“Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him…” – Psalm 37:7
“In all circumstances of faith’s trial, of prayer’s delay, of hope deferred, the most proper and graceful posture of the soul that insures the largest revenue of blessing to us and of glory to God is a patient waiting on the Lord. … The moral discipline of patience is most costly. It keeps the soul humble, believing, prayerful. The mercy in which it results is all the more prized and precious from the long season of hopeful expectation. It is possible to receive a return too speedily. In our eagerness to grasp mercy with one hand, we may lose our hold on faith and prayer and God with the other. A patient waiting of the Lord’s time and mode of appearing in our behalf will tend to check all unworthy and unwise expedients and attempts at self-rescue. … God’s time, though it tarry, and God’s deliverance, though delayed, when it comes proves always to have been the best: ‘My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him’ (Ps.62:5).” – Octavius Winslow
HOW YOU CAN PRAY:
- 20schemes sent out this prayer request last week, and I would like to echo it: “Pray for our new international workers who have been prepared to move to Scotland but have been unable to due to the pandemic. Pray for them to have patience and peace as they may feel stuck in the waiting.”
Thank you so much for praying for me and the other international workers who are waiting on the Lord for visas, continued provision, and open doors for us to serve with 20schemes this fall. Please pray that we would honor God in our waiting…that we would be prayerful, humble, faithful.
PICTURE FOR THIS WEEK:
This picture sums up the season I’m in right now: waiting. Because of Covid, the 20schemes church plant in Bingham (click here to find out more) has been waiting since spring to launch their first service.
Proverbs 13:12 says that hope deferred makes the heart sick. That is very true. I have felt that heart-sickness this week. But guess what’s also true? Isaiah 40:28-31:
“The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the faint,
and to him who has no might he increases strength.
Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
but they who wait for 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.”
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Yes, amen. Praise be to God!
He does not faint or grow weary,
Claire
Claire in Scotland 