Listen Here

If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, and don’t forget to rate and review on Apple or Spotify. When you rate and review the show, you help Jaime reach more people.

Have you ever felt like your faith was being tested by life’s challenges? I remember a time when I faced a seemingly insurmountable trial, and it was through that storm that I discovered the profound strength of joy and endurance. On this week’s Jaime Luce Podcast, we embark on a heartfelt exploration of faith through the lens of perseverance, drawing wisdom from the Book of James.

We examine how trials, though daunting, serve a critical role in our spiritual journey, molding us into vessels of resilience and amplifying God’s work in our lives. Join me as we journey through the rich biblical tapestry of patience and perseverance, exploring narratives of figures like Jacob, Joseph, David, Noah, and Hannah.

These stories are a testament to the transformative power of waiting on God’s timing. Their profound examples challenge us to view our own waiting periods as opportunities for growth, reminding us that God’s timing is always perfect. It’s a call to stay steadfast and not to grow weary, as Galatians 6:9 so beautifully encourages, promising that steadfast faith brings about divine fulfillment.

As we wrap up, we steer our conversation towards the importance of trusting in God’s promises. With scripture passages from Psalms, Romans, and Lamentations guiding us, the focus is on delighting in the Lord and committing our ways to Him, even when the path seems uncertain. We end with a powerful prayer for strength and patience, grounding ourselves in the assurance of God’s faithfulness. Whether you’re in a season of waiting or facing trials, this episode offers a beacon of hope and a reminder of the eternal promises that God holds for each of us.

Where to dive in:

(0:00:00) – Faith and Endurance in Trials (18 Minutes)

This chapter emphasizes the reality that God’s plan for our lives can involve challenges, sacrifices, and trials, and it’s crucial to maintain faith and joy through these periods. I reflect on the importance of waiting in faith, reassuring that delay is not denial, and God’s promises remain intact. Drawing from the Book of James, I highlight how trials are a necessary part of faith, as they produce steadfastness and completeness. It’s through enduring hardships and holding onto faith that others can witness the evidence of God’s work in our lives, thereby allowing us to share the gospel effectively. With references to current events, like the dockworkers’ strike, I illustrate how external circumstances can test our faith but also provide opportunities to demonstrate it.

(0:17:44) – The Power of Endurance in Trials (10 Minutes)

This chapter explores the theme of patience and perseverance in faith, drawing from biblical stories to illustrate how waiting can be a period of growth and transformation. We reflect on Galatians 6:9, emphasizing the importance of not growing weary in doing good, as it leads to eventual rewards. By examining the journeys of biblical figures like Jacob and Joseph, I highlight how their trials and waiting periods ultimately fulfilled God’s promises in their lives. Through Jacob’s 20-year wait and Joseph’s 22-year ordeal, we see examples of steadfast faith and the challenges faced when adhering to God’s plan. The discussion encourages listeners to view their own waiting seasons as opportunities for spiritual growth and character development, reinforcing the idea that God’s timing and purposes are ultimately for our good.

(0:28:04) – The Power of Waiting on God (11 Minutes)

This chapter focuses on the theme of waiting on God’s timing, highlighting biblical examples of patience and faith. We explore the story of David, who waited 26 years to become king, despite having opportunities to seize the throne. His perseverance serves as a testament to God’s faithfulness, which ultimately culminates in the fulfillment of His promise through Jesus, a descendant of David. Similarly, Noah’s obedience in building the ark over many decades and Hannah’s 19-year wait for a child illustrate how waiting produces enduring legacies and blessings. The experiences of Rebecca and other biblical figures reinforce the notion that great promises often come with great waiting. We conclude with a reference to Isaiah 40, underscoring the encouragement found in scripture for those in a waiting season, reminding us that waiting on God is a necessary and fruitful journey.

(0:38:43) – Finding Strength and Hope in Waiting (9 Minutes)

This chapter focuses on the power of faith and the importance of waiting on God’s timing and promises. We explore several biblical passages, including Psalm 37, Psalm 27, Romans 8, and Lamentations 3, emphasizing that trust in the Lord leads to righteousness and justice. I discuss the concept of delighting in the Lord to receive the desires of our hearts and the necessity of committing our ways to Him. The conversation highlights that hope involves waiting patiently for what is unseen and encourages listeners to refocus on God’s goodness and faithfulness. We end with a prayer for strength and patience, trusting that God will fulfill His promises both now and in eternity.

(0:47:29) – Encouraging Book Available for Download (0 Minutes)

This chapter offers an overview of the book, which is available in both hardcover and digital formats, highlighting its purpose as a playbook filled with encouraging stories. I discuss how the book details various experiences, illustrating how we stood on the promises of God and the outcomes of our faith. It’s designed to provide encouragement and guidance to those who may need support. I strongly encourage listeners to consider getting the book to benefit from its uplifting content. Thank you for spending time with me, and I look forward to our next session.

About your host: Jaime Luce’s testimony has daunting personal mountains and treacherous financial valleys. She was trapped in day-to-day stress and couldn’t see a way forward. But how she started is not how she finished! And she wants you to know God has a plan for your life too, no matter how tough it seems. Today, Jaime has been married to the love of her life for almost three decades, owns two companies, and has become an author and podcaster. God’s way is always the blessed way!

Free chapter of Jaime’s new book: You Don’t Need Money, You Just Need God: https://jaimeluce.com/book/

Connect:

– Website: https://jaimeluce.com

– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jaime.luces.page

– Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaime_luce/

– LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaime-luce-00395691/

Full Transcript

This transcript is auto-generated and not perfect. We hope it blesses you.

0:00:00 – Jaime Luce
We don’t like to deal with the fact that sometimes God’s plan for our life involves some very difficult things, or involves major sacrifice, or involves things at great cost. We just like to think it all just comes pouring down from heaven, always without any trial, without any work. That would be like me saying that I could collect a paycheck without going to work. That would be like me saying that I could collect a paycheck without going to work. That’s not reality. Welcome to the Jamie Luce Podcast. I am so excited to bring the third and probably final in what has been a little bit of a series here. I didn’t plan it this way, but we’ve been talking about having joy through the trial, what it is to take that joy, that understanding, that the understanding that we’re supposed to have a strength in the middle of our trial, which is faith. The strength is the joy of the Lord, but we exercise that faith by that joy that is set before us. And then there’s a third part to this faith. So first week was joy. Last week we talked about thriving through the fire. Last week we talked about thriving through the fire, being able to stand strong in the fire. Today I want to kind of wrap it up with talking about the fact that delay is not denial. So, waiting while in faith, faith that waits, okay. So I give you the delay is not denial and we’re going to back that up because today I want this to be a real encouragement to you. I understand fully that when we are in the waiting season, when we have endured long, when we have stayed and grown in our steadfastness which we learned over the last two weeks, steadfastness which we learned over the last two weeks, that steadfastness and this process of waiting on the Lord and standing in strength and not being moved by trials is actually expected of us. That this was spoken to the people that James was sending this to, and the dispersion and they are being told to count it all joy when you encounter various trials. It’s going to happen. We live in a fallen world and difficulties come.

As I’m recording this today, this is actually what’s the date today it is Tuesday, october 1st, when I’m actually recording this. I’m actually recording this and we have just found out that this morning, as a nation, that those who work the docks have all gone on strike today Not giving an opinion on that. I’m just letting us know that we understand that means it’s going to be difficult for us that this is a nationwide problem and we’re going. If we’ve already been facing financial issues, we may now be facing, very quickly and very fast, supply issues, and our nation has proven when COVID hit and everybody emptied the stores of all the toilet paper and we couldn’t get a hold of products that we needed because of the fear that people would go through. So we understand that trials come and we face things, and it has nothing to do with me being a Christian or not. It’s that I live in the United States and I am impacted by the decisions of those around me who hold positions that affect me. It’s just that simple and we can be in a true spiritual battle.

We could be facing things that are truly working to tear down our faith, to move us from our position of believing what God has said, of laying hold of the promises that he has made to us, and so I wanted to highlight today and in hope, in hopes that it would encourage you the so many lives in the Bible. When you see how many there are and I’m not listing them all of how many had to wait, that that is actually waiting is a normal process in faith. It’s just a normal process in faith, and I’m going to give you a lot of scriptures today. So my hope is that you can take them, you can remind yourself of them, you can understand their power and the value they hold If you will lay hold of them. That they, these scriptures, don’t lay hold of us folks. We lay hold of them. The power is there, the availability is there, but we have to move by faith and lay hold of those promises. This is again we’re going to be working our faith muscles today. So, if you’ve been in the waiting season, I wanna tell you that delay is not denial and that God still has a plan for you. He has not changed his mind and he’s going to do what he promised he would do. So let’s go ahead and dive in.

I want us to repeat the scripture we’ve read for the last two weeks in the book of James, chapter one. We’re going to read verses two, three and four. Count it all. Joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds. Other versions say when you are affected by all kinds of troubles, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness, and let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. So this couple of verses here reiterates and and strenuously helps us understand that it is by faith that we attain what we’re looking for. It’s the way that we end up being complete and lacking nothing, but that faith has to be tested and it has to prove and produce, and that’s necessary for every Christian. So another way of looking at that is that trials are absolutely necessary.

I said in a previous podcast that people can’t see your faith by when things are going well for you. They don’t see faith when things are looking up. They see that you’re in faith when things are bad and when you’re having to stand and believe and show forth faith. That’s when it’s evident. That’s when people can see faith and faith is necessary. We are those who spread a gospel of faith in Jesus Christ, someone they cannot see. And the only way that they see his outworkings is by them seeing that we go through things, that by laying hold of what God has said and what Jesus has done for us, that we see the end results of those things, and they see that evidence in our life. And by them seeing that evidence in our life, we are able to then share the gospel. So it is necessary many times that we go through this process.

So let’s look at a couple of examples. You know I’ll start with Jesus, just because it’s obvious. Jesus is always the obvious source for us. And let’s go to Luke, chapter 22. And I’m going to be going there in my Bible with you. I don’t have them specifically written out, um, so I will give you time to look them up yourself in your Bible or click on them, whatever way you choose to read your Bible. And it says Luke 22, 42. Let me find it. Here we go. This is Jesus while he’s at the Mount of Olives, praying, obviously before going to the cross. He’s at the Mount of Olives, praying, obviously before going to the cross. Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me, nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done.

And I’m reading that particular scripture because we see that Jesus, in his, in his offering of himself, had to go through the process of agony and trial and choose to stay in it. He, he had to choose. He had to choose to, not he’s playing the end game. If you think of the fact that we are living in time, he is outside of time. We are promised eternal life and that this life that we live will be superseded by an even greater life that is unending. Jesus is saying I’m going to die this was 2000 years ago Knowing that by the act that he was committing, it would be thousands of years before Jamie would get saved. It would be thousands of years before anybody who is watching this today would have any evidence of who he was and doing so. The reason it was by faith is because he knew he can’t force you. You have a free will. You can choose to follow him or not. So if you say yes, he’s doing this. He’s sacrificing himself for not just those who would say yes, but for those who would say no.

And then we learn that the scripture tells us that he is not um, oh, what is the word it uses? He is not lax or um, oh, I need to. I need to read that to you. Let’s go. I believe it’s in James. Let’s go back to James, cause I think that’s where it is. Believe it’s in James. Let’s go back to James. I think that’s where it is. Oh, you know what? I think it’s in second Peter. Yes, second Peter chapteress, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

So we have to understand that Jesus, from the very beginning, had set forth a plan. He didn’t arrive on the scene till 4,000 years later. And then here he comes on the scene and is now waiting. And we are in that waiting period with him. We’re waiting to be changed. He sacrificed, he went through his plan, but he’s in the waiting season now and he did it all with the understanding that God’s will is perfect. He doesn’t make mistakes, he hasn’t forgotten, he isn’t slow, he will do what he’s promised. He has set a precedent for us and that we see all through scripture how men have understood this about God, that if we can be those who understand like they understood, those who reasoned like they reasoned, those who put faith in the things and why they put faith in those things that they did. So let’s look at, oh gosh, who would be the first one? The first one would be Abraham and Sarah.

So in Genesis 15 verses I’m sorry, genesis 15 and 17 is the whole passage where we see that Abraham is promised. It’s the first promise in 15. It is the first promise that God is going to multiply him, that he’s going to have seed that is as many as the sands of the seashore and as many stars as there are in the sky, and can you even count them? So God gives Abraham this promise and in chapter 17, we see that he gives a specific promise to Abraham and Sarah about having the promised child, isaac, that he would even, both of them in their old age, produce a child from Sarah’s womb and this child would be the child that would bring forth from his loins and continue for generations to bring forth this amount of people that cannot be counted.

And so it’s hard to hear that when you’re, when you’re going through a barrenness. They had a form of um, a double barrenness in that Abraham, though he could produce seed, though he could produce seed, sarah could not conceive seed until God met her, and she was barren until she was past the age of having children and is now a very old woman. And Abraham is a very old man. And the sad part is we get to see in their life I say sad part for them and the world is still paying the consequences. But we take comfort in knowing that some of us have done exactly what they’ve done. They’re waiting on God, they get a promise from God, they’re in this waiting period and years go by, In fact, for Abraham and Sarah. They waited 25 years for their circumstance to change 25 years, and not just for their circumstance to change, but for God to fulfill his promise 25 years.

And in their waiting, sarah gets a bit impatient, and we don’t see that Abraham was impatient, but he went along with Sarah’s plan, so there must have been some impatience there as well. Sarah gets impatient and she believes that. You know, maybe this is not going to happen. I know God said that, but you don’t have an heir and there’s a way we can make this happen. And they followed the culture’s way of making it happen the human way, the natural way, a way that was attainable without faith, a way that was in the power of their hand. And instead of waiting on God’s promise supernaturally which it would have taken that, and they understood that they decided to take matters into their own natural hands. And Sarah gives Abraham her handmaiden, hagar, and he produces a son, ishmael, by Hagar. That child then turns around Once God’s promise does come to pass.

So there’s a piece of good news in this. God did not say Abraham, you blew it. And because you blew it and you didn’t wait, I’m not giving you this promise, I’m not going to fulfill what I said, and that’s because God’s character is that God cannot change and God is always faithful, and if he said it, it must come to pass. God isn’t fickle and he isn’t finicky and he isn’t easily moved by our imperfections. He knows that we are fallen, and so God, in his greatness and in his grace and his mercy, gives promises to us that, even though we have failed in the waiting sometimes, his promise is still available to us. And so he reiterates in chapter 17 of Genesis that that promise is still going to come to pass, and it does.

Now, sadly, the consequences of taking matters into their own hands and doing it in a natural way that humanity can control, they end up having a fight, that is, the flesh against the spirit, continually. You had Hagar now totally mistreating and upset with her um, with Sarah, and Sarah is upset and mistreating Hagar and God has to fix that. And Hagar’s son is totally oh, he is saying inappropriate things and taunting and mistreating Isaac, so much so that Sarah says you need to kick out the bond woman and her son. And Abraham now has to deal with the consequences because God said yes, you need to do what she said and he had to turn them out. So there is a real lesson to be learned in the waiting that it is truly worth it and it I can tell you that from my own life’s journey. I have made this mistake and there are consequences and it hurts and those don’t go away.

But when we believe God for God’s answers, god is still faithful and his answers don’t go away. His means and his purposes don’t go away. He will still produce the supernatural in your life and still bring about what he promised and said he would. This is our growing opportunity, folks. The waiting season is our growing opportunity. Let’s not get patient. What does um? Let’s look at this scripture right now. What does um Galatians 6, 9 tell us? Galatians 6, 9. And I’ll look it up with you, and I’m sure you’re probably familiar with this, but just in case, and let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap if we do not give up. We have to hold on. We have to hold on, folks. We’ve got to stand firm in that promise. Okay, that’s Abraham and Sarah.

Now let’s look at Jacob. We have Jacob in Genesis 28 and 29, and Jacob had to wait 20 years for God’s will in his life to produce the thing that he promised him it would produce. And in that waiting he was given a wrong wife. He had to go through the process of waiting, with several major trials and things that he had to live with, circumstances he had to deal with daily for the next 20, well, for the rest of his life, but for 20 years it was a crazy journey. So he works seven years for a wife, is tricked on his wedding night and there’s Leah and not Rachel, so he has to work another seven years to get Rachel. And then you have the waiting period, when we’ll talk about them in just a minute. I’ll talk about the women in just a minute. But then you have Laban, who changes his wages 10 times, trying constantly to make profit off of Jacob. And then Jacob not make profit. He kept trying to hinder Jacob from becoming and from producing from all of the work of his hands. So much so that God had to give wisdom to Jacob and have a plan on how to produce his flock so that he could not be robbed anymore. And then he had to run for his life from Laban. And so this is a. This is quite a journey.

This, this is a um not getting weary while you’re trying to do the right thing, and we have to all find out what that is. What is God saying that I have to do? What do I have to sustain? Under what thing am I having to? Um, having to work through, knowing it’s not going anywhere, that I have to deal with this for the time being, that this is what my lot is for the moment? This is the circumstance I’m being dealt. I have to deal with this right now.

For a while and doing that, he came to the place. It was that process, remember, we read in James it’s producing something. It takes us and has a perfect work it needs to complete in us. And each person that God truly used for his kingdom was forced to go through a process, and we are no different. God wants to fulfill his purposes and plans in our life, but that’s going to take a making of us, a sanctification of us, a process of growth, a training, so to speak, a growing in faith. And for Jacob, it took him 20 years before he gets to the place that he meets God again at Bethel. And then he is changed, his name is changed, his future is then flipped. He goes to meet his brother, who he thinks is an enemy, and his brother does not treat him as an enemy but welcomes him back as a brother, and he multiplies and multiplies and multiplies. It’s from Jacob, then, after a 20 year wait, that we come to his son, joseph.

Joseph, in Genesis 37, receives the promise of God through two dreams in the night and is almost immediately thrust into horrible situations, one right after the other, completely unjust, completely. They’re diabolical. I mean, his family members have not only shunned him, so to speak, they’ve not only emotionally wounded him, but they have sold him. They have abandoned him and sold him into slavery for the rest of his life. And in the meantime they have to lie to their father and live a lie. To produce this hatred and to deal with what they’ve done, they have a price to pay. His father pays the price, and Joseph now waits 22 years before those dreams actually come to pass.

And it’s not just a waiting. It’d be one thing if you just are waiting, if you know, okay, I’m this age and at this age, like when you’re a kid, you know, okay, when I’m 16, I can get a driver’s license. You know, it’s not just a waiting. It’s a awaiting, with trial, and I mean talk about hardship. The poor man is not only sold as a slave, but he’s lied on and accused of rape, which he did not do. He’s thrown in a prison and he is showing his godly character all along the way.

He never walked away from his character in the Lord. He did produce the steadfastness necessary. He allowed the work of God in his life. He did not despise the will of God, even though he understood that this will is causing me great pain. And that’s not something we like to talk about nowadays. We do not like to. We don’t like to deal with the fact that sometimes God’s plan for our life involves some very difficult things or involves major sacrifice, or involves things at great cost. We just like to think it all just comes pouring down from heaven, always without any trial, without any work. That would be like me saying that I could collect a paycheck without going to work. That’s not reality. Check without going to work that’s not reality.

Hi, my name is Jamie Luce. I wanted to share with you some information about a brand new book entitled you Don’t Need Money, you Just Need God. It’s a playbook for miraculous provision and I want to share it with you because it solves the problem we are all facing right now. The economy is going crazy, gas prices are soaring, there’s wars and rumors of wars. We’ve got everything hitting us all at once, with interest rates rising. You need to know what to do, and so many times we think we need the money, but you don’t need money. I’m telling you, the answer is you need God, and that’s exactly what we want to teach you through this book. We’ll give you practical ways to know what to do and how to do it, so that you get answers. Now you can find my book on Amazon. You can also go to jamielucecom. You can also find this book at youdontneedmoneyyoujustneedgodcom. This book is available today.

God is merciful, and boy does he sometimes pour out blessings that you had nothing to do with and that you couldn’t produce. And it was all God all the way, all the time. And we have received those. My husband and I live in the blessings that God has provided for us, that we do not get to take ownership of and say that we did. It was by the grace of God and God alone that produced those miracles. So they do come, but there are some that come with great trial. You know, the Hebrew boys that we talked about last week were promoted, but that came at great cost getting thrown into a fire and having to deal with the fiery furnace, daniel being thrown into a lion’s den at great cost. So, even though God preserves them through it, there is still something to go through, and today the thing we’re talking about is time.

So Joseph waited 22 years for God’s promise to come about, and the beautiful thing about Joseph’s story is he never counted God unfaithful and he never let his integrity fall. He held to his integrity, and I am challenging you today If anything in your waiting, make it a priority. It will save you so many of the consequences. Make priority one your integrity to God, to be faithful to God. Joseph said I can’t commit this sin against God. He wasn’t even worried about committing the sin against this person. He was more concerned about carrying out a sin that would be against God. King David understood we’re going to talk about him in just a minute but he understood that when he sinned, though people were involved he came before God and said it is against you and you alone, o God, that I have sinned. He understood that it is his integrity before God, that he expects something of us, that there is an expectation for us to wait in faith on him. Let’s go to David.

In 1 Samuel 16,. David waits for 26 years before he is finally anointed king over both North and South Israel, over the entire kingdom of Israel. 26 years, and during that 26 years, an enemy is chasing him. I mean chasing him without cause, to kill him and destroy him, simply because he saw the work of God on his life. And David with two specific opportunities that we see, where he could have killed Saul and he could have said God told me, this was mine and I’m taking it. He could have taken matters into his own hands, the same way that we learned from Abraham and Sarah. He could have taken it out of God’s hands and not waited on God, or he could have simply waited and seen what God did David through great pressure, even fear for his own life, having to live where he didn’t want to live, at times acting like a madman to save his life.

David waited on God 26 years, but it was after 26 years that God has made David king over Israel, whom we still talk about today. Was he still a man? Yes, did he still fail. Tremendous failure, tremendous failure. But God’s promises never failed. His promise to David was that there would never fail to be a man from your line, david, who sits on the kingdom and it would be everlasting. And we have King Jesus, who was from the line of David, who that promise was fulfilled to David thousands of years later. Thousands of years later, god is not going to wait and not fulfill. The waiting is necessary. The waiting is producing. It’s not for nothing. It’s having its perfect work and it is making you complete. I know it doesn’t feel that way, saints, but it is. It is growing us and strengthening us and causing us to know what it is to endure and to hold to our integrity. God will be faithful.

I want to give you a couple of examples quickly of some of the women in scripture. Well, we see Noah. I don’t want to forget Noah before we move on. Noah waited between 50, they think it was between 50 and 75 years for rain to come. He was building that ark for about a hundred years, we know. And from the time he was preaching and people were asking him questions, you know he’s waiting time he was preaching and people were asking him questions, you know he’s waiting. I mean 75 years. That’s a lifetime. He waited a lifetime to see the answer, but God did do exactly what he said and it saved not only Noah’s life but his family and we are products of the salvation of Noah. We are products of the salvation of Noah. By his obedience we were not all destroyed and we come from their line and we have to understand the decisions we make now. The waiting we do now in obedience to God will affect generations. I mean, I just told you about the thousands of years that the promise of David has affected our lives. The faith that we now read about in scripture was because of Abraham and Sarah, folks, the things that people wait on, the promises that they fulfill, the people Israel today has their life to thank because of Joseph. Waiting is necessary and it will produce fruit for maybe thousands of years, at least the generations that affect your family, but maybe thousands of years. Who knows how many your waiting season will affect? Who knows?

Now we see that Hannah, who did not have a child. I looked this up. It was very interesting to read a little bit about this, on what the rabbis teach about Hannah and her age. Some estimate that she was actually quite old by the time she had Samuel, but we know that she was old enough and years had passed, and they estimate that she waited 19 years to have Samuel. And the beautiful thing, samuel’s the one who anointed King David, who carried a people group for hundreds of years through the words of Samuel and it was through their kings, the choosing of kings, and for the weight of his ministry and what he did it was. His whole life is a miraculous life being raised under Eli and then being spoken to as a child.

There’s so much there, but Hannah had to wait 19 years under the everyday onslaught from Penina, the other wife who had children, and it was a torment to her. But yet her waiting and what she produced affects our lives to this day. And not only that, but then her life after that was forever changed. She had to give her son in obedience to the word she offered to the Lord. There’s a whole lot there, but in when she did that and she made that sacrifice, asked the Lord. There’s a whole lot there, but in when she did that and she made that sacrifice, asked the Lord for his gift but promised to give it back to him and obeyed God, then had opened her womb and she had other children besides Samuel, that God had done a forever work in her heart, not just that one time, that that produced multiple blessings in her life, not just that one. So waiting produces, waiting produces.

If we look at Rebecca, we go back and look at Jacob’s wife Rebecca, I’m sorry, isaac’s wife Rebecca, who produced Jacob and Esau. Who produced Jacob and Esau? Rebecca had to wait 20 years. She also was barren, just like Isaac’s mother. She was barren for 20 years and yet God gave her two sons. They were twins. And so we see that even in this perpetual building of God’s dynasty of faith, perpetual building of God’s dynasty of faith there was major waiting involved. Each new major taking hold of God’s promise, every next major supernatural outpouring of what God was going to do and how he was going to bless and care for and produce a promise, came at great lengths of waiting. Waiting on God, having no other way to produce it but God. And let’s look at Isaiah 40. Isaiah 40. Let’s go to Isaiah. Let’s go to Isaiah.

In Isaiah 40, I wanted you to read this because if you’re in this waiting season right now, it is understanding that this is actually. This is why the word is such an encouragement to us. It doesn’t mean that it will go any faster. It doesn’t mean that it will change how you have to wait. It encourages us that the waiting is producing. In Isaiah 40, verse 31, we read but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength. I know it feels like you’re being diminished in your strength, but you don’t understand. That’s going to produce when God, those who have waited receive. That’s why this word can say this you receive what you waited for and because of it your strength is renewed. They renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. This is our promise.

God has promised us that if we will wait on him and we’re not waiting for people to change a circumstance, for the outside circumstances to change, we’re waiting on God. I mean, that’s a perspective change. If you’re waiting for people, you’re going to feel the miserableness of relying on the arm of the flesh because flesh fails. On the arm of the flesh, because flesh fails. But God works supernaturally, above and beyond what the natural and the human can do, what is rational and normal for humanity, and it supersedes then, if we understand that it can supersede and help us in our emotions and the waiting. I’m not waiting on that person to change. I’m not waiting on this circumstance to change. I’m not waiting on the next president. I’m not waiting on more money. I’m not waiting on a better education. I’m waiting on the Lord. I’m not waiting to be healed, for a doctor to fix me. I’m waiting on the Lord. I’m not waiting for a spouse because I don’t know where to turn and where to look and I’ve been. I’m waiting on the Lord because the Lord will give you something.

Every good and perfect gift comes from the father that’s in the natural realm and in the supernatural realm. That. That covers all every gift. It doesn’t matter if you think that you received that gift by another person. That gift was gifted to you by the heart of God. He uses people, he uses organizations, he uses circumstances, he uses whatever he wants to use, and it is by that very heart of God that we receive every good gift.

So if there’s anything good in your life, you need to turn and thank the Lord. You need to thank him that you’ve been sustained this far. You need to thank him that he has helped you and kept you that you’re here for another day and that he is faithful to his promises. He said I will, um. Well, let me see. Do I have one of those, that one written down? I don’t want to read it ahead of time. I don’t remember if I have that one written down or not.

He promises to meet our need according to his riches and glory. He will take care of every need we have. If we are looking to him, the author and the finisher of our faith, he’s the one who makes it possible, he authors our faith and he’s the one who finishes our faith by bringing to pass the very things that he said he would bring to pass. He is faithful always, no matter the circumstance. So I’m not waiting on people, I’m not waiting on the arm of the flesh. I am waiting on God and his supernatural power to do anything that he wants to do. And he’s not just waiting for waiting sake. He’s waiting because he is working it for your perfect good. There is something he has in mind and it’s really good, and if you knew what it was, you’d want it. You’d wait for it because you knew how good it was.

Okay, let’s look at um, psalm 37, psalm 37, and we’re going to read verses one through seven, and my pages are sticking together Psalm 37, verses one through seven fret not yourself because of evildoers, be not envious of wrongdoers, cause I know how many times do we feel like it looks like the ones doing evil are getting away with it and being blessed for it. And he says don’t do that. Don’t fret because of evildoers and don’t be envious of wrongdoers, for they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord and do good, dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Make being faithful in the waiting your friend. Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.

So many like to quote the scripture that he delight yourself in the Lord and he will give the desires of your heart. But they tend to ignore what delight yourself in the Lord means, as if the only part of the scripture that applies is he will give you the desires of your heart, but you have to delight yourself in the Lord. I have to put my focus on him. I’m waiting on him. His promises are faithful. I’m willing to wait on him. I walk in my integrity because of him. Commit your way to the Lord. Trust in him and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light and your justice as the noon day. Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him. Fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices. I’ll go ahead and finish. I’ll go ahead and go through nine Refrain from anger and forsake wrath. Fret not yourself. It tends only to evil, for the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the Lord shall inherit the land. Those who wait on the Lord shall inherit the land.

Let’s go back to Psalm 27, just a few pages back, and we’re going to look at verses 13 and 14. I believe that I should look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. He’s’s saying look at him now. This isn’t about forever and eternity. This is right now in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord, be strong and let your heart take courage. Wait for the Lord.

Let me look at Romans 8. I’ve got just two more this one and the last one Romans 8 and verse 24 and 25. 25, for in this hope we were saved. Now, hope that is seen is not hope For who hopes for what he sees. But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. We wait for it with patience, praise God. And lastly, let’s go to Lamentations Isaiah, jeremiah Lamentations, and we’re going to look at chapter three. Oh, come on, jamie, jamie, turn the pages. Lamentations 3, and we’re going to look at verse 25 and 26.

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait patiently for the salvation of the Lord. The Lord is good to those who wait for him, To the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord, that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. I know it’s not an easy task and I know that we can truly come to the end of ourselves in our waiting. And my hope today is that you will readjust your eyesight, refix your perspective on the Lord, that he’s good, that he cannot fail, that he hasn’t changed his mind, that he will produce in you the very thing necessary to bring forth about a bountiful end, a good end, an end full of justice and reward, that you are the one who inherits that you are the one who lays hold of every promise that God has ever made you, and we will have that in this lifetime, not just here, but in eternity as well.

Let me pray for you, father. We just thank you for your faithfulness. You are so good. There is not one blessing we have received that did not come straight from your hand, lord. I just know that you are doing a mighty work in helping those who need strength today, father, if necessary, send angelic help to minister to the hearts and minds of those who are waiting on you. You are not slack, you are not slow, as some would think that you might be, but you are patient, and you have called us to be patient with you. You are saving, you are changing, you are making, creating, doing what we could not do, and so we wait on you. And you are faithful, have always been faithful, will always be faithful and you will do what you have promised. We stand in faith today on your word. We take hold of it. We call it our own, it’s ours. The promises are to those who is yes and amen to those who believe, and we believe you today, and we give you all the praise and the thanks in advance for what we’re going to see you do, and it’s in Jesus’ name we pray. Amen. Thank you for spending time with me today. Do me a favor If you are blessed by this podcast, would you subscribe and then also hit the like button and let us know that you liked this episode?

Maybe share this with someone you know who needs some encouragement today if they’re in a waiting season. Also, I’d love to hear from you If you have any prayer requests or if you want to just simply let me know how this podcast has affected you. You can contact me at my website. You could also send me an email. That’s mail at jaimeluce.com, my website, jamielucecom. J-a-i-m-e-l-u-c-e.

If you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed I don’t talk about this much. I know there’s usually a little commercial that plays, but I know we’re overwhelmed right now, so many with what’s happening financially in the United States. I’m sure this is happening all over the world and it’s not just here. But if you need encouragement on how to stand in faith and see the promises of God when it comes to your finances, I encourage you to get a hold of my book that’s you Don’t Need Money, you Just Need God.

You can get that on Amazon. You could also get that by going to my webpage as well. You could buy the book hardcover or you can get that as a download. So make that you know, avail yourself if you need that help, if you need that encouragement. I promise you all of the stories in there and what we did about them. It’s a playbook. We tell you what we did and how we stood on the promises of God and what God did and how he answered. It’s a very encouraging book and I I’m encouraging you to get it as well. Thanks for spending some time with me today. We’ll see you next week. Bye-