{"id":1285,"date":"2025-09-09T21:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2025-09-09T21:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T21:19:10","slug":"gods-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGod\u2019s Waiting\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><sup>\u201c<\/sup><\/strong>Be silent\u00a0before the Sovereign\u00a0Lord, for the day of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is near.\u201d Zephaniah 1:7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last weekend, I attended a two-day silent retreat at Mater Dolorosa Monastery in Pasadena California. The theme of the retreat was \u201cTrusting In The God Who Waits For You\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Initially, I was moved by the thought that God was actually waiting for me to experience Him face to face. I used to think that I was always waiting on God to fulfill my needs\/wants. Instead, it\u2019s God who is always waiting for me to fulfill His needs\/wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the weekend progressed, I understood that God is waiting for me to fulfill His purpose here first. In an attempt to fulfill His purpose for my life, I realize that all I ever really need is Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do I trust in the God who waits for me? Am I excited to meet Him? Am I still making Him wait for me to fulfill my purpose here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cBe silent\u00a0before the Sovereign\u00a0Lord, for the day of the\u00a0Lord\u00a0is near.\u201d Zephaniah 1:7 Applying God\u2019s Word Last weekend, I attended a two-day silent retreat at Mater Dolorosa Monastery in Pasadena California. The theme of the retreat was \u201cTrusting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=1285\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-of-the-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}