Lamentations 3:25-26 (NKJV), “The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.”

Have you ever waited, really, “really” long for a promise you believe you’ve received from God? Sometimes believers are deceived into thinking that there is a formula for how to ‘extract’ promises from God in a way to fast track the waiting period. However, waiting on the Lord is not about focusing on the promise to materialize, it is focusing on the One who made the promise, and it has everything to do with joyful faith. The more we fill our minds with the truth that every promise in God’s Word is “Yes and Amen” (2 Corinthians 1:20); and that we receive that promise, in the realm of the spirit, the moment we pray and believe (Mark 11:23-24); we enter a place of quiet confidence - called rest. The waiting period between praying and receiving something in the spirit, and our faith pulling it into our natural world, is where we are expected to continually speak the language of faith - and nothing else! That language is thanksgiving! So, as we deliberately choose to trust in the Lord’s promise to watch over His Word to perform it, and while the Word is going to work, on our behalf - we delight ourselves in Him. We spend time studying His Word, growing in our knowledge of who we are in Him, and all we have in Him, and all we can do because we are in Him! This keeps us in a place of joyful, grateful faith!  It infuses us with inner strength and increases the flow of faith to rise up from our re-created spirits! While all this rejoicing and celebrating is going on - God’s Word goes to work - unhindered! Before we know it - the promise we were waiting for becomes only one of many, many wonderful blessings and benefits being poured into our lives! Waiting on the Lord is not about waiting for your promise to be fulfilled - it’s knowing that it is yours while you place your full attention on Him. The fullness of His Presence will flow up from within you and you will experience what David said: “… In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” (Psalms 16:11).