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Failure to wait on God

By Dave Henning / August 12, 2016

“Every sin we commit represents a failure to wait on God.”- Dr. Wayne Stiles As Wayne Stiles continues Chapter 4 of Waiting on God, he emphasizes that “waiting on God for satisfaction extends . . . to our entire walk with God.”  Our failure to wait on God for satisfaction often comes because the new […]

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Tough circumstances

By Dave Henning / August 11, 2016

“With very few exceptions, tough circumstances simply reveal the holes in our hearts, not the holes in our lives.”- Dr. Wayne Stiles In Chapter 4 (“Going Backward, Moving Forward”) of Waiting on God, Wayne Stiles asserts that many people use physical or material substitutes as sedatives to a disappointing life not firmly founded on God.  […]

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Addicted to blessings

By Dave Henning / August 10, 2016

“If we find ourselves constantly waiting on God to bring us into another season of blessing, it may be that the initial blessing only came to reveal how addicted to blessings we have become.”- Wayne Stiles As Dr. Wayne Stiles continues Chapter 3 of Waiting on God, he stresses the huge difference between waiting on […]

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Godly solutions

By Dave Henning / August 9, 2016

“Most godly solutions require waiting.”- Dr. Wayne Stiles In Chapter 3 (“Satisfaction on Hold”) of Waiting on God, Dr. Wayne Stiles notes that the pangs we feel in life come from God’s original design.  Along with that need, God also created what we require to satisfy that hunger.  Furthermore, whatever the source of our hunger, […]

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Compulsory journeys

By Dave Henning / August 8, 2016

“Like Joseph, we find ourselves taken on compulsory journeys by God.”- Dr. Wayne Stiles “Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought Him from the Ishmaelites who had had brought him down there.  The Lord was with Joseph . . […]

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How long, O Lord?

By Dave Henning / August 7, 2016

“How long, O Lord?  Will you forget me forever?”- Psalm 13:1 Dr. Wayne Stiles continues Chapter 2 of Waiting on God by noting that the psalmist’s question sounds almost heretical- except it came from King David.  Furthermore, Dr. Stiles stresses, “this is how David felt, but it isn’t what he believed.” We often feel this […]

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Stabbing disappointment

By Dave Henning / August 6, 2016

” . . . the hardest part of dealing with any stabbing disappointment in life isn’t the pain itself as much as it is the spiritual confusion.”- Wayne Stiles As Dr. Wayne Stiles continues Chapter 2 of Waiting on God, he observes that, between Joseph’s brothers and Jacob, there was a lot of refusing going […]

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Love him supremely

By Dave Henning / August 5, 2016

“We will not wait on God if we don’t love him supremely.”- Wayne Stiles Dr. Wayne Stiles begins Chapter 2 (“When Dreams Turn into Nightmares”) of Waiting on God by noting Joseph’s brothers learned from their parents that “when life gets tough, you take matters into your own hands.”  In contrast, when Jacob dispatched Joseph […]

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Anger: Taming a Powerful Emotion

By Dave Henning / August 4, 2016

Anger: Taming a Powerful Emotion( Moody Publishers, 2015) Anger: Taming a Powerful Emotion by Dr. Gary Chapman is a revised edition of The Other Side of Love, originally published in 1999.  To effectively and positively process anger, we must understand both the origin and purpose of anger.  Bringing anger under the lordship of Jesus helps heal […]

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Hope while we wait

By Dave Henning / August 3, 2016

“God selected events to give us hope while we wait.”- Wayne Stiles “Whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”- Romans 15:4 As Dr. Wayne Stiles continues Chapter 1 of Waiting on God, he notes that we try […]

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Lost in the weeds

By Dave Henning / August 2, 2016

“With too many [biblical] details, we’d get lost in the weeds.  We would see so much truth that we’d understand little of it.  That’s why the Spirit of God selected only certain events to record in the Bible.”- Dr. Wayne Stiles “There are also many other things . . . which if they were written […]

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Step by step

By Dave Henning / August 1, 2016

“And step by step You lead me, and I will follow You all of my days.”- Rich Mullins “The heart of a man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.”- Proverbs 16:9 “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”- Martin Luther King, Jr. On our recent […]

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