FAITH CAPSULE: God is a caring God and is worthy to wait on Him.

Matthew 7

In waiting, ask, seek, and knock persistently for God’s appointed time to experience the opening of God in your manifestation for expectation.
Waiting on God is not a waste of time, but believing in the word of God. The Word of God might sound foolish but do not fail in God.
It is the word of God to ask, seek and knock.
Asking, Seeking, and Knocking for an answer from God is evidence of having faith in God 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 is the author of our faith, has given to 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 trusting and hoping by asking, seeking, and knocking before the manifestation of expectation. When there is no waiting on God, man always rushes away from God’s answer and turns to waste.
King Saul could not wait as instructed for him to receive his expectation.
To obey and wait is to trust and hope in God. Saul could not wait on 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 waiting before God.
Waiting can be a delay but never a waste of time.
God testifies about David when Saul fails to wait on God. God spoke to Saul’s disobedience 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 knows the heart of God and understands what it means as he consistently obeys God by waiting on God before making his moves.
The Bible records about a prodigal son who could not wait for God’s timing, “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)
Younger son could not wait for the appointed time to receive the good that fell to him.
Indirectly, the prodigal son moves outside of the timing of God for his life.
Ask, seek, and knock persistently for God’s appointed time.

Prayer for today: Ask that the understanding and strength to wait on God shall be your portion.