PREVAIL IN OCTOBER

October month does not mean it is late to prevail but keep on waiting on God.
Prayer is waiting to prevail in this month and not be a victim of wicked world. Psalm 27:14 declared, “Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!” In time of challenging need, how do you wait? The psalmist is saying, in our waiting on the Lord we must be of good courage. It is possible to claim waiting on God and not be of good courage but living as a worry-full believer. Any time worrying is in place, worship is out of place. Are you one that cannot wait without worrying? Do not be a worry-full one but be a worship-full one before God.
Man’s failure to wait on God is possible to reposition man from arrival at God’s divine assignment.
It was a time of war against the Philistines when King Saul failed to wait as commanded by Samuel. Saul assumed priestly entitlements by offering a burnt offering. In his act, he violated the command of God. Saul’s excuse for failing to wait was recorded, “When I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered together at Michmash, then I said, ‘The Philistines will now come down on me at Gilgal, and I have not made supplication to the Lord.’ Therefore, I felt compelled, and offered a burnt offering.” (1 Samuel 13:11-12) Saul could not exercise good courage as a result, his heart was not strengthened but weakened. He was worried, and he violated worshiping God correctly.
Inability to wait for God’s appointed time is to experience interruption to claim inheritance in place for man.  The prodigal son could not wait when he requested his portion of inheritance from his father and took a journey to a far country where he wasted his inheritance. It was wrong for the prodigal son to move when it was not time to move. The prodigal son moved ahead of time in the journey of life. Interruption intercepted to waste prodigal’s son inheritance from his father. Luke 15:13-14 recorded, “And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together, journeyed to a far country, and there wasted his possessions with prodigal living. But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land and he began to be in want.”  Every failure to wait on God’s timing is an avenue to be distanced from God’s planning for a life of abundance.
Waiting on God is giving self to obeying God’s word. Word of God repeatedly admonished waiting on God:
Psalm 37:9, “For evildoers shall be cut off; But those who wait on the Lord, They shall inherit the earth.”
Psalm 37:34 “Wait on the Lord, and keep His way, And He shall exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.”
Isaiah 8:17, “And I will wait on the Lord, who hides His face from the house of Jacob; And I will hope in Him.”
Isaiah 40:31, “But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”
Obedience brings blessing, while disobedience brings cursing. The word of God is true when it says, “For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.” (Isaiah 64:4) Wait on God, and you shall never step into mistakes. It is never too late to wait on God also it is true that no one ever complained of falling, or stepping, into grievous mistakes while waiting on God. Waiting on God is a source of God’s grace for anyone that takes to waiting on God. Believe it that It is never too late to wait on God!
Praying is waiting before God. Praying is prevailing in this wicked world.
Truly, there is nothing like giving self to waiting on God prayerfully for God’s appointed time. Waiting on God for expectation that is yet at hand is not an evidence of failure but demands continual waiting on God. Waiting on God is not a waste; it can be painful but eventually waiting on God is gainful.