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He shall surely die, but there was not a man among all the people who answered him.

So there's a lot going on here in 1st Samuel chapter 14.

But what I want you to notice in these verses I just read is the impatience in Saul.

Saul inquires of God, shall I go down after the Philistines?

Will you give them into the hand of Israel?

But God didn't answer him and Saul started to move forward anyway.

And he in his haste started making vows apart from the Lord.

When I read this I just think about the tendencies in me toward impatience.

Like I don't like waiting and I'm guessing you don't like waiting either.

It's not natural for us to wait.

It's oftentimes natural for us to be impatient and to move ahead and to move ahead

instead of waiting for God. I've been reading over the last year,

often on an amazing devotional book by Andrew Murray called Waiting on God.

And I have learned so much and I have so much more to learn about this.

But I want to lead us to pray for patience in our lives as we wait on God in different ways.

Oh God, please help us to wait patiently on you. Just like your word says,

please keep us from the sin of Saul here moving forward

apart from your direction, not trusting your timing. God help us to trust your timing.

God even is, I and my family wait for a child we're adopting and long to go get him.

God I pray for faith in the waiting. God I pray for that over all kinds of people who are

waiting in this way or that way in their lives right now. God help us to patiently wait on you

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