Sometimes You Just Need to Wait

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e [Music] for GL Hallelujah for amen St p salom [Music] in for [Music] ho [Music] for [Music] fore [Music] call call [Music] In Praise Jesus Christ it is wonderful that we could sing as we sang in this song that in his presence and Jesus's presence is always good today I'd like to share a few scripture passages and main theme that I would like to focus on today with you today how wonderful it is to be in the presence of God uh we're going to read the uh Book of Exodus chapter 14 2122 you see The Exodus of the Israelites from uh Egypt and when they meet the first problem in their life their hopes remain on the Lord sometimes to understand the price of the Hope sometime we have to end up in a situation when our life depends on it while they were in Egypt it was hard the children's were the children were killed they worked hard but their life continued and when they uh went and stopped before the ocean and behind him the Egyptian were catching up to them great fear Came Upon them not only the the Israelites but also on Moses that led them and he turned for help to the Lord next passage we're going to read it is uh chap in the next uh chapter in Exodus 13 2122 when they went when they went with the will of God they followed the Lord and they went to the point until the pillar would either would stop and when the pillar of clouds stopped they would build their shelters around it they would stop and not go anywhere else that was the will of God and when they looked at this pillar of a cloud and fire and this is the way the Lord spoke to the Israelites that he was leading and it would be unwise for them to just leave and go by themselves leaving the Lord they would never enter the promised land and it's because of them trusting and they looked on him they were able to pass through all the tribulations they had in the desert It's a Wonderful Israelites um story but let us look to the word of God in the New Testament we're going to read Mark 822 through 26 for we see here there was a person who was blind it was easy to walk for Israelites even with them stumbling with their feet because their eyes saw and they were able to see the Lord I could only imagine how hard was for that person that was brought to Jesus Christ being blind no matter where he looked he was blind he couldn't see and interesting here this says that Jesus prayed for him twice and Jesus healed made this miracle today I'd like to have a parallel between this person and today's life sometimes we think when we come before the Lord's presence even if we think or feel that the Lord himself put his hand upon us we we think we might be become perfect but the scripture here shows that the Jesus prayed for him twice and same with our in our life sometimes we have to come to the Lord and looking at the SC the word of God that's written in the scripture check our life and see what we see there and when we look at the scripture and see something in our life that it shouldn't be it's important to come to Jesus with an open heart to heal us to open our spiritual eyes so we could see Jesus like example of Israelites when we when we see then we could walk through the path of life and make it into the promised land that's promised for us to have peace with the Lord and always hope on him another scripture I'd like to open it's written in the book of Acts chapter 3 verse 6 for here we see another example where Apostle Peter did often we walk and live our life and we might think it was easy for the Israelites to see this um pillar of the cloud or the fire but sometimes you walk through life and not see these orientations but it's even more harder for people that do not know Jesus Christ and they don't even know where to look but I believe Apostle Peter said to this Peter that was the person that was sick for him to look at him and see that this person might not have any money but doing this miracle but he showed that Jesus Christ lived in him and it says that this person went with them into the temple and started to praise God he didn't start to um give glory to Peter John that was with him he give glory to God as looking at these Apostles he saw Jesus Christ how would be important and wonderful when living our life people that surround us looking at us they could also see Jesus in our life they could see his love all his characters and through our life they might be able to come to the Lord one more scripture I'd like to read would be Luke chapter 17 verse 19 said to him rise and go your faith has made you well Jesus turned to one of the person that was uh sick he was one of the 10 that he healed but only one returned to give thanks to the Lord and he asked him where are the other nine but he told him rise and go your faith has made you well what can we take today from today's sermon like we said in the beginning how wonderful it is to be in the word in the in the presence of the Lord but not only when we need to go somewhere not only when we are sick and we need a healing also remember every day every hour we should be like this person who returned and gave glory to Jesus every day we might go through different things sometimes we live just average don't notice many things and sometimes forgive to give thanks to the Lord but only sometimes when we hear of something happening or tragedy happens someone might must have lost a job someone has a sick child someone died or died of an accident and then we start to realize how um how blessed we are but walking close with the Lord we are under his protection like the Israel looking at the the pillar the same way we look at the Lord they were always under his protection again would like us to pray today to give thanks to the Lord for all the mercies that we receive in our life for today's day it's most important for his sacrifice because people could get sick they God could heal them but nothing more precious in us but the sacrifice of Jesus Christ let us stand and pray for me for do amen [Music] 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that day they will say surely This Is Our God we trusted in him and he saved us this is the Lord we trusted in him let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation you know one day we will say similar words that he is our savior and one day all the saved in one Accord will say that's Jesus Christ who saved me is the one that we trusted all of our life and now the time has come that we are finally saved in his kingdom praise be to our Lord dear Church Jesus is great trust in Jesus Christ in your life and do not stop trusting in Him because the one who leaves leaves out his trust in Jesus will never be able to say those words he is the one who saved me but only those that continue to trust in him will truly be saved and you know when we focus our attention on this verse or when we talk about salvation and what he did in our life that he saved us we uh we we say that how how Allah life was without him it it it reminds us how uh in a bad condition we were because if everything was so good you did not need salvation or to be saved from some but when we say we trusted in him we recognize that we have experienced something in our life it it says that we were suffering and going through difficulties in our lives those words say that we've been waiting for something in our life because to to receive something without expecting it expecting it hope it is something that you've been waiting for and the topic of my sermon today I called it the following sometimes you just simply need to wait sometimes you simply need to wait sometimes you just need to wait and not to rush in your life and before we go any further I'd like to ask questions in order for us to get a little bit more involved in this sermon today and the question I have for you what is waiting what is waiting you know it the definition in one of the vocab it says is to to study something you read about it you get more knowledge about it you go deeper understanding about something you are studying something you know and when you are waiting for something you are testing you examining you're testing is it going to be good or bad and you know to wait is also to gain more information you just simply look for that right information you don't rush you're just waiting and looking for that right information and the second question I was want for us to think about uh raise your hands who likes to wait there's only one hand here two I'm actually surprised I was hoping more hands to be raised up but it's good young man on the back that he raised a hand and all of those that raise a hand you also did the right thing because if you were to ask me that same question I would do exactly as you did I would raise my hand and I would immediately put it down but why because I understand certain things you must wait you must wait but on the other hand it is very inconvenient to wait for somebody it is not comfortable it is not a big pleasure or natural for us to want to wait but sometimes in life you are required to wait you still need to wait you know when we drive in a car to a work and we get stuck in traffic and we're waiting we don't want to be spending time in their traffic you want to move faster and further but be waiting sometimes may be traveling to a different state to visit a family or friends you could be traveling Two Three or even 10 hours and you just waiting and thinking to yourself when finally this journey is going to end or or there's maybe somebody who just wants to wait and drive and drive and for the road to never end we have this natural desire to reach from destination a to be as quick as possible that's why sometimes we choose to fly instead because we want to go quicker from A to B you know just in two hours we able to reach from Florida to Ohio just in a couple of hours we may be able to reach the West Coast why are you going to spend two two days in on on the road we can simply go quickly over via plane and it's nothing wrong with it if we have that ability opportunity why not but you know what the statistics say you know that the science predicts is really uh predicting a very big problem especially with the younger generation is because the the younger generation they'll have a big struggle they going to even it's going to translate into the financial problems in their life for one simple reason because they don't like to wait and they do not wait they do not like to wait and they're not waiting they would like to have this instant gratification they may be spend and buy expensive car in uh and get paid with the loan they want to have the lifestyle of a doctor but not actually having education of a doctor they would like to have a lifestyle for an attorney but they're not having a degree in law they have no patience to dedicate this time from 4 to plus years in college but they go deep in debt and they bury themselves financially you know waiting is extremely important how many of you are still remember the first internet where it was over the phone line where it was dialing with the beep with the with the sound 1.0 you used to call this company AOL 1.0 yes I put him 2.0 I put him 3.0 and they had what 2.0 3.0 you know just to to to start the internet it would take anywhere from half a minute or more just to connect to the internet sometimes it took two three minutes just to connect to the internet and you know and what's interesting that it was so slowed that that internet was not able to handle social media sites such as Instagram you know that with that kind of internet you'll be never able to watch any kind of video because it was so slow but look at the internet that we have these days now the the fastest internet possible in the world I was researching and I found out that Japanese engineer they beat a record it's 300 something terabytes per second per second 319 terabytes per second somebody might ask what what does it actually mean I don't even know what that means but I'm going to tell you it is a seven million faster internet that you and me have these days in our homes you know I don't watch movies you can download 80,000 movies in one second maybe one day those those will this internet will be available in our homes maybe not me but my children maybe my grandchildren what is the the purpose of me uh talking about this today you know back in the days when we were growing up we would wait for a bus on a bus station and we would peek on the road to wait see when that bus will finally we could wait 15 minutes or even 30 minutes sometimes sometimes you would wait for the Train on the train station but today we don't wait on anything many things in our lives happen so instantly this we can go from one place to another just hopping on a plane ourselves we drive fast driving Vehicles they have easily access to the internet via internet but I want for us to understand something this such a great technology success that we reach today it could really affect our subconscious and influence us you know this high technology uh develop velopments can affect my relationship with others it could affect my relationship with my heavenly father why because we uh learn to have everything so immediately you know we live our life and we have different needs we come before the Lord he says Lord please give me please give me this please give me that and Lord sometimes he's quiet he wants us to wait we waiting one day he we not receiving the answer may be waiting a month still not getting the answer God has not given us maybe waiting a year God is not giving us God is telling us wait and when a person so used to in their life to receive everything instantly and when they not receiving something for even God what they want they start to doubt God they start to doubt if he even exist if if they if they say think God is not giving me what I ask him for maybe he's not there he didn't listen he didn't hear me but Bible tells us that he's yesterday today and forever the same he's unchanged he's the same as he was the day of Noah and Abraham he's the same in the 2 first century even with the internet that's 319 terabytes per second he Remains the Same I would like for us to go back into the story of Abraham and we can learn how he was handling how he was dealing with this waiting God spoke to Abraham leave this land and I will make you a great nation and Abrahim he GA all his his possessions he took his suitcases whatever similar to suitcases was back then and he left and he's going one year he's talk going two years and five years and 10 years and he's going from forward and across and he's you know realizing it's not he's not a big nation he was originally promised 10 years have passed and he's still on his own without children and I'm thinking to myself what is Abraham was thinking to himself you know he would realize that you know he can see that he's actually aging he's not getting younger I'm sure he was realizing that his opportunities uh to have uh uh ancestors is becoming Slimmer and slimmer why because he's getting older but God has not given him what he originally promised him and Abraham is waiting 10 years have passed 10 years have passed and there's still no great nation out of him and then God Appears to him and he says Abraham look at the skies look at the St stars as many stars as you see this is how many ancestors you will have maybe one more year passes nothing's happening another year comes and maybe five years after that and still nothing's happening and another 10 years about 10 years come is when Isaac is finally born 25 years God Abraham was waiting for God 25 years he was trusting on the promise that he was given by God but now look at the King Saul you know with this King Saul Samuel told him go to G you're going to wait for me to wait for to bring a sacrifice you know Saul is waiting one day Samuel's not there he's waiting second third day he's still not there he's still waiting six and seven days and Samuel still not there and he might be thinking to himself what happened to Samuel what should I do next people as start to to walk away Philistines they start to to to build the camp around them maybe their advisers who came to him and say sa what are you waiting for why are you not bringing the sacrifice before the Lord all these people they just go back home and but the enemy will come soon he said no Samuel promise he'll be here I'm waiting for him but Samuel's not there and Saul his thinking to himself what should I do he is worrying he is stressful because it's a difficult situation and then he says the following bring this dedicated sacrifice and he did brought the sacrifice before the Lord the Bible says as soon as he finished to bring this sacrifice before the Lord that's when finally Samuel came and I'm thinking Saul why you didn't wait just a little longer just a little longer and everything would have been fine but no he wasn't patient then when Samuel came and he asked solar question what did you did you do what did you do and then Saul he starts to explain to Samuel you do not understand you don't understand how much stress was was causing this situation you didn't realize that people started to leave the enemy came and there was no other option for me left and what's interesting when Samuel replied he just says oh okay I understand great [Music] job I understand it was a very difficult situation in your life you did great he didn't say that what did he say Samuel told the the following you did unwise thing you did unwise in your life you rushed and went too quickly if you just waited a little longer that God would straighten your kingdom and it was be strong but because you not wait till the end your kingdom will not be remain strong and we know what happened after the kingdom would taken away from Saul and given to David you know dear brothers and sisters sometimes we think we think to ourself if I were to wait a little longer I will be um uh it's not going to be beneficial for me if I'm not going to wait a little longer I will lose on something and yes there is situations we need to act quickly in some situations we need to do something today and not wait till tomorrow Tom for example repentance you don't have to wait till tomorrow to repent you need to do this today as soon as possible or to help a needy or your neighbor don't wait till tomorrow if you have an opportunity to do this today but to praise the Lord and to glorify him you have to wait wait till tomorrow you can do this today but in some situations we just simply need to wait do not move forward without God not to act anything without him don't do certain things that maybe God tells you not to when I already mentioned earlier that God is yesterday to and forever to same just like he was helping in the Old Testament he is similarly helping us today he is never late with his help police gets late fire could maybe get late paramics could get late I remember when we used to live in Atlanta I was a still young man about 18 20 years old I remember uh Friday evening after the service around 9:45 p.m. I was driving home it was a curvy Road uh around Woods woody woody area and I see there's a car that is flipped upside down I normally stop in those situations I stopped in another car also I get close and I see a very young lady of course it was Friday night you know her her hand is broken and it's under the roof and she's making those you know last breaths and and jerks and I was telling myself where is those paramics what's taking them so long why they not come and help and save this young lady I don't know why but for some reason it took him very long time I was very disappointed that it's taking them so long sometimes I think if I was me or got much faster but our Lord he never late in our problems God is never laid or behind on yours and my we simply must trust him Psalm 26 verse4 we read trust in the Lord and be strong you know the word of God is doesn't tell us more in this situation simply says trust in him it says Be Strong sometimes we might reply and says how I'm weak I cannot do this no more Lord says I'm strong and ask me for that strength be strong and trust in the Lord and may your heart be strong you know it depends a lot on us Brothers it is our responsibility that our hearts would be strong it is our responsibility to put our trust on him it is our responsibility to hold on to God of course without him there's nothing we can do but in him we can do everything but it's our responsibility to hold on to him and one last thought you know when we go through those Quiet Moments of waiting in our Liv and I would like to remind us those moments there there are there are the moments where God truly is working on yours and mine hearts in those specific moments of waiting God is working on our hearts in Waiting God is working or completing the work that he once began in our life why because if God would give us everything that we immediately ask him if we would immediately receive from him what we thinking or want for ourselves you know what have been with us may will be the most spoiled people on Earth we would have been the most spoiled people on this Earth why because we receive everything that we want but God is is is guiding us through this path where he's putting into those pockets of waiting in our Liv And if we we a wait patiently God is working on our hearts and in one time Jesus said he was telling about the long suffering that we going to be enduring in our life he says save yourselves with long suffering I would like to invite all of us dear Church let's stand up on your feet invite you to prayer that we would ask Lord give me this patience give me the more of this patience give me the double por portion of that because it helps us to go through different situations and it loves God to work on our hearts may God's name be glorified and he would help us individually let's [Music] pray Hallelujah Jesus [Music] inter [Music] [Music] 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