Am I the woman I think I am, the woman I want to be? More importantly, am I the woman the Savior needs me to be?
Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
In my opinion, it is a mistake to expect in prayer a response from God. Often, God's response is outside prayer. And often, we do not link up an outside response with the effort we put into prayer.
Most people think great god will come from the skies, take away everything, and make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.
There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.
Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.
The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.
Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.
Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.
Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.
Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?
If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.
Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.
The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer; and it is in this way, we have the greatest reason to suppose, that the glorious out-pouring of the Spirit, which we expect at last, will be bestowed.
