Why is God Making Me Wait? - Missing Peace Part 3

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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🗓️ 20 December 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever felt like you’re waiting on God? His timing might always be perfect, but from where we sit, it can also be frustrating. It can even feel like sometimes, He’s forgotten us. In this message, Pastor Craig Groeschel will take a look at what happens when God’s timing makes us pause, reflect, and depend on Him.

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0:00.0	One of the worst feelings in life is to wait.
0:10.0	Right? How many know what I'm talking about?
0:13.0	Does anybody ever say like, I love to wait? Nobody likes to wait.
0:17.0	One of the worst feelings in life is to wait, especially when it comes to waiting on God.
0:23.0	You know what I'm talking about?
0:25.0	Some of you right now you may feel like you're waiting on God.
0:28.0	You prayed for something and you're wondering, God, what's taking so long?
0:32.0	God, are you even listening? Have you forgotten me? Do you not even care?
0:37.0	You might be praying for it. Who knows what? Maybe you're praying that God would heal you from my grains.
0:43.0	Perhaps you're asking God to bring a loved one to Christ.
0:47.0	You might be praying that God would give you a job with real benefits to help you provide for your family.
0:53.0	You might ask God to heal you from depression or to save your hurting marriage or for God to bring you a spouse.
1:02.0	And yet, the more you pray, the less you see.
1:05.0	And you wonder, where are you, God? I've been praying for a spouse for years.
1:10.0	I have one friend. She's been praying for a spouse. She had a list of 43 specific requests for God.
1:17.0	That's specific. God, bring me a man with these 43 qualities.
1:21.0	After a few years, it's down to two. I wanted to be a male and I wanted to be employed.
1:27.0	God, just bring me a man who's got a job. Some of you may feel like this.
1:31.0	You've been praying and you've been begging and you've been waiting and you've been wondering and you're believing that God can but he hasn't.
1:38.0	And you've waited so long that you're starting to wonder if God hears your prayers.
1:44.0	If he cares or if he's even there at all, what do you do when you've been waiting?
1:51.0	The title of today's message is why is God making me wait?
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