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Grace Stations

There is need to understand how to wait on the Lord.
Waiting on the Lord may be likened to the function of a
waiter in a decent restaurant. The waiter tries his best to
serve the guest diner. He politely attends to the guest at his
table, gets the guest’s order and promptly seeks to serve the
menu ordered. While the guest dines the waiter
periodically checks to be sure that all the diner’s needs are
promptly supplied. When the guest is done and ready to go,
he pays his bill and offers a tip to the waiter as a mark of
appreciation for the quality service rendered. This scenario
is similar to how a believer receives grace from God at the
place of waiting on the Lord. The waiter is the believer
while the diner is the Lord. When the waiter does a good
job of waiting he is rewarded by the One he has waited on.

Scriptural waiting is almost becoming a rarity in today’s
church. Abstaining from food (what is called fasting) is not
enough to depict waiting. Waiting actually means that God
is in charge and we are waiting to hear from Him. A lot of
today’s concept of waiting is like that of a man who
urgently needs some services and favours to be rendered by
God. The man abstains from food, runs about his normal
schedule for the day, makes some sporadic demands of
God, and then expects that by the end of the day’s
abstinence from food, God would have rushed His
mailman to deliver the goods expected by the fasting man.
Scriptural waiting means that we are waiting on God,
depending on Him to bring out His verdict on any matter
we present before Him. We do not stampede God as He
cannot be stampeded.

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