Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary. Isaiah 40:31.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Living in the Spirit is walking in divine help. Living in the flesh is relying on your own understanding and efforts which results in worry, fear, torment, confusion, and, many times, unwise decisions that you regret later. Walking in the Spirit is walking in the pace of faith, which is the pace of shalom peace in always knowing the right thing to do.
When you face a challenge or trial, or if you just want to make the best decision in your day with multiple different questions that arise, you have need of wisdom, My wisdom, to know the things to come and what and where your answer is. And the good news is that I have made that available to you. Jesus told His grieving disciples that it was to their advantage He returned to Me because He would send them another paraclete to be in them and with them always, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, to guide them to all truth, teach them everything, lead them, and show them the things to come.
You have this advantage of always being able to see and hear the answer to everything you are facing in life by the inner guidance of My powerful Spirit. I have already prepared everything you need for life and godliness, to walk out the life of good deeds I prepared for you, IN ADVANCE. All you must know is what I have already prepared for the matter you are facing. It is prepared and waiting for your faith to show up and take it.
His works had been completed and prepared [and waiting for all who would believe] from the foundation of the world. Hebrews 4:3.
You never have to be under pressure about knowing what to do when you have learned the secret of waiting on Me, which is walking in the Spirit. This is not inaction, “waiting on Me” is ministering to Me, for as you minister to Me, I minister to you. And I minister by miracles, signs, and wonders, nothing is too wonderful or impossible for Me. What you sow you reap.
When trouble or questions arise, do not just be looking outside yourself for help. It is time for you to turn inward, for you are a temple of the Holy Spirit, and seek the answer, the divine answer. I am the LORD who sees ahead and provides, Yahavah Yireh, and the to take you through the provision with wisdom I am the LORD your helper, Yahavah Ezri.
What I want to impress upon your mind and heart is that you never need to have even one moment of fear, for I am with you and when you are with Me in focus and attention you will always have the answer. All you have to know is what I have already done and have in place and take that by faith and run with it.
And that is what waiting on Me, that is, ministering to Me, is all about: hearing and seeing.
Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. While they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them. Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. Acts 13:1-3.
Ministering to Me is turning your heart to Me and paying attention to Me. It is done in prayer, spiritual songs, praying in the Spirit, and it is done from the heart. It should always be done in conjunction with My Word as written in the Bible. When you spend time with Me have your Bible at hand, begin reading and I will direct you to the Word the entrance of which gives you the light needed for what you are facing.
Many people will sing praise or pray but it is not really directed to Me or focused on Me. This happens often at church services where instead of directing their songs to Me as personal reflections they are paying no attention but looking around at others, thinking about their problems or unrelated matters, or just concentrating on how they look to others in the congregation.
Hallelujah, which is a Hebrew compound word, means praise TO the LORD, not praise the LORD. Do you see what I am saying? Worship should be a flow between you and Me, it should be directed to Me and My flow is back directly to you. And ministering is worship. You are seeking Me in faith, which works by love, for the solutions and resolutions you need, knowing that I have them there for you prepared and set in place since the foundation of the world. Do not miss so great a salvation. Don’t treat our communication lightly. You would think of it as a great honor and privilege if you had a direct line to your president or to the king of a nation and could call them seeking advice any time of the day or night and they would always answer and give you just what you needed. Well, I am much higher in position and I know all things, prepared all things, and sustain and keep all things, and yet I give you direct access from your spirit to My Spirit every moment of the day and night. And My answers are always perfect for your need. I know what you need before you ask Me but you must ask to take hold of it by faith.
I had prepared the plan in advance, even told Abraham about it over four hundred years before it happened, to take the Israelites out of Egypt to the Promised Land. Everything was in place since the foundation of the world. I prepared a path under the Red Sea and had walked it out in advance but under the sea no one knew it was there but Me. It was just waiting for the day of escape. They had no reason to fear, they just needed to show up and take it by faith.
Your way was in the sea and Your paths in the mighty waters, and Your footprints may not be known. You led Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. Psalm 77:19-20.
It has pleased Me to give you everything you need at every moment. It has pleased Me to give you who are the followers of My Son My Kingdom.
“Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.” Matthew 25:34.
Success comes in taking time to hear and see to get specific answers from Me. It is not always about just saying a list of scriptures that address generally your problem, such as that I provide for you according to My riches in glory in Christ Jesus, which I do, but by getting My input on how I am going to do that and what your part is in the process.
Do not just be looking for outward solutions either, sometimes the solution is right in your hand, like the widow of the guild prophet whose creditors were going to make slaves out of her and her sons and Elisha asked her what she had in her house. She said nothing but a bit of oil. That was enough for Me to touch and make it abundant supply. I make a way where there looks like there is no way and I very often use what you already have at hand, like the five loaves and two fish, remember I told you that Jesus already knew what He would do with those for He stepped aside in the early hours of the morning and ministered to Me. And I would show Him the works He was to do that day. He saw and heard and did exactly that. And He advises you to do as He did.
I give you instruction in ministering, hearing and seeing throughout the Bible. Let Me share some with you.
My prophet Habakkuk was confused and asked Me some questions of why I was allowing certain things which he did not agree with, and then he turned to Me to get an answer: “I will stand on my guard post and station myself on the rampart; and I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me, and how I may reply when I am reproved.” Habakkuk 2:1.
He wanted My answer and he knew his observations were not the wisdom that was needed. So he stepped aside and stopped looking outward at the evil chaos and idols in the land and turned his attention to Me. And I answered and told him how to hear Me.
Then the LORD answered me and said, “Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run. For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it for it will certainly come, it will not delay. Habakkuk 2:2-3.
I told him to write down what I would show him, and this is a very good thing to do when you step aside to hear from Me, because I will speak and it will enlighten you but you are hearing in the spirit and when you turn again to the outward things you are often back in the flesh and do not recall the exact words with which I spoke to you. Write them down just as you hear from Me, usually it will be a Scripture that you then need to pull up and meditate upon until I reveal to you the entire thread, treasure vein, to which it leads you.
Here you see again that I have everything prepared in advance but it was conceived in Me from the beginning but has an appointed time in which it must be birthed into the earth. It is waiting for your faith to show up. You must be walking by faith and not sight to take hold of that vision and bring it to fruition. And I told him that next:
“Behold, as for the proud one, his soul is not right within him; but the righteous will live by his faith.” Habakkuk 2:1-4.
The proud one resists Me. He will not listen but relies on human strength and earthly, worldly wisdom.
I then went on to answer his specific questions in that and the next chapter and his conclusion? He composed a song and the ending was that no matter how much evil prospered there comes judgment, and even should the circumstances appear dire the way out of the trial was the rejoicing: Yet I will exult in the LORD, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. The Lord (Adonai) LORD (Yahavah) is my strength, and He has made my feet like hinds’ feet, and makes me walk on my high places. For the choir director, on my stringed instruments. Habakkuk 3:18-19.
Psalm 27 describes how to face a trial and ministering to Me in it for the answers and protection.
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread? Psalm 27:1.
The entrance of My Word gives light and I am light, in My light you see light and that is a light to your path and a lamp to your feet. There is nothing to fear in the light. I am your salvation and He is the Light of the world. No follower of His will ever walk in darkness, no never, for he will have the Light of life. So first refuse to fear and look to Me for the protection, deliverance, and answers you need. Remember your path through the sea has been there since the foundation of the world.
When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh, my adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell. Though a host encamp against me, my heart will not fear; though war arise against me, in spite of this I shall be confident. Psalm 27:2-3.
When you have a Word from Me and My promises of deliverance and protection, stand strong with My strength and come with confidence to My throne to take mercy and find grace in the time of need. Then you stay confident and unafraid through any trial, storm or attack. When you have the answer already there is no problem.
One thing I have asked from the LORD, that I shall seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the delightfulness of the LORD and to inquire in His temple. Psalm 27:4.
And here is the secret of the place of answers, the place of hearing and seeing. The one thing you ask for is to abide with Me all the days of your life to behold Me with delight and inquire as to the answer, solution and resolution you are seeking at any time day and night. That one thing, the abiding life, will bring you everything. If you seek that one thing, to abide in Me and I in you, you ask what you wish and it will be done for you, John 15:7, everything else will be added, prepared in advance. You have no problem if you just hear from Me.
For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle; in the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock. And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me, and I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD. Psalm 27:5-6.
And what are you doing while I am working on all your requests? Shouting for joy and singing songs of praise. The voice of thanksgiving works wonders. It is by joy you will be delivered.
And what are David’s conclusions? Same as Isaiah 40:31, wait on Me to hear and see.
I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD, be strong and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for the LORD. Psalm 27:13-14.
I love you. Remember, waiting is not stagnating. It is actively seeking to hear and see. It is ministering to Me, which is a lifestyle of worship. You first seek Me for divine help by ministering to Me (Isaiah 40:31, Acts 13:2) so that I can minister to you so you hear and see what to do, what I have already prepared for you. Call upon Me as the LORD who looks ahead and provides and then takes you along that prepared path as your helper.