FAITH CAPSULE: Waiting on God is giving regard to God.

Hebrews 11

To have faith is the condition for one to get from God.
Having faith is to have a living trust and hope in God.
Hebrews 11:1 describes what faith means: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Asking, seeking, and knocking for the intervention of God is waiting to get an open-door answer. 
God is a good God who cares for His creation and is in a position to wait for the faith that promotes His action.
Isaiah 64:4 testifies, “For since the beginning of the world men has not heard nor perceived by the ear; nor has the eye seen any God besides You, who acts for the one who waits for Him.” 
To wait, God demands asking, seeking, and knocking, the evidence of having understanding and knowledge of God.
God is a caring God who acts for anyone who waits for Him. 
Jesus buttresses, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7) 
“And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.” (Matthew 21:22)
Waiting by asking, seeking, and knocking is the key to receiving from God. However, waiting for that is not rooted in understanding that God hears all and answers all at His appointed time, which will lead to frustration. 
Frustration can lead to rebellion rooted in disobedience.
Psalm 91:15 encourages, “He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him.” 
Knowing to call on Him will provoke His hand for an undeniable miracle because He is God, true to His word. 
The book of Isaiah 58:9 also confirms the faithfulness of God,“Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am…’”
Understand, know to wait as David testifies, 1 Samuel 22:4, “I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies.” 
It is the heart that trusts to remember calling amid troubling challenges. 
King David was an example of one who understood how to wait on God.
David demonstrates that waiting is a must.
David waited and did not go to war without seeking God.
Twice in 1 Samuel 23, verses 2 and 4, David repeatedly inquired from God before going to war against the Philistines. 
The Israelites cried in the bondage of over four hundred years, “And the LORD said: ‘I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians…” (Exodus 3:7-8) 
God is consistent, and He will not fail in honoring His word; do not fail to wait in asking, seeking, and knocking. 
Look up and ask Him.

Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you with the strength to focus on waiting to receive from Him.