What do you do in the space between the promise and the answer?
Every believer knows this space. A prayer that hasn't been answered. A promise God gave that hasn't yet arrived. A season of heaven's apparent silence that stretches longer than seemed reasonable. Most of us were never actually taught how to wait through it ? only to endure it, quietly wondering whether the delay means something has gone wrong.
Wait on the Lord is the companion volume to Seek the Lord, taking the same honest, Scripture-saturated approach and applying it to the discipline every believer eventually has to learn: waiting well, not just waiting long.
Across three parts and fourteen chapters, this book:
Corrects the common misunderstanding that waiting is empty or passive time, using the Hebrew word behind "wait" (qavah) to show it as active, taut, expectant trust (Chs. 1?2)
Distinguishes waiting from doing nothing and from doubting ? using Joseph's years of faithful service and Habakkuk's honest confusion as case studies (Chs. 3?4)
Treats the real difficulty of waiting honestly through Abraham and Sarah's twenty-five-year wait, apparent divine silence, Job's unexplained suffering, and the costly temptation to force an outcome the way Sarah and Saul both did (Chs. 5?8)
Builds a sustainable, practical rhythm for waiting well ? expectant faith, disciplined prayer and fasting, ordinary daily awareness modeled on Anna's decades in the temple, and the corporate waiting of the disciples before Pentecost (Chs. 9?12)
Closes with what waiting actually produces in character, and what it looks like when the wait finally ends (Chs. 13?14)
Every chapter ends with reflection questions, meant to be answered honestly in whatever season of waiting you're currently in.
For any believer currently standing in the space between a promise and its fulfillment.