Waiting on God's Timing (2 Samuel #2)

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David has been waiting to be king for over 12 years. Have you ever waited for something for 12 years? But didn’t get ahead of God, and didn’t get frustrated with God, and didn’t take matters into your own hands when it looked like you should’ve? David has waited over 12 years to be king. He’s patiently endured the obvious opportunities to take matters into his own hands. He’s successfully done nothing when it seemed like something should be done. David has managed himself under peer pressure and the ups and downs of running for his life while serving God.

This is about God’s timing.

Prayer: Lord help me with patience. Not the opportunities to be patient. I’ve had plenty of those. Just patience itself.
Patience is what you have when there are too many witnesses.
Prayer: Lord, give me patience because if you give me strength I’m going to also need bail money.
Have patience. Only weeds grow quickly.

David knew what he was waiting for

David knew he was supposed to be king, but he never rushed.
It starts with a promise from God. The promise answers WHAT you’re waiting for.
If you’re waiting on something the LORD didn’t promise then it’s time to learn to be content. You can pray that the LORD will change things, but the fact that He isn’t changing things shouldn’t affect your attitude.

David knew why to wait

Because God’s timing is the right timing.
Jesus is tempted to worship Satan in Matthew 4 in return for all the kingdoms of the world. Well, Christ will get all the kingdoms of the world eventually, but that wasn’t the right time.
It brings up a point. Usually you have to exchange something valuable for the wrong timing. You have to give up on a moral doctrine; maybe for the sake of a boyfriend that isn’t God’s will. You have to give up something in exchange to get something before it’s time.
Why wait? Because haste and impatience will cause you to lose something.
Warren Buffet said, “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.”
Solomon in Ecclesiastes describes a season as the time it takes to accomplish a purpose
Then Solomon tells you there are 28 seasons and objectives that are accomplished in a fallen world.
Time to be born – 9 months after conception, time to die, when the spirit returns to God and the soul is separated from the body, time to….
Time isn’t the problem, it’s the solution.
Wheat and tares – things are revealed for what they are. Sometimes things look like one thing at an early age, but grow up to be completely different. The thing that proves them is time.
Paul told Timothy to let the younger men be proved first. What’s that? That’s time and seasons doing their work on a young man to reveal strengths and weaknesses.

David knew how to wait

David successfully avoided taking matters into his own hands and dealing with Saul the way he could’ve dealt with him. David could’ve put himself on the throne much earlier, but he waited. He said it wasn’t his place to remove anyone God put in place. That was God’s job.
“Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.”—G. Campbell Morgan
Philippians 4:11-13 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
We often put an expiration date on doing good or serving God. Don’t trade God’s timing for your deadline.
Back to the application of seasons; they determine the tools you use. If you went out and disked during harvest you’d ruin more crops than you’d harvest.
Seasons determine your plans and activities.
- What’s the season now? It’s time to strengthen yourself in the LORD, gird up your loins so to speak and do right in the face of adversity.
- Neglect and indifference about the things of God are growing so now isn’t the time to fail.

Hebrews 10:35-37 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.