Waiting on an event vs. Waiting on the Lord

Well, we are down to basically 8 days till we board the plane to Taiwan! Wow! I still can't believe that it is finally here!

I wanted to share with you something that really impacted me this morning in my Tuesday morning women's Bible study. We are doing Beth Moore's study on Esther this semester. The topic of today's video was timing and waiting, and Beth said something that struck me as very profound. She talked about the verse in Isaiah 40:31 that says that "they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength". She went on to say that when we wait on an event, that so often it drains us of our strength but when we wait instead on God, it is then that we are renewed and strengthened. How many times have I sat and thought about when such and such happens? What a waste of energy, when I could have been waiting on the Lord and getting all the amazing things He had for me in the season of waiting!

My prayer is this.....

I've been waiting for this trip for a long time, and now more than ever I just want to wait on the Lord. Pray that all the "detail" stuff gets done, but not at the expense of what God has to teach me this last week. Pray that my ears and heart are open to what He has to tell me and to what He would have me share with the ladies in Taiwan. Pray that I, as well as all the women I'm traveling with, can set aside all those things that would zap our strength.

Just 8 more days! I'm so excited to see what God has planned!