Don't Waste Your Waiting | Busy Signal | Week 4

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BIG IDEA: Don’t Waste Your Waiting

1 Kings 18:21 (NIV)'Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people said nothing. '

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1 Kings 18:27 (NIV)
'Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people said nothing. At noon Elijah began to taunt them. “Shout louder!” he said. “Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.” '

1 Kings 17:2-3 (NIV)
Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah: “Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan. 

BIG IDEA: Don’t Waste Your Waiting

1 Kings 18:36-37 (NIV)
At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: “Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. Answer me, Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, Lord, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.”

FOUR THINGS FOUND IN WAITING

  • Revelation of WHO GOD is.

  • Revelation of WHO YOU are.

  • Revelation of YOUR PURPOSE.

  • Revelation of HIS LOVE.

Isaiah 40:31 (NASB)
Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary.

Psalm 27:14 (NIV)
Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

FIVE WAYS TO WAIT ON THE LORD

  • Prayer

  • Praise

  • Preparation

  • Perspective

  • Pressing

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