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When I pray and pray and see nothing happening, I can get so frustrated. “Move, God, move!”<\/em>\u00a0…I’ve known Him for years, and I still long for progress reports from His side. It’s not that I want –\u00a0Poof, you get your wish,<\/em>\u00a0But I so desire acknowledgment. Still, God makes me wait.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marinate – “to soak, soften, cleanse, and extract some elements.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marinating is about adding flavor, soaking to bring out the best in a tough piece of meat<\/em>. As I wonder why He makes me wait… I see that using time, the time in between<\/em>, softens up any hardness of heart. Walk with Me by faith, child, NOT by sight.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Waiting isn’t pointless. It’s not even that God needs more time to work out the details. I assume more than any other sin God wants to extract pride<\/strong> from me:\u00a0I know best,\u00a0<\/em>I can figure this out. I can do it my way. Surely, if I were God, I would… <\/i>Ugh.The waiting has a purpose.\u00a0<\/i>I’m the one who is changing, softening, being purified and flavored with good things.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0LORD, as You make me wait on You to move, have Your way. Take my pride and leave me soft. \u00a0Use this time for Your Glory as I soak in more of all that You are.<\/em><\/p>\n

“My soul, wait only upon God and silently submit to Him; For my hope and expectation are from Him.”<\/strong><\/em> Psalm 62:5\u00a0<\/p>\n

ForGlorySake!<\/strong> –Anna<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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When I pray and pray and see nothing happening, I can get so frustrated. “Move, God, move!”\u00a0…I’ve known Him for years, and I still long for progress reports from His side. It’s not that I want –\u00a0Poof, you get your … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1420,8,9],"tags":[67,280,597,624,1640,870],"class_list":["post-2173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotional","category-practical-life","category-spiritual-growth","tag-being-changed","tag-frustration","tag-patience","tag-prayer","tag-psalm-625","tag-waiting-on-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paUt4s-z3","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5654,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions\/5654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forglorysake.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}