Waiting For Breakthrough

How many people out there are waiting on God for some kind of breakthrough? They pray until they don't have anything left to pray. They fast. They groan. They travail. And still the long sought breakthrough has not come. Some go to their grave still waiting.

Waiting for healing. Waiting for restoration of relationships. Waiting for provision. Waiting for an open door. Waiting for a mountain to be moved. Waiting for a miracle.

I don't pretend to know the ways of God and why He makes one person wait and intervenes for another immediately. This is perfectly illustrated in John's Gospel. In chapter five a man waited at the pool of Bethesda. He waited for a long time and Jesus showed up and healed him on the spot. In the ninth chapter of John Jesus encountered a blind man. He spit on the ground and made some mud. Then He told the blind man to go wash in the Pool of Siloam. A good distance down a steep hill from where the they were.

Why didn't Jesus just heal him on the spot like he did the lame man at Bethesda? Why did He make the blind man wait a little longer? Those are answers none of us have except Jesus later said it was to show that the glory of God could be displayed in that man. How can your waiting season be used to display glory? How can He use what you are going through and your waiting on Him to further promote His power and goodness?

You have your situations. Your crisis and trials. You also know about waiting. For days, weeks and months. Some have been forced to wait for years and decades. One of the definitions for the word "wait" is 2 (cannot wait) used to indicate that one is eagerly impatient to do something or for something to happen: I can't wait for tomorrow | [with infinitive] : I can't wait to get started again.

Are you feeling impatient today waiting on God? Do you wish He would hurry up and intervene in your life? Do you wish He would get on with whatever you need?

You, like the blind man, may be forced to wait a little longer and have to walk your breakthrough out by faith one blind step at a time. You may lose heart along the way. You may stumble. You may feel like your answer will not come. Many have waited before you. They can testify about how God broke through. More will have to wait after you.

I've been forced to wait on God. And now on the other side of the Master's touch I can say the wait was worth it. God used the waiting seasons to teach me, shape me, purge me, break me, heal me and make me more useful. God does not waste waiting seasons. The long test produced a testimony. I can proclaim from experience and with conviction the Master touched. He came through. What He did for me He is more than capable of doing for you.

Isaiah 40:30-31 (ESV)
30  Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;
31  but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.