Waiting On the Lord

Sunday we sang the chorus, Everlasting God. It starts with the words, "strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord, wait upon the Lord, we will wait upon the Lord." It reminded me of the words God spoke to me on New Year's Eve.

For the past two years I have asked God to give me a direction or vision for the new year. Last year the Lord woke me up on New Year's morning and told me it was going to be a year of freedom. It was most certainly was that, as He set me free to retire.

This year I sensed the Lord saying this would be a year of waiting. I was thinking last week about how I've had to wait about so many areas of my life. I also realized how much the Lord has taught me in the wait. Not long after the Lord told me this would be a year of waiting, I received the David Wilkerson newsletter and he talked about waiting on the Lord. He referred to one scripture where the word wait meant to "bind together," or gather together." Because the Lord set me free to retire He has given me time this year to gather together with like minded friends who sense the Lord's return is near. We have encouraged one another, lifted one another up in prayer, and shared scripture.

As I continue to wait for the Lord to reveal the next step, I know I have been strengthened in the waiting. I've learned lots about myself but much more about God. I'm beginning to have a deep appreciation for the verse in Isaiah, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall walk and not faint, they shall run and not be weary." I am being renewed in the wait.

I look forward to the promise in the verse David Wilkerson referred to in his newsletter. Isaiah 64:4, "For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

So I wait......