Waiting on the Lord (2)
Series: Abiding Life
Joey Rodgers
Isaiah 40:30-31
Last week we began a series on the necessity of abiding - and while it's possible to be a Christian and not abide; it's impossible to live the Christian life unless you're abiding b/c the Christian life Jesus spoke of, and died for, requires living plugged into the H.S.
To help us to abide, I want to start w/ the 1st essential to abiding - and that is, learning to wait upon the Lord or learning the art/discipline of solitude.
To help us get started, I thought I'd lean on the great philosophers/theologians - Calvin/Hobbes to help us.
The dictionary defines waiting as to stay where one is or to delay action until a particular time or until something else happens. It involves the practice of postponing, having patience, pausing, hanging on, anticipating, longing for, or putting off for later.
The Hebrew word (qavah) differs a bit as it speaks of yielding one's personal will/plan to God w/ an eager expectancy and willingness to respond when God shows up and moves in His perfect, preferred timing.
The Greek word (hupomeno) is similar as it means to align under God w/ a sense of hope and desire to obey.
Biblically, there are many passages to encourage us to WAIT upon the Lord...
I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in His Word, I put my hope. I wait for the Lord more than a watchman waits for the morning... Psalm 130:5, 6
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him... for those who wait upon the Lord will inherit the land. Psalm 37:7, 9
But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. We wait in hope for the Lord; He is our help and our shield. In Him, our hearts rejoice, for we trust in His holy name. Psalm 33:18-21
The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him; it is good to wait quietly for ...
Series: Abiding Life
Joey Rodgers
Isaiah 40:30-31
Last week we began a series on the necessity of abiding - and while it's possible to be a Christian and not abide; it's impossible to live the Christian life unless you're abiding b/c the Christian life Jesus spoke of, and died for, requires living plugged into the H.S.
To help us to abide, I want to start w/ the 1st essential to abiding - and that is, learning to wait upon the Lord or learning the art/discipline of solitude.
To help us get started, I thought I'd lean on the great philosophers/theologians - Calvin/Hobbes to help us.
The dictionary defines waiting as to stay where one is or to delay action until a particular time or until something else happens. It involves the practice of postponing, having patience, pausing, hanging on, anticipating, longing for, or putting off for later.
The Hebrew word (qavah) differs a bit as it speaks of yielding one's personal will/plan to God w/ an eager expectancy and willingness to respond when God shows up and moves in His perfect, preferred timing.
The Greek word (hupomeno) is similar as it means to align under God w/ a sense of hope and desire to obey.
Biblically, there are many passages to encourage us to WAIT upon the Lord...
I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in His Word, I put my hope. I wait for the Lord more than a watchman waits for the morning... Psalm 130:5, 6
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him... for those who wait upon the Lord will inherit the land. Psalm 37:7, 9
But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear Him, on those whose hope is in His unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine. We wait in hope for the Lord; He is our help and our shield. In Him, our hearts rejoice, for we trust in His holy name. Psalm 33:18-21
The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him; it is good to wait quietly for ...
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