Sometimes we assume that just because we are baptized in the Holy Spirit, we have the power to do something we see that needs to be done, and we think we should do it. We do have that power available to us, but what we think should be done may not be what God wants at that time. Instead, we need to learn how to wait on God in each instance for the power of the Holy Spirit. When we wait on God, His anointing is released because we honor Him by waiting and refusing to move without Him.
It is also good to wait in prayer. Many times we go into prayer and start talking ninety miles a minute without even thinking about what God may be saying. Instead, we need to go into prayer and humble ourselves by saying, "God, I don't know what to say. I don't have anything to say that is going to make any sense. If You don't anoint this, it isn't going to get through, so I'm just going to wait here on You."
When we just wait on God, the anointing will be released! We will begin to sense it coming upon us as we wait, and it will enable us to do what we ought to do and want to do. So often though, even when we are doing what we ought to do and want to do, even when we are doing the right thing, if we haven't honored God by waiting on Him, we are still running in the flesh. It won't work.
Sometimes we may find ourselves in a situation where someone needs to be confronted and something needs to be said. But instead of waiting on God, we just run into it with our mouth wide open, blabbing away. We haven't waited on God. We haven't waited for His timing, and we just make a big mess.
The we come running back to God saying, "Well, God, I thought it was the right things to do, and I thought You put it on my heart! I don't understand why everybody is mad and upset. Why didn't it work? " It didn't work because we didn't wait on God!
Sometimes we just get full of ourselves! We think, "I know what I'll do..."then the power of the flesh comes zinging through and fills us full of so many great, nifty, little cutesy ideas! And we wonder why we fail every time we turn around. The idea might have been good, but it won't work if we don't wait on God. AMEN!
Posted By: Kay Hairston
Tuesday, October 6th 2009 at 1:48PM
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