If you want God to deliver you, if you want his powerful working in your life, it will come on the heels of a season of waiting.

God will not disappoint those of you who wait for him.

He will not let you be put to shame.

Nobody who has ever waited for God ever in history has been let down.

You will not be the first.

Waiting is an essential, even an

appointed part of the Christian life.

Welcome back to the Summit Life podcast with J.D. Greer. If you'd like to learn more about this ministry

or explore ways to partner with us, visit Jadie Greer.com. One of our favorite things about this ministry

is hearing from you. We recently received this message from a listener. We are now missionaries in

Thailand, and we use your content in Canada in our life groups for many years. I've gained

knowledge I use now as we work with university students in Bangkok, as we share God's love to students

and young adults, and have seen many lives transformed. I mean, isn't that amazing? Share your story with us

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Jadie Greer.com. Okay, who out there loves Christmas? I know, I know, we're not quite there yet,

but sometimes I do wish that that season would come just a little quicker. Well, today, Pastor Jady takes us to those first days Jesus was here on Earth and tells the story of Anna and Simeon, two of the first people to meet him.

Here's Pastor J.D. with a message he titled, The Christmas We Weren't Expecting.

Joshua Bell is perhaps the world's most famous violinist. At 39 years old, he was called America's

greatest classical musician, the kind that people would fill up Carnegie Hall at a minimum of

$100 a ticket just to hear him play his Strativarius violin. In 2007, a news outlet put him up to an experiment.

He was in Washington, D.C. for a concert, and so the day after the concert, they had him go down

anonymously into the Le Font Metro Station in D.C. right in the middle of rush hour, his $3.5 million strativarius violin in hand,

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