While I was having my prayer time last night, I came across the devotional below. I have Joyce Meyer’s devotional book and I read it at night a lot. Fan of all her stuff, really.

From my limited life experience, the suddenlies that happened for me usually happened after a time period of waiting. And some of those waiting periods seemed excruciating. It seemed as if nothing was happening. The more I prayed, the more I could hear crickets chirping.

It is easy to get impatient while we are waiting. It is even easy to mess-up in this time because of our lack of faith that he is going to supply the ending in the way that we wish it to be. An example of this is Abraham. He had a promise from almighty God and he could’nt even trust him. He ended up having a baby with a woman other than Sarah. God still blessed him, but he did not follow the smooth plan that God may have wanted for him.

If me and you will learn how to be still and let God work, while we work on the things that we can do to prepare for our journey, God will supply for you in an amazing way.

We forget that we aren’t waiting for God to get on the ball, he is waiting on us. Usually these waiting periods are refining us, teaching us to trust him and realize what is him and not him, and it is actually setting some really important things in place. We tend to look at things a lot differently than God and it is okay for him to make a plan for us and expect us to flow with it.

So during your waiting period, don’t forget that God can change your situation in one day. Don’t forget that he has what it takes to give you the best for your life. Don’t forget that he is the one in charge and that he can be trusted even with the plans to get to the destination. So wait on him, trust him, don’t base your beliefs on your feelings and get busy on the things he wants you to do.