How to wait for God's power in your life (Part 2)

Jesus tells his followers to wait for God's power.  The purpose of God's power is to do God's work.  What is God's work for you?  It's the work that you already do.  Unless you are a criminal, and thus not a child of God, the work you are doing is the work He wants for you, according to the apostle Paul. 


Paul said to stay in the situation you were in when you became a believer unless God gives you a way out of that situation.  For example, if you were teacher when you became a believer, you should remain a teacher, but now you should teach in God's power. 


If the Lord no longer wants you to teach, but is calling you to preach, then He will close the door to teaching and open the door for preaching. Until He closes one door in your life and opens another, you should stay where you are in God's power.  Now, where you are, wait for His power before you work. 


This is how to wait for God's power in your life, where you are, right now.


As it is written, "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven."  Every activity has a beginning and end.  Apply this to your imaginary job as a teacher.  Your work day begins; your work day ends


Before you go to work, you have to get up, take a shower, eat breakfast, then drive to work.  Say you work Monday through Friday from 9 to 5.  Say it takes 20 minutes to get to your job and be perfectly on time.  This means you need to leave at 8:40.  Now let's say it takes you 30 minutes to get ready, 15 minutes to shower and put on clothes, and 15 minutes to eat breakfast.  Then you need to begin getting ready by 8:10.  But how much time do you need to sleep to feel fully rested?  Say 8 hours gives you a good night sleep.  So if you went to bed by 11 pm and woke up at 7 am, you'd be fully rested, and you'd have an hour to wait for God's power, with 10 minutes to spare.


If your life fit the schedule above, you'd need to get up in time to wait for God's power, and to know you'd received it.  Jesus and His followers did.  God's power was clearly given to them, and they knew it.  Before they began God's work, they knew they'd received God's power.  How did they know, and how will you know?


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