Baxter & Waiting upon the Lord

Drainage tubes and their sutures removed today. I couldn't believe the gouges the tubes left & to remain open. Back to waiting for these secondary wounds to heal & still more time for his big wound to heal before those stitches come out. I don't know what to do for him. He is bored-confined and bored.

When you do not know what to do-wait.

I.Watching is needed to wait on the Lord?

A. Patience. -Heb 10:35 (KJV) Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

B. Keep praying. 1 Th 5:17 (KJV) Pray without ceasing.

C. Keep believing. Mark 9:23 (KJV) Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

D. Keep knocking. Matt. 7:7 Ask, and it shall begiven you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 8For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

E. The trouble with nearly everybody who
prays is that he says "Amen" and runs away before God has a chance to reply.
Listening to God is far more important than giving him your ideas. -
Frank C. Laubach

II. We must mount up and rise up. -Eph 2:6
(KJV) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

A. Our position is in, with and sitting in heavenly places with Him. He is our lawyer, advocate
and intercessor in heaven for us.

B. Everything is under His feet and we are sitting with Him, everything then is under our feet.

C. Simply wait on him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and
rewarded.

III. We must keep running and we will not be weary.
-Hebrews 12:1-2 (KJV) 1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about
with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin
which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set
before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for
the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is
set down at the right hand of the throne of
God.

A. We must run the race and looking to Him keeps us going.
-1 Cor 9:24 (KJV) Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but
one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. -1 Cor 9:26 (KJV) I
therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the
air: -Gal 2:2 (KJV) And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto
them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which
were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.
-Phil 2:16 (KJV) Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day
of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. -2 Tim
4:7 (KJV) I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the
faith:

IV. Walk not faint.

A. We can only do this by walking in faith, which is walking in His Word. -2 Corinthians 5:7 (KJV) (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)Second only to suffering, waiting may be the
greatest teacher and trainer in godliness, maturity, and genuine spirituality most of us ever encounter.