WAITING ON GOD - ”Be still, and know that I am God” - As we cease from self and our soul becomes still to God, God will arise and show Himself.

Waiting on God in Holy Expectancy

by Andrew Murray 

“Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me” (Micah 7:7).

Have you ever heard of a little book, Expectation Corners? It tells of a king who prepared a city for some of his poor subjects. Not far from them were large storehouses, where everything they could need was supplied if they sent in their requests.

But, on one condition – that they should be on the lookout for the answer, so that when the king’s messengers came with the answer to their petitions, they should always be found waiting and ready to receive them.

The sad story is told of one despondent person who never expected to get what he asked, because he was too unworthy. One day, he was taken to the king’s storehouses, and there, to his amazement, he saw, with his address on them, all the packages that had been made up for him and sent.

There was the garment of praise and the oil of joy and the eye salve and so much more. They had been to his door but found it closed; he was not on the lookout.

From that time on, he learned the lesson Micah would teach us today. ”I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.”

Waiting for the answer to prayer is not the whole of waiting, but only a part.

I want to take in the blessed truth that it is a part, and a very important one. When we have special petitions, in connection with which we are waiting on God, our waiting must be very definitely in the confident assurance, ”My God will hear me.”

A holy, joyful expectancy is of the very essence of true waiting. 

And, this is not only true in reference to the many varied requests every believer has to make, but most especially to the one great petition which ought to be the chief thing every heart seeks for itself – that the life of God in the soul may have full sway, that Christ may be fully formed within, and that we may be filled to all the fullness of God. 

This is what God has promised. This is what God’s people too little seek, very often because they do not believe it possible. This is what we ought to seek and dare to expect, because God is able and waiting to work it in us.

But, God Himself must work it. And for this end our working must cease.

We must see how entirely it is to be the faith of the operation of God, who raised Jesus from the dead. Just as much as the resurrection, the perfecting of God’s life in our souls is to be directly His work.

And, waiting has to become, more than ever, a tarrying before God in stillness of soul, counting upon Him who raises the dead and calls the things that are not as though they were (Romans 4:17).

Just notice how the threefold use of the name of God in our text points us to Himself as the one from whom alone is our expectation. ”I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.” 

Everything that is salvation, everything that is good and holy, must be the direct, mighty work of God Himself within us. In every moment of a life in the will of God, there must be the immediate operation of God.

And, the one thing I have to do is this: to look to the Lord, to wait for the God of my salvation, to hold fast the confident assurance, ”my God will hear me.”

God says,”Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10).

There is no stillness like that of the grave.

In the grave of Jesus, in the fellowship of His death, in death to self with its own will and wisdom, its own strength and energy, there is rest.

As we cease from self and our soul becomes still to God, God will arise and show Himself. ”Be still, and know”; then you will know” that I am God.”

There is no stillness like the stillness Jesus gives when He speaks. ”Peace, be still” (Mark 4:39).

In Christ, in His death, in His life, in His perfected redemption, the soul may be still, and God will come in, take possession, and do His perfect work.

My soul, be thou still only unto God!

Would you want to have a deeper relationship with God?

God has made it possible for you to know Him and experience an amazing change in your own life by receiving His Son, Jesus Christ, and have eternal life.

Say the following prayer:

“Father God, I confess I am a sinner and my sins have separated me from You.

I am truly sorry. I now want to turn away from my past sinful life and live a new life pleasing to You.

Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again.

I believe that Your Son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer.

I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Thank You that according to your Word, I am now born again.

Please send Your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your will for the rest of my life. I promise to study Your Word – the Bible.

Please use me for Your glory.

In Jesus' Name I pray. Amen.”

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“Be Still My Soul”    

     

      Don Moen 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVEpFTm92_o

lyrics

Be still my soul
Be still my soul
Cease from the labor and the toil
Refreshing springs of peace await
The troubled minds and hearts that ache

Be still my soul
God knows your way
And He will guide
For His name's sake
Plunge in the rivers of His grace
Rest in the arms of His embrace

Be still my soul
Be still my soul
Though battles round you rage and roar
One thing you need and nothing more
To hear the whisper of your Lord

Be still My child
I know your way
And I will guide
For My name's sake
Plunge in the rivers of My grace
Rest in the arms of My embrace

Be still, be still my soul

Andrew Murray (1828-1917), was born in Cape Town, South Africa and became a revered missionary leader in the late 1800s and early 1900s, promoting and establishing missions in South Africa. His devotion writings are considered classics of the Christian faith. This devotion is taken from Murray's series of writings titled, Waiting on God.http://praise.com/devotions/waiting-god-holy-expectancy