About Prayer Sermon Notes

Open menu

About Prayer Sermon Notes

Loading note…

Walk through Scripture. Grow in faith. Together.

Home About Prayer Sermon Notes For Churches Privacy Terms

This Is Taking Too Long | Sermon Notes — Hello Pastor

Sermon Notes/Change Church/This Is Taking Too Long

Sermon notes

This Is Taking Too Long

Dr Dharius Daniels·Change Church

Monday, July 20, 2026

Part of Dealing With Delay

Paste into a text, email, or post — the preview shows this teaching.

Summary

In this message, Dr. Dharius Daniels addresses the common struggle with delays and impatience in the believer's life. Drawing from the story of Lazarus in John 11, he explains that most significant personal and spiritual growth takes longer than expected, moving gradually before happening suddenly. God intentionally uses waiting periods to purify our motives and maximize His glory in our lives.

Key Scriptures

John 11:1-6 John 8:32 Jeremiah 29:11 Romans 12:12 Galatians 6:9 John 11:11

Themes

Dealing with DelayTrusting God's TimingPurifying Motives

Keep growing this week

These are personal sermon notes shared to help you remember the message — not a replacement for Scripture, your church, or your pastors.

3-Day Devotional

Embracing God's Timing in Delay

Take this message with you through a journey of Scripture, reflection, prayer, and practical application.

Join the 3-Day Devotional

More from Dr Dharius Daniels

Continue learning from this pastor

Bible study

Why Being Good At Your Job Can Make You a Target (The Blueprint)

Dr Dharius Daniels · Change Church

Sep 2, 2026

Sermon

It Runs in the Family

Dr Dharius Daniels · Change Church

Aug 23, 2026

Faith in Frustration

Spiritual Maturity

Pastor's Points

1.Number one: the power of perception.
2.Number two: the power of paradox.
3.Number three: the power of position.

Key Points

1.Most of the spiritual, personal, marital, professional, or financial strides believers want to make will take longer than they want them to take.
2.Believers experience unnecessary anxiety and aggravation when assuming they are behind schedule, without knowing God's divine schedule.
3.Much of what God accomplishes in and through a believer's life happens gradually before it happens suddenly.
4.God uses delays to expose and refine the mixture of motives in our hearts before placing us in positions of influence.
5.Delays allow God to assemble an audience so that when deliverance or resurrection comes, He receives ultimate glory.
6.Managing waiting well requires spiritual perception, recognizing that what feels like an emergency to us is not an emergency to God.
7.Waiting well involves navigating paradox, holding onto faith ('even now') while honestly acknowledging real frustration ('if You had been here').
8.Devotional position and praise shift the environment and invite a immediate divine response during long delays.

Sermon Moments

“I'd rather be disappointed short-term by what's real than deceived long-term by what's fake.”

“How can you say you behind schedule when you don't know the schedule?”

“In culture they only have four seasons: winter, spring, summer, fall. But in the kingdom we got five: winter, spring, summer, fall, and due season.”

“Much of what God's going to do in and through your life will happen gradually then suddenly.”

“If you cannot survive the gradually, you will miss the suddenly.”

“Because if I don't know how to wait well, the wait becomes a weight.”

“I'm going to let you stay dead long enough to assemble an audience... And your resurrection is going to give me glory.”

“She was frustrated. But even now, that's faith. And if you're going to wait well, you're going to have to learn how to manage both.”

This Week

Release the assumption that you are behind schedule and trust that God's divine design accounts for your missteps.
Identify areas in your life where anxiety or impulsiveness stems from impatience, and surrender them to God.
Commit to enduring the 'gradually' phase of your spiritual growth so that you don't miss the 'suddenly' manifestation.
Ask God to examine your heart and purify mixed motives that seek self-exaltation alongside His glory.
When feeling frustrated by delays, pray honest prayers while maintaining faith in God's ability to turn things around.
Prioritize worship and intimacy at the feet of Jesus rather than striving to force outcomes in your own strength.
Encourage someone in your church or family who feels exhausted by waiting to keep standing and survive the delay.

Remember This

Most of the major strides you want to make will take longer than expected, but God uses the delay to refine your heart and display His glory.

A Challenge for You

Put your hand on the shoulder of your neighbor and tell them: survive. I will live and not die to declare the works of the Lord.

Bible study

Maybe You Need to Stop Dating for a While

Dr Dharius Daniels · Change Church

Aug 19, 2026

Sermon

What Are You Looking For

Dr Dharius Daniels · Change Church

Aug 16, 2026

Messages for what you're walking through

Related teaching for similar life moments

Sermon

This Is Only A Sample

Tim Rivers · Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

Aug 23, 2026

Sermon

Send The Singers First

Keion Henderson · Hello Pastor Church Demo

Aug 16, 2026

Sermon

Kept: The Keeping Grace of God

Myron Butler · Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

Aug 16, 2026

Sermon

Get Up: Faith Under Fire

Jerry Flowers · Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

Aug 9, 2026

Explore more Sermon Notes

Browse all sermon notes