Waiting on God's Promise to be Fulfilled? Do What Abraham did.

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Have you ever opened your Bible and a promise seemed to jump off the page? I mean it came so alive to you that if felt like it was written just for you? So of course, you reread the verse. It felt like God was talking to you personally and that this promise was for you. And because you understand the power of stewarding the Word of God, you probably opened your Prayer Journal and wrote it out long hand. Whether you typed it or wrote it isn’t the point, but you just knew this verse was so good that you just had to remember it.

 

Don't you just love it when that happens?

 

Oh, wow, I sure do. I mean, I do and I don't.

 

Let me explain. Any time you get a promise from God, a promise means that God's going to do it. But between the promise and the fulfillment of their promise, there's this gap. It's the waiting time.

 

Do you like to wait? Not me!

 

But then I think about Abraham. Abraham wanted a son really, really bad. When Abraham was 75 years old, that’s a long time to want something, God gave Abraham a promise that he was going to give him a son.

 

There was a span of 25 years between the promise and the fulfillment of that promise.

 

How do you wait 25 years?

 

I mean, I can't imagine. You know, I'm one of those people that I used to stand in front of my microwave and tap my foot wanting to hurry it up impatiently, saying, come on, come on. When I was just simply trying to eat a cup of coffee.

 

But I learned something. I learned that instead of standing there watching the microwave, I could go clean out the dishwasher or I could clean out the counters. Or sometimes I would even play a game with myself and running around a room, put on a load of clothes and try to beat that time on the on my microwave. You see, that's what God did for Abraham.

 

God knew that there would be a time between the promise and the fulfillment of that promise.

 And so… He gave Abraham some reminders. Well, at that time, his name was Abram, but he gave him some reminders that would help him along the way. How did they keep his eyes off the clock, no, the calendar? Because the span was 25 years, not 25 minutes.

 

Even though Abraham had to wait, his faith didn’t waver.

 

Romans 4:20-21 ESV No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, 21fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. 

 

 

I want to have a story like that. I want God to say, “Pat’s faith didn’t waver.” How ‘bout you?

 

Abraham did something very important while he waited, something that we can do too.

 

I want to tell you about it in this podcast teaching. Be sure to pray with me at the end of the video. I love praying with you!