Our scriptural text today comes from the final verse of our familiar passage of Scripture, Psalm 27, where you'll notice there these words, wait on the Lord.

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart.

Wait, I say say on the Lord you're talking today from the subject the

power of waiting the power the power of waiting waiting is a part of God's

process and if you try to avert the process, you're going to get in trouble.

It's like breaking a leg and then trying to get up and walk on the leg before you've given it time to heal.

You're going to injure it further because you couldn't wait.

And sometimes when you try to move too quickly, you end up

causing a deeper delay. So this is the difference between a shortcut and a detour. The detour gets

you there safely. The shortcut gets you there fast but unsafely. So if you take a shortcut,

you're liable to jump over something and you can end up breaking your leg and sometimes

the shortest cut ends up being the longest route. If your integrity comes under question

where you see that you have an opportunity to be able to get

some money because you feel in your mind the devil start telling you they ain't paying you what you

worth anyway well that may not be true but you don't have the authority to just take it because that's

that's called stealing now they may be doing wrong but you let God deal with them. The Bible says, God has said, vengeance is mine.

I will repay, says the Lord.

So just be faithful.

Be faithful during that time because the devil will always show you shortcuts to be able to get to where God has destined you to be.

That's always a temptation is to rush to try to get somewhere. And I want you to

understand that as a, as the waiting, the power of waiting is a transformational process. I want

you to think about what happens when a, a caterpillar spins out of its own mouth, its cocoon, which is to say to us that the words that come

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