FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting can be a delay but never a waste of time.

Isaiah 64

Focusing on God will wait on God by not wasting time focusing on man.
The word of God might sound foolish, but will never fail to deliver those who believe in the word of God.
It is the word of God to ask, seek and knock. 
Asking, Seeking, and Knocking for the answer from God is evidence of having faith and looking up to Jesus. 
Hebrews 12:2 records, “looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” 
Jesus, the author of faith, has given all the way to receive by stating, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8)
Waiting on God demands trust and hope by asking, seeking, and knocking before the manifestation of expectation. 
When there is no waiting for God, there will be rushing away from God to experience waste. 
King Saul could not focus on God, not wait as instructed but to become wasted. 
To obey and wait is to trust and hope in God, but Saul could not gain direction from God.
Waiting for God is giving attention to a jealous God. 
Psalmist admonishes, “Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed…” (Psalm 25:3) 
A believer in God must understand to wait and endure a period. 
Waiting can be a delay but never a waste of time. 
Saul failed to wait on God. 
God spoke to the disobedience of Saul through Samuel, “But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.” (1 Samuel 13:14) 
David, know the heart of God, the evidence of waiting on God.
The prodigal son in the parable of Jesus could not wait.
The Bible records the prodigal son: “A certain man had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living.” (Luke 15:11-13) 
The younger son could not wait for the appointed time of God to receive a portion of the good. 
The prodigal son moved out of the word of God because he could not wait. 
Waiting will ask, seek, and knock for the appointed time of God.

Prayer for today: Ask for His power upon you to be waiting on Him.