Most of the time we HATE that word! One definition for the word wait is... "to continue as one is in expectation"
How do you keep going as though something is going to happen when you're not sure how or when it is going to happen?
Waiting starts with a Want...
We want something. We see something we desire but for some reason it's not the right time for us to have the thing that we want.
Our church has seen the increased need for a space we could call our own. A space where our church could continue to grow as a healthy, life giving, family friendly church. Our leadership discussed the WANT and quickly realized that it would take a miracle of God to be able to obtain a building of any sort. So we decided to make do with what we have and remain in that stage where we continue as though we are expecting something greater than what we have.
But after you Want something you cannot help but Anticipate that thing to come to be. The Anticipation keeps you up at night, it causes you to think and dream things that you're not too sure you will ever really see happen but then also that you know you really want to see happen. In November (2010) our church was approached by another church that was closing it's doors and asked if we had an interest in buying their building. A team of our leadership went to check out this building and could not help but Anticipate and dream of the potential the building could have for our church.
Once you Want and Anticipate you Invoke, you know pray. Ask God do do the impossible, pray that He would direct your steps and that He would help you through the waiting process.
After seeing the building our team and our church prayed, we prayed that God would be in control of the situation and if it wasn't something He wanted for us that we would be ok with whatever happened. That if the answer was no that something even better would come along and if the answer was yes that we would have the wisdom to do what needed to be done for our church.
But what do you do when you Want something, then Anticipate, and Invoke.... what's next? Well... all that's left to do is TRUST.
Once you walk through the Want, to the Anticipation and Invoke God all you can do is Trust that the author and finisher of our faith has it all under control. We (our church) Trusted that God knew what he was doing and today our Pastor (2 days after his birthday, 6 days before we celebrate our church's 3rd birthday, on Valentine's day- you know the day of LOVE) signed a contract to BUY the building we saw back in November. The place we Wanted, Anticipated, Invoked God for, and TRUSTED for... it's ours! It's like our own little TRUE LOVE WAITs Valentine!!!
Yup pretty sure Valentine's Day 2011 is one that we will NEVER forget! =)
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