1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Hi, this is Victoria. Thank you so much for downloading 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: this podcast. I believe God has amazing things in your future. 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed this message. I think about when 4 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:24,279 Speaker 1: my daughter sent out her applications for college. She was 5 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: going to go to a university, and so it was 6 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:29,800 Speaker 1: the end of her senior year. She began to send 7 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: out applications to see where she would go to school. 8 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: I remember they said it was going to take a 9 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 1: few months to get those applications back and see what 10 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 1: school she was accepted in. But you know, those months 11 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: just seemed to take even longer. It seemed like it 12 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: was taking forever to get a response back from the school, 13 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: and she was anticipating what school she would go to. 14 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: All of her friends were going through the same process. 15 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: They were waiting for their answers. And it's kind of 16 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: funny because as they were waiting, it was as if 17 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,400 Speaker 1: they had more questions in their heart and mind. They 18 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: were like, well, what if I get accepted to this school, 19 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 1: who will I live with? Well, if I get accepted 20 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:16,520 Speaker 1: to that school, where will I live? You see, they 21 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 1: were anticipating all this and it was just formulating more 22 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: doubt and more questions. In their mind about this situation. 23 00:01:25,880 --> 00:01:29,560 Speaker 1: You see, they were waiting and it was making them weary. 24 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: Have you ever waited and been frustrated? Kind of like 25 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: my daughter. She couldn't make plans until she got this answer. 26 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 1: You see, it happens to all of us. We all 27 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 1: go through this waiting process. It's no fun. It can 28 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:51,120 Speaker 1: be difficult, it can be challenging, and it can be hard. 29 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: But can I tell you God is not making us 30 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: wait to make it hard on us. He's causing us 31 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: to develop in our character and in our strength. You see, 32 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 1: we all have patience we need to acquire. Patience is 33 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: a strength. Patience is what brings forth God's promises. The 34 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:19,920 Speaker 1: Word says it's through patient endurance that we bring forth 35 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: the promises of God. You see, my daughter was accepted 36 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: to a college. She was really happy about it, but 37 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: then she started waiting to see what charrity she would 38 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: get in. She was waiting to see what kind of 39 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: friends she would meet. She's going to be waiting to graduate, 40 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,679 Speaker 1: She'll be waiting to see what job she gets, who 41 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: she marries, waiting to have a baby. You see, life 42 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 1: is a process of waiting. She's eighteen years old. She's 43 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: got a lot of waiting to do. So the earlier 44 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: that we learn this process, the happier we're going to be. 45 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:04,119 Speaker 1: You see, I wonder sometimes if those girls even enjoyed 46 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: the last semester of high school because they were so concerned, worried, 47 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: and frustrated about what was going to happen in the future. 48 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,519 Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting. God always puts us at the 49 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,839 Speaker 1: right place, even if it's not the place we think 50 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: we should be. God always works it out for us. 51 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: You see, we're gonna be waiting most of the time, 52 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: so we need to learn to wait well. Isaiah forty 53 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:34,640 Speaker 1: thirty one says, wait on the Lord, and he will 54 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: renew your strength. See, we're never gonna wait well unless 55 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:42,960 Speaker 1: we wait in the strength of God. Sometimes we make 56 00:03:43,040 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: the mistake of thinking waiting is passive. We're standing in 57 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: the corner with our hands folded, just waiting for the 58 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: right thing to happen, waiting for us to get this 59 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: great break, waiting for our career to start. But see, 60 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 1: God doesn't think that we should sit around and wait. 61 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: We should be actively waiting. We should be pursuing God, 62 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: not just waiting to see what happens. But preparing ourselves 63 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,200 Speaker 1: in the wait. You know, I've heard it said like 64 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 1: this that patience is a muscle that can only be 65 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 1: developed in the weight. You see, we've got to wait 66 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: well to develop patience. We all want patience, we all 67 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,719 Speaker 1: want to be strengthened. The writer of James says it 68 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 1: like this. See the farmer, how he waits patiently for 69 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: his crops to come up. Then it goes on to 70 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: tell us how he waits. It says he waits with 71 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: cheerful endurance, with expectation. He's waiting looking for the signs 72 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: the rain. He's out there watching his soil, believing it's 73 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 1: you see, he doesn't go out there and say, I know, 74 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 1: I plan and see in the ground, I wonder if 75 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: it's still there. Have you ever thought like, let me 76 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: dig it up and make sure it's still down there. 77 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 1: I don't see anything happening yet, you see, that's easy. 78 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: We all feel like that. But he stayed excited about 79 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 1: his crop even when he didn't see anything happening, because 80 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:25,720 Speaker 1: he knew it was just a matter of time that 81 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 1: the earth would bring forth his harvest if he kept 82 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 1: his endurance and his strength and his patience. See, we 83 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: should all wait. With that attitude, shouldn't we we would 84 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 1: enjoy life more. You know, we don't need to feel 85 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 1: the struggle when we wait. We need to develop our patients, 86 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: knowing that at the right time, God is gonna get 87 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:50,599 Speaker 1: us to where we need to be. We need to 88 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: start enjoying our life right now, not looking so far 89 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: into the future that we forget what's happening right now. 90 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: I was in the elevator with my daughter not long ago, 91 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: and we were going up to like the twenty fifth 92 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: floor in this high rise building, and the elevator stopped, 93 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,279 Speaker 1: doors opened, and a man walks in, and we're just 94 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: standing there, and he looks at me, and I smiled 95 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 1: at him, and he looks at me and I said Hi. 96 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: He was gonna say something to me, and he stopped 97 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,080 Speaker 1: for a second and I could see him thinking, and 98 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: he said, I can't believe you're standing in this elevator. 99 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:30,599 Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm seeing you right now, he said. 100 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: I was talking to a friend of mine the other 101 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: day and he said, I was talking about how I've 102 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 1: been waiting for something for a long time, and I 103 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: need God to help me. I need him to increase 104 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 1: my patience so I can bring forth what I feel 105 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: like He's called me to do. And he said, you know, 106 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 1: I love the ministry. I get encouragement from the ministry. 107 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:54,120 Speaker 1: And he said, because I see you today, he said, 108 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: I believe it's a sign that God is telling me 109 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. Hang on, don't it's just a matter 110 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 1: of time. You know what that man was doing. He 111 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,840 Speaker 1: was doing the same thing that the farmer does. He 112 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 1: was looking for a sign. He was looking for the rain. 113 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: He was saying, I need this cheerful, hopeful endurance. God, 114 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: give me a sign, give me the next thing, to 115 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: give me to my next place. Strengthen me. I'm waiting 116 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: on you so that you'll renew my strain. You see, 117 00:07:29,680 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: when we're strong, we can endure. God says, I want 118 00:07:33,760 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: you to run and not get weary. I don't want 119 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: you to faint. I want you to be strong with 120 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,679 Speaker 1: this virtue called patience. See, we don't need to birth 121 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: anything before it's time. We've got to be ready for 122 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: what God has in store for us. And if we're 123 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: gonna bring forth the promises of God, we're gonna have 124 00:07:54,120 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 1: to develop patience. Patience isn't a bad thing. Patience is 125 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 1: a strength. It's a good thing. Jesus told five hundred 126 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: disciples wait here in Jerusalem, because the Holy Spirit is 127 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: going to come upon you. He said, don't leave, wait 128 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 1: right here. Do you know that only one hundred and 129 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:20,000 Speaker 1: fifty disciples out of the five hundred didn't get impatient 130 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 1: and leave. The rest left. It was only one hundred 131 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: and twenty out of the five hundred that's stuck around. 132 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: You See, sometimes I think when it takes a long time, 133 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: we get bored, we lose our enthusiasm, we forget what 134 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 1: we're waiting for, we quit expecting. You see, that day, 135 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: the ones who stayed got renewed, recharged and re energated, 136 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: energized by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit came in 137 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:57,440 Speaker 1: and suddenly did exactly what Jesus said the Holy Spirit 138 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: was going to do Habacca. He said, God, I have 139 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:05,520 Speaker 1: this vision. You told me to write it down, You 140 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 1: told me to hold it close. But it's taken a 141 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: long time. And God, you know, God said to him, 142 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: he said, though it terry, wait for it. Well, God 143 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 1: tell me when wait for it? Man? Sometimes you know, 144 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: have you ever thought of that word waiting? 145 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:23,680 Speaker 2: You? 146 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: All you can see is long lines, lots of traffic. 147 00:09:27,920 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: You're sitting in the doctor's office with everybody sitting there waiting. 148 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: But why do you stay in that chair? Because you 149 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: know the nurse is gonna come out. She's gonna call 150 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 1: your name. She's gonna call your name. That's what keeps 151 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,319 Speaker 1: you in that chair. Let me tell you something, God, 152 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,839 Speaker 1: it's gonna call your name. It's for an appointed time. 153 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 1: Wait for it. Don't get ahead of the time. See, 154 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:57,320 Speaker 1: you know what our job is. Our job is to 155 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,719 Speaker 1: get ready for the appointed time. We don't want to 156 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: birth anything before it's time. We don't want to take 157 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,880 Speaker 1: it into our own hands. I think about Moses and 158 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: how he led the Israelites. They were well equipped when 159 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 1: they came out of Egypt strong, headed to the Promised Land. Listen, 160 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: he opened the Red Sea. They saw amazing miracles. They 161 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: walked through on dry ground, so incredible. Even though they 162 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 1: may have been fearful, They look back and they watched 163 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 1: the sea swallow up their enemies. You see, God did 164 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: amazing things. He said, I'm taking you to that place 165 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 1: called the Promised Land. Stick with me, keep the promise, 166 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 1: and don't give up. Well, as they were in the desert, 167 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 1: Moses said, Hey, I'll be back. I'm going to see God. 168 00:10:45,559 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get our instructions for the next half of 169 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,320 Speaker 1: our journey. So he went up to Mount Sinai and 170 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: spoke with God. But you know what the Israelites did 171 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 1: in the camp. They lost sight of the promise of God. 172 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 1: They lost sight of where they were going and what 173 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: God was capable of doing. You know what they said, 174 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,080 Speaker 1: They said, we don't know if Moses he's even going 175 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: to come back. He's taken so long. They were so impatient. 176 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:16,719 Speaker 1: You know what they did. They took the gold that 177 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,320 Speaker 1: God had given them, that he had supplied for them, 178 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: and they threw it in the fire, and they said, 179 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 1: we're going to make our own God. We're going to 180 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:27,440 Speaker 1: celebrate and worship that God. They thought that God was 181 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: going to make them happy. He didn't. He didn't make 182 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 1: them happy at all. In fact, you know what they did, 183 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: they fell short of the best plan God had for 184 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: their life. We need to be prepared. There's a pointed time. 185 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:45,200 Speaker 1: What are you doing to get to that appointed time? 186 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 1: You see, it's how we wait that's important to God. 187 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:56,920 Speaker 1: How we wait can oftentimes lead to how long we wait. 188 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: See the waiting is what God is interested in. He's 189 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 1: interested in what we're gonna develop within us as we wait. 190 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: In fact, I believe he's more interested in our development 191 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,960 Speaker 1: than what we're waiting on, because see, God's got amazing 192 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:14,920 Speaker 1: things in your future. Hey, if he's brought you this far, 193 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 1: he's gonna take you all the way. He's parted red 194 00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: Seas for you. You've seen him do miracles. He's You're 195 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: well fed and well clothed, You've got everything you need. 196 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: Don't jump ahead of God. Know if he's brought you 197 00:12:30,320 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 1: this far, he's gonna take you all the way. Enjoy 198 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 1: where you are right now. Begin to learn to wait well, 199 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,800 Speaker 1: knowing that this patience endurance that you are birthing is 200 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:46,120 Speaker 1: gonna bring forth every promise He's given you. Amen. Amen. 201 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,280 Speaker 2: Thank you for listening to the joel Ostine podcast. Help 202 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:54,079 Speaker 2: us continue to share the message of hope with those 203 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 2: all over the world. Visit joelostin dot com slash give 204 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 2: Hope to give a gift today. 205 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening to today's message. I hope 206 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 1: you'll subscribe so you can receive the latest podcast to 207 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:10,560 Speaker 1: keep you inspired all through the week. 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