While Waiting, Do These 8 Things! — Transcript

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1. 0:00Just recently, me and my wife made the  announcement that after 13 years of our marriage,
2. 0:05we are pregnant and we've been waiting for  this blessing from God for 13 years. We've
3. 0:12shared different things that we've learned  in the process of waiting, and I want to
4. 0:19share with you eight things you must do while  waiting. Maybe you waiting for God to give you
5. 0:26the answer to your prayer, maybe you're waiting  for the promise of God to come to pass. Perhaps
6. 0:33you are waiting for the spouse, for children, for  financial breakthrough or you're waiting for God
7. 0:40to save your children. Maybe you're waiting for  the breakthrough in your ministry. I believe that
8. 0:47these eight things will set you up not to mess  up your waiting season. I have experienced many
9. 0:57things in my life in regards to waiting. The one  about the child has been probably the longest one.
10. 1:05But the one about the ministry, breakthrough in  the ministry has always been also a very extended
11. 1:11period of waiting before I saw the breakthrough  that the Lord brought in our ministry and now
12. 1:16He's growing. It's like a snowball effect, and  it's happening in our ministry. The first thing
13. 1:24that I want to start with and that is this. Obey  the last thing God told you to do. Follow the last
14. 1:34directive from God. When God told Noah to build an  ark, the Bible says, "Thus Noah did; according to
15. 1:42all that God commanded him, so he did it." Genesis  6:22. Noah built the ark. The Bible doesn't
16. 1:51exactly tell us how many years it took him. He  finished that task even though it was difficult.
17. 1:58We don't see God speaking anymore throughout  the years that Noah was building the ark. But
18. 2:07he was focusing on the last thing God told him  to do. Maybe you are in the waiting season,
19. 2:16I want to ask you a question? Have you done what  God told you to do? Obey in faith. Even if you
20. 2:24don't see the end. Even if that act of obedience  you did in faith, did not bring any changes, did
21. 2:33not bring any results or breakthroughs, remember.  God blesses obedience. Sometimes we get impatient
22. 2:41in waiting, and we ignore what God told us to  do as a last thing or the last directive. Drop
23. 2:50this in the chat. Obey the last thing God told  you to do. Somebody else drop this in the chat.
24. 2:59Follow the last directive. Sometimes we want  the Lord to give us a new instruction. "Lord,
25. 3:07give us a new direction. Lord, what should we  do? Nothing is changing, it seems like we're
26. 3:14stuck." And if God doesn't tell you anything new  or different, do the last thing He told you to do,
27. 3:25because that last thing that Noah did and then  it was a long period of waiting. The rain didn't
28. 3:32come, but when Noah finished building the ark,  it took him someone said over a 100 years. Long
29. 3:40time it took him to build the ark. We don't know  for sure how many years. What we do know it was a
30. 3:45very long time. We don't see the Lord speaking  again, we don't see any changes. We just see a
31. 3:53long period of waiting and doing the last thing  God told you. The second thing I want to highlight
32. 4:01when you're waiting, and that is this. Do not  make an Ishmael. Drop this in the chat. Don't
33. 4:09make an Ishmael. Number two of waiting, while  waiting don't make an Ishmael. Abraham received
34. 4:18the promise of children in Genesis 12. He receives  it again in Genesis chapter 15. When God cuts a
35. 4:24covenant or makes an agreement with Abram. It was  a one-way agreement. Even if Abraham wouldn't keep
36. 4:31his side of the bargain, God would keep His.That's  why the land of Israel will always belong to
37. 4:37descendants of Abraham because God promised him  that. Now the promise of the son because it was
38. 4:45not only the land but God promised him a child.  This promise didn't happen, for a long time.
39. 4:52So Sarah takes things into her own hands and she  persuades Abraham to father a child with her maid,
40. 5:00Hagar, in order to get a child. Wait? God didn't  say anything about a child with Hagar. Abraham,
41. 5:09what are you doing? Eventually at 100  years of age, Abraham had his promised son,
42. 5:17Isaac. Ishmael became the father of the Arab  people who are still fighting the descendants
43. 5:24of Isaac till this day. Just open any news and  you will see, Ishmael, you will see, Isaac. They
44. 5:34are still at war. Why did that happen? Because  of Abram's own efforts to fulfill God's promise
45. 5:43only resulted in problems and suffering. Don't  take matters into your own hands when you are
46. 5:51waiting. Don't birth an Ishmael. Meaning something  out of your own impatience, out of desperation.
47. 5:59So many people end up in marriages, Ishmael  marriages. They quickly, instead of waiting
48. 6:06on God to bring the right person, they find a  person that is in contradiction to God's Word,
49. 6:13in contradiction to the wisdom of people that they  trust, in contradiction to their own peace. But
50. 6:19they're desperate, and then they wait on God to  change that person, and they result in problems
51. 6:27and suffering. Almost in everything where you  have to wait on God, the devil will come and say,
52. 6:33there's a shortcut. All you have to do, is do  this thing. You know he told Jesus, there's a
53. 6:40shortcut. All you have to do is worship me, and  you will have all the kingdoms of this world. You
54. 6:46no longer have to suffer, you don't have to wait  thousands of years, when you come back as the Lion
55. 6:51of the tribe of Judah, as the root of Jesse and  as the King of kings and establish God's Kingdom
56. 6:57on this earth. You can get it right now through  a shortcut. Jesus, I know You're hungry. You can
57. 7:05fulfill Your hunger by a shortcut. You know, use  God's power for Your own personal benefit. Satan
58. 7:14always will give you a shortcut. Waiting is a  process of waiting upon God to bring an Isaac,
59. 7:21to bring His blessing, His way. That's why  waiting is painful because it's not just about
60. 7:28God's will being done. It's God's will being done  in God's way. Waiting is God's will being done,
61. 7:37in God's way. Drop this in the chat. Waiting  is about God's will being done in God's way.
62. 7:46When the devil comes, he gives you a shortcut,  and that shortcut is so that you can birth an
63. 7:51Ishmael and bring suffering in your life. What  we see happening in Middle East today is Ishmael
64. 7:58being born out of impatience, out of taking  matters into your own hands, and this Ishmael
65. 8:07we see is in war with Isaac. The son of the  promise is in war with the son of impatience,
66. 8:13and God is merciful. This is not to say that  if you are a descendant of Arab or I am part
67. 8:23of the Slavic descendants, we're Gentiles, that  God doesn't love us, that God doesn't care for
68. 8:28us. That we're somehow cursed. No, all of us are  technically cursed because of descendants of Adam,
69. 8:34but in this case I'm relating to the story of  Abraham. He was impatient. He gave birth to
70. 8:41Ishmael. Do not give birth to something  out of impatience. When you're waiting,
71. 8:47you know thinking about Abraham's story, don't  be discouraged when someone gets naturally, what
72. 8:53requires you by faith, what requires you efforts,  walking by faith. Like you you see so many people
73. 9:02in the Bible who seem to have children you know  immediately, not having any complications because
74. 9:08it's a natural process by which God created us.  But for people like Sarah, for people like Hannah,
75. 9:14for people like Elizabeth. It took them a  miracle. It took them breakthrough. It took God's
76. 9:20intervention and sometimes maybe you see that in  finances. Somebody gets natural. It just seems
77. 9:26like prosperity comes naturally to them. Maybe  because of the way their parents raised them,
78. 9:30the way their grandparents were doing things  with integrity, and doing things with education,
79. 9:36and doing things with connections. And it seems  like it's naturally for them to prosper and but
80. 9:41for you it takes a lot of faith, it takes a lot  of perseverance. Don't be discouraged because of
81. 9:46that, don't be jealous of people and don't become  impatient because of that. It's okay to be hungry
82. 9:53for God's blessing but never be desperate  for God's blessing. Stay desperate for God,
83. 9:59stay thirsty for God. Somebody dropped this in  the chat. It's okay to be hungry but don't be
84. 10:06desperate for God's blessing. It is God's  desire to bless you. It is God's desire to
85. 10:12bring you breakthrough, but He doesn't want you  to be desperate for that breakthrough. He wants
86. 10:16you to be desperate for Him. Be hungry, meaning  desire breakthrough without being desperate,
87. 10:23because the moment you become desperate,  what begins to happen is that you can fall
88. 10:27into impatience and you can fall into birthing an  Ishmael. But when you are desiring it, the Bible
89. 10:34says He fulfills the desires of those who delight  in Him. So as we delight in the Lord, He purifies
90. 10:40our desires and then He fulfills our desires. But  delighting yourself in God protects you from being
91. 10:46desperate in an unhealthy way, because Sarah got  desperate for a child, and she took a shortcut
92. 10:54and turned out that this shortcut produced a lot  of suffering, amen. What happened with Abraham is
93. 11:02that God, before He gave him a child, He gave him  a promise. Let me say that again. Before God gave
94. 11:09Abraham a child, God gave Abraham a promise. Drop  this in the chat. Before God gives you a miracle,
95. 11:16He will give you a promise. Hold on to that  promise. Sometimes we discard the promise,
96. 11:23sometimes we ignore the promise. Sometimes we  think that, ah, it's a promise. When God quickens
97. 11:28a word, gives you a vision, a dream, a clear  picture of what that future is going to be. That's
98. 11:35what vision is. A vision is a desired picture of  the future. Vision, drop this in the chat, vision
99. 11:41is a desired picture of the future. It's a picture  of the future that's desired, inspired by the Holy
100. 11:49Spirit. That's what vision is, and when God gives  you that vision, when God gives you that promise,
101. 11:56sometimes that's a prerequisite. Sometimes that's  like the John the Baptist. It's what's coming
102. 12:02before the miracle. Like in our case with me and  my wife, I knew about 8 to 9 years ago that the
103. 12:13Lord wants to give us a child. In fact, not only I  knew that, I had a very clear picture of a gender
104. 12:23and the name. Told my wife about it, we prayed  about it, we thank God for it and it took years
105. 12:30before that became a reality. But God gave Abraham  a promise way before He gave him a child. In fact,
106. 12:39this promise was so real that Abraham was asked  by God to change his name to match the promise,
107. 12:48not his current problem. This wasn't some  mental gymnastics. This wasn't just the
108. 12:55power of visualization or some kind of a power of  attraction, law of attraction like the New Ages
109. 13:03teach. This was God teaching Abraham faith.  Abraham is called the father of faith. How
110. 13:09was this faith given? God has a covenant with  His servant Abraham, He gives him a promise,
111. 13:15and then God comes and says, this is going to  happen. I want you to change your name. No longer
112. 13:21call yourself glorious father but call yourself  father of many nations. Also go change your wife's
113. 13:28name. Instead of calling her you know the queen,  princess. I want her to be the mother of nations.
114. 13:36And for years Abraham walks around with a changed  name but his circumstances were not changed,
115. 13:41and I wonder if that's how the Lord works with  many of us. He gives us a promise. This promise
116. 13:47is so real in our spirit, in the spirit real,  and we hold on to it, and we walk with that
117. 13:54promise. We see ourselves already in that promise  with our sanctified imagination. Not some mental
118. 14:03gymnastics but with our sanctified imagination.  So if God gave you a promise, that's one way of
119. 14:11knowing breakthrough is on the way. Let me give  you an example. There was a time when me and my
120. 14:19wife decided to give our second car, and we had a  couple in our church that just lost their vehicle
121. 14:26in a car accident. They had children and they  needed the car. I knew that financially they
122. 14:32were struggling, that things you know, things were  difficult for them. And me and my wife were going
123. 14:38to Fred Meyer on Saturday night. Just kind of  doing some shopping and felt inspired by the Lord,
124. 14:45both of us, to give our car to this couple. Now  that was the only car we had but it was a nice
125. 14:51car to you. Toyota Camry. It was brand new when  I bought it. I paid it off, and we meet with this
126. 14:59couple the next day at our house and we give them  this promise. We said, we want to give you this
127. 15:05car. They said, which car? They knew we only  had one. We said, well the car that we have.
128. 15:11They're like, the only car that you have? Yes,  and I said, but I can't give it to you right now
129. 15:18because I want to change my bumper. The bumper had  a lot of bugs there and paint kind of peeled off,
130. 15:23and secondly I want to change tires and get an  alignment. Meaning, I want to improve the quality
131. 15:28of the car, change oil and then we will give it  to you. So they started to cry. They broke down.
132. 15:35They said, that's so precious, nobody's ever done  this. And so they were so grateful, and the moment
133. 15:40they left our house they left with a car but they  never got the keys yet. They told their family,
134. 15:48hey we got a car, and when the family said,  where's the car? It's coming. What do you
135. 15:56mean you got a car but you don't have a car? Well  we have a promise from this person that we trust
136. 16:01and that promise is true, because this person will  not lie to us and that person was me and my wife,
137. 16:10and they believed us. They acted as though  they already had a car though they didn't
138. 16:14have a car. They stopped shopping for a car, and  they stopped being worried. They became at rest
139. 16:21that it's going to be taken care of. A month  and a half later, when the bumper was fixed,
140. 16:26tires were changed, oil was changed. On Friday  night prayer we came and brought them the keys,
141. 16:31gave them the title. But they received the car,  when they received the promise. That's a word for
142. 16:37somebody right there. They received the car, when  they received the promise. When I gave them the
143. 16:42promise that I will give them the car, that's when  the transfer happened, but the physical receiving,
144. 16:49possessing of the car, happened a month and a  half later. What if I were to tell you when God
145. 16:54gives you a promise inspired by the Holy Spirit,  quickened by the Holy Spirit, that rhema word,
146. 17:00you became the possessor of that promise. But then  you go through the process, the season of waiting.
147. 17:09When now you will get what you got, meaning, you  will receive what you already are possessor of.
148. 17:18Maybe it's healing. Maybe it's deliverance. Maybe  it's breakthrough. God doesn't exaggerate. God
149. 17:26doesn't throw words in the wind. The Holy Spirit  doesn't say things He doesn't mean. Trust His
150. 17:33promise. Hold on to that promise because sometimes  God gives you a promise before He gives you a
151. 17:40miracle. Hold on to that promise because that's a  sign that the miracle is on the way. In fact, the
152. 17:48word in Hebrews 11:1 where it says the faith is  a substance of things hoped for and an assurance.
153. 17:57Faith is a substance of things hoped for. The word  "substance" there is really that word that it's
154. 18:03a title deed. It's a title deed of things hoped  for. See faith is not hoping it's going to happen.
155. 18:11Faith is having that which God promised already  here in my heart. How do I get that? He promised,
156. 18:20and I trust God's promises. So faith is a  substance. It's a title deed. It's, I have it. I'm
157. 18:30not hoping for it, I have it. That's what faith  is. He gave me a promise, I trust Him and I have
158. 18:38it, but I can't see it. Yes, not yet, but when the  woman is pregnant you don't see her baby but she
159. 18:45has a baby. The baby is growing. So that's what  God's promise. It's that spiritual, like almost
160. 18:52like a conception spiritually, where in your  spirit you take the seed of God's promise and
161. 18:58it grows inside. You believe, you have, you stand  on the promise. You go from hoping, to having.
162. 19:07Come on somebody, drop this in the chat. When you  get the promise, you go from hoping to having that
163. 19:14promise, and then you get that miracle, you get  that breakthrough. If this is helping somebody,
164. 19:21drop number one in the chat if this is helping  somebody. If you are rewatching this right now,
165. 19:26don't forget to hit like to this stream. If you  are just tuning in and this is helping somebody,
166. 19:31share this with somebody right now. Hit like  to this video and drop in the chat if you are
167. 19:38rewatching, but for most of you we are live right  now so you are watching this. We already shared
168. 19:45number one. If you're waiting, obey the last  thing that God told you. Number two, don't make
169. 19:52an Ishmael out of impatience. Sometimes God will  give you a promise before He gives you a miracle.
170. 19:58Trust in that promise. Let's go to number three.  Don't go outside of the bounds of your assignment
171. 20:06when you're waiting on God. Drop this in the chat.  Don't go outside the bounds of your assignment,
172. 20:14when you're waiting on God. Example is King Saul,  chapter 13, Fist Samuel 13:7 through 11. Saul was
173. 20:24in danger and hoping to get help from Prophet  Samuel. Saul saw that people were scattering
174. 20:30from him and he decided to take things again into  his own hands. Now as Abraham, he went and got an
175. 20:37Ishmael. Saul had another problem. He waited  wrongly. He offered the sacrifice which only
176. 20:45Samuel should have offered. Saul was impatient and  stepped outside of the bounds of his authority and
177. 20:54calling. Don't be like Saul. Don't do what God has  not authorized you to do. Don't take on more than
178. 21:07what God told you to do. Don't, out of impatience,  step out of where God has planted you, placed you
179. 21:18and asked you to wait for Him. Sometimes what  we do in waiting is we move from the place God
180. 21:26told us to wait on Him, and we go into the place  where God never told us to go into. Sometimes we
181. 21:34go into those places because somebody else is  doing that. Sometimes we go into those places
182. 21:38is because people tell us to do that. Sometimes  we go into those places because we think we can
183. 21:43speed things up. We step out of the place of where  we were placed to be in, because we're frustrated,
184. 21:53because we're impatient, because we're tired of  waiting, and we leave. Those five foolish virgins,
185. 22:00they didn't wait for the bridegroom. They run out  of oil, and when the bridegroom arrived, they were
186. 22:07not there to meet him because they left a place  of waiting. Jesus told his disciples, He says,
187. 22:13"Wait in Jerusalem." The Holy Spirit didn't come  where they were, Nazareth, you know Galilee. No,
188. 22:21He came to Jerusalem and they had to wait  there. Now 500 people saw Jesus ascend to
189. 22:27heaven but 120 were there when the Holy Spirit  came. Where were the rest of the people? They
190. 22:34left that place of waiting. They left the place  that Jesus told them to be at. When you step out
191. 22:42of the place of your calling, when you step out  of the place of what you were assigned by God,
192. 22:49and you go into something just because  it's an opportunity that presents itself,
193. 22:54just because well it seemed good. Not everything  that's good is God, and sometimes what's good will
194. 23:00fight against what's really God asking you to do.  When you're in waiting, stay where you're planted,
195. 23:09stay where you were placed by God. Wait for His  instruction. It may seem like these other things
196. 23:19are greener pastures. These other things can  provide so much more blessings and resources.
197. 23:24But that's what happened to Lot. Lot, instead of  being with Abraham, he took on his own ability
198. 23:32to provide for himself and said no, I'm just  going to go to something better, more spacious
199. 23:38space and found himself in some green pastures.  The Bible says it looked like the garden of Eden
200. 23:44but it was Sodom and Gomorah. And at first,  it seemed like, oh man, he got a you know big
201. 23:49breakthrough. But then you read the story of him  losing everything, including his family, his wife,
202. 23:56and hiding in caves and never recovering what he  lost. What would have happened if he would have
203. 24:04stayed where he was placed? Stayed where he  was planted? Stayed close to his uncle? Maybe
204. 24:13those things would have not happened. Stay where  you're planted when you're waiting. Don't uproot
205. 24:20yourself. Don't become this plant that keeps  getting replanted to different pots, and you're
206. 24:27losing your grace, you're losing that anointing.  Stay where you're planted, wait on God. Yes things
207. 24:37are maybe getting worse and you feel like I need  to do something. Sometimes the hardest thing you
208. 24:42need to do is to do nothing, and to trust in God  because if that's where He placed you, if that's
209. 24:50where He planted you, if that's what He asked you  to be, stay there. He will come. Probably late,
210. 25:00but God is always on time, which means He's  always late. what do you mean late? Yeah,
211. 25:08He never comes on my time, He always comes on  His time. The vision the Bible says in Habakkuk
212. 25:14chapter 3, it says "Though it terries, wait for  it "and then it says, "It won't tarry." Okay,
213. 25:20I don't get it. How is that the vision terries,  meaning it takes too long and then it won't tarry.
214. 25:28That means God is always on time and He's always  late. Meaning He will never come on your time,
215. 25:36He will come on His time and that is good for us  because it reminds us, do not give up. Mary and
216. 25:45Martha waited for Jesus to come, He came late.  But He didn't come late, He came no time. Jesus
217. 25:51came to Jairus' house too late. That's according  to Jairus' clock but He came on time. God came to
218. 25:59Abraham and Sarah, seemed like too late, they were  too old to have children, but God came on time.
219. 26:04He came too late for Zechariah and for his wife  Elizabeth, but he came on time. Just remember,
220. 26:11Jesus will probably be late and on time. Late  according to you, on time according to Him.
221. 26:22So when it feels like the Lord did not come on  time. It simply means He didn't come on your time,
222. 26:31and most likely, your time and His time are  not synced. Even right now I can ask you this,
223. 26:37those of you watching in the chat, let's do this.  Tell me right now in the comments what time it is
224. 26:47where you are watching. Now if you are rewatching,  let me know that as well. But if you're watching,
225. 26:53go ahead and tell me what time it is right  now where you are watching, and we will see
226. 26:58something. How all of us in different parts of the  world live in a different time zone. Look, 11:00,
227. 27:069:00, 12:00. Look at the different time zones  right now coming up in the chat, but all of us
228. 27:14are living on this earth in a different time zone.  What if I were to tell you, God does not live on
229. 27:22your time zone. Ooh, what a word. Drop this in  the chat. God does not live on your time zone.
230. 27:32He has His supernatural time zone that He lives  in. So don't be surprised if God doesn't make it,
231. 27:39His breakthrough doesn't come in your time zone.  God's miracle is connected to God's timing,
232. 27:47and God's timing is not always synced with your  time zone, so trust Him. If it doesn't come in
233. 27:56your time, trust Him that it comes on His time and  He knows what He's doing and is coming to you on
234. 28:04His time. Come on somebody. So let's review, what  to do while waiting. Obey the last thing God told
235. 28:13you to do. Number two, don't make an Ishmael.  Number three, don't go outside the bounds of
236. 28:19your assignment. Number four, be patient in hope.  Drop this in the chat. Number four, be patient in
237. 28:30hope. Psalm 40:1-3, I waited patiently. that means  what waiting will do is create patience. I waited
238. 28:44patiently for the Lord; and He inclined to me,  and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of the
239. 28:52horrible pit, out of the miry clay, He set my feet  upon a rock, and established my steps. He has put
240. 29:01a new song in my mouth-- Praise to our God; many  will see it and fear, and will trust in the Lord."
241. 29:11David is saying, I waited patiently. It's possible  to wait on God without being patient. In fact, one
242. 29:21thing waiting will produce is patience. One reason  why God allows waiting is to produce patience.
243. 29:31Drop this in the chat. Waiting produces patience.  In fact, I don't think patience can be produced
244. 29:39any other way except waiting. God cannot produce  probably patience just because you read the Word.
245. 29:46You got to wait for something. Even James 1, 2 and  3 tells us that brethren, as you fall into various
246. 29:52trials, remember these are producing patience. So  what do we do is that we wait patiently in hope.
247. 30:03That's what David says, "I wait patiently for the  Lord." I'm not just waiting for a breakthrough,
248. 30:09I'm waiting for God, the God of breakthrough to  come. Also I love this about David, he says, it's
249. 30:16okay to cry. Sometimes when you are waiting, and  you are waiting patiently and it's too long, you
250. 30:26cry. It's not because you lack faith. It's because  you're human, and it's okay to cry. It's okay to
251. 30:33ask questions. It's okay to feel that and let God  know how you feel. You don't need to bottle it up
252. 30:42and pretend to be spiritually macho. It's okay to  let God know, "Lord, I am tired of waiting. Lord,
253. 30:52I am hurting." And then David begins to prophetic  speak. "He brought me out of the horrible pit,"
254. 31:01that means don't be discouraged by the trouble  you're in. He will bring you out. In fact,
255. 31:06I just want to prophetically use this Scripture to  speak that into your life. He can bring you out,
256. 31:14He will bring you out. Your deliverance is  on the way, that breakthrough is on the way,
257. 31:20that healing is on the way, that salvation is on  the way for your family members, that breakthrough
258. 31:26for your ministry is on the way. He will take you  out of the pit. He will take you out of the my
259. 31:31clay. He will establish your feet upon the rock.  He will establish your steps. He will put a new
260. 31:37song in your mouth. You will go from complaining  to praising. You will go from fear to faith. You
261. 31:43will go from trials to transformation. You will  go from difficulties to destiny. You will go from
262. 31:49hardship into blessing because you've been  waiting patiently for the Lord. So remember,
263. 31:58waiting builds patience, waiting produces patience  and patience is crucial because it forms your
264. 32:09character. It builds maturity. Patience is  important because then when you get that
265. 32:17breakthrough, it doesn't go into your head because  character has been built. It doesn't destroy you,
266. 32:23your blessing, because you've been built in  maturity, and I believe you cannot really be
267. 32:28mature if you are impatient. Patience will be  built in waiting. I waited patiently for the
268. 32:37Lord. Praise be to God. Let's review. When you  are waiting, these eight things we need to do.
269. 32:45Obey the last thing God told you, don't make  an Ishmael, don't go outside of the bounds of
270. 32:52your assignment. Number three, number four, be  patient in hope. Number five, grow and become
271. 33:01strong. Drop this in the chat. Grow and become  strong. Luke 1:80, it says, "So the child grew
272. 33:11and became strong in the spirit, and was in  the deserts till the day of his manifestation
273. 33:19to Israel." While John was in the desert waiting  until God manifests him, puts him on the pedestal,
274. 33:28puts him into his ministry for which he was born.  He did not become atrophy. He didn't waste away,
275. 33:37lose vigor due to underuse or neglect. He wasn't  passive. He built something, grew in the spirit
276. 33:49and became strong. Don't be lazy in the desert  of your life. Come on somebody, drop this in the
277. 33:56chat. Don't be lazy in the desert of your life.  Grow and become strong while you wait. God told
278. 34:07Israelites, I will not drive out the enemies in  the promised land in one year. But he said, little
279. 34:14by little until you increase. Meaning, I want you  to grow and as you grow, I'm going to begin to
280. 34:20prepare you and take you in into the promised  land. When you are waiting for the promise,
281. 34:29when you are waiting for the fulfillment of that  promise, when you're waiting for that destiny,
282. 34:34remember, in the process God will develop you.  So not only He develops patience but he develops
283. 34:41your gifts, He develops your habits, He develops  your righteousness, He develops your holiness,
284. 34:46He develops your holy habits. He develops your  disciplines, He develops your skills. He develops
285. 34:53you. It's a learning process. This is not just  you folded your hands and you're just like, hey,
286. 34:57I'm just waiting until God calls my number. I'm  just waiting until God gives me breakthrough. No,
287. 35:02no, no. John didn't just in the wilderness  wait. He grew and became strong. Don't waste
288. 35:11your waiting by becoming lazy. This is so good,  drop this in the chat. Don't waste your waiting by
289. 35:19becoming lazy in your desert. I'm going to repeat  that again. Don't waste your waiting by becoming
290. 35:28lazy in your wilderness time. Your wilderness time  is not a time to waste. It's not a time to wait
291. 35:36passively. You have to wait by growing in your  wilderness. John the Baptist grew while he waited
292. 35:46for his time to come to be manifested to Israel,  as the Bible says. He grew strong and he also
293. 35:55became strong. Don't waste your waiting by being  lazy in your desert time. Yes you're discouraged,
294. 36:05yes it's hard. But take those classes, learn  those skills, start writing, go on that run,
295. 36:14go on that walk, get involved in the local church,  serve. You know what waiters do in the restaurant?
296. 36:22They don't sit. They serve. Do what waiters do  when you wait on God. Serve. Drop this in the
297. 36:31chat. Do what waiters do when you wait, serve God.  See waiting on God is not passive, just patiently,
298. 36:44passively killing time. Waiting on God is serving  God actively in what you know He wants you to do.
299. 36:55You know when we were waiting to hear the news  that we will have a child, we didn't wait 13
300. 37:02years by passively, idly doing nothing. You know  I wrote books, preached, we loved each other. I
301. 37:11told my wife you know we didn't marry so that  we can have children. We married so because we
302. 37:16loved each other and children come as a result. We  served. In fact, serve as you wait is the best way
303. 37:27to not allow waiting to become a time when you are  lazy. So many people waste their waiting because
304. 37:36they think waiting is killing time. Waiting is  not killing time. Waiting is doing what waiters
305. 37:45do in the restaurant. They serve. Serve when you  wait, grow when you wait, develop your gifts,
306. 37:56develop, develop your hunger as you wait.  Don't waste your waiting. Somebody dropped
307. 38:02this in the chat. Don't waste your waiting. Wow.  We're about to break 2,000 people on YouTube,
308. 38:12watching live. If you're just tuning in, hit that  like button, share this because this is helping
309. 38:17a lot of people already. I know this is a word  for somebody. It probably took me 13 years to
310. 38:22release this word to you guys, and so go ahead  and share the online with somebody right now,
311. 38:28that hey, join Pastor Vlad as he's teaching this  word right now that is just bringing fuel to the
312. 38:35fire. So we're talking about while waiting, eight  things we need to do. Let's review. Obey the last
313. 38:42thing God told you. Number two, do not make an  Ishmael. Number three, don't go outside of the
314. 38:47bounds of your assignment. Number four, be patient  in hope. Number five, grow and become strong.
315. 38:54Don't waste your waiting by killing time. Develop  your gifts and skills. Number six, maintain your
316. 39:03relationship with the Holy Spirit. So number  six thing that you need to do while waiting is
317. 39:10maintain your relationship with the Holy Spirit.  Simeon or Simeon he was told by God he's not going
318. 39:19to die until he sees the child Jesus, the Lord's  Christ. Imagine getting a prophetic word, imagine
319. 39:28getting a word from God. You're not going to die  until you see Messiah. So Simeon, you know Simeon,
320. 39:35he goes to the temple the Bible says that day it  was revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he
321. 39:40will not see death until he would see Christ,  Lord's Christ, and that's in Luke Chapter 2.
322. 39:46And then the Bible says is that he would go to  the temple full of the Holy Spirit. So it says,
323. 39:53so he came by the Spirit into the temple. That's  Luke 2:25-28, and then the parents bring the child
324. 40:00Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of  the law. Simeon had the spirit of God upon him.
325. 40:08He, this man of God, he received the revelation  from the Holy Spirit and he goes to see and hold
326. 40:14the very thing he was promised. Why? Because he  was waiting and maintaining relationship with the
327. 40:23Holy Spirit. Please hear my heart. As you are  waiting on the breakthrough begin to develop
328. 40:36friendship with the Holy Spirit, intimacy with  the Holy Spirit, communion with the Holy Spirit.
329. 40:44A little shameless plug, get this book, download  it on my website or get it on Amazon. It will
330. 40:51help you to know the Holy Spirit as a Person. This  man, man of God, He was devout and just, waiting
331. 41:00for God's breakthrough and God's Spirit was upon  him. He was led by the Spirit. He heard the Holy
332. 41:08Spirit because waiting time is not wasted when  you are developing relationship with Holy Spirit.
333. 41:16Sometimes you've done developing your gifts,  you've done developing your ministry. You've done
334. 41:20doing everything you can and you may say, "What  do I do? In which other way, Vlad, can I serve?"
335. 41:28Develop relationship with the Holy Spirit, talk to  the Holy Spirit, hear the Holy Spirit, walk in the
336. 41:39Holy Spirit, host the Holy Spirit because He is  going to be the one who will give you the specific
337. 41:50instructions on when and what to do when the time  for the fulfillment of that promise draws near. He
338. 41:59will be the one to guide you. He will be the one  to comfort you. He will be the one to strengthen
339. 42:05you. Can somebody say, amen. If you love the Holy  Spirit, drop the fire emoji in the chat right now.
340. 42:12The Holy Spirit is your comforter, your friend.  Drop that fire emoji right now in the chat. You
341. 42:21know when I was waiting for that breakthrough to  hit HungryGen, that's when I started to really
342. 42:26develop that relationship with the Holy Spirit.  I would walk before having the youth service, and
343. 42:33in my heart I would see the sanctuary being filled  with young people. It wasn't true in real life but
344. 42:41it was true in my spirit, and then I would cry.  The Holy Spirit would fill me with these visions
345. 42:48because visions and dreams are the language of the  Holy Spirit. So I would see this in my vision. I
346. 42:53would see this in my heart's dream. It wasn't  my ambition. It was His dream, and through that
347. 43:01I would cultivate that relationship with Him. I  would close my eyes and reflect on His promises,
348. 43:08talk to Him and I said, "Holy Spirit, I trust You  that You will bring this miracle. I trust You that
349. 43:12You will bring this breakthrough." I wouldn't  see anything happening yet but I would develop
350. 43:19that relationship, see that vision through my  sanctified imagination, and then slowly and
351. 43:26slowly, like a pregnant woman. Like a pregnant,  not pregnant woman because I wasn't a woman and
352. 43:31I wasn't pregnant. But like a pregnant woman, in  my spirit I would begin to see that vision grow,
353. 43:35become more real, and then exactly what the  Holy Spirit would show, with time it was
354. 43:43becoming actualized right in front of my eyes.  Like I went to the mountain last week Monday,
355. 43:51Sunday night, Monday and Tuesday, and I have a  journal where I write different things that the
356. 43:56Holy Spirit shows to me. And there's not too  many of them but they're pretty real to me,
357. 44:03and I saw one more thing that I saw that's going  to happen in our building before we move into a
358. 44:08new building. And I wrote that down about a year  ago, and man when I saw that, I was like oh my
359. 44:13goodness, we're so much closer to that now than  we were a year ago. I am so amazed of how amazing
360. 44:21the Holy Spirit is. He's guiding me through the  process of waiting. The Holy Spirit is speaking.
361. 44:27The Holy Spirit is comforting. The Holy Spirit is  leading. So I maintain relationship with the Holy
362. 44:34Spirit in the process of waiting. Like this man  of God did, when the Holy Spirit revealed to him,
363. 44:40you will see God's Christ, you will see God's  Son, and by the Holy Spirit he came to the temple.
364. 44:48So if you want to see the fulfillment of those  promises given to you by the Holy Spirit, walk in
365. 44:52the Holy Spirit. He is the key to help you get to  that. That's why I wrote the book "Host The Holy
366. 44:59Ghost." To help people maintain a relationship  with the Holy Spirit because a lot of people, what
367. 45:03they do is they know about the Holy Spirit but  they don't know, they don't have a relationship
368. 45:07with Him. They don't have a relationship with  the third Person of the Trinity, and my desire
369. 45:13is to put this understanding of the relationship  with the Holy Spirit on the bottom shelf, where
370. 45:19everybody can understand it and walk in it and  live in it. And I pray that it becomes a blessing
371. 45:25to your life, in Jesus name. Now two more things  that I wanted to share. Number seven is rest. You
372. 45:31have to rest when you're waiting. Drop this in  the chat. Rest when you are waiting. Revelation
373. 45:386:9. It says that when God opened the fifth seal  he saw under, John says, "I saw under the altar
374. 45:47the souls of those who have been slain for the  word of God and for the testimony that they held.
375. 45:52They cried out with a loud voice, 'How long, O  Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge
376. 45:59our blood on those who dwell on the earth?' And  then a white robe was given to each one of them,
377. 46:05and it was said to them that they should rest a  little while longer." Drop this in the chat. Rest
378. 46:16a little while longer. "Rest a little while longer  until both the number of their fellows servants
379. 46:28and their brethren, who have been killed as  they were, was completed." Don't be agitated and
380. 46:35restless when you wait. it only hurts you. Be at  peace until God's plan plays out, until all that
381. 46:43God plans to happen happens. Rest. God got you.  I like to tell people that trust in Him. Trust
382. 46:55is this passive confidence, God got you. Faith is  more of active confidence that you got God. You
383. 47:05got hold of God, you got hold of the promise. But  trust is this restful reliance. You know when you
384. 47:13sit, when I sit on a chair right now, I'm resting  on this chair. It holds me. When you're flying in
385. 47:19the airplane, you know the pilot is guiding the  plane. You don't check his credentials, you don't
386. 47:26have an interview with him before the flight. You  trust in him and the way you exhibit, you portray,
387. 47:32manifest your trust is you sit on that chair in  your seat, and you restfully wait for him to get
388. 47:40you that destination. Well God is your pilot.  Trust in His promise by resting. Don't become
389. 47:48restless, agitated, impatient. That only hurts  you. That only hurts you. Rest a little while
390. 47:59longer, maybe just a little bit longer. Rest,  don't become restless. Come on somebody. Rest a
391. 48:07little while longer. He is faithful who begun the  good work. He will complete it until the coming of
392. 48:17the Lord Jesus Christ, until the breakthrough is  coming. Now the final thing that I want to share
393. 48:22with you and that is this. Prayer is how we wait  for the promise. Prayer is how we wait for the
394. 48:34promise. Jesus says in Acts chapter 4, that do  not depart Jerusalem but wait for the promise,
395. 48:45and then 10 verses later, how do disciples wait?  The Bible says, "These all continued with one
396. 48:51accord in prayer and supplication." Drop this in  the chat. Prayer is how we wait for the promise.
397. 49:02So let's review this. Eight things we must do  while waiting. Number one, obey the last thing
398. 49:09God told you. Follow God's last directive. Obey in  faith, even if you don't see the end. Number two,
399. 49:15don't make an Ishmael. Don't out of impatience  and desperation and discouragement, step out into
400. 49:22the flesh and do something of your own ability.  Number three, do not go outside of the bounds of
401. 49:29your assignment, stay where you're planted. Don't  do what God has not authorized you like King Saul
402. 49:34did. Number four, be patient in hope. Remember,  waiting builds patience and as you are waiting be
403. 49:42patient because God is building that. Number five,  grow and become strong like John the Baptist. He
404. 49:48was growing in the wilderness. Don't waste your  wilderness seasons. Do what waiters do in the
405. 49:54restaurant, serve. That's how you don't waste  your waiting. Number six, maintain relationship
406. 50:02with the Holy Spirit. As Simeon, he was reminded  by God, he was told by God he will see the Christ,
407. 50:08but it's by the Holy Spirit he came to the temple.  That's where he saw Christ. When you walk in the
408. 50:13Holy Spirit, He'll lead you into those promises  becoming real. Number seven, rest while you're
409. 50:19waiting. Rest a little while longer. As those  people who were killed were crying out, Lord,
410. 50:26when, when, when are you going to come through for  us? And He says, rest a little longer. So rest in
411. 50:32God, trusting He got you. And number eight, like  disciples were promised of the Holy Spirit coming,
412. 50:40and Jesus says to wait in Jerusalem. The way  they waited is through prayer. So prayer is how
413. 50:45we wait for the promise. Waiting will always feel  like wasting, killing time if you're not praying,
414. 50:54amen. Has this been helpful to anybody? Drop  number one in the chat. Let's begin to pray right
415. 51:00now. I want to pray. Drop a prayer emoji in the  chat as well. If you're just tuning in right now,
416. 51:06logging in and you are on YouTube, don't forget to  hit like to the stream. And if you are rewatching,
417. 51:12also share in the Stream that you are re-watching  or if you're listening on the podcast down the
418. 51:18road, we love and appreciate you. I want to take  a moment right now and pray for you. The precious
419. 51:24Holy Spirit is going to come and strengthen your  waiting. I know many of you have been waiting for
420. 51:31so long. Today the Lord is going to strengthen,  He's going to pour some water on that desert. He's
421. 51:37going to pour some grace. Lord, we thank You. Holy  Spirit, I thank You for Your presence right now.
422. 51:46Lord, I ask You for every person that is watching  this stream, rewatching this, listening to this.
423. 51:55Lord, they are waiting for the promise. Promises  you made to each and every one of them. Lord,
424. 52:03as you did it for me and my wife, as You did  it for HungryGen, as You did it for many,
425. 52:08many areas of our life. I ask You right now, Holy  Spirit, would You come powerfully into their life
426. 52:16right now. I ask You God, would You strengthen  those who are weak. I ask you Lord, would You
427. 52:23encourage those that are battling illness,  attacks and they are tired of waiting. Lord,
428. 52:33would You produce patience. Lord, I ask You, would  You help them to be obedient to the last thing
429. 52:39You told them. Lord, would You help them not to  lose hope, would You help them to wait patiently
430. 52:46on You, would You help them not to be passive,  lazy but to serve and stay active. Lord Jesus,
431. 52:53I ask You, would You help them to walk in the Holy  Spirit as they are waiting for the promise. Help
432. 53:01them to walk in the promise, walk in the presence  as they walk in the promise. Lord, I also ask You
433. 53:08for those that maybe became prayerless as they are  waiting because they got discouraged. Help them
434. 53:15not to be so desperate that they birth Ishmael  and they birth things that are not from You Lord,
435. 53:21in the name of Jesus. Dear Holy Spirit, I just  pray for rest to come right now for those who
436. 53:29are agitated, restless, impatience, struggling  and hurting, in the name of Jesus. Come Holy
437. 53:37Spirit. Come Holy Spirit. In the name of  Jesus, help us Lord, strengthen us Lord.
438. 53:50I will wait upon the Lord and He will renew  my strength. Those who wait upon the Lord,
439. 53:57they renew, they will renew their strength.  As you wait upon God, walk In His presence,
440. 54:06walk in that process of Him developing you,  strengthening you and blessing you. He will
441. 54:15pull You out. He will come through. Your day of  breakthrough is coming, your day of healing is
442. 54:24coming. that shift is coming, that shift is  coming in Jesus name. Hallelujah. Thank You,
443. 54:33Lord. Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Lord. I feel  the tangible presence of the Lord Jesus Christ
444. 54:40and the Holy Spirit in this stream right now.  Just receive that, receive that from the Lord.
445. 54:50Receive that from Jesus right now. Thank  you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Drop this in
446. 54:59the chat. Breakthrough is coming, because it  is. Breakthrough is coming, thank you Lord,
447. 55:08breakthrough is coming. I want to now invite  you, if this stream was a blessing to you,
448. 55:17would you consider sowing into this  word, into this ministry. As a ministry,
449. 55:26we provide all of our content free of charge  and we provide e-courses, books, reading plans,
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451. 55:44able to do that because of your giving. So  I wanted to say first and foremost thank you
452. 55:49for every person that that has ever given  to this ministry. I want to say thank you
453. 55:53to all the partners and I'm looking forward  to seeing you tomorrow at our partners zoom
454. 55:58call. And if you have never given or you have  never become a partner and you are able to,
455. 56:05God has blessed you financially. I want to ask  you to prayerfully consider becoming a partner
456. 56:11with our ministry or to give one time, if that's  what the Lord puts on your heart. You don't need
457. 56:17to do that, you don't. How shall I say. It's  our gift and our pleasure to bring the streams,
458. 56:26and we will continue to do that because God will  provide for this ministry. We're not desperate,
459. 56:31we trust in God, and so but I do want to partner  with you, for those of you who especially love
460. 56:37this ministry. You believe what the Lord is  doing, you love the fact that we offer all of
461. 56:41that for free of charge to people, and our courses  with over 100,000 students in it, and we provide
462. 56:50books and all of that stuff. So a lot of you are  like, man, I love that, I appreciate that, and so
463. 56:56just join us as well so that you can be a part  of that. That would mean a lot to us, and those
464. 57:01of you who receive this word today and you know  don't just dine and dash. I want to encourage you
465. 57:08to sow into this ministry for the glory of God.  So appreciate you. Thank you, and God bless you.