Take this message with you through a journey of Scripture, reflection, and prayer.
Summary
Themes
Pastor's Points
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').
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
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.These are personal sermon notes shared to help you remember the message — not a replacement for Scripture, your church, or your pastors.
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