FAITH CAPSULE: Wait on God for His unfailing visitation.
1 Samuel 13
Waiting for the appointed time of God is undeniable but shall gain the full attention of God.
Have you positioned yourself in a situation of not waiting for the intervention of God?
Psalmist encourages, “Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!” (Psalm 27:14)
Know God to be waiting on Him.
God is the helper of man and a shield that does not disappoint.
Psalm 37:7 counsels, “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.”
Ones that cannot rest on the promises of God cannot wait with patience to gain the attention of God.
To wait on God for His visitation demands patience.
Waiting on God will not provoke God to act outside of His word but at His appointed time.
Waiting on God is not wasting time but waiting on God that will act for those who wait on Him. (Isaiah 64:4)
Who is it that you are waiting for instead of waiting on God?
Waiting on God in endeavors can be labor when not knowing or not with understanding of the time to gain the attention of God.
God is a perfect God to visit with the expectation rooted in the waiting with desire centered on His will.
God is not a partial God that fails but God will only visit differently in different ways for ones that wait on Him.
Do you know God to wait on Him?
Many know about God but do not know God to wait on Him patiently.
King Saul is evidence of one that knows ABOUT God but does not know God to wait and live by the word of God.
At a time of battle between the Israelites and the Philistines, King Saul could not wait on the appointed time by Samuel, the prophet of God.
Saul violated the commandment of God.
Samuel asked Saul why violation of the appointed time.
The excuse of Saul was rooted in fear of the enemy that moved him in the direction not to wait.
Samuel responds to the flimsy excuse of Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you. For now, the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. 14 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 13:13-14)
There is no excuse for no one not to wait on God at all times.
Saul could not wait on God but ended wasted his journey of life.
Prayer for today: Ask that you be enabled to wait on God in all endeavors.