do.
!! B. Dispute Within The Home Can Cause Delays.
*/1 Peter 3:7/*/ Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered./
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I believe that many of our delays come as a result of dispute within the home.
!!!! a) I'm saying honor each other and honor God's word by not allowing the sun to go down on your anger.
*/Ephesians 4:26-27/*/ Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil./
!!!! b) A lot of people get angry and sin and that opens the door for Satan to come in wreck havoc in your home.
If anger is not dealt with quickly it will fester and become worse.
Your anger turns to bitterness, your bitterness poisons your spirit and then you become resentful in your attitude toward each other.
When we become angry at each other we say and do things that we really don't mean.
As a result, feelings are hurt walls are erected and blessings are delayed.
!! C. Divine Delays.
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This is perhaps the hardest on to deal with.
Divine delays come without explanation.
Divine delays are hard to handle especially in a crucial time of your life.
!!! 2. When I think about these Divine Delays I think about Martha and Mary when they sent for to come and heal Lazarus.
Jesus delayed going to them and as a result of this delay Lazarus died.
This was a crucial time in their lives yet the Lord Jesus tarried without explanation.
*/John 11:5/*/ Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was./
!!! 3.
This is hard for us to understand.
You may wonder, "Why did He delay in coming to heal Lazarus?" Sometimes the understanding only comes after the miracle.
I believe that there are four reasons for divine delays.
!!!! a) God Wants to Demonstrate His Power Over our Impossibilities.
You've heard the saying, "when you come to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on."
Try this on for size.
When you come to the end of your rope you will find God.
I want to say that again, "When you get to the end of your you will find God.
!!!! b) To Demonstrate His Power Over Death.
When Lazarus dies the Lord Jesus waited until he had been dead for four days.
People in that day are much like the people of our day.
They were superstitious.
They like to explain away the super natural miracle working power of God.
They would say he wasn't really dead.
He was just in a comma.
When the Lord Jesus showed up four days later they knew that Lazarus was truly dead.
When the Lord Jesus Showed Up He Showed Out by demonstrating His power over death.
He proved that He was and is the Resurrection and the Life.
He conquered death, hell and the grave through the power of His Resurrection.
!!!! c) To Build Their Faith in Him.
When you know that all hope is gone and only a miracle will do and then it happens.
It becomes a faith building experience.
!!!! d) To Bring Glory and Honor to God.
Everything the Lord Jesus did was to bring honor and Glory to God.
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