Week of June 5

Waiting on God

Sowing our Prayer… Reaping the Spirit

Friend, it is a wonderful thing to witness the power of God as it reaches to the heart and demonstrates to the soul the pure way to life.  Surely the person who partakes of this power will be favored by the Lord.  Therefore, we ought to wait diligently for the leadings of the Holy Spirit in everything we do.  Thus we will be able to travel through all that is contrary to God and into the things that are of God…

O Friend, do you not have a sense of the way to the Father?  Then you must press your spirit to bow daily before God and wait for the breathings to you from his Spirit.  Pray that he will continue his mercy to you and make his way more and more clear before you every day.  Yes, and also pray that he will give you strength in all the trials which may come your way.  By his secret working in your spirit, giving you assistance from time to time, you will advance nearer and nearer towards the kingdom. 

- Isaac Pennington, Letters on Spiritual Virtues

Monday	Read and Reflect on Acts 1:1-11
Tuesday	Read and Reflect on Acts 1:12-26
Wednesday	Read and Reflect on Luke 24:45-53
Thursday	Read and Reflect on Psalm 33:18-22
Friday	Read and Reflect on Isaiah 64:1-5
Saturday	Read and Reflect on Isaiah 26:8-9

Each day, read and re-read the quote above and the scripture for the day.  Then, after reading these, ask yourself:

What does waiting look like?

What do the Biblical characters do while waiting?

What are we told to do while waiting?

What are the characteristics of waiting people?

Finally, write what you discovered on the back of this sheet of paper and ask yourself, “Am I waiting on the Spirit like the Bible describes waiting?”