Sister Timberly Sunday School 6/23/13
Waiting: there are four types of waiting. There is the man sitting on a bench looking
at his watch. His thought would be, “Why
wait? I’ll go out and make it happen.” There is the eagle soaring above storm. This is courageous waiting. There are little birds waiting for their
mother with their mouths open. This is
waiting with expectation.
Ecc 3:11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in
their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the
beginning to the end.
Waiting means different things at different times, we are waiting
on God to perfect us. God is still
working on me. We are waiting for
answers to prayer. We are burdened for
souls. We need a vision that God has a
different plan than ours. Have faith
that He is working out something that we cannot see.
Rev 6:9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw
under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for
the testimony which they held:
Rev 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How
long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them
that dwell on the earth?
Martyrs are waiting for justice to be served. Not in a vindictive way but the right needs
to come through in order for the full purpose and plan of God to be
accomplished.
Dan 12:12 Blessed is
he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty
days.
The word, ‘wait’ here means to adhere, to await, to long,
tarry, and wait. You may think, “I’ve
already waited.” We must keep waiting,
not with impatience but with the three positive attitudes.
We are waiting for an unsaved husband to get saved for 39
and a half years. We are waiting for a daughter
to be healed for 10 years. How long did
Noah wait for the flood and was laughed at and scorned all the while?
No one has waited longer than God has as far as being
patient for souls to get saved. He is
not expecting us to do more than He has done.
He is waiting with patience and love and mercy extended.
The only reason why we are saved is that God waited. Look at the prodigal son. The father kept waiting with eyes upon that
road. That is how we need to wait for
answers to prayer, expecting.
Lord, holy and true, how long. They knew that God was right on time. They knew that He was holy and true and would
judge righteously. They were willing to
wait.
God says either no, wait, or yes. The unanswered prayer is the best answer when
it is in God’s purpose.
Isa 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.
They that wait upon the Lord, renew their strength. This is a promise from God. Brother Gyme taught in Sunday school of how
we were in strength reducing times. This
is how we fill up our tank, by waiting on the Lord.
The word ‘wait’ here means: expect, combine by twisting, to
collect, and to gather. This is the way
to wait. Gather yourself whenever you
feel that you are falling apart. Gather
yourself and wait.
In waiting we don’t feel that we have attained; there is a
continual perfecting happening. We say, “Lord
search my heart.” Let God search your
hearty and don’t take any imaginations with you. Who cares what people think as long as you
have God’s blessing and are doing your best.
I have found that it is not that people are so mean but your
imaginations are mean.
In waiting you are not satisfying the flesh, “Now I’m there;
I’ve gained the ground.” We all have
ground to gain we don’t want to satisfy that part of the flesh that wants to
have it together or appear to do so.
As we wait we need faith and submission in prayer. Prayer is the main thing, but while we pray
we need faith in God’s plan and submission to His plan. He has a bigger plan than I can see and we
want to have faith in Him and submission to His plan.
Rest and trust in God’s plan.
Isa 30:7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to
no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.
Isa 30:15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of
Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence
shall be your strength: and ye would not.
Their strength is to sit still. In resting, quietness, and confidence is salvation
and is our strength. We can wait on God
to be our strength. This is a promise.
Zec 8:19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the
fourth month, and the fast of the fifth,
and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house
of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and
peace.
Being still. Resting
and trusting. We need to weep before God
in prayer, for souls and for needs around us.
Resting and trust is a part of listening and hearing as Samuel did. We are trying to teach one of our children to
listen. He thinks he is listening but he
doesn’t hear. The biggest part of
communication is listening not speaking.
While resting and trusting there are some things that are
our job:
September
8th
Do
it yourself
Determinedly Demolish some Things.
Casting down imaginations and every
high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God. 2 Cor. 10:5.
Deliverance from sin is not
deliverance from human nature. There are things in human nature, such as
prejudices, which the saint has to destroy by neglect; and other things which
have to be destroyed by violence, i.e., by the Divine strength imparted by
God’s Spirit. There are some things over which we are not to fight, but to
stand still in and see the salvation of God; but every theory or conception
which erects itself as a rampart against the knowledge of God is to be
determinedly demolished by drawing on God’s power, not by fleshly endeavour or
compromise (v. 4).
It is only when God has altered our
disposition and we have entered into the experience of sanctification that the
fight begins. The warfare is not against sin; we can never fight against sin:
Jesus Christ deals with sin in Redemption. The conflict is along the line of
turning our natural life into a spiritual life, and this is never done easily,
nor does God intend it to be done easily. It is done only by a series of moral
choices. God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy
in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy
character by a series of moral choices. These choices are continually in
antagonism to the entrenchments of our natural life, the things which erect
themselves as ramparts against the knowledge of God. We can either go back and
make ourselves of no account in the Kingdom of God, or we can determinedly
demolish these things and let Jesus bring another son to glory.
Our part is to do what is right and God will do the rest in
us.
The third point is fighting while we wait.
As long as we are in God’s battle our fighting is not carnal
but holy. Make sure that you are in
God’s battle so that you have all heavens support behind you.
Eph 6:10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord,
and in the power of his might.
Eph 6:11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may
be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness
of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of
God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to
stand.
Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about
with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Eph 6:15 And your feet shod with the preparation of
the gospel of peace;
Eph 6:16 Above all, taking the shield of faith,
wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Eph 6:17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the
sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
Eph 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and
supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and
supplication for all saints;
This is a good picture of how to fight in the right
way. There is a fear in the world to
call wrong, wrong. It is a day of no
wrong, no right, everything is grey. I
think of the song, “Wait not for men to laud and heed not their slight.” Get your eyes on God, figure out what He’d
have you say and do, and do it.
I had a battle in the past with how I felt. I would feel bad about things. It was my flesh wanting to be coddled. I took a stand against it and it really
helped me.
When Mary of Bethany broke the box
of precious ointment and poured it on Jesus’ head, it was an act for which no
one else saw any occasion; the disciples said it was a waste. But Jesus
commended Mary for her extravagant act of devotion, and said that wherever His
gospel was preached “this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a
memorial of her.” Our Lord is carried beyond Himself with joy when He sees any
of us doing what Mary did, not being set on this or that economy, but being
abandoned to Him. God spilt the life of His Son that the world might be saved;
are we prepared to spill out our lives for Him?
When David won the victory and was dancing before the Lord
everyone thought he was weird but he didn’t care. He was abandoned before God and that is how
God wants us.
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