Wait On The Lord!

 

Isaiah 30:18 

"Blessed are all those who wait for Him."

We live in a world where everybody seems to be in a hurry! Rushing to get married, rushing to make money, rushing to accomplish our dreams, rushing to do just about EVERYTHING!

Why? Because we know that our time on this earth is very short!

But here's the problem! In all our rushing, are we taking the time to seek the Lord and WAIT for His direction?

God's timing is NOT our timing! His ways are NOT our ways, and His thoughts are NOT our thoughts!

Sometimes we get ahead of God because we want things to happen NOW! But moving ahead of the Lord can bring unnecessary heartache, disappointment, and consequences that could have been avoided if we had simply WAITED!

Look at John the Baptist! He spent years being prepared in the wilderness before beginning his ministry. Even Jesus waited until the appointed time to begin His earthly ministry!

So why are WE in such a hurry?

Yes, life is short! But that doesn't mean we should rush ahead of God's will for our lives!

Blessed is the MAN OR WOMAN who waits on the Lord!

Be patient, humble yourself before God, obey His Word, and trust Him to direct your steps!

Remember, it's not about accomplishing everything WE want before we leave this earth. It's about accomplishing what GOD has called us to do!

James 4:10 

"Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up."

WAIT ON THE LORD!

In Christ,

Tyrone

Wait On The Lord For Your Spouse!

 

Genesis 2:24

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."

This is what God ordained from the beginning! Marriage, between one man and one woman. He decreed that a man should leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife.

Did God ordain a boyfriend? How about a girlfriend? Both questions can be answered with a resounding, NO!

Of course you can have a friend that's a girl, if you're a male, and a friend that's a boy if you're a female. BUT, the relationship should not move beyond that friendship if you're not an adult and God has not made it clear that the person you have a close friendship with, will become your husband or wife.

There is so much heartache and sin amongst young people today who just can't wait on God to bless them with the ONE. You can avoid all the pain and heartbreaks from the so called boyfriends and girlfriends that you think you love for a time, but then for whatever the reason it doesn't work out.

If the world followed the commands of God and the teachings of Jesus Christ the amount of abortions would drastically decrease and the amount of children born without a father present would plummet as well. 

There wouldn't be any sexually transmitted diseases, unplanned pregnancies, and no promiscuity etc.....

Here's what the statistics say:

"In the United States, over 18.5 million children live with a single mother or father. Approximately five million children aged five and under live in a single parent household. Almost one-fourth (23%) of children under the age of 18 live with one parent and no other adult, which is the highest in the world."

"Approximately 40-50% of marriages in the United States end in divorce. Specifically, about 42%-45% of all first marriages and 60% for second marriages end in divorce. The divorce rate has been declining, and in 2019, it hit its lowest point in 50 years."

"In the first six months of 2024, the monthly national abortion count averaged nearly 98,000 abortions. That eclipses the 2023 monthly average of 88,000 and the 2022 monthly average of 81,400." 

That means that over one million pregnancies were aborted in 2024 alone!

So if all this is going on in the world, shouldn't those who profess Christ be completely the opposite? Yes Indeed!!!!

Let the people of God, OBEY the commands of God! We must wait on the Lord for our spouse's, and we must cry out to Him for guidance, and confirmation about the one we are to spend the rest of our lives with. It's a very important decision, and we need to be absolutely sure we are making the right choice!

In Christ,

Tyrone

Preparation!

 

Matthew 8:23-27

"Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”

But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. So the men marveled, saying, “Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?”

God uses real world situations to prepare His chosen for the work of the ministry. He uses everyday life to work out character issues that may be hindering us from growing. Normal activities that once were hard for us like making a simple phone call to take care of some household business, He makes doable through the power of His Spirit. 

God uses our spouses, our jobs, our children, our neighbors, the police, firefighters, and even the wind and sea to accomplish His work in us. He puts us through uncomfortable situations to see how we will respond to it, by the flesh, or by the Spirit? With faith, or fear?

It's not easy to do what is right all the time, every second of our lives, but that's what God desires, that's what Jesus did, and we can do it too! It takes effort on our part, crying out to God in prayer, fasting when necessary and asking the Holy Spirit to help us get through. There is always a Sinai Desert before we can see Mount Sinai itself! And then once we get there we still have to climb up!

This is God's process of preparation, the schooling of His Spirit, that can take decades for some, such as myself! There really is no other way to be prepared for true ministry and to be used of God we must go through the fiery furnace of affliction and be remade on the Master Potter's Wheel!

In Jesus,

Tyrone

The Wicked Lie In Wait For The Righteous!

 

Psalm 37:32-40

"The wicked watches the righteous, And seeks to slay him. The Lord will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged. Wait on the Lord, And keep His way, And He shall exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it. I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a native green tree. Yet he passed away, and behold, he was no more; Indeed I sought him, but he could not be found. Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright; For the future of that man is peace. But the transgressors shall be destroyed together; The future of the wicked shall be cut off. But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord; He is their strength in the time of trouble. And the Lord shall help them and deliver them; He shall deliver them from the wicked, And save them, Because they trust in Him."

Do you trust God to save you from the wicked? 

We must trust God no matter what the situation looks like! He knows what we're going through! He knows when the enemy lies in wait for the righteous to pass by. The Lord will go before us and give us strength and peace to help us press on and walk through the valley of the shadow of death with our eyes fixed and focused on Jesus!

In God I Trust!

Tyrone