“I am writing to all of you in Rome… One of the things I always pray for is the opportunity, God willing, to come at last to see you. For I long to visit you… I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters that I planned many times to visit you, but I was prevented until now. I want to work among you and see spiritual fruit… So I am eager to come to you in Rome, to preach the Good News.” —Romans 1:7-15 (NLT)
“When we got to Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him.” —Acts 28:16 (NIV)
When you’re in God’s waiting room:
1) Be willing to let God answer in His
“These things won’t happen right away. Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, do not despair, for these things will surely come to pass. Just be patient! They will not be overdue a single day!” —Habakkuk 2:3 (LB)
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2) Be willing to let God answer for His
3) Be willing to let God answer His
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” —Isaiah 55:9 (NIV)
“Tell the people to get ready for tomorrow. They must be set apart as holy. Then they will eat meat. I, the Lord, heard them crying and saying, ‘If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt!’ So I will give them meat. They won’t eat it just for one or two days, or five, or ten, or twenty days, but for a whole month…”
“But Moses said, “Here I am with 600,000 foot soldiers around me. Yet, you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!’ Would they have enough if all the flocks and herds were butchered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?”
“The Lord asked Moses, “Is there a limit to the Lord’s power? Now you will see whether or not my words come true.”
“The Lord sent a wind from the sea that brought quails and dropped them all around the camp. There were quails on the ground about three feet deep as far as you could walk in a day in any direction. All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered the quails. No one gathered less than 60 bushels.” —Numbers 11:18-32 (GW)
“Then the LORD said to Moses, “Is there any limit to my power?” —Numbers 11:23 (NLT)