Waiting on God Well: How to Prevent Breaking Down on Your Way to Your Breakthrough!
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What are you waiting on God for? Are you frustrated or anxious because you don’t see God moving in your life? Are you tempted to give up and walk away from all that God has promised you? Don’t quit in the middle of your journey! It’s in the waiting rooms of life that you can have a complete meltdown and become bitter, angry, or depressed. Perhaps even stop dreaming and turn your back on God. Or you can choose to run to God, lean on Him, trust Him, and purpose in your heart to wait on God no matter how long it takes. Waiting on God Well: How to Prevent Breaking Down on Your Way to Your Breakthrough provides insightful tips, practical action steps, and inspiring Bible verses to encourage you to keep walking through whatever valley, desert, or wilderness you are in. This ebook will help you not just go through your situation but grow through it. It will remind you to believe God for the impossible and trust Jesus for the incredible!
Nancy Gavilanes
Nancy Gavilanes is a writer, speaker, life coach and evangelist who has a passion to encourage people to grow in their love for and their faith in God! That love has compelled her to go on short-term missions trips to five countries (and counting) and on numerous outreaches in New York City. She has a master’s degree in journalism from New York University and has written for various publications including The New York Times. She has also studied at the New York School of the Bible. Nancy is the Founder of www.AboundingFaith.com and blogs at www.MiraculousLovely.com.
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Waiting on God Well - Nancy Gavilanes
Waiting on God Well
How to Prevent Breaking Down on Your Way to Your Breakthrough!
Nancy Gavilanes
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WAITING ON GOD WELL: HOW TO PREVENT BREAKING DOWN ON YOUR WAY TO YOUR BREAKTHROUGH
Copyright © 2015 by Nancy Gavilanes
All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
Scripture verses are taken from the King James Version Bible. Extracts from the Authorized Version of the Bible (The King James Bible), the rights in which are vested in the Crown, are reproduced by permission of the Crown’s Patentee, Cambridge University Press.
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This book is dedicated to my loving family and to anyone struggling to understand God’s perfect timing for their life.
Contents
Foreword
The Benefits of Waiting on God
Be Still and Abide in Him
Get Your Praise On!
Be Grateful
Lean into Your Community
Keep Shining No Matter What
Live in Today
Get Ready
Keep Exploring
Do Everything He tells You
Believe
P.U.S.H. – Pray Until Something Happens
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Foreword
Maybe it’s because I’m a native New Yorker. Or perhaps it’s because of the generation I was born in. It could be because I’m a dreamer who enjoys setting goals and a doer who delights in achieving those goals. Whatever the reason is, when it comes to certain areas of my life, one of the worst four-letter words that I hear is simply, Wait.
It’s just not an easy concept for me to swallow.
Please don’t get me wrong. I’m generally not an impatient person who has to be first at everything. I don’t go driving around with road rage or elbowing people out of my way on the train. Again, as a city girl, I’m all too familiar with having to stand in long lines or sit in traffic. I don’t mean that kind of waiting.
I’m talking about when you have hopes and dreams, desires and promises that you’re waiting on God to fulfill. I’m referring to the types of longings that you can’t make happen on your own. Those are the biggies in life.
At one point or another in our lives, we all have to struggle with waiting on God. Maybe you’re there right now.
What are You Waiting for?
Are you waiting to land that dream job or to meet your spouse? Praying for an unsaved loved one to receive Jesus? Believing for a healing or a miracle to be manifested? Hoping your significant other will have a change of heart? Wondering when a door will open for a new ministry opportunity? Trusting to have a child? Perhaps all of the above?
I’m finally coming out of a long season where everything in my life seemed stagnant. Not just for days or weeks, but for years! Sure, I saw blessings here and there; but, oh, how I felt like my life was at a standstill. I couldn’t shake the feeling that someone had pressed pause on my life story. It was as if I were forgotten on the backside of the desert tending sheep like David or Moses.
Ever been there?
In the midst of this dry season, I would spend hours dreaming and scheming about my next moves and talking the ears off of trusted friends and loved ones. Surely, God didn’t want me to just sit around and do nothing! Clearly, I had to act quickly. Certainly, I needed to devise a plan of action! Not so.
It was around that time that I was getting desperate enough to make some sort of move. I went to visit a well-known church in my area.
The pastor stunned me as he said from the pulpit that he felt the Lord didn’t want him to preach the same sermon that he had shared in the earlier service. He proceeded to share a brief message about how King Saul grew impatient and took matters into his own hands while waiting for the prophet Samuel to return to the city of Gilgal to make the required offerings (1 Samuel 13: 6-14). He waited seven days, the time set by Samuel, but Samuel didn’t come, and Saul’s army started to scatter out of fear. So Saul broke God’s commandment and offered up the burnt