The document discusses the reasons behind God's delays in answering prayers, emphasizing lessons learned during these waiting periods. It highlights the importance of trust and submission to God's will, encouraging individuals to acknowledge His lordship and to act righteously despite unmet desires. The core messages focus on trusting God, avoiding grumbling, and seizing current opportunities while waiting for divine intervention.

2. Why does God sometimes
delay answering prayers that
seem so urgent to us?
Is it hypocrisy to rejoice in the Lord
even when you feel like grumbling?
Why/why not? How do we rejoice in
Him when we don’t feel like rejoicing?
Should we fake it?

3. “When I’m in a Hurry
And God is NOT…”

5. Lessons that we can Learn from our
Times of Waiting for God’s Delays:
1God uses His delays to teach us
to trust Him more fully
2.And to Submit More Thoroughly
To His Lordship Over Our Lives.

6. 1.God uses His delays to teach us
to trust Him more fully…
A. When God Delays, We Must
Trust Him by Submitting
Our Agendas to Him.

7. B. When God Delays, We Must
Trust Him To Accomplish His Will
Through Us By His Power.

8. C. When God Delays, We Must Trust
In Him NOT IN OUR CIRCUMSTANCES

10. D. When God Delays, We Must Trust
In Him By DOING RIGHT, EVEN IF WE
DO NOT REACH OUR GOALS.

11. 1God uses His delays to teach us
to trust Him more fully
A. When God Delays, We Must Trust Him by SUBMITTING
OUR AGENDAS TO HIM.
B. When God Delays, We Must Trust Him TO ACCOMPLISH
HIS WILL THROUGH US BY HIS POWER.
C. When God Delays, We Must TRUST IN HIM
NOT IN OUR CIRCUMSTANCES
D. When God Delays, We Must Trust In Him By
DOING RIGHT, EVEN IF WE DO NOT REACH OUR GOALS.
Lessons that we can Learn from our
Times of Waiting for God’s Delays:

12. Lessons that we can Learn from our
Times of Waiting for God’s Delays:
1God uses His delays to teach us
to trust Him more fully
2.And to Submit More Thoroughly
To His Lordship Over Our Lives.

13. 2.And to Submit More Thoroughly
To His Lordship Over Our Lives.
A. We Submit to God’s Lordship
By Acknowledging That He is GOD
and We Are Not.

14. B. We Submit to God’s Lordship
By NOT GRUMBLING WHILE WE WAIT.

15. C. We Submit to God’s Lordship By
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF PRESENT
OPPORTUNITIES WHILE WE WAIT ON HIM.

16. 1God uses His delays to teach us
to trust Him more fully
A. When God Delays, We Must Trust Him by SUBMITTING
OUR AGENDAS TO HIM.
B. When God Delays, We Must Trust Him TO ACCOMPLISH
HIS WILL THROUGH US BY HIS POWER.
C. When God Delays, We Must TRUST IN HIM
NOT IN OUR CIRCUMSTANCES
D. When God Delays, We Must Trust In Him By
DOING RIGHT, EVEN IF WE DO NOT REACH OUR GOALS.
Lessons that we can Learn from our
Times of Waiting for God’s Delays:

17. 2. And to Submit More Thoroughly To His
Lordship Over Our Lives.
A. We Submit to God’s Lordship By
ACKNOWLEDGING THAT HE IS GOD
AND WE ARE NOT.
B. We Submit to God’s Lordship
By NOT GRUMBLING WHILE WE WAIT.
C. We Submit to God’s Lordship By
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF
PRESENT OPPORTUNITIES WHILE
WE WAIT ON HIM.

18. “When I’m in a Hurry
And God is NOT…”