Comments on: Waiting http://www.dreadlockgirl.com/2009/11/waiting/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:08:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Heather Harwood http://www.dreadlockgirl.com/2009/11/waiting/comment-page-1/#comment-9421 Heather Harwood Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:10:23 +0000 http://www.dreadlockgirl.com/?p=1929#comment-9421 The other day I read in my Bible footnotes that waiting is "the working out of hope." It's been on my mind ever since. A few weeks ago I felt that God had finally released me from a really awful job I've had for over 5 years, so I quit - not because He's provided a new job, but just because He just released me from that one! Because of how far I've come in my walk with Him, I knew credit cards would not be an option for survival. The weirdest thing for me has been the peace I've felt, as long as I'm not talking to anyone else about it, because they just like to remind me of all the barriers I face. I think my best friend is so disgusted with me for what she sees as a bonehead move that also affects my 3 kids, that our friendship may come unraveled over it. I feel the Lord is going to work something out, that He has plans to bless me, and that I'm not going to find a job through my striving. Others keep telling me to grab the first job I can find or go to a temp agency, or get on food stamps. But I feel Him telling me to wait...wait...trust...don't do anything, don't cancel anything, don't even think about that stuff...as my bank account dwindles. Three days ago, with a little over $100 left in my account, I found out I will get unemployment benefits! Thank you, Lord! So I know I am to continue to wait. The hardest part has been realizing that very few people - not even other Christians - understand why I'm doing this. I have learned that God calls each of us to follow Him as individuals, and teaches us to obey Him and Him alone. So I am also in a holding pattern right now, learning to kill the flesh and its obsessive middle-of-the-night worrying, and revelling in this time of drawing near to Him, and feeling Him draw near to me. Soaking up these days of refreshment after so many years of struggling to provide for my family, while waiting for what He has next. All I have ever wanted was to be a stay at home mom, but I've instead been a single parent pushed to exhaustion every day for the last 10 years - and yet He has given me this incredible gift - of unemployment! It makes no worldly sense. I hope he is glorified in the outcome! Your recent update is such an encouragement to me that I am on the right path, that this is indeed how the Lord works!!! I am so happy for your family! God is so, so good. All the time. The other day I read in my Bible footnotes that waiting is “the working out of hope.” It’s been on my mind ever since. A few weeks ago I felt that God had finally released me from a really awful job I’ve had for over 5 years, so I quit – not because He’s provided a new job, but just because He just released me from that one! Because of how far I’ve come in my walk with Him, I knew credit cards would not be an option for survival. The weirdest thing for me has been the peace I’ve felt, as long as I’m not talking to anyone else about it, because they just like to remind me of all the barriers I face. I think my best friend is so disgusted with me for what she sees as a bonehead move that also affects my 3 kids, that our friendship may come unraveled over it. I feel the Lord is going to work something out, that He has plans to bless me, and that I’m not going to find a job through my striving. Others keep telling me to grab the first job I can find or go to a temp agency, or get on food stamps. But I feel Him telling me to wait…wait…trust…don’t do anything, don’t cancel anything, don’t even think about that stuff…as my bank account dwindles. Three days ago, with a little over $100 left in my account, I found out I will get unemployment benefits! Thank you, Lord! So I know I am to continue to wait. The hardest part has been realizing that very few people – not even other Christians – understand why I’m doing this. I have learned that God calls each of us to follow Him as individuals, and teaches us to obey Him and Him alone. So I am also in a holding pattern right now, learning to kill the flesh and its obsessive middle-of-the-night worrying, and revelling in this time of drawing near to Him, and feeling Him draw near to me. Soaking up these days of refreshment after so many years of struggling to provide for my family, while waiting for what He has next. All I have ever wanted was to be a stay at home mom, but I’ve instead been a single parent pushed to exhaustion every day for the last 10 years – and yet He has given me this incredible gift – of unemployment! It makes no worldly sense. I hope he is glorified in the outcome! Your recent update is such an encouragement to me that I am on the right path, that this is indeed how the Lord works!!! I am so happy for your family! God is so, so good. All the time.

]]> By: bethany (dreadlock girl) http://www.dreadlockgirl.com/2009/11/waiting/comment-page-1/#comment-6719 bethany (dreadlock girl) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:34:52 +0000 http://www.dreadlockgirl.com/?p=1929#comment-6719 Matt, thank you for that verse. That truly ministered to me. It is a hard season for us right now, but one of the sweetest times we've had as a family and for me personally with Christ. Thank you for your comment man, and tell your bride We love and miss you guys BIG TIME. Matt, thank you for that verse. That truly ministered to me. It is a hard season for us right now, but one of the sweetest times we’ve had as a family and for me personally with Christ. Thank you for your comment man, and tell your bride We love and miss you guys BIG TIME.

]]> By: Mr. Matt http://www.dreadlockgirl.com/2009/11/waiting/comment-page-1/#comment-6718 Mr. Matt Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:36:04 +0000 http://www.dreadlockgirl.com/?p=1929#comment-6718 The latter part of Hosea 12:6 reads: "Observe mercy and justice, and wait on your God continually." In Hebrew, the word wait can mean to bind together, perhaps by twisting. Or to expect and gather together; look patiently. Hebrew for continually means to stretch, continuance, extension. As I meditated on this idea of being bound together and stretching, the Lord gave me a simple picture: Tying a shoelace. You know how you stretch the loops apart to tighten the knot? That was the picture the Lord gave me, of being stretched in my faith but being bound closer to the Lord. And it's the place I want to be because if I'm being stretched, I'm relying on the Lord for sustenance and comfort and peace. It's when I'm comfortable that frightens me, because I know my heart and how easy it is for me to become self-reliant and drift away from the Lord and His will in my life. God bless you and your family. The latter part of Hosea 12:6 reads: “Observe mercy and justice, and wait on your God continually.” In Hebrew, the word wait can mean to bind together, perhaps by twisting. Or to expect and gather together; look patiently. Hebrew for continually means to stretch, continuance, extension. As I meditated on this idea of being bound together and stretching, the Lord gave me a simple picture: Tying a shoelace. You know how you stretch the loops apart to tighten the knot? That was the picture the Lord gave me, of being stretched in my faith but being bound closer to the Lord. And it’s the place I want to be because if I’m being stretched, I’m relying on the Lord for sustenance and comfort and peace. It’s when I’m comfortable that frightens me, because I know my heart and how easy it is for me to become self-reliant and drift away from the Lord and His will in my life. God bless you and your family.

]]> By: fidget http://www.dreadlockgirl.com/2009/11/waiting/comment-page-1/#comment-6615 fidget Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:39:30 +0000 http://www.dreadlockgirl.com/?p=1929#comment-6615 No answers. But I have definitely been where you are...and have felt how you feel. Feel your frustrations. Struggle for wanting to control our life...I am someone who always wants to figure it all out, plan it, etc. Here have been some of my own thoughts on this regarding circumstances in my own life... Do you think God asks obedience from us, not even that things will come to fruition, but just to see if we are willing to be obedient? And don't you think that our "time lines" are irrelevant to Gods? Like Moses, sometimes He births something in our hearts ahead of time, and we try to figure out how to "make it happen" or go about things the wrong way (killing the Egyptian to save the slave from being beat). How and even if he works them out is so wiiiide open...maybe in the case of Spain it would be years and years down the road? Adoption? You just never know what exciting things God opens up in His own time... No answers. But I have definitely been where you are…and have felt how you feel. Feel your frustrations. Struggle for wanting to control our life…I am someone who always wants to figure it all out, plan it, etc. Here have been some of my own thoughts on this regarding circumstances in my own life…

Do you think God asks obedience from us, not even that things will come to fruition, but just to see if we are willing to be obedient? And don’t you think that our “time lines” are irrelevant to Gods? Like Moses, sometimes He births something in our hearts ahead of time, and we try to figure out how to “make it happen” or go about things the wrong way (killing the Egyptian to save the slave from being beat). How and even if he works them out is so wiiiide open…maybe in the case of Spain it would be years and years down the road? Adoption?

You just never know what exciting things God opens up in His own time…

]]> By: Ti http://www.dreadlockgirl.com/2009/11/waiting/comment-page-1/#comment-6614 Ti Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:55:14 +0000 http://www.dreadlockgirl.com/?p=1929#comment-6614 Perhaps more children means adoption? I consider myself a spiritual person. I had a very rough childhood and it would be total ignorance on my part to think that God didn't have a hand in my survival. Sometimes the listening/waiting stage can take a while. Perhaps more children means adoption?

I consider myself a spiritual person. I had a very rough childhood and it would be total ignorance on my part to think that God didn’t have a hand in my survival. Sometimes the listening/waiting stage can take a while.

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