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Luke

Emily Gay, Creative Collaborator

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This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in His name to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but tarry in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high. —Luke 24:46–49 NIV

Dynamis - English word dynamite

To tarry means to stay longer than expected or intended.

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1. We fear the unknown
2. We hate delay
3. We’re shaped by a culture of instant gratification

Tarry - kathizō, meaning “to make to sit down.

He makes me lie down in green pastures… He leads me beside quiet waters… He restores my soul. —Psalm 23:18 NIV

In God’s economy, waiting doesn’t drain us. It strengthens us.

But those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint. —Isaiah 40:31 NIV

Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God. Fear of the unknown path stretching ahead of us destroys childlike trust in the Father’s active goodness and unrestricted love. —Brennan Manning in his book, Ruthless Trust

God, what do You want to do in me while I wait?

BECOMING A PEOPLE WHO TARRY

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WILLING TO SURRENDER TO GOD’S PROCESS

I just can’t get used to the idea of doing nothing, she confessed.

He gently placed his hands on her shoulders, looked her in the eyes, and said, “I hope you’ll hear what I’m about to tell you—I hope you’ll hear it all the way down to your toes: When you’re waiting, you’re not doing nothing. You’re doing the most important something there is. You’re allowing your soul to grow up. If you can’t be still and wait, you can’t become what God created you to be. —Sue Monk Kidd, When the Heart Waits

It’s often in the waiting that God does His deepest, most transformative work.

The Lord withholds no good thing from those who walk uprightly. —Psalm 84:11 NIV

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WILLING TO SYNC TO GOD’S PACE

I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does. —John 5:19 NIV

Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. —Gal 5:25 NIV

To walk with Jesus is to walk with a slow, unhurried pace. Hurry is the death of prayer. It never advances our work—it only spoils it. —John Mark Comer

They all joined together constantly in prayer. —Acts 1:14 NIV

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WILLING TO SEEK GOD’S PERSPECTIVE

As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. —C.S. Lewis

Peace is not the end of the wait, because what I’m waiting on is just going to be replaced by another need and then another…
There’s another kind of peace, one the world can’t give and can’t take because it’s not of this world—it’s His presence.
Peace is God’s presence in the midst of pain, not the absence of pain. —Tyler Staton

Then I went into your sanctuary, O God, and I finally understood… —Psalm 73:17 NIV

Yet I still belong to you… You hold my right hand… You guide me… Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth. —Psalms 73:23-26 NLT

When we stop obsessing over the Promise, and surrender to the process, we inevitably end up falling in love with a Person

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted. —Psalm 34:18 NIV

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