{"id":33075,"date":"2021-04-14T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=33075"},"modified":"2021-04-14T08:04:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T13:04:37","slug":"what-to-do-while-waiting-on-the-lord-turning-to-god-as-we-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=33075","title":{"rendered":"What to Do While Waiting on The Lord: Turning to God As We Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Waiting-on-God-1.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Word from Bob:<\/strong> You\u2019re reading Part 2 of a three-part blog mini-series by guest bloggers Dan Brewer and Matthew Black. You can read Part 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2021\/04\/what-to-do-while-waiting-on-the-lord-turning-waiting-into-worship\/\">here: What to Do While Waiting on The Lord: Turning Waiting into Worship<\/a>. Please see the end of today\u2019s post for Dan and Matt\u2019s bios.<\/p>\n<p>Part one of our blog mini-series discussed how waiting time is not a time for wallowing in self-pity. Nor is it a time to worry in unbelief. Waiting time is not wasted time either. The Lord is always working in the \u201cblank spaces\u201d of waiting on Him. Waiting on the Lord is an act of faith. With a mindset of worshiping, wrestling, and watching, here are some practical things you can do as you wait on the Lord.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Exercise Faith Muscles: Mark 2:1-12<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes while waiting on God, some people can allow anger or anxiety, despair or foolish thinking to take hold of them which can be paralyzing. Maybe that is what the paralyzed man had felt at times. \u201cHow long am I going to have to be lame?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good the man had friends of faith who were \u201clooking unto Jesus.\u201d Instead of the crippled man\u2019s friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God\u2019s capacity to answer your prayers infinitely exceeds your ability to ask Him.<br \/>\nThe post What to Do While Waiting on The Lord: Turning to God As We Wait appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[142,3044,3857],"class_list":["post-33075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-uncategorized","tag-waiting","tag-waiting-on-god","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Waiting-on-God-768x432-4-1.jpg?fit=768%2C432&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33088,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33075\/revisions\/33088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}