FAITH CAPSULE: Your change will only come at God’s appointed time for you.

Exodus 2

Change is the act of transformation or substituting of one situation for another. Change is what man will always look for to have a better condition in the journey of life. When the Israelites began to feel pain in the hands of Pharaoh and his men the need for change began to press on the Israelites. The bible recorded, “Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.  So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledge them.” (Exodus 2:23-25) The Israelites needed change as a result, they cried out to God who hears the cries of His children. Crying to God is not an evidence of weakness; it is an expression of expectation. God heard them and remembered them but change did not answer immediately for the Israelites.
Are you waiting on God (through prayer or crying) for a change? Know it in you that change will only come at God’s appointed time. It is true that you have been waiting for quite some time but nothing to show for your waiting. Delay is all that you are experiencing in the place of expectation for change. Be encouraged that delay is not a denial. Delay is possibly the enemy’s pointer to frustrate your expectation. Ignore delay but lay your request for change at the feet of the Master. Delay prompts discouragement, discouragement provokes complaint. Complaint is the act to rebel. In your case, disallow discouragement and complaint will not have a place in you. Without complaint in you rebellion will have to relocate itself outside of you.
Worrying is like a parasite, it will eat into man quietly when change seems to be slow in coming forth. Deal with worry by engaging worshiping God. Worship God by praising and giving Him thanks despite the fact that your change is yet manifested. It is important to know that when we thank God for all things then all things works together for good. As you wait for change be conscious that your thoughts delivers by your action. Get the understanding of the truth that Lord God is the God of knowledge; and by Him actions are weighed. (1 Samuel 2:3) Do not doubt in your heart as regard to your expectation for change. Doubts will prompt you to having a backup plan for your expectation. However, in faith there is no backup plan. Backup plan is a lack of faith and God is not pleased when there is no faith. (Hebrews 11:6) Please God while you are waiting on Him for your expected change. Your change shall come.

Prayer for today: Ask God for the grace to be patiently persistent waiting on him.