Wait a second!

 

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

TDAgiantslayer@gmail.com 

 

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On Mercury, a day is two years long.

 

What you think of as a day – how long it takes the Earth to rotate – isn't 24 hours. It's 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.2 seconds. The reason it's 24 hours from sunrise to sunrise is because every day the Earth moves further in its orbit round the sun – and the change in its position lengthens the day slightly.

 

A second isn't what you think it is. Scientifically, it's not defined as 1/60th of a minute, but as "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom".

 

speaking of time -lightning strikes Earth 6,000 times every minute.

 

There are total 31,557,600 seconds in a year.

1. 1."Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." - Mother Teresa
2. 2."Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week." -- Charles Richards

• Statistics have revealed that an average employee spends 2 hours per day recovering from distractions.
• Also, according to RescueTime, on average, we spend 3 hours and 15 minutes a day (49.4 days per year) on our phones.
• BusinessFirstFamily has stated that poor communication has also been responsible for the loss of 280 hours per year.

 

Isaiah 40:31 Those that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. teach me Lord teach me lord to wait. 

 

  - The wait is the process. The process is painful. The hebrew word for wait is Kawvaw… it means to be drawn under tension. You are not just waiting like sitting in your lounge chair watching espn surfing your phone, there is a tension… when will this happen, how will lit happen, is it going to happen. 

And that is the process. The process is learning how to deal with the Fathers tension… every person in scripture who was used by God had to wait with tension…

Joseph… had a dream and had to wait under tension to see it manifest, David was anointed King and had to wait years under tension to see it manifest. The apostle Paul was saved and had to wait under tension 13 years before he started his ministry… the list goes on and on. 

Enjoy the wait! it will build your faith

 

The wait is the purpose… not the outcome.

So many times we think that what is coming will be worth the wait… but the truth is simply this: the wait is worth the wait. In what other situation will you be put in where you have no control, you have no idea when, you are not sure if ever it will happen… and you don’t know if it will be a bust or not. This is all wrapped up in the process of waiting. So you have to wait 4 months to get that new job.. but are you using the wait time to become the best employee. Waiting is waiting for you to assign its purpose. And trust me God will also assign his own purpose if you are careful enough to watch for it. 

I can’t tell you how many times I have waited for things from God only to look back after receiving them and thanking him more for the wait then the blessing I received. I love what Jim Rohn says that ties into this so nicely “why make a million dollars? because of what it will make of you for you to make a million dollars. I would add, why wait? for what it will do to you in the waiting process. 

 

The wait is the promise- it is where the seed of faith lys, every promise has a built in waiting period. If I tell my son I am giving you a new bike, and just hand it to him… that is nice, but it builds up zero trust and faith in my son between the two of us. However if I say I am bringing a new bike home today from work… well he has to wait and trust. If I say I am getting you a new bike for your birthday and that is in 7 months… he has to wait longer and have his faith tested… but in 7 months, he will be able  to say… I knew it… my Dad promised! 

Look at Joseph, Paul, David, Peter, Abraham, Solomon… even Jesus had to wait for his promise. He had to wait 3 days to raise up from the grave… 

Don’t fret over waiting, let it sink in and enjoy the ride. Those that wait upon the Lord… those that under tension and pressure still wait on him, will be rewarded… don’t give up to soon and miss the blessing!