Jesus, the Son of God, born of a virgin by the power of the Spirit, couldn't do anything until He received God's power. He had to wait. So do I. So do you.
Jesus' followers, who spent three years with him, seeing Him perform miracles, rise from the dead, and ascend into heaven, couldn't do anything until they received God's power. They had to wait.
So do I. So do you.
If God in the flesh had to wait for God's power before He began God's work, so do I, and so do you.
If Jesus' followers, who only had to tell what they had seen with their own eyes, had to wait for God's power to simply tell what they had seen, so do I, and so do you.
This is how you wait for God's power in your life.
First, waiting implies not only time, but a specific amount of time. It's not indefinite by any means. And if it's specific or definite, then you have to know how long to wait before you do God's work for you. Jesus had to wait until He was 30, which made sense in His day because ministers couldn't begin ministry until they were 30. Jesus' followers were commanded to wait "not many days from now," which ended up being 10 days. Jesus didn't say "10 days from now," but the followers knew that the Jewish festival of Pentecost was exactly 10 days from the day Jesus ascended into heaven. Ten days is "not many days," even for us.
If your boss told you he or she would give you a raise in 10 days, that wouldn't seem like many days. Or if he or she said, "I'll give you a raise not many days from now," you'd expect a raise soon. Within a week, or two at the most. But if your boss wanted you to do a certain job that required a specific amount of money or resources, and told you to wait until you received those resources, you'd have to know what the resources were and you'd have to wait until you received them. But how long? Until the time came for the job to begin.
Keyword: Job.
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