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Welcome to Off Script, a conversation with no fakes, no filters, just real conversations about how faith and flesh meet in the everyday life, where we experience a God who made us on purpose for his purpose.
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This is off script.
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Let's talk.
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For me, I feel like when I'm at a yellow light, I'm just it's more of a moment where I'm gonna hit the gas instead of the brake.
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But Trude, I feel like you're a gas person at the at the at the yellow light.
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Definitely a gas person.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Morgan seems like a person that slams on the brakes.
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Morgan's gonna be.
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And the person behind her is gonna like slam on the brakes and then she causes a wreck and be like, Well, I just didn't want to go.
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Well, that is true, but I do have video footage of me running a light last Christmas.
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They sent me video footage from it and because you got a ticket for it.
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Morgan, when where else do you hit the gas?
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Morgan and Ramsey got a ticket, y'all.
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I know it was my only ticket I've ever gotten in my life.
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It was crazy.
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No, what were you asking to go?
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I was just asking about when when other times do you hit the gas?
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Well, I feel like you're about to make a fart noise.
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I don't know.
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Uh no, I I I I don't, guys, listen, I'm tired of this disrespect, okay?
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I am a safe driver.
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Every time y'all get in the car, you're like, Insanely safe.
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We're gonna get there, but it's gonna be in 45 minutes when it's supposed to be five minutes every single time.
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Y'all say this when you get in the car with me.
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But you get there safe.
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That's all that matters.
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Morgan needs to come to Guatemala and sit in the vehicles with them.
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She was being in the backseat fetal position.
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Yes, trying to call her parents.
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We are not sharing the story again.
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We have already walked through that story on this podcast.
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They can go listen to it on another episode.
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It wasn't me.
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Yeah, so I gotta call my dad.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Where are we today?
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We're gonna be talking about waiting and waiting seasons and waiting on the Lord.
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I feel like we are constantly in a waiting season, whether it's something that is you're waiting on something big, you're waiting on a result, or you're just sitting in the drive-thru waiting.
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And one, some waiting is easier than others.
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But how do we wait on the Lord?
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What does that look like?
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Um, yeah.
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I I want to know.
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I mean, we we are you know obviously we're probably all different seasons at this table.
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You know, just if you brought four other people in here, we'd all be at different seasons of waiting.
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And so probably it's gonna look different at everybody's, but there's still some similarities that we can hang on to.
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Like, I mean, I would say, Truett, you know, what what is waiting in this season for you?
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For me, waiting is just I mean, everything in the past two years of my life has been like a year here, a year here, year here, that kind of thing.
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So that's what the waiting is, like waiting on the Lord to tell me, okay, what what's next for me?
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And like after after this like short season in my life.
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More what do you what do you feel like is waiting for you?
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That's a good question.
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Waiting for me.
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I I don't know.
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I I feel like I'm probably with tru it too.
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It's just every year is a new year with the Lord and new mercies and new promises, and but the same God.
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And I think I mean, obviously, I mean 32 and I'm single, you know.
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I think that's where you know I probably could connect with the same thing.
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And ready to mingle.
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Heck no, that gives me anxiety.
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I'd be single for the rest of my life if that was the Lord's will.
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I I don't know.
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That gives me that why'd you say that?
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Now I want to throw up.
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So this is now counseling for I'm just no.
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Uh no, but I mean, in that sense, like I don't know what like I'd I would love to be single, but I don't know, you know, and I think waiting with the Lord is just kind of like every new day, Lord, I don't know what you're gonna do in this day.
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Like today is what when we're recording.
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This is is it September 10th?
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I think it's September.
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Like, I don't know what the Lord has for today, but he does.
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And I think, you know, but for every season it's been a little bit differently.
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Like, okay, Lord, I'm 32, you know, what are you gonna do in the this year?
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And then, you know, obviously, am I gonna get married?
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Am I not gonna get married, or am I gonna go do this?
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Or do you just don't you never know?
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So I would say that's probably mine.
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I mean, it waiting is always his the Lord's most consistent classroom if he's teaching you something.
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And the the classroom of don't want to use a big term, I guess we can explain it a little bit, but of sanctification.
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If you're if he's sanctifying you, it is gonna be in the classroom of waiting.
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And sanctification is just the Lord's way of making you more like him.
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It's the Holy Spirit's way of making you holy.
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And it's that's called the sanctification process.
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And that is gonna take waiting.
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That's gonna take a season of waiting.
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That might take a day.
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Nobody what I mean, what do you not like waiting on?
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I don't like waiting on food, you know.
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I don't, I mean, there's nothing that I enjoy waiting on.
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Why was that your only example?
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Because that's the first thing I think of when I mean if you're in a drive-thru and you have to wait five minutes, you're like, good heavens, this Chick-fil-A line is forever.
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But what if it's something exciting?
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Like there's a new sense and sensibility movie coming out.
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I don't know if it's like good.
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What?
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But it's a Jane Austen movie coming out in October, and I'm so excited to see it, if it's appropriate.
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True, true, it is too.
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But I'm excited.
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Like, I think there is like a there is a patience, but there's also an excitement in waiting.
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I don't know, maybe I'm thinking about that wrong, Caleb.
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I don't I don't know.
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I just don't think I mean I I don't like waiting on a phone to charge.
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I don't like waiting on food.
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I don't like waiting at red lights.
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You also leave your family if you're having to wait on them for too long.
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I do.
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Yeah.
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Guys, hey, look, I'm somewhere where I've been trained, even in college, you know, like if you were supposed to me at a a meeting for a football meeting and it was supposed to start at nine, he might start at 8 50 because you're supposed to be somewhere 15 minutes before it's time, and if you're not, you're late.
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And it was just ingrained in me that you better be somewhere 15 minutes before you're supposed to be there because it might start early.
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And so if you're on, no, if you're early, you're on time.
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If you're on time, you're late.
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And if you're late, you're rude.
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I used to say that all the time, and then people just got mad at me or just quit listening to me.
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So I'd but yeah, I it's always the rude part that people are like, what waiting uh is a unique thing where it it will it it exposes who you really are, you know, and it also purifies things, you know.
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It it's that uh in Malachi, it talks about the purification process and getting impurities out of you.
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That doesn't just happen immediately, it it has to intensify, there's got to be a lot of pressure, and in the midst of that, you have to wait for the impurities to come out.
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And so there is this moment where it exposes and it purifies in the waiting process, but none of that is fun.
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There's always pressure, there's always just a moment of of insecurity, and it exposes who you who you really are.
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You know, you have to take out of your self-reliance because you realize if something doesn't happen on my schedule and in my time, I can't control it.
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And now you're you're having to take away your own self-reliance and you have to rely on something else.
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And it usually changes your thoughts of how God is going to work in your life, but it does expose.
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Waiting does.
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And nobody likes to be exposed.
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Yeah, I feel like waiting too, sometimes when there's a delay in something, it's almost that he's trying to mold you to where like if he never gives you that thing, like you still trust like you still trust in him and you still you still want him more than the thing that he that maybe you're waiting on.
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But he's he's really working on you to like if God never for say for Morgan, for example, if God never gives you a husband, you will still love the Lord more than anything.
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Absolutely.
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You know, and I feel like waiting seasons are intended for that.
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And I also think like, I mean, for me, I think my waiting season is just teaching me Matthew 6 33 to just seek first the kingdom of God, of like he knows everything that you need.
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And so if he if you can continue to just seek him first, he will give you the thing that you maybe don't even know you're waiting on, or the thing that you think you want, or whatever it is.
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But I feel like I mean that's kind of what he's been teaching me.
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But I'm glad you mentioned that verse in Matthew 6.
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It's Matthew 6, right?
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633.
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Okay, I think I love that you use that verse because I think when sometimes when we think about waiting, it's like, oh, I have to sit in a chair and not do anything.
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Right.
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But seeking, like I love Sydney that you mentioned like in any season of waiting that you may be in, like it's active, it's active waiting.
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It's not just like, well, I'm just gonna sit here and do nothing.
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Right.
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You know, I'm gonna actually go do something.
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Like, I think about David.
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David was anointed king.
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Ooh, was it 40 years before he actually became king?
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He had to wait, and what was he still doing?
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He was a shepherd.
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Just bringing bread and butter to people.
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But he's continually doing and he's serving.
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And I thought what he was doing.
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No, it's cheese.
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He was bringing cheese.
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Bread and butter, that's what he was doing.
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Just like an Amish man.
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I wish I could have seen Cindy look at him like that.
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I'm sorry.
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I forgot.
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No, but like I love that David, he waited so well in the Lord.
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Abraham and Sarah, too, when they waited for the promise of a child, they waited 25 years, you know, for Isaac.
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And but they they were continued doing, you know, and I think that's probably a a struggle for many people listening is how do I do that?
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Like how what is active waiting?
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Because scripture says over and over, wait upon the Lord, wait upon the Lord, wait upon the Lord, wait upon the Lord.
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I think it's Isaiah 40 or 41 that says, wait upon the Lord and your strength will be renewed like the angles.
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Eagles, sorry, not eagles, eagles, eagles, you know.
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So I I feel like I don't know how y'all actively wait.
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Well, I uh I wrote down Proverbs 3, 5, and 6.
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It just says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding, and in all ways acknowledge him, he shall direct your path.
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And I just love that, and that just kind of I think sums up like how we wait.
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Like, like don't lean on your own understanding, dig into the word, spend time in prayer, just lean on the Lord, try to become sensitive to his word, like to the Holy Spirit speaking to you.
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And then I think it just makes that season of waiting so much easier.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I wrote down something that I had read in the Bible recap for any of those that are doing that.
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She said the word wait is the Hebrew word ka kava, Q-A-V-A-A-S.
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Usually that's how I say it.
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However, you want to say that, which means to bind together, to be joined, to meet, to expect, to be confident, to trust, and to endure.
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If we read this verse with all those definitions included, it would say those who are bound together with the Lord, joined with the Lord, who meet with the Lord, who confidently expect and trust and endure will renew their strength.
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The image here is more than just an expression of time.
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It is unity and relationship, knowing him, trusting his character.
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When we're in that space, he strengthens, strengthens us for whatever we're enduring.
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I thought it was like a good example of just like that active, active waiting.
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I feel like waiting is, I was thinking about this this morning.
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The three words that kind of come to mind for me specifically, and I don't know, you guys may think something different, is one, just perspective.
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Sometimes your waiting is maybe you're waiting on a job and the Lord has closed a lot of doors.
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Well, your perspective could be maybe he's protecting me from something, or maybe I'm sitting in traffic, and this is a small example.
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You're having to sit in traffic because of a wreck.
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Well, maybe your perspective is like he kept me from that wreck.
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He protected me.
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So just kind of changing your mindset on things, but also steadfastness of keeping your again, your mind, it can, it can spiral, it can go in different places.
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Why is God doing this?
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Does God even care about me?
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Does does he even see me?
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But keeping your mind steadfast on God's word and what he says, but then also just the third thing would be perseverance.
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Cause I mean, your days still have to go on.
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We can't just sit still and what we think of like oh, you know, like a doctor's waiting room where we just sit there.
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But waiting is it's active.
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We have to continue to go about our day.
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We have to go to work, we have to, you know, life still moves on.
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And so persevering through each day while you're in that waiting too.
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So I feel like there's three things perspective, steadfastness, and perseverance in your waiting too.
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When you when you're having to persevere or be steadfast, like I mean, and James talks about those things, okay.
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But that that if you don't know it, that's that's just building endurance.
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Okay.
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The only way that you can build endurance is to not quit.
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That's it.
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I mean, the key to endurance or steadfastness is that you don't quit.
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That that's it.
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And so, and I think some of that will come from our understanding of who God is.
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Because I mean, right now we're talking about waiting, but we're like, okay, well, when you're waiting, don't worry, don't you know be impatient, don't, you know, uh, don't be stressed out.
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And they're uh they're all basically focused on us.
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But at some point in your waiting, you've got to realize that God is not going to be idle while you're just waiting.
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Like he's not just sitting there waiting, and just you're waiting too.
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And you're just like, I guess we're just sitting here waiting on each other, just looking at each other.
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Like it got you have to believe and understanding and knowing God is that God is actively moving all around you in places that you do not see.
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And so many times in your waiting, you just think just because you're sitting there means that God is sitting there.
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And that's not that's not at all anywhere in the Bible where that's true.
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Like in every case that you're gonna pull up in the Bible about waiting, God is at moving and he is not idle in the midst of a group of people waiting or an individual waiting or a season of waiting.
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The Lord is moving, and so some of that helps out where you take the your own self-reliance of here's what I'm walking through as I'm waiting to understanding who is God while I am waiting.
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And that opens up things.
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Yeah, and I think about like Daniel in the lion's den, you know, like God's moving, but yeah, he's sitting there with lions that at any point could open their mouth, you know, but the Lord shut the mouth.
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The Lord shut it and he's actively waiting.
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And I think about, you know, Sydney, going back to what you're talking about, perseverance, like perseverance.
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I think so many times we forget that perseverance could be very painful.
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Like, I think about this, like when we were talking about waiting, I'm thinking about True is giving me guitar lessons right now.
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And I was laughing because yesterday I was wanted to kill's uh office.
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I said, My hand hurts so bad because my fingers, because he's like looking at me like, what's wrong with you?
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And you know, because that look before you walked in, though.
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But it's just but I love the the imagery there of every time I come, I was showing true it.
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I have calluses on my fingers now because every single time, even it hurts, my body is now adjusting so that I can learn how to, you know, to do this craft.
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And I think many times how many things the Lord is trying to instill in us, sanctification, what you're talking about, Caleb.
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And but it's it's hard, it's painful.
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Like waiting is painful at times.
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It's not always this like happy-go lucky, rainbows everywhere.
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Like sometimes it's hard and sometimes it's painful, and sometimes you don't get what you asked for.
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Yeah.
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And that's hard too.
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And but I think that is where scripture goes back to you just have to trust the heart of God, knowing Romans 8, 28 for all things work together together for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose.
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You know, Genesis 50, 20, for what the enemy meant for harm, you know, the Lord his use for good, you know, Jeremiah 29, 11.
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You know, we always we always quote that verse for I know the plans the Lord has for you, but we always forget the Lord gave that verse, excuse me, that he he uttered that cry to Jeremiah as Israel is about to go into exile.
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They're about to go into something that is waiting and it is painful for 70 years.
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Yeah, we're talking about waiting's painful.
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I mean, you read the verse in Lamentations three.
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Lamentations is a sad book.
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And you have the verse, verse 322.
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It says, The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end.
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They're new every morning.
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Great is your faithfulness, the Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.
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And I mean, that's in the middle of the saddest, one of the saddest books in the Bible, and it's so like filled with hope.
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And I think it's a good picture of what waiting can look like too.
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You know, we talked with Ireland on that one podcast about how grief and joy can exist.
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And I think this is a great picture of that too, of like, you know, waiting is very hard and it can be very sad and like sorrowful, and you can feel discouraged and restless, but then also in the middle of that, like the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.
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And I think like in the same like steadfastness he's pursuing you with, like, pursue him with that too.
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And I don't know, I just think that's interesting how it's right in the middle of that.
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Well n if we're not honest, nobody can help each other, correct?
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Yeah.
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So this next question's got to be honest.
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I it's Detroit.
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Okay.
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Speaking of endurance, waiting steadfast, what on a scale of one to ten, where's Morgan at playing the guitar?
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Okay, okay.
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We're only on lesson four, so just you know, well, we're having to endure and can you not hear her from your office?
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Yes, that's why I'm asking.
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Yeah, I think I think for where, like how far into it we are, for 45 minute sessions, we're at like a seven, probably.
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Oh, that's good.
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Seven out of ten?
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Yeah.
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That's good.
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She's gonna be a bumper.
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Because it's like if you learn four chords, you can play any song in the world.
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And like she's just gotta get those transitions down.
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And maybe this drumming pattern, that okay, let's take it back to like a gracious.
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Because the strumming pattern also is stuff.
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Yeah, that's basically hard, maybe.
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Did you know anything about that when you first started?
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Yeah, my clarinet background.
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Yes.
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She did pick it up fast.
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After this, we're all gonna sit around and get a clarinet, and Morgan's gonna teach us how to pick it up.
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But true it says that we're having Can you see me with a clarinet?
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True it says It'll look like a kazoo on you.
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I don't know what that is, but I agree.
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True it says we're having a student team lead worship for midweek.
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And I was like, okay, well, clearly I'm working by guitar, you're gonna sing a reprint cajon.
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And I he said, Cindy, you're gonna sing.
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I said, that's not happening.
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We need a female harmony.
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Uh yeah.
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Wait, I don't even know what a harmony is.
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Well, I remember back in the day when I was in elementary school, I tried to play the recorder.
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Okay, and I'll be honest with you, my fingers just don't work the way that they're supposed to work.
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And so I only got one sound out of the recorder.
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Right.
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So Well, because Caleb, if y'all didn't know, Caleb has to touch everything with all five fingers.
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So it's true.
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Opening that it's a disease, okay?
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I can't help it.
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Opening the little Lord's Supper things.
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Oh, yeah, then the little Lord's Supper thing.
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When you try to put 10 fingers on the Lord's Supper cup, uh yeah, that is.
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You've gotten us completely off.
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I don't what I don't even know what we're talking about.
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We were talking about, well, we had waiting, yes.
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I had talked about Lamentations, how it is a you were trying to bring it back because I was talking about the saddest book in the Bible.
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Oh yeah.
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And I was thinking, what is the saddest thing I've heard?
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And I was thinking, Morgan talking about it.
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Yeah.
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And saying it was a seven, that is a hot take.
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I'm gonna say we're at like a four.
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I was saying seven based on like how many lessons you've had.
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Overall, it's obviously not a seven, but based on like the chords, it's the progression and then the strumming pattern, that's hard for me.
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I'm not natural like rhythmic.
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Well, that all reminds me back to waiting.
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There we go.
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It is a refining process.
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It is.
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And I would so if anybody is in here or listening to, and they're in a season of waiting, and there's these cliche things you hear all the time, hey, you know, feel you're waiting with worship instead of worry.
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And those things sound good, but when you're in the moment, that really doesn't help.
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And so I think some of the times it's just reflecting on more of don't forget about all these pop quizzes the Lord has given you and walked you through and been faithful through to get you to the a big test, you know, and many times that big test is going to come with waiting.
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And so don't forget who the Lord is and what he is doing.
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And he, you're, you might be waiting.
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He is not idle, he is moving all around you.
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And so I would just highly encourage you to one, know that and also knowing it's just part of the sanctification of the process of sanctifying you.
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It's it's a process of making you more like the Lord.
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I mean, Jesus was never in a hurry, right?
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And so it's it's this process that as a believer, you're gonna have to walk through.
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It's not like, and uh, what what if I have to wait on something?
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He says, No, you will be waiting.
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You will be waiting.
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And so, how to treat that with worship instead of just your own self reliance of what you can do for you.
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Welcome to Off Script, a conversation with no fakes, no filters, just real conversations about how faith and flesh meet in the everyday life, where we experience a God who made us on purpose for his purpose.
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This is off script.
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Let's talk.
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For me, I feel like when I'm at a yellow light, I'm just it's more of a moment where I'm gonna hit the gas instead of the brake.
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But Trude, I feel like you're a gas person at the at the at the yellow light.
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Definitely a gas person.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Morgan seems like a person that slams on the brakes.
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Morgan's gonna be.
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And the person behind her is gonna like slam on the brakes and then she causes a wreck and be like, Well, I just didn't want to go.
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Well, that is true, but I do have video footage of me running a light last Christmas.
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They sent me video footage from it and because you got a ticket for it.
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Morgan, when where else do you hit the gas?
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Morgan and Ramsey got a ticket, y'all.
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I know it was my only ticket I've ever gotten in my life.
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It was crazy.
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No, what were you asking to go?
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I was just asking about when when other times do you hit the gas?
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Well, I feel like you're about to make a fart noise.
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I don't know.
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Uh no, I I I I don't, guys, listen, I'm tired of this disrespect, okay?
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I am a safe driver.
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Every time y'all get in the car, you're like, Insanely safe.
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We're gonna get there, but it's gonna be in 45 minutes when it's supposed to be five minutes every single time.
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Y'all say this when you get in the car with me.
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But you get there safe.
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That's all that matters.
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Morgan needs to come to Guatemala and sit in the vehicles with them.
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She was being in the backseat fetal position.
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Yes, trying to call her parents.
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We are not sharing the story again.
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We have already walked through that story on this podcast.
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They can go listen to it on another episode.
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It wasn't me.
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Yeah, so I gotta call my dad.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Where are we today?
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We're gonna be talking about waiting and waiting seasons and waiting on the Lord.
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I feel like we are constantly in a waiting season, whether it's something that is you're waiting on something big, you're waiting on a result, or you're just sitting in the drive-thru waiting.
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And one, some waiting is easier than others.
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But how do we wait on the Lord?
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What does that look like?
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Um, yeah.
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I I want to know.
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I mean, we we are you know obviously we're probably all different seasons at this table.
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You know, just if you brought four other people in here, we'd all be at different seasons of waiting.
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And so probably it's gonna look different at everybody's, but there's still some similarities that we can hang on to.
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Like, I mean, I would say, Truett, you know, what what is waiting in this season for you?
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For me, waiting is just I mean, everything in the past two years of my life has been like a year here, a year here, year here, that kind of thing.
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So that's what the waiting is, like waiting on the Lord to tell me, okay, what what's next for me?
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And like after after this like short season in my life.
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More what do you what do you feel like is waiting for you?
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That's a good question.
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Waiting for me.
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I I don't know.
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I I feel like I'm probably with tru it too.
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It's just every year is a new year with the Lord and new mercies and new promises, and but the same God.
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And I think I mean, obviously, I mean 32 and I'm single, you know.
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I think that's where you know I probably could connect with the same thing.
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And ready to mingle.
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Heck no, that gives me anxiety.
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I'd be single for the rest of my life if that was the Lord's will.
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I I don't know.
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That gives me that why'd you say that?
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Now I want to throw up.
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So this is now counseling for I'm just no.
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Uh no, but I mean, in that sense, like I don't know what like I'd I would love to be single, but I don't know, you know, and I think waiting with the Lord is just kind of like every new day, Lord, I don't know what you're gonna do in this day.
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Like today is what when we're recording.
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This is is it September 10th?
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I think it's September.
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Like, I don't know what the Lord has for today, but he does.
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And I think, you know, but for every season it's been a little bit differently.
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Like, okay, Lord, I'm 32, you know, what are you gonna do in the this year?
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And then, you know, obviously, am I gonna get married?
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Am I not gonna get married, or am I gonna go do this?
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Or do you just don't you never know?
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So I would say that's probably mine.
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I mean, it waiting is always his the Lord's most consistent classroom if he's teaching you something.
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And the the classroom of don't want to use a big term, I guess we can explain it a little bit, but of sanctification.
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If you're if he's sanctifying you, it is gonna be in the classroom of waiting.
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And sanctification is just the Lord's way of making you more like him.
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It's the Holy Spirit's way of making you holy.
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And it's that's called the sanctification process.
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And that is gonna take waiting.
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That's gonna take a season of waiting.
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That might take a day.
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Nobody what I mean, what do you not like waiting on?
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I don't like waiting on food, you know.
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I don't, I mean, there's nothing that I enjoy waiting on.
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Why was that your only example?
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Because that's the first thing I think of when I mean if you're in a drive-thru and you have to wait five minutes, you're like, good heavens, this Chick-fil-A line is forever.
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But what if it's something exciting?
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Like there's a new sense and sensibility movie coming out.
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I don't know if it's like good.
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What?
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But it's a Jane Austen movie coming out in October, and I'm so excited to see it, if it's appropriate.
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True, true, it is too.
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But I'm excited.
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Like, I think there is like a there is a patience, but there's also an excitement in waiting.
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I don't know, maybe I'm thinking about that wrong, Caleb.
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I don't I don't know.
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I just don't think I mean I I don't like waiting on a phone to charge.
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I don't like waiting on food.
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I don't like waiting at red lights.
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You also leave your family if you're having to wait on them for too long.
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I do.
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Yeah.
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Guys, hey, look, I'm somewhere where I've been trained, even in college, you know, like if you were supposed to me at a a meeting for a football meeting and it was supposed to start at nine, he might start at 8 50 because you're supposed to be somewhere 15 minutes before it's time, and if you're not, you're late.
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And it was just ingrained in me that you better be somewhere 15 minutes before you're supposed to be there because it might start early.
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And so if you're on, no, if you're early, you're on time.
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If you're on time, you're late.
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And if you're late, you're rude.
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I used to say that all the time, and then people just got mad at me or just quit listening to me.
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So I'd but yeah, I it's always the rude part that people are like, what waiting uh is a unique thing where it it will it it exposes who you really are, you know, and it also purifies things, you know.
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It it's that uh in Malachi, it talks about the purification process and getting impurities out of you.
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That doesn't just happen immediately, it it has to intensify, there's got to be a lot of pressure, and in the midst of that, you have to wait for the impurities to come out.
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And so there is this moment where it exposes and it purifies in the waiting process, but none of that is fun.
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There's always pressure, there's always just a moment of of insecurity, and it exposes who you who you really are.
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You know, you have to take out of your self-reliance because you realize if something doesn't happen on my schedule and in my time, I can't control it.
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And now you're you're having to take away your own self-reliance and you have to rely on something else.
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And it usually changes your thoughts of how God is going to work in your life, but it does expose.
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Waiting does.
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And nobody likes to be exposed.
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Yeah, I feel like waiting too, sometimes when there's a delay in something, it's almost that he's trying to mold you to where like if he never gives you that thing, like you still trust like you still trust in him and you still you still want him more than the thing that he that maybe you're waiting on.
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But he's he's really working on you to like if God never for say for Morgan, for example, if God never gives you a husband, you will still love the Lord more than anything.
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Absolutely.
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You know, and I feel like waiting seasons are intended for that.
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And I also think like, I mean, for me, I think my waiting season is just teaching me Matthew 6 33 to just seek first the kingdom of God, of like he knows everything that you need.
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And so if he if you can continue to just seek him first, he will give you the thing that you maybe don't even know you're waiting on, or the thing that you think you want, or whatever it is.
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But I feel like I mean that's kind of what he's been teaching me.
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But I'm glad you mentioned that verse in Matthew 6.
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It's Matthew 6, right?
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633.
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Okay, I think I love that you use that verse because I think when sometimes when we think about waiting, it's like, oh, I have to sit in a chair and not do anything.
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Right.
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But seeking, like I love Sydney that you mentioned like in any season of waiting that you may be in, like it's active, it's active waiting.
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It's not just like, well, I'm just gonna sit here and do nothing.
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Right.
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You know, I'm gonna actually go do something.
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Like, I think about David.
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David was anointed king.
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Ooh, was it 40 years before he actually became king?
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He had to wait, and what was he still doing?
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He was a shepherd.
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Just bringing bread and butter to people.
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But he's continually doing and he's serving.
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And I thought what he was doing.
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No, it's cheese.
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He was bringing cheese.
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Bread and butter, that's what he was doing.
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Just like an Amish man.
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I wish I could have seen Cindy look at him like that.
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I'm sorry.
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I forgot.
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No, but like I love that David, he waited so well in the Lord.
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Abraham and Sarah, too, when they waited for the promise of a child, they waited 25 years, you know, for Isaac.
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And but they they were continued doing, you know, and I think that's probably a a struggle for many people listening is how do I do that?
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Like how what is active waiting?
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Because scripture says over and over, wait upon the Lord, wait upon the Lord, wait upon the Lord, wait upon the Lord.
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I think it's Isaiah 40 or 41 that says, wait upon the Lord and your strength will be renewed like the angles.
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Eagles, sorry, not eagles, eagles, eagles, you know.
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So I I feel like I don't know how y'all actively wait.
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Well, I uh I wrote down Proverbs 3, 5, and 6.
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It just says, Trust in the Lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding, and in all ways acknowledge him, he shall direct your path.
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And I just love that, and that just kind of I think sums up like how we wait.
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Like, like don't lean on your own understanding, dig into the word, spend time in prayer, just lean on the Lord, try to become sensitive to his word, like to the Holy Spirit speaking to you.
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And then I think it just makes that season of waiting so much easier.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I wrote down something that I had read in the Bible recap for any of those that are doing that.
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She said the word wait is the Hebrew word ka kava, Q-A-V-A-A-S.
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Usually that's how I say it.
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However, you want to say that, which means to bind together, to be joined, to meet, to expect, to be confident, to trust, and to endure.
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If we read this verse with all those definitions included, it would say those who are bound together with the Lord, joined with the Lord, who meet with the Lord, who confidently expect and trust and endure will renew their strength.
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The image here is more than just an expression of time.
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It is unity and relationship, knowing him, trusting his character.
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When we're in that space, he strengthens, strengthens us for whatever we're enduring.
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I thought it was like a good example of just like that active, active waiting.
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I feel like waiting is, I was thinking about this this morning.
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The three words that kind of come to mind for me specifically, and I don't know, you guys may think something different, is one, just perspective.
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Sometimes your waiting is maybe you're waiting on a job and the Lord has closed a lot of doors.
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Well, your perspective could be maybe he's protecting me from something, or maybe I'm sitting in traffic, and this is a small example.
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You're having to sit in traffic because of a wreck.
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Well, maybe your perspective is like he kept me from that wreck.
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He protected me.
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So just kind of changing your mindset on things, but also steadfastness of keeping your again, your mind, it can, it can spiral, it can go in different places.
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Why is God doing this?
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Does God even care about me?
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Does does he even see me?
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But keeping your mind steadfast on God's word and what he says, but then also just the third thing would be perseverance.
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Cause I mean, your days still have to go on.
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We can't just sit still and what we think of like oh, you know, like a doctor's waiting room where we just sit there.
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But waiting is it's active.
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We have to continue to go about our day.
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We have to go to work, we have to, you know, life still moves on.
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And so persevering through each day while you're in that waiting too.
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So I feel like there's three things perspective, steadfastness, and perseverance in your waiting too.
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When you when you're having to persevere or be steadfast, like I mean, and James talks about those things, okay.
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But that that if you don't know it, that's that's just building endurance.
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Okay.
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The only way that you can build endurance is to not quit.
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That's it.
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I mean, the key to endurance or steadfastness is that you don't quit.
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That that's it.
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And so, and I think some of that will come from our understanding of who God is.
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Because I mean, right now we're talking about waiting, but we're like, okay, well, when you're waiting, don't worry, don't you know be impatient, don't, you know, uh, don't be stressed out.
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And they're uh they're all basically focused on us.
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But at some point in your waiting, you've got to realize that God is not going to be idle while you're just waiting.
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Like he's not just sitting there waiting, and just you're waiting too.
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And you're just like, I guess we're just sitting here waiting on each other, just looking at each other.
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Like it got you have to believe and understanding and knowing God is that God is actively moving all around you in places that you do not see.
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And so many times in your waiting, you just think just because you're sitting there means that God is sitting there.
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And that's not that's not at all anywhere in the Bible where that's true.
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Like in every case that you're gonna pull up in the Bible about waiting, God is at moving and he is not idle in the midst of a group of people waiting or an individual waiting or a season of waiting.
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The Lord is moving, and so some of that helps out where you take the your own self-reliance of here's what I'm walking through as I'm waiting to understanding who is God while I am waiting.
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And that opens up things.
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Yeah, and I think about like Daniel in the lion's den, you know, like God's moving, but yeah, he's sitting there with lions that at any point could open their mouth, you know, but the Lord shut the mouth.
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The Lord shut it and he's actively waiting.
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And I think about, you know, Sydney, going back to what you're talking about, perseverance, like perseverance.
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I think so many times we forget that perseverance could be very painful.
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Like, I think about this, like when we were talking about waiting, I'm thinking about True is giving me guitar lessons right now.
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And I was laughing because yesterday I was wanted to kill's uh office.
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I said, My hand hurts so bad because my fingers, because he's like looking at me like, what's wrong with you?
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And you know, because that look before you walked in, though.
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But it's just but I love the the imagery there of every time I come, I was showing true it.
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I have calluses on my fingers now because every single time, even it hurts, my body is now adjusting so that I can learn how to, you know, to do this craft.
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And I think many times how many things the Lord is trying to instill in us, sanctification, what you're talking about, Caleb.
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And but it's it's hard, it's painful.
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Like waiting is painful at times.
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It's not always this like happy-go lucky, rainbows everywhere.
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Like sometimes it's hard and sometimes it's painful, and sometimes you don't get what you asked for.
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Yeah.
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And that's hard too.
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And but I think that is where scripture goes back to you just have to trust the heart of God, knowing Romans 8, 28 for all things work together together for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose.
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You know, Genesis 50, 20, for what the enemy meant for harm, you know, the Lord his use for good, you know, Jeremiah 29, 11.
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You know, we always we always quote that verse for I know the plans the Lord has for you, but we always forget the Lord gave that verse, excuse me, that he he uttered that cry to Jeremiah as Israel is about to go into exile.
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They're about to go into something that is waiting and it is painful for 70 years.
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Yeah, we're talking about waiting's painful.
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I mean, you read the verse in Lamentations three.
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Lamentations is a sad book.
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And you have the verse, verse 322.
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It says, The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end.
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They're new every morning.
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Great is your faithfulness, the Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.
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And I mean, that's in the middle of the saddest, one of the saddest books in the Bible, and it's so like filled with hope.
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And I think it's a good picture of what waiting can look like too.
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You know, we talked with Ireland on that one podcast about how grief and joy can exist.
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And I think this is a great picture of that too, of like, you know, waiting is very hard and it can be very sad and like sorrowful, and you can feel discouraged and restless, but then also in the middle of that, like the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.
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And I think like in the same like steadfastness he's pursuing you with, like, pursue him with that too.
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And I don't know, I just think that's interesting how it's right in the middle of that.
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Well n if we're not honest, nobody can help each other, correct?
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Yeah.
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So this next question's got to be honest.
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I it's Detroit.
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Okay.
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Speaking of endurance, waiting steadfast, what on a scale of one to ten, where's Morgan at playing the guitar?
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Okay, okay.
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We're only on lesson four, so just you know, well, we're having to endure and can you not hear her from your office?
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Yes, that's why I'm asking.
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Yeah, I think I think for where, like how far into it we are, for 45 minute sessions, we're at like a seven, probably.
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Oh, that's good.
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Seven out of ten?
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Yeah.
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That's good.
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She's gonna be a bumper.
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Because it's like if you learn four chords, you can play any song in the world.
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And like she's just gotta get those transitions down.
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And maybe this drumming pattern, that okay, let's take it back to like a gracious.
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Because the strumming pattern also is stuff.
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Yeah, that's basically hard, maybe.
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Did you know anything about that when you first started?
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Yeah, my clarinet background.
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Yes.
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She did pick it up fast.
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After this, we're all gonna sit around and get a clarinet, and Morgan's gonna teach us how to pick it up.
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But true it says that we're having Can you see me with a clarinet?
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True it says It'll look like a kazoo on you.
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I don't know what that is, but I agree.
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True it says we're having a student team lead worship for midweek.
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And I was like, okay, well, clearly I'm working by guitar, you're gonna sing a reprint cajon.
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And I he said, Cindy, you're gonna sing.
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I said, that's not happening.
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We need a female harmony.
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Uh yeah.
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Wait, I don't even know what a harmony is.
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Well, I remember back in the day when I was in elementary school, I tried to play the recorder.
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Okay, and I'll be honest with you, my fingers just don't work the way that they're supposed to work.
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And so I only got one sound out of the recorder.
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Right.
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So Well, because Caleb, if y'all didn't know, Caleb has to touch everything with all five fingers.
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So it's true.
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Opening that it's a disease, okay?
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I can't help it.
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Opening the little Lord's Supper things.
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Oh, yeah, then the little Lord's Supper thing.
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When you try to put 10 fingers on the Lord's Supper cup, uh yeah, that is.
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You've gotten us completely off.
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I don't what I don't even know what we're talking about.
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We were talking about, well, we had waiting, yes.
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I had talked about Lamentations, how it is a you were trying to bring it back because I was talking about the saddest book in the Bible.
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Oh yeah.
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And I was thinking, what is the saddest thing I've heard?
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And I was thinking, Morgan talking about it.
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Yeah.
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And saying it was a seven, that is a hot take.
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I'm gonna say we're at like a four.
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I was saying seven based on like how many lessons you've had.
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Overall, it's obviously not a seven, but based on like the chords, it's the progression and then the strumming pattern, that's hard for me.
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I'm not natural like rhythmic.
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Well, that all reminds me back to waiting.
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There we go.
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It is a refining process.
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It is.
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And I would so if anybody is in here or listening to, and they're in a season of waiting, and there's these cliche things you hear all the time, hey, you know, feel you're waiting with worship instead of worry.
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And those things sound good, but when you're in the moment, that really doesn't help.
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And so I think some of the times it's just reflecting on more of don't forget about all these pop quizzes the Lord has given you and walked you through and been faithful through to get you to the a big test, you know, and many times that big test is going to come with waiting.
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And so don't forget who the Lord is and what he is doing.
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And he, you're, you might be waiting.
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He is not idle, he is moving all around you.
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And so I would just highly encourage you to one, know that and also knowing it's just part of the sanctification of the process of sanctifying you.
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It's it's a process of making you more like the Lord.
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I mean, Jesus was never in a hurry, right?
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And so it's it's this process that as a believer, you're gonna have to walk through.
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It's not like, and uh, what what if I have to wait on something?
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He says, No, you will be waiting.
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You will be waiting.
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And so, how to treat that with worship instead of just your own self reliance of what you can do for you.
