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Waiting on the Lord

March 9, 2010 in Challenges with 0 Comments

So this weekend, I was playing at the Turn2God event that was held at the Union Buildings here in Pretoria, with the likes of Louis Brittz, Retief Burger and Joe Niemand.

I saw this event as n huge thing for myself to be able to go and do what I was called to do, and one of the main reasons why I left my job at the end of February. I had to get in with the ‘IT’ crowd, so they can know of me, and I need to impress them so they will call me again in order for me to get some work through them.

As the week and weekend wore on, I struggled to get time to speak to the different persons, and when I do get the time to have a word with them, I failed constantly to get the conversation turned to what I do, etc.

During one of the worship sets on Saturday, God just spoke to me and said, do what you are here to do, which was to worship Him. Do it to the best of your ability, and let Me do what I do best, which is to show you how great I am.

So yes, here I am, waiting on the Lord to do what He does best, and the greatest thing of it all is, I am fine with waiting. I KNOW that God will not drop this ball, since He has made a promise to me and to my family, but we need to let Him do it, and not want to do it out of our insufficient human power, since His power surpasses everything you can think to comprehend on earth. I mean, He has the ability to go ‘poof’ and there will be something newly created, standing right there…

Trusting

October 22, 2009 in Challenges with 4 Comments

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Carrying on from yesterday’s post, I read Romans 4 this morning, and verse 16 really stood out for me

This is why the fulfillment of God’s promise depends entirely on trusting God and his way, and then simply embracing him and what he does. God’s promise arrives as pure gift. That’s the only way everyone can be sure to get in on it, those who keep the religious traditions and those who have never heard of them. For Abraham is father of us all. He is not our racial father—that’s reading the story backward. He is our faith father.

Last night at home cell, we discussed Isaiah 40:31 and what it means to wait on the Lord. For me, it means to trust that God will provide what He promised, but we need to let ourselves go, and really simply trust Him to provide in His time.

We, as humans, tend to want to speed things along by trying to put certain things in place for God to make it easier for Him to fulfil His promise, but once again I see that as being arrogant towards God. God really doesn’t need our help in doing anything, as He is the creator of all, but He wants to use us.

We need to get to a point where we can hear His voice, and then we can really live within His will by listening to His guidance, and not try to guide Him to where you want to be.

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