Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.Wait for Jehovah: Be strong, and let thy heart take courage; Yea, wait thou for Jehovah.
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… I want to close with one last verse, and then I want to tell you a short story, very short story, I promise. Psalm 27, verse 14. It says, wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord. Hezekiah needed to know when it was time to wait. now when it comes to troubles difficulties trials decisions and all these things the real issue is when you and I don't know what to do we must do what we know now all of this is undergirded by the fact that God's character is unchanging and Charles Spurgeon used to tell this story of a man who used to sail with his wife and he used to sail with his wife and one night there was an especially stormy sea, and the boat was up, the boat was down, and the woman was anxious, terrified, afraid, and the man was just at the helm, confidently steering the ship. Now the wife comes and says, hey. …
… All right. Bible says, Psalm 27, verse 14, wait on the Lord. Be of good courage. And he shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord. Okay, so psychology can only take you so far. Psychology will never mention God. but psychology knows enough that you need to clear your mind you can clear your mind listen what's inside there nothing you can hear crickets god says no wait on me and i'm going to strengthen your heart number two survey says identify the challenge before you know what you want to achieve hello most of the time we as humans know we want to achieve based upon what we want But how do we know what we want is what God wants? Bible says, Jeremiah 29, 11, God says, For I know the thoughts I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace, not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. All God's people said amen to that, right? Survey says, number three, determine goals, both short and long term. …
… But you've got to learn how to wait while the wind's blowing. Wait on the Lord. Be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart. Wait. I say on the Lord. And while they're waiting, God is blowing the highway through the Red Sea. And the Bible says that there was a pathway. made on dry land. It wasn't no mud. It was on dry land. Because when God does a miracle, he don't have to do it. And the book says that they blew a highway through the Red Sea, and the Bible says that the people of God, God, I'm running out of time. I got to cut across the field. The Bible says that the people of God started walking on the path that God made. Here's what shouts me, my brothers and sisters, Here, God shows them the miracle first, and then they respond. But once you mature in your faith, God doesn't always do the miracle first, and then you respond. Because later on, when Joshua crosses the Jordan, God doesn't split the Jordan and they walk across. …