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S. Michael Houdmann
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The command to wait on the Lord is found extensively throughout the Old and New Testaments. In the Old Testament, it is more about waiting for the Lord's providential care, but most New Testament r...
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Jack Gutknecht
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Waiting on God is really hard for me to do! I like to move, and that sometimes gets me in trouble, more often than I would like to admit. Just ask my wife, and she will tell you the same thing. Poor woman. Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not going to sleep. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given. - G. Campbell Morgan Warren Wiersbe makes the observation, “The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless...the world around us is frantically in a hurry. But a restless heart usually leads to a reckless life.” Men’s Life, Spring, 1998
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