Waiting Well: Trusting God and Serving Faithfully

Right? The quicker you repent I'll put it this way, repentance is always the way forward. Not just so you can get back these material things that you had before. Right? But it's like, man, Saul, he gets tormented. He he lives this life of insanity that gets farther and farther from God. It's a miserable existence the rest of his life. If he had repented, even if he didn't get to stay king, man, he could have been a mentor in the house. He could have guided David, showed him this is what I learned, and his story could have ended a lot different. His eternity could have ended a lot different. That's really all that matters, guys. So the the fastest and the best way forward is always repentance. [00:21:06] (43 seconds)  #RepentanceFirst

He began to serve Saul. This would have been hard for me. Right? He was anointed to be the king, and yet he has to go serve a crazy person. Could you imagine thinking, God, this is not the journey that I pictured when you anointed me. Now I'm in this palace, and I have to serve and and soothe and comfort this king who shouldn't be king. He is not anointed anymore. He is not in his right mind. And yet, what did David do? He served him. He served him. He was faithful in what was in front of him. [00:27:07] (41 seconds)  #ServeWithFaith

The first way is trust God. That's what we were singing about this morning. God, I trust you. I trust you, and I trust what you've said and the vision that you've shown me. God, I trust you. Here's what we know about promises. Promises are only as good as the character of the one who gave the promise. Right? Our God's character is perfect, so we can trust him. If you know God's character, you can take take confidence in his timing. You're gonna write that down. If you know God's character, you can take take confidence in his timing. Trust God. [00:34:56] (39 seconds)  #TrustGodsTiming

That's another one those things, those little quips. You could take that to heart, write that down. The pathway to significance is always through service. Doing the small things well, putting other people above yourself. I wrote this that waiting is not God's way of punishing you, it's his way of preparing you. He's working in you some lessons right now. Don't miss him. You guys know why Israel had to do forty years of laps on their way to the promised land in the desert? They could have gone in there. I think that trip takes about seven days. They were wandering in the desert because they failed to learn the lessons that God was their provider. He would provide for them manna, provide for them water. And when they got to a city that was full of warriors, they said, that's it. Turn around. Go back to Egypt because we cannot do this. God will fail us. Right? They failed to learn the lesson, so they did years and years of laps around the desert. [00:37:22] (64 seconds)  #WaitingIsPreparation

David had this destiny to be king, and yet he served faithfully in what must have felt like, God, this is a twenty year detour. How could this be your plan, God? I've got a better plan, an easier plan. Let me help you out, God. And I put this, if we're in God's will, nothing is wasted. What do I mean by that? There's lessons that David needed to learn in this fifteen, twenty years of waiting. If he took it in his own hands, he would miss out on the process that God was leading him through. [00:28:59] (34 seconds)  #NoWastedSeason

They were right about that. This is not just like, hey. You're losing your mind because of something that you ate or a poison or something like that. Right? This is from the Lord, which which it was. This was a spiritual problem which they correctly assessed. But did they give the right remedy? And I would say, no. Their suggestion was bring somebody who can distract you. So number two on your notes. Saul's servants correctly identified his problem but failed to give the correct solution. Saul needed repentance and not distraction. [00:22:03] (36 seconds)  #NotDistractionButRepentance

This was from the Lord to discipline him and to drive him towards repentance. Guys, if you're in a season of discipline, a season of loss, a season of correction, Ask this question, is the Lord driving me to repentance? Is the Lord driving me to repentance? You guys, God's heart, when he brings his discipline upon Saul, the Bible says he disciplines those whom he loves. Why? Not so that he can just get even and make him make him feel, you know, you got me. Now I'm gonna get you. That's not at all how God plays. He disciplines us to lead us to repentance. [00:19:20] (37 seconds)  #DisciplineLeadsToRepentance

Here's what the enemy wants to do. The enemy wants to give you what I would call spiritual amnesia. Meaning, let's forget about all that God has done for you in the past. God doesn't seem like he's answering your prayer right now. He seems a little bit distant. Just forget, God is not gonna come through for you. He gives you spiritual amnesia. You get lost in the current cloud, and you fail to remember what God has done in the past. You guys know that in the Bible, the word remember the word remember is used 8,600 times. 8,600 times. God continually says, remember, remember, remember what God has done. Remember what he did for you. Remember who he is. [00:35:35] (48 seconds)  #RememberGodsFaithfulness