What to Do When Waiting on God

3 Things to Do When You Are Waiting on God. 

I received the following from a friend in Evangelism, Reverend George MacGregor. I pray God’s blessings on him and you as read. 

As a church leader, your work is…interesting.

You have feet in two different worlds:

1. Administrative

2. Spiritual

How you measure the effectiveness of your work in these areas couldn’t be further apart.

Think about it.

One part of your work is administrative.

You have to prepare for your worship service.

You have to organize events, arrange counseling sessions, and manage your volunteers and staff.

You also have to respond to emails, texts and calls, and make sure everything else is being taken care of.

Your administrative work is something you can measure.

You have projects to manage, deadlines to meet, and tasks to accomplish. For better or worse, with your administrative work, you can experience tangible results—the sense of checking off something from your to-do list.

But this isn’t the case at all for your spiritual work.

You preach the gospel.

You teach the Bible.

You help people to live and love like Jesus.

The spiritual side of your work isn’t like your administrative tasks. Sure, you can check off of your to-do list certain things like “Preach this Sunday,” “Meet with a church member,” or “Spend one hour praying for my community and church.”

But here’s the deal about your spiritual work:

You can’t control the results.

The more you do doesn’t necessarily result in more “accomplishments.”

You can’t force people to accept the gospel, apply a lesson from the Bible, or instantaneously live more like Jesus. In other words, the results of your spiritual work are in the hands of God—not yours.

Waiting for God to work in the life of your church can be challenging, and it’s easy to be discouraged. As you work, and work, and work with your people, you may not observe any tangible results (fruit) for months, years, or ever.

What do you do in the meantime?

There’s only one thing you can do, and that’s to wait.

Waiting on God isn’t the same thing as not doing anything.

It’s quite the opposite.

There are three core things you should do as you wait on God, and I’d like to share them with you now.

#1 – Trust in God

Do you preach the gospel?

Do you teach or preach the Bible?

Do you help people work through their struggles?

Then lean in to hear these words from the Apostle Paul:

“Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain” (1 Cor 15:58).

If you are doing God’s work, then your work is not in vain.

The work you do in your church is important in the kingdom of God.

Without someone sharing the gospel, how can anyone believe?

Without someone giving sacrificially, who will support the local church?

Without someone providing food, clothing and shelter, how will those in need be cared for?

While you wait on God, trust that he is working through you to accomplish his plans.

#2 – Continue to pray

God didn’t call you to serve his church alone.

He called you to participate in his work with him.

Practically speaking, there’s no way you can do your spiritual work without God’s strength. Serving the church without God would be like trying to drive a car without gas—it’s not going to work.

Without God’s help, you’ll experience moments of energy, positive momentum and seasons of flourishing. But eventually, you’ll get tired, hit a wall and burn out.

As a church leader, your primary problem won’t be stress—it will be a lack of strength. A lack of fuel to keep doing what you’re doing.

Your lack of strength isn’t physical, and it can’t be replenished by an extra cup of coffee or a four-pack of energy drinks.

The strength you need is spiritual. You can’t buy it online or from a convenience store. The only place—or better yet, Person—you can get spiritual strength from is God.

How do you draw strength from God?

One of the best ways to receive God’s strength is through prayer.

When you pray, you may not experience a booster shot of energy. But that’s not the point.

You’ll receive an inner strength and a renewed commitment to keep pressing on.

Here are several Bible verses about strength you can pray:

• Nehemiah 8:10

• Psalm 22:19

• Psalm 28:7–8

• Psalm 119:28

• Isaiah 40:28–31

• Ephesians 6:10

• 2 Corinthians 12:9–10

#3 – Keep doing good work

There’s one thing you can’t stop doing while you’re waiting: working.

Now isn’t the time to stop preaching the gospel, sharing biblical truths, or spending time with your people. Ceasing from your work as a church leader would be like a farmer not doing two things:

• Protecting their seeds

• Preparing to reap a harvest.

While you wait, you have to protect the seeds you planted in the life of your people. As a church leader, you don’t labor alone. You’re up against spiritual forces. In the words of the Apostle Paul, you’re fighting “against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Eph 6:12).

The people in your church (members and visitors) are struggling with sin, facing temptations or simply navigating a difficult season. Neglecting your church at these crucial times can set your people up to be overtaken by whatever their facing.

Instead of sitting on your thumbs and watching the weeds grow, prepare to reap a harvest.

Continue to spend time with your people, know what’s going on in their lives, and most importantly of all, continue to share the gospel and point people to Jesus.

Working while you’re waiting isn’t probably what you want to hear.

So let me leave you with these encouraging words from Galatians 6:9:

“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

Waiting on God

Waiting on God isn’t easy.

If anything, waiting on God is slowly becoming a more significant challenge for people. Whether it’s streaming a video to watch, purchasing a product online, or standing in line at the grocery store, waiting for anything or anyone can be frustrating.

As you wait on God to accomplish his work, take a step back, hit the pause button, and reevaluate your expectations in light of what I just shared.

God is at work in your church.

He’s at work in your community.

And he’s working through you.

As you wait on God, remember to do these three things:

1. Trust in God

2. Continue to pray

3. Keep doing good work

In time, you will enjoy the fruits of your labor. 

“You are Loved!” - Pastor Ron 

Are we living today in the End Times?

 I came across this today on the Facebook page “You are Loved Ministries” which is my personal page and I am assured that God is still speaking and we get to hear Him. 

So I give you a link to the Words God had given me in 2022. 

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/u8bDL2uXaEdt4VnJ/?

5 ¶ And Jesus, answering them, began to say: “Take heed that no one deceives you.

6 “For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and will deceive many.

7 “But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled; for such thingsmust happen, but the end is not yet.

8 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines and troubles.fnThese are the beginnings of sorrows.

9 ¶ “But watch out for yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils, and you will be beaten in the synagogues. You will be broughtfn before rulers and kings for My sake, for a testimony to them.

10 “And the gospel must first be preached to all the nations.

11 “But when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand, or premeditatefn what you will speak. But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that; for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit. “You are Loved!”

Thoughts- Out loud?

  Do Angels hear your thoughts or do your thoughts need to be spoken out loud?

 I had this question posed earlier this week by a loved one who recently lost her 19 year old son. I tell you this so you may consider the possibility that the question is influenced by the circumstances. 

 I without much hesitation answered that I believed our thoughts are just as loud to God and the Angels. I then had to find evidence that would support my belief. I offer to each of you the same opportunity to have this question answered for you as well. 

 I didn’t look for the answer anywhere but in my spirit where I knew God’s Word was planted in me since I could read and write and listen and understand what He “My God” is saying to us.

 I love how Our Father allows us to be the voice in situations and circumstances that we all find sometimes uncomfortable and difficult. His Word is the only true answer to all our needs. 

 With all this being what it is, I give you this one verse of scripture to answer the aforementioned question:

 “You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.”

Psalm 139:2 NKJV 

“You are Loved!” Pastor Ron

DO NO HARM!!

DO NO HARM!
1 Chronicles 16:22 (NKJV)
Saying, "Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm."

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, but sometimes their calamity is a result of the after effects of harmful actions towards God’s anointed ones. Actions that are not always physical, but can also be emotionally harmful words, even if they are based on facts about their past. God will not repeat what has been covered with the Blood of Jesus, only Satan will bring up a person’s past transgressions and failures.

Proverbs 17:9 (NKJV)
He who covers a transgression seeks love, But he who repeats a matter separates friends.

Micah 7:18 (NKJV)
Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy.

I have been attacked both physically and emotionally while serving God and have seen God turn His wrath upon the persons who were involved.

Romans 12:19 (NKJV)
Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

One particular event I was actually beaten by a brother in the church because I would not compromise my belief about allowing The Holy Spirit to be our judge here within the church. I was encouraged to have them convicted, but I could only hear what God was saying about not touching His anointed, and how He would repay. Instead, I chose to love them and place them in God’s hands. I had to stay out of the way and watch God allow brokenness and loss to come over them. Their health and finances suffered, jobs were lost and pain became a part of the normal everyday.

But God is not so far away that we can not be saved. I have always asked this question, “if you were a million steps away from God, how many steps will you have to take to get back to God?” The answer is “just one!” I believe God will instantly make up the difference to receive us back and when repentance came to my brother, I was able to receive him and his family back into the covering of church that is under the covering of Christ.

Romans 10:13 (NKJV)
For "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved."

Repent and call on the Name of the Lord while it is still today.

“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron Davis ❤️
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God Shows Up! Always!

God Shows Up!! Always!!

Just about the time you are considering throwing in the towel and surrendering to defeat, God shows up and reminds you that He is still in control and you are not a quitter. 

It sometimes appears that everything you have been believing for and hoping for has been firmly placed completely outside your grasp. You have prayed and sought God for answers and direction. You have told God exactly what it is that you need and want for Him to do and you wake up again and everything is still the same. You begin another day allowing yourself to wonder why nothing has changed. You, if you are like me, sometimes begin an argument with God that goes something like this- “Have you not even heard my pleas? Do You even see what I’m going through? Am I not praying loud enough? Are my cries just bouncing off the ceiling and coming back unnoticed?” 

Sound familiar? 

Well, Praise be to God that you and I have not been the first or the last to go through similar things. Even some of The Heroes of Faith in the Bible suffered similar circumstances. We can look to see how God worked in them and the miracles that took place and lay claim to having the same God deliver the same outcome to us. 

Although there are many stories where God has come through, I want to focus on just this one situation. 

Daniel 3 NKJV 

This is the familiar story of three men Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-Nego. When King Nebuchadnezzar had created a golden image that he required all throughout the land would bow and worship or they would be killed. But the three men, who were set over the affairs of the Israelites, refused to worship the idol. The King ordered them bound and thrown into the furnace which burned so hot it killed the men who threw them in. But as we most assuredly know that they were saved because they didn’t surrender to the temptations presented by the world, but continued to believe that God wouldn’t let them down. 

Daniel 3:24-25 (NKJV) 

“Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished; and he rose in haste [and] spoke, saying to his counselors, "Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?" They answered and said to the king, "True, O king." “Look!" he answered, "I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God."”

We can be certain that God is with us in the midst of our struggles and suffering. Yes, just about the time we are ready to throw in the towel, God shows up!

2 Peter 3:9 (NKJV)

“The Lord is not slack concerning His  promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 

“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron ❤️

GOD IS NOT HEALING OUR LAND

GOD IS NOT HEALING OUR LAND

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV) "if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

I have heard this verse quoted quite a lot recently and I believe it to be thoroughly true. During my time of study and prayer I have been concerned about the great travesties that are happening all across our nation. Lies, Hate, Deception, Wickedness, Evil, Murder, Drunkenness, Idolatry and False Prophets on every side.
So I went to God’s Word and seen how we have taken the promise of healing our land out of context. Let’s look together-

12 Then the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: "I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
13 "When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,
14 "if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
15 "Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer [made] in this place.
16 "For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
17 "As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and if you keep My statutes and My judgments,
18 "then I will establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, 'You shall not fail [to have] a man as ruler in Israel.'
19 "But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them,
20 "then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
21 "And [as for] this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land and this house?'
22 "Then they will answer, 'Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity on them.' "

Take a good look at the conditions that God places on the healing and health of the land. He calls for us to repent from our wicked ways and follow His statutes and commandments. But we have not only remained connected to our sins in this nation, but we are embracing them in closer and tighter.
Just one example of this is that first we make it legal to murder the unborn child up to a certain amount of time and called it rational instead of sin. It became the standard by which we choose our leaders and judges. It was embraced by generations who saw no wrong in their actions. Instead of turning away from it, we have magnified it and given the abortionist even more power, even now until just before birth. I’m saying that we have possibly murdered the cure for cancer, poverty, diseases of all kinds and lost probably some of the greatest minds and leaders our nation could have known. But because we have not turned away, then I say God is not going to heal our land. Instead He has put us aside, uprooted and cast us out. Conditions have not been met to heal our land.

Although this is true, I will continue to pray and hope for a great deliverance to come. We must repent individually and reach our neighbor first. We have to return to God ourselves and let Him guide our steps.
Remember this one thing-
“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron Davis ❤️

DO NO HARM!

1 Chronicles 16:22 (NKJV)
Saying, "Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm."

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, but sometimes their calamity is a result of the after effects of harmful actions towards God’s anointed ones. Actions that are not always physical, but can also be emotionally harmful words, even if they are based on facts about their past. God will not repeat what has been covered with the Blood of Jesus, only Satan will bring up a person’s past transgressions and failures.

Proverbs 17:9 (NKJV)
He who covers a transgression seeks love, But he who repeats a matter separates friends.

Micah 7:18 (NKJV)
Who is a God like You, Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He does not retain His anger forever, Because He delights in mercy.

I have been attacked both physically and emotionally while serving God and have seen God turn His wrath upon the persons who were involved.

Romans 12:19 (NKJV)
Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay," says the Lord.

One particular event I was actually beaten by a brother in the church because I would not compromise my belief about allowing The Holy Spirit to be our judge here within the church. I was encouraged to have them convicted, but I could only hear what God was saying about not touching His anointed, and how He would repay. Instead, I chose to love them and place them in God’s hands. I had to stay out of the way and watch God allow brokenness and loss to come over them. Their health and finances suffered, jobs were lost and pain became a part of the normal everyday.

But God is not so far away that we can not be saved. I have always asked this question, “if you were a million steps away from God, how many steps will you have to take to get back to God?” The answer is “just one!” I believe God will instantly make up the difference to receive us back and when repentance came to my brother, I was able to receive him and his family back into the covering of church that is under the covering of Christ.

Romans 10:13 (NKJV)
For "whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved."

Repent and call on the Name of the Lord while it is still today.

“You are Loved!”- Pastor Ron Davis ❤️