Sunday, April 13, 2008
WAITING ON GOD - PART 1
WHILE YOU WAIT
Acts 1:1-8 (Key verse: 4)
INTRO: Waiting is a hard thing to do. No one likes to wait, but we do a lot of waiting. We wait in traffic, in grocery stores, for sermons to get over, or for Jesus to return.
Waiting is not just something we have to do while we get what we want. Waiting is the process of becoming what God wants us to be.
Waiting on the Lord requires patient trust.
Waiting means that we give God the benefit of the doubt that He know what He is doing.
Waiting is God's way of seeing if we will trust Him before we move forward.
Waiting on God reminds us that He is in control.
Waiting reminds me that I am not in charge.
Waiting reminds me that I am not God.
Waiting on the Lord allows Him to do His work.
God's timing is best.
God is working.
Waiting on God increases my strength.
Application: We sometimes want to get on with a job, when God asks us to wait. As we wait, He is at work. When the time is right, we will find out why the wait and know that God is in charge.
------ Outline adapted from Rick Ezell, FBC, Greer, SC.
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Presented at Greenville Southern Baptist Church
April 6, 2008
Pastor Fred D. Kerr
