Hi, friend, you're listening to the Thursday replay on the Jesus Over Everything show with Lisa Whittle.

I hope you enjoy this re-air of one of our Five Word Prayers Daily devotional shows we aired last year.

Hi, and welcome to Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word, prayers, and our heart.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to

just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent. Well, today is

going to be an important five minutes for some friends, at least that's what I'm sensing in my soul,

because I know that one of the hardest things for all of us is to wait. So hard, right?

Especially that great in between when you know that God has put something inside your heart, he wants you to do,

and yet it seems like nothing is coming from it. Nothing you try, nothing you pray about,

nothing. Crickets? Yeah. Well, we need to spend a few minutes on this, I think, today.

I shared about this in the A Moment to Breathe Devotional, which we'll put in the show

notes if you want to check that resource out about this idea of what happens when God

anoints you, but doesn't yet appoint you.

And man, this is a reality of waiting that resonates with many of us because by nature we're

a people who want what we want right now. That's our flesh and that's also our culture by and

large. And so living in the space of not now is perhaps

the hardest and the holiest of all. The hardest, we all know, we've already talked about that,

but the holiest as well, which we may not have thought about, is this, because in the wrestling

with God over our desire to do something we believe is good and right

and maybe even urgent, God is in his position knowing everything.

Like usual, he knows everything.

The timing, the plan, the strategy, the purpose, and the waiting is part of the plan, too,

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