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I'm going to be sharing this morning about waiting.
What do you do while you're waiting?
We Americans are very impatient people.
When you pray, when you ask God for something, there normally is a period of time that transpires from the time you ask for it until you hear from God, and that period of time is called "a time of waiting."
It's waiting on God.
Turn to *Acts 1*, and we're going to look at the disciples of Christ as they wait, but I first want to give you an introduction about waiting.
I want to get some things out of your mind and put some truth in your mind.
*Waiting on God is not delay.
*It has nothing to do with delay.
God is not holding back the answer to what you need.
God has an appointed time and an appointed day for the answer to come, so there is not a delay from the time you pray until the answer comes.
A lot of people have the idea that, when you're waiting on God, it is the absence of movement.
That is not true.
Waiting on God is not becoming a monk and walking around all day with your hands folded.
That is not waiting on God.
Write this down.
*Waiting on God is a time for preparation.
*We are preparing for the answer.
Maybe you're waiting on some member of your family to be saved.
Maybe you're waiting on a healing to come.
Maybe you're waiting on a breakthrough, a deliverance, a promotion.
Maybe you're waiting on some type of gift of the spirit.
I don't know what you're waiting on but, while you're waiting, it's a time for preparation.
In *Lamentations 3:25*, it says, "The Lord is good to those who wait for Him."
He is not only good when the answer comes and you shout, but He is good during the time of waiting.
It's preparation time.
Look at *Acts 1:4*.
Christ has already died, was buried, three days later He was resurrected, and now has been with His disciples for 40 days.
He appeared to 500 at one time in *1 Corinthians 15*.
Five hundred people saw His resurrected body, and the last words Christ said to the church was not "Go into all the world and preach the Gospel."
Those were not His last words.
His last words are found in *Acts 1:4*.
He is getting ready to ascend back to Heaven, and He speaks to His disciples.
"And being assembled together with them."
How many, we do not know, "and He commanded them."
He didn't suggest.
He gave them a commandment.
He gave them orders.
"He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem."
As a matter of fact, in *Luke 24:49*, He says, "Tarry in the city of Jerusalem."
They were not to go to Nazareth, or Capernaum, or Bethlehem.
He said, "Go to Jerusalem and wait for the Promise of the Father."
That means God the Father had made a promise.
"Which you have heard from Me." *Verse 5: *"For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized."
Now, John didn't sprinkle.
If you have been sprinkled, that's your business, but John did not sprinkle.
He submerged them.
You have to get hold of this fact, because John's baptism was giving us the vision of what the baptism of the Holy Spirit would be, and God's spirit does not sprinkle you.
He saturates you.
When you are baptized, you are wet.
"For John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
How many is "many days?"
It could be two.
It could be three.
"Many days" could be years.
He said, "From this point, there is going to be a period of waiting, and then the manifestation will come."
The answer will come.
*Verse 6: *"Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him."
This amazes me.
They changed the subject.
They asked, "Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom?"
The key for the Second Coming is to be ready, and the only way we're going to be ready is to be saved, washed in the blood, and then empowered by His Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is all we have.
If you read the Bible and don't have the Holy Spirit to teach you, you won't know what the Bible means.
He gifts us with spirits that give us the ability to fulfill our divine destinies.
Let me tell you something.
A lot of people are in buildings called churches where nothing is going on because, without God's spirit, nothing is going to happen.
I'm thankful you're in, but let me tell you something.
I don't want to go to a church where there isn't a stir.
I want to go where there is a stir.
I want to go where something is going on.
I want to go to a church where, if I'm sick, somebody will pray for me, and believe.
If I'm in trouble, I want to go to a church where somebody, instead of kicking me and pushing me down, will lift me up.
In *Verse 6*,He is talking about the Holy Spirit, but they want Him to give them signs about when is this going to happen, and when is that going to happen.
I believe it is going to happen, but I believe we need to be ready, and the word "Maranatha" means "the Lord is coming soon."
"Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"
*Verse 7: *"And He said to them, 'It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.'"
*Verse 8: *"But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria [in Germany, in Canada]."
Last Sunday morning, we had people watching by Internet from Canada, Poland, from all over the world.
Jesus says, "When the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you are going to have power to witness."
I have to clear something up.
If you're waiting upon God, you should be waiting upon God for a purpose, a reason.
These disciples were waiting upon God for the purpose of receiving a promise.
If you don't have a promise about what you're waiting on from God, you're wasting your time.
They had a sure word from God, for the promise is from the Father, and the promise, in this case, is the Holy Spirit.
These disciples realized they were not going to make it on their own.
They have been with Christ for 3 ½ years in ministry, but look at Peter.
What does he do when the hour comes?
He denies he knows Christ.
I believe they were saved, because in *Luke* it says, "You are to rejoice because your names are written down in the Lamb's Book of Life," and you can't have your name written there unless you, first of all, have been saved.
So, I believe they're saved, but I believe they realized they had to have more.
They had to have a power source.
You can have the hottest and fastest car in the world, but if you don't have any gas in the tank you're not going to get anywhere.
So, their purpose for waiting upon God was to receive.
Why are you waiting on God?
Well, we're just twiddling our thumbs, and any old thing God wants to give me I sure want to get.
You're not going to get anything.
Church people all the time say to me, Brother Wright, pray for me.
What do you want me to pray for you about?
Well, whatever the Lord wants to give me.
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