“The taproot of life- our relationship with Jesus Christ- remains the silent, unseen, and yet essential source of what makes life really matter.”- Dr. Wayne Stiles As Dr. Stiles continues Chapter 5 of Waiting on God, he observes that no one likes to be forgotten. That’s because we feel being forgotten underscores our irrelevance. As […]
“God’s goal for leading us, it seems, isn’t to take us somewhere as much as it is for us to follow.”- Dr. Wayne Stiles In Chapter 5 of Waiting on God, Wayne Stiles observes that on occasion our walk with God feels like we’re the butt of some juvenile prank. God points the direction. Then, […]
“The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time.”- Psalm 145:15 Wayne Stiles concludes Chapter 4 of Waiting on God by noting that when the apostle Paul penned, “Love is patient,” he literally wrote, “Love is being patient.” The original Greek word defines patience as a continual […]
“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 […]
“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. […]
“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 […]
“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, […]
“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 . . […]
“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 […]
” . . . 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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]