DEAR GOD,
YOU keep telling me to WAIT.
And I am WAITING.
But NOTHING appears to be HAPPENING.
I am PRAYING for YOUR WILL,
but NOTHING is HAPPENING.
And then GOD STOPS me in my tracks.
There it is. Did you catch it?
I am PRAYING for GOD’S WILL,
but NOTHING is HAPPENING.
Hmm.
Read that again.
I am PRAYING for GOD’s WILL,
but NOTHING is HAPPENING.
Hmm.
So if I am PRAYING for GOD'S WILL,
but I am questioning HIM
because
NOTHING is HAPPENING,
do I really want GOD'S WILL or
Joni's WILL?
Ouch!
I woke up this morning with a heavy HEART,
as I want the answer to my PRAYER NOW,
in the way I want my PRAYER to be answered NOW!
Since I BELIEVE that GOD would want the same thing for me that I want,
so why wouldn't GOD do what I want HIM to do?
Ouch!
Then I hear GOD'S whisper~
"DO NOT LEAN ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING".
Could it be that the NOTHING that I BELIEVE is HAPPENING,
is really GOD HAPPENING NOW,
because GOD is always HAPPENING NOW,
because
HIS WAYS ARE NOT MY WAYS.
"Is there anyone around who can explain GOD?Anyone smart enough to tell HIM what to do?Anyone who has done HIM such a huge favor that GOD has to ask HIS advice?
Everything comes from HIM;Everything happens through HIM;Everything ends up in HIM.Always glory! Always praise! Yes. Yes. Yes."
(Romans 11:33-36).
Who am I,
but a mere ant on this earth.
But I am HIS ant.
HE SEES and HEARS little 'ole me.
And
HE SEES and HEARS little 'ole you.
Therefore,
WAITING is the SWEET SPOT of LIFE,
because we don’t WAIT alone.
And now I HEAR HIS soft whisper,
"I GOT THIS. DO NOT BE AFRAID. FOR I AM WITH YOU?"
Just because it appears to me that
NOTHING IS HAPPENING,
SOMETHING really
BIG is HAPPENING,
that is
"IMMEASURABLY MORE"*
then I could ever imagine.
And the IMMEASURABLY MORE
that I desire is not much.
It is quite simple,
for it is
THE RESTORATION OF RELATIONSHIPS,
which is the HEART OF LIFE.
BUT GOD already did that,
"For GOD so loved the world that HE gave HIS one and only SON,
that whoever believes in HIM shall not perish but have eternal life"
(John 3:16).
If GOD can give up HIS SON,
for you and for me,
then
why would I even question whether HE will answer the PRAYER
from this little ant, whom HE so LOVES.
So I will WAIT ON GOD.
WAIT~
The SWEET SPOT of FAITH!
HIS TIMING, HIS WAYS.
"Now to HIM who is able to [carry out HIS purpose and] do superabundantly more than all that we dare ask or think
[infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams],
according to His power that is at work within us, to HIM be the glory in the church and in CHRIST JESUS throughout all generations forever and ever"
*(Ephesians 3:20-21)
Therefore,
Thank YOU GOD for ANSWERING all PRAYERS,
in YOUR PERFECT WAYS and TIMING,
because YOU are ALWAYS HAPPENING
in the
HERE & NOW~
because you are not
NOTHING.
YOU are
"EVERYTHING"
(listen to the song below)
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