DEALING WITH GODLY DELAYS

LIGHT FOR THE WAY
(Daily Devotional)

Teusday 22nd December 2015

Topic:  DEALING WITH GODLY DELAYS

Text: Malachi "2:1
"I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart and watch to see what he will say to me"

Waiting is hard for me. I want answers now. Postponements perplexes me; deferrals daunt me. I am baffled by God's delays, wondering why and when " How long o Lord"?
The Prophet Habakkuk wanted answers as well, but God chose to take His time. " I will stand my watch....to see what He will say to me". The vision is yet for an appointed time" God replied, "wait for it, because it will surely come"(v: 3).
Faith never give up. It knows that despite appearances all is well. It can wait without outside signs or indications that God is at work., because it is sure of Him. Madame Guyon said " each delay is perfectly fine for we are within the safe hands of God". We too must learn to view each delay as if it were "perfectly fine". Postponements are reasons to pray rather than grow anxious, impatient and annoyed. They are opportunities for God to build those imperishable but hard to acquire qualities of humility, patience, serenity and strength. God never says "wait a while" except He is planning to do something in our situation or in us. He waits to be gracious. So take heart, if God's answers tarry, " wait for it: it because it will surely come". God created the whole world and the fullness thereof in six days, six hours is too much for Him to bring the answers you need.

PRAYER POINT

Father, I thank you for finishing the works concerning my life before the foundation of the world.
I connect to the manifestation of every finished works for my life in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING

Ezra 6-7; Revelation 12; Psalm 145:8-13