Some of us are waiting...you are waiting for your moment of greatness to appear, your opportunity to arrive, your season to materialize.  Some are waiting for someone to love...or for someone to fall in love with us...for the one that God has for us.  Perhaps there is a Ruth listening that is waiting for Boaz to look your way...or maybe you are an Esther waiting for an appointment with the King.

One of the reasons we keep waiting is the joy we expect to receive when the thing you are anticipating arrives……but you can have joy today.

 Galatians 6:9 “Let us not be weary in well doing…in due season we shall reap, if we faint not…”

 There are things you can do to keep from fainting as you wait…

  John 5 tells of the lame man who sat at the pool of Bethesda for 38 years…Jesus same by and the man tells Him his story…everytime I go to get in the water someone steps in front of me…then Jesus says in John 5:8 “…arise, take up your bed and walk…”

 In other words, “what you are wanting is not in the pool, what you are wanting is where you are!”   So, WHERE ARE YOU?

The bible tells the story of Ruth…her husband dies and her mother-in-law is very bitter because she also lost her husband and 2 sons.  So, all that’s left is Naomi and the 2 daugthers-in-law.  One named Ruth and the other named Orpah.  Naomi tells them to go back home and Orpah left but Ruth wouldn’t go.  Ruth knows something good is coming her way and Ruth begins to look within her inner circle for someone that needs her. And she sees her mother-in-law and says, “Wherever you go I’m going…”

…so, here’s the first thing you do while you’re waiting…

1.   Inventory what and who you have
Something in your present is the key to something in your future…Moses what’s in your hand? Ex. 4

"Jesus the people are hungry and if we send them away they will faint…Jesus said , What do you have?  Well there is a lad here with 2 fish and five loaves of bread.  Bring it to me.” John 6

 Ruth made a decision to sow into her present while she waited for her future…next thing you know Ruth is married to Boaz and they produce Obed, who produces David, that leads to the lineage of Jesus…and if you read the book of Ruth closely will see that Ruth came into her blessing and promotion because of her connection to Naomi…

 In Genesis 39 we read the familiar story of Joseph who had a dream of everything opposite of what he was presently experiencing…his home life was awful, his brothers hated him and was jealous of the relationship he had with their dad…but he had a dream that he was a ruler and everyone loved him and bowed down to him…He was sold by his brothers for around $13 to a traveling band of Ishmaelites and now he is a slave.

 I believe that Joseph began to carry himself like a ruler…here’s why I believe that because Gen. 39 says that a general pf Pharoh’s army named Potiphar saw something on Joseph.  He saw that Joseph was different, he carried himself different, he saw God’s favor on his life

2. Joseph began to act like the future he saw
A young preach friend of mine left Bible school and came to me and said, “Mike, what should I do…no body wants to have me to preach for them…I’m not getting any bookings.”  I said…Print you some business cards, put on your best suit and sharpest tie, comb your hair and shine your shoes, go into conferences and hand out your business cards to every pastor you can find and tell them, “I’m an evangelist”. Start acting like the person you want to be.

 Start developing the aura, the charisma, the standard, the posture, and even the vocabulary for the future you are wanting to enter…Even though Joseph was accused and lied on by Potiphar’s wife he didn’t feed into that accusation…while he was waiting for his f