![]() Start takings small steps in the right direction. If you hope to have a family of your own: develop your character (iron sharpens iron!), your social skills, and start setting money aside to provide for your family. If it involves a degree – get that degree! If you’re waiting for your dream job: acquire the skills you need for it. Nurture your dream, your calling, whatever it is that you are waiting on God for. Like a pregnant woman, be patient and prepare for your “baby”. While you’re waiting for God’s timing, don’t waste the season of waiting. We have to wait patiently and do our part.įour things to do while waiting on God’s timing There is one thing we should always remember: we can never ever make our “baby” grow faster or force it come at the time we choose. Start with the basics, take small steps, then build on them and continue going forward until the time comes. If you, like I was, are waiting to see your vision in life materialise, then use this time of waiting to build solid foundations.īuilding a foundation can be boring and tedious – but it is absolutely necessary. It is usually a season of preparation for the thing we are waiting for. In the same way, there is a purpose when God makes us wait. She can prepare for the arrival of her new-born and for the entirely new season in life. Also for the mother, these months are not wasted time. The baby need to grow and develop so it can be born healthy and eventually live independently as an adult. So what is the purpose of a season of waiting? To go back to the example of childbirth, no one would deny that the 42 weeks of pregnancy are there for a reason. When his appointed time comes, God will lift you to a new level throw you into something entirely new. Whatever situation you find yourself in, if you feel stuck or feel left on a side-track, God can turn your situation around, from one moment to another, without strife or frustration. That is why it is also referred to as a “breakthrough” – God breaks through into our situation. ![]() When God’s perfect timing comes, it often is like a birth. (Read also: Turning a crisis into an opportunity) Even though you have been waiting for so long, and don’t know when the answer to your prayer comes, God can turn your situation around very suddenly. This is exactly how God could end your waiting season. Then suddenly, before she even feels the slightest hint of labour pain, she has delivered her child. Like every mother-to-be, she doesn’t know which day or hour she will go into labour. Isaiah 66:7 speaks of a pregnant woman who is waiting to give birth. In the Bible, the prophet Isaiah illustrates God’s timing with the example of childbirth. What does the Bible say about God’s timing And it came exactly as I had felt in my spirit when writing these lines. And a few years later, God’s timing came. As it had to do with the vision and dreams I had for my life, I started writing down my vision and started working towards it. So in faith, I prepared for what I could not yet see. ![]() (Be sure to also read: Rahab: Courageous faith) Real trust, and real faith calls for action. Trusting and waiting on God is not a passive season, it is very active. I had to trust, that while I was waiting, he was working behind the scenes even though I didn’t see it.īut trusting God in the waiting also meant, that I had to prepare for what I trusted God for. I had to learn to trust God in my season of waiting. “Before she was in labour, she gave birth before her pain came, she delivered a male child.” Isaiah 66:7 (NKJV) The Holy Spirit encouraged me through these words in Isaiah 66:7. I wrote this post a few years ago, right at during such a time (but I never published it). Have you have ever experienced that dreadful moment when suddenly you realise, you’re getting older and you are nowhere near where you want to be? Where you should be – by now? That you are called for something else – but are nowhere near it? I have. Because when the waiting season is over, you don’t want to be taken by surprise. So trust God in the waiting but also do your part to get ready. That is true faith – when we work towards what we cannot yet see. If we truly believe God will answer our prayer, then we should express that by takings steps of faith. Waiting for God’s perfect timing is not a time to be passive and inactive. ![]()
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