Read: Mark 12:30-31 NIV | Every night Willy Annen of Lausanne, Switzerland, calls out the hours from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Annen, whose job may be unique in Europe today, is the city watchman. From the windswept belfry of the city’s ancient cathedral, he will cry out: “This is the watchman; it struck twelve.” […]
Read: Colossians 4:2 | How long should we wait patiently for God to answer our prayers? I mean really, what is a reasonable time? No matter how pressing our burden or fervent our prayer, we lack insight into the mind of God with respect to His timing. As days turn into weeks, while we ponder […]
Read: Jerimiah 15:20-21 | Benefit # 5 of waiting in God’s Waiting Room – Fortify our Faith Jeremiah wept. He begged and pleaded with the people to listen to his warnings of impending doom and they still ignored him! He could not understand why they persecuted him for warning them of what was to come. […]
Read: Isaiah 50:11 | Augustine’s mother, Monica, was a fervent believer who prayed constantly for her son’s salvation. She dedicated her whole life to praying for Augustine’s conversion. At one point, when Augustine devoted himself to the Manichaean philosophy, Monica begged a holy man to speak to Augustine, and show him why their beliefs were […]
Read: Isaiah 33:2 | Benefit # 2 of waiting in God’s Waiting Room – Receive spiritual adrenaline (See prior week posting for Part 1) In 1982, in Lawrenceville, Ga., Angela Cavallo lifted a 1964 Chevrolet Impala off her son, Tony, after it fell off the jacks that had held it up while he worked underneath […]
