7. WAIT FOR GOD TO LEAD THE WAY THROUGH AND OUT
The children could not possess the promised land without going through the trials of the wilderness. Neither can we be victorious in the trials that befall us, whether they be small or large, if we do not seek God’s direction and His specific strategies.
Waiting upon God often requires a period of patience. This does not mean that we sit around and do nothing and let the enemy destroy us. Waiting on God is an active thing.
Psalm 123:2: “Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God until that he have mercy upon us.”
Those who are involved with the CIA cannot sit around and do nothing. Absolutely not, for the safety of our nation depends heavily on what they learn concerning the activities and plans of our enemies. They must be the best listeners. They must discover the ways our enemies are planning against us. They must learn how to spy and how to decode.
Our God has an answer for every difficulty that comes our way and He calls us to be good waiters and listeners. We must be very active in our waiting and listening. Every trial that befalls us comes with a specific and often different answer from God.
Presumption on our part is something that God detests. The fall in the Garden of Eden was, among many things, the sin of presumption because they did not listen to and obey God’s specific instructions regarding the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Psalm 19:12, 13: “Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from secret faults. Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.”
Perhaps “the great transgression” is just doing things our own way because we don’t take the time to wait on God.
History will reveal how much we have presumed to act as a nation during this corona pandemic. Many states have taken actions that have not benefited their people and have caused more deaths.
We the church are God’s CIA agents for the governments of our countries, states, and cities. We are meant to be like Daniel who provided the kings of their captivity with the answers to their dreams and visions.
We should always be waiting, watching, and listening. The church will remain impotent and without answers all the while we do not learn to wait and listen.
Numbers 14:44, 45 tells us how the Israelites who had not listened to God “presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them,”
Saul was not a good waiter, listener, and obeyer. 1 Samuel 13:11, 12 says: “And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash; Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the LORD: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.”
This presumption cost him the kingdom. Read the whole story in chapter 13.
The church of Jesus Christ is always meant to be listening for the greatest intelligence of all. We must learn to wait upon God.
Habakkuk 2;1: “I will sand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.”
I believe we have a president who is willing to listen to the advice of church leaders. There are many that need to hear from God these days when fear is rampant.
Where are the CIA and the FBI of the church, those who can provide God’s answers and apply His intelligence? Who will enlist?
Be encouraged,
Colin Campbell