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I want to share a few scriptures with you and make a very simple point. I often hear people saying they must wait on the Lord as if this is an alternative to activity. But is it? Let’s look at the popular ‘waiting’ verses in the Bible.
We’ll go first to Psalm twenty-seven & verse fourteen:
Psalm 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Let’s move on to Psalm thirty-seven. Firstly, verse nine:
Psalm 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Keep his way to inherit the land
So you just wait, and you will inherit the earth. Well, if you look a few verses on, to verse 34, you may want to follow his commandments while you wait:
Psalm 37:34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
Here’s the one you’ve been waiting for. Isaiah chapter forty:
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
So you just – wait around? Now look, there may be a time when you do have to wait for the Lord’s timing in something, but I don’t actually think that ‘Waiting UPON the Lord’ means sitting around waiting FOR the Lord.
Waiters are busy people
Have you ever been to a restaurant? They have people who wait. They’re called waiters. But they don’t sit around. They are busy people. They are taking orders. Their ‘waiting’ upon their customers is done like this: ‘May I take your order, sir?’ ‘Would you like coffee, madam?’ ‘Can I fetch your coat, sir?’
The Queens’ Ladies in Waiting get her clothes out, write her letters, arrange her meetings. They never sit around. If they find themselves with nothing to do, they go and ask her majesty for more ways they can help her.
So that is what we should be like. Too many of our prayer meetings consist of talking about stuff, and then asking God to do things. Between that meeting and the next one we look for signs the Lord has done what we have demanded of him.
Rarely do we ask: ‘Lord, what do you want US to do in this situation?’ ‘Father, how can WE advance your kingdom here?’ That is proper waiting upon the Lord. The Lord Jesus always speaks of his servants who are waiting for his return as being engaged in his business.
‘Waiting’ is a doing word
In Luke chapter nineteen we read:
Luke 19:13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.
You can take that either as ‘occupy the land’ or as ‘be occupied’. It doesn’t matter here. What does matter is that it is a ‘doing’ word. So is waiting when we properly understand it.
Get yourself before the Lord, seek him in his word and in prayer, and ask him for his instructions. Now you are waiting on him. Maybe he says sit. Maybe he says do. But now that you are waiting upon him, and eagerly expecting him to tell you what to do you can expect to renew your strength and mount up with wings as eagles.
You know, if enough of us do it, we might even start inheriting the land.
SCRIPT ENDS
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