Welcome back to the podcast on this Monday morning and thank you for listening to the

podcast.

Tomorrow we read Isaiah 62 to 64 together in our Bible reading plan and that leads us to today's question from a listener named Maddie

Pastor Jen hello to you. I am a doer. I'm always doing the next thing. I have a lot of energy. If I see something I need or that others need I get to work and then I read a verse like this one in Isaiah, quote,

No I has seen a God besides you who acts

for those who wait for him. That's I say 64-6.

I am not a waiter.

I don't wait for anything.

My groceries, my coffee, everything.

I pre-order on an app so I can just drive up to the store and get my stuff and drive off.

What does an active person like me need to learn about waiting on God to act?

What does waiting look like for an active person like me?

You know Tony, one of the things that you and I both hope for in doing these podcasts is that over time people will not only get answers

from the Bible to their questions, but we'll learn how to go to the Bible and get answers for themselves.

Yes.

And it may be helpful with this particular question to give a simple glimpse into how I prepare to answer a question like this or how she might answer her own question.

I take the keyword, I do this with most episodes, I take the key word or idea that someone asks and I in this case

it's waiting for the Lord and I use a concordance or the word search feature of my Bible software

to look up how that word or idea is used in the Bible.

So if you look up in the E. S.

For example, the word weight,

with all of its swarms like weighted and waiting,

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