TRUSTING HIM
1 Samuel 1

It does not matter how long waiting for a breakthrough, or deliverance, takes God, He will not fail to deliver to anyone that trusts in His name for any situation under heaven. Waiting on the Lord, is resting in the Lord. Resting in the Lord is trusting in the Lord. Years, months, weeks or days can pass, and God will not forget His own: the ones that have taken a position of trust in His name. Is your waiting in the Lord seem to be taking forever? The book of 2 Peter encouraged, “But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” (2Peter 3:8) God will never run out of time, and there is never a “late” in His timing, because the timing of God is different from the timing of man. During the time of waiting on God for a breakthrough, how God is being called on will always make the difference. Isaiah 58:9, “Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am…’” Calling on the name of God by asking, is what Jesus recommended in Matthew 21:22, “And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” Have you actually been begging, when you have been told to ask? In your asking have you been asking amiss? James 4:3, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.” God is not a partial God, but He is a faithful God. He is a God of order that demands walking according to His Word before the Word can work for anyone that walks in His Word. Receiving from God is in line with His plan and purpose for His children. King David is an example of someone that did not hesitate to ask when need called for it. David did not go to war without asking from God, twice in 1 Samuel 23, inverses 2 and 4, he repeatedly went and inquired from God before going to war against the Philistines. David knew to ask, rather than assume and not ask for God’s word before encountering his enemies. Hannah was going to Shiloh every year, but the year that was recorded of her weeping was her last year of her bareness in Shiloh. 1 Samuel 1:7, “So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat.” Hannah’s weeping got to God and God moved on her behalf. When you ask by calling on God, He will answer. When you cry to Him, He will show up on your behalf. “The name of the Lord is a strong tower…” (Proverbs 18:10) Trust in the name of the Lord God, call on His name and He will answer.
Prayer for today: Father, enable me to know how to wait and trust on you constantly and consistently.