For most of us, waiting is never easy. In our culture, waiting for anything is not considered to be a virtue anymore.

Waiting is something that children hate, and adults do too.

Everything in our culture and in our society and seem to be expanding throughout the world is instant.

We do have instant food and instant drinks and instant diets

and even they have now manufacturing antique while you're waiting.

In fact, I read this week that the average person, the average person, gets agitated within a period of 40 seconds waiting for an elevator.

40 seconds.

And then become to show

visible agitation.

Here's the problem.

That most people bring this agitation,

they bring this impatience,

they bring all of this

into their faith

and into their walk with the Lord.

And their expectations for instant things grows by the same proportion as it grows in society at large.

So we want instant worship, instant sermons, you wish.

And we want instant answers to prayers.

And if we don't get instant answers to prayers, we think there's something wrong.

What's gone wrong here?

What's wrong with me?

What's wrong with him? Why am I not getting answers to my prayer right now?

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