Wait upon the Lord...

Leslie and I have been waiting for I won’t tell you how long. Not because I haven’t been counting, oh believe me I have been counting. I won’t tell you because no longer should it matter to me. If I wait, then I wait upon the Lord.
I, Tristan, have been doing the Beth Moore study “Esther: Its Tough Being a Woman.” (Leslie has been as well) I started it as some study material for a class I was going to teach. Now I am finishing it because God has been blessing me through this Bible study in my own personal situation...imagine that Bible study helping your own personal situation. Who knew?!?!
I was in the car listening to one of the audio sessions of the study. And because I was traveling (not driving) and a little sleepy my focus wasn’t as good. I was divinely interrupted with a phone call and a conversation that lasted until we arrived at our destination. But that meant I still had 25 minutes left in this session to listen to. God knew, HE KNEW my focus was not where it need to be in that car for the final portion of the audio, and he had me finish the session later this evening.
Let me share with you a portion of this session. Sorry you have to read it because I couldn't get the audio clip to play. Use this also as a little highlight and advert for doing this study. Ladies and most of you fellas would really benefit from doing this study.
This quote and these scriptures speak to our situation so clearly it frightens me a little bit.

“Never, ever in our wait, is God inactive. NEVER. We have got to trust that if ever he puts a stay on something, if ever he has put a hold on something, if ever he has called us to wait upon Him: SOMETHING is up. Something is happening in the heavenlys. There is someway that things on earth are coming into the will of the things in Heaven. And we have got to trust Him.
“ Isaiah 40:31 in the KJV: ‘But those who wait on the LORD, Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.’
“What is more exhausting than waiting? What? And here scripture says if we wait upon the Lord, he is going to renew all our strength. Whereas to us it (waiting) feels the more we wait the weaker we feel. (The Lord knows) we will lose our strength, our strength will be depleted if we wait upon ‘The Thing.’ When we wait upon a person, a thing, an event, we will lose; but if your waiting on the Lord, you will renew your strength: you’ll renew strength, you’ll mount up as eagles. Do you see the difference? We’re waiting on the THING. We’re waiting on the...(fill in the blank) wedding day, we’re waiting on that baby, were waiting on that promotion, waiting on that provision... you fill in the blank...(waiting on that Visa). And these are huge things to wait on, important things, noble things to pray for and to want but if all we’re doing is DAY after DAY waiting on the thing, waiting on the event: we’re depleted because the event, person, thing doesn’t come. Wait upon the Lord, WAIT UPON THE LORD. Sit as a watchman on the wall and wait upon the Lord. With expectancy and antcipation that the longer you(God) are taking the hard you(God) are woking and I cannot wait to see what you are orchastrating in the heavenlys. The longer we wait the more we’re to renew our strength. Tell the Lord in prayer...IT waits but cause me to wait on you and not just the thing. Renew my strength. Listen to the words of Habakuk 2:3: ‘For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.”



I have been too long waiting on the Thing. Waiting on the Visa. Help me in prayer to wait upon the Lord. It is going to be difficult for me to shift my focus from waiting on the thing but my strength is being depleted because I am not waiting on the Lord.
Each of us has a Thing we wait on. I have just told you one of mine. What is yours? You don’t have to tell me but are to waiting on it and not on the Lord. Focus on Isaiah 40:31 and Habakuk 2:3 and wait on the Lord!