Christians do you believe in God's perfect timing for situations?

Question

Do you wait on God or do you try to rush a head of him? Give examples. I have found for the most part people have told me how to do things in the church but I still stood still and waited on God's perfect timing because I believed that is how my prayers got answered. What about you?

Please give more then short phrases. Give your testamony on how things have worked out for you by waiting on God.

Answer 1

here is my testimony:
i was applying for disability. i had been turned down twice already and the next step was an appeal before a disability judge. i prayed about it and asked GOD to give me HIS answer through the judge...did HE want me to be on disability or was i doing this on my own. everyone told me i couldnt stop with the hearing, that the judge would also deny me and i would most likely be denied at least twice more before i was accepted...thats just the way it is when trying for disability. i told them no, i was stopping at the hearing. if the judge denied me then that was GOD answer to me. otherwise the answer would be yes. they all shook their heads at me in pity. but...i went to the hearing...without a lawyer (when the judge asked me, i told him that i didnt need a lawyer as i felt we were all adults and didnt need a lawyer to mess things up, and i had GOD with me anyway so i didnt need one.)...not very long afterwards i received a letter telling me my application had been approved.
this is just one example of too many times to count. everything i do is done with GOD at the wheel. when i mess up and take the wheel, i can see the difference right away, and return control to HIM.
i hear people say all the time that GOD helps those who help themselves...but i have searched the bible time and again and i cant find that anywhere in there...what i do find is GOD telling us to lean on HIM, give HIM our burdens, depend completely on HIM for every detail of our lives...

Answer 2

God might help a concern, yet it particularly is geared up that we ask Him too. Our unfastened-will is ours. What happens: does. If we particularly choose for help, we pray. If we choose for help in different much less-pressing yet severe subject concerns: we pray. As a Catholic, i will oftentimes ask different living human beings to desire for me, as properly as Saints and Jesus' mom up there in Heaven. even although, on the top of the day . . . prayer can and often does help, yet some issues are the way they're. Prayer would not provide you a triumphing lottery value ticket each and every time. What I mean is that whilst we've unfastened will, sometimes our very own movements reason us to pass by using issues we on no account predicted. it would take us years to "very own" how we've been given there. And if we don't get caught up in recommendations like "our prayers have been on no account responded!" yet quite comprehend "oh guy, i grow to be being a dumb-***!" then we comprehend why God has stayed out of our dumb-*** lives. I mean heavily, what do you elect for from Him? A God? Or a babysitter?

Answer 3

God DOES have perfect timing! :o) I just am so clueless if He has any specific instructions for me. I have asked Him that if there is any certain thing I should do or direction I should go, He'll need to smack me on my head with it, because I just can't seem to pick up any signal He might be sending down! So in the meantime, I try to keep my ears open for opportunities for me to glorify Him. You know, I realize this doesn't really address your question, but in a way it pertains. I know He wouldn't disapprove of me doing various Christ-like things, so I won't wait if there is an opportunity to do them. But it's been a while (thankfully) that I've had to go before our Lord and petition Him for something important. My life has been uneventful, in my opinion, for a while.

Answer 4

Waiting on God, is different then in being lazy. I know so many people who use the phrase "I'm waiting on God" Just to NOT do the work. If you are able to do the work, and have the area to do it, DO IT. Don't wait.

You can wait so long that the door closes. I recently went to work in Israel for 6 months. I had a wild shot opportunity, I applied, I got accepted and I went right then. I know people who have prayed for 25 years to go to Israel and just tour the holy land. Many of them say how much better it was for waiting but, all I could think of was, "why didn't you buy a ticket 24 years ago? Wouldn't it have been better if you could have gone every 3 years and shown your family the land, instead of waiting until you're old and grey?"

Don't miss opportunities that God is giving you.

Also in Churches, (Not saying your church, but many others), the leaders will try to keep you under "Their Perfect Authority" in not letting you go out on the street to pray for people, or anything that might threaten "Their Leadership". You can be under their leadership, and their authority, and still do the works of God.

God told us to go out, heal the sick, raise the dead, and set the captives free. The devil came to steal kill and destroy (John 10;10-11), So if you see anybody hurt, anybody dieing, something that isn't godly in their life and they want help, that is your spot to do it. Whether you preach to 1000's, or you work in an office building. Help people, Love people.

God doesn't 'time' shootings and bombings. He is a violent God though. But he gave US the authority to stop them, and keep them from happening. He loved us enough to tell us to do it, now he wants us to do it. He isn't going to go against his word and not let us do it, so he's waiting to see what WE will do. Wait on God to build a relationship with Him. Wait on God daily to recognise his voice. If you do that daily, you'll know instantly when you step out of line. Christianity is not for the passive or the weak.

Answer 5

You know, I am an Atheist....

but i am a bit of slacker, and don't try and rush to do things either....awkwardly enough, things always seem to work out really well for me.

I think maybe it has to do with the fact that if we are not rushing into things we have more time to think about it, and make a more educated decision.

oh...and i definitely think only dumb people say things like "everything happens for a reson..." or "god has a plan for all of us."

But my (apparent) luck is the one thing that makes me wonder if there MIGHT be any such thing as a god that is looking out for me.

Answer 6

Yes. PRAISE THE LORD!!! There were times when I was in a hurry for God's answer. But, I think as a maturing Believer, I learned to let the LORD take the lead. HE has always answered my prayers. Even when it wasn't the answer I wanted. I thank him for his wisdom. He is such a Gracious God.

Answer 7

I most certainly believe in God's timing! Although...I don't stand around and wait...I work hard to involve myself in good situations although sometimes bad things happen...but there's always a reason. Once we have the benefit of hindsight we realize that- but at the time these things happen we usually wonder why?..

Answer 8

In the catholic church you are free to move out anytime you like even for a glance only.. That is how lousy is your church. No discipline among members
jtm

Answer 9

I often try to rush in. God is training me to do better, though. Work in progress I guess.

Answer 10

God timed the VA tech attack perfectly didnt he. he also timed all of the people starving in the 3rd world perfectly. God didnt time jeus perfectly otherwise he would have worked. God will time the next war perfectly aswell.
Im a christian.