Have you ever seen a vision, one that when you open your eyes, the vision is as real as the day?
Do you believe in visions from God?
Do I believe enough to wait upon God’s timing for the vision to transpire?
Do we trust God—-Enough?
Do we believe that God can speak?
Do we believe that God can speak—in whatever platform, whatever place and time He chooses to speak?
Do we believe that God knows best as He hears our prayers, as He listens to our cries?
Do we believe that God knows best—ALWAYS—as we then await His answer to our prayers at His appropriate timing?

We should.
We should remember that 1,000 days is as 1 day to our LORD.   So, whenever His answer comes in what seems to us to be a slow reply, we are to remember how God is always just on time—His Time.
As I prayed this morning, I read my prayers circled on my paper and was reminded of Sydney’s vision.
The one she saw with clarity on February 22.
The one that will come someday, and when the vision is revealed, it will be an answer to one of my prayers.
Do we believe God provides visions?  Do we believe and trust God as He keeps our faith strong and leads us to live thankful lives of service (because we know from God’s vision) remembering God has heard our prayers.  Do we believe, knowing He will answer—-just as God always answers prayers?!!!
Visions from God are given as an assurance, as a hope, and as a promise.  Yet, can people live in a way as to affect future days, so much so that they alter the course God has for their lives?

SURE THEY CAN!!!
SURE WE CAN!!!

So, we must receive God’s vision, the promises from God with faith, thanking God for His assurances, for His answers, and for the love and care He provides.

Do not believe me but believe God’s Holy Word as it is written to encourage us.

In the Old Testament, the prophet Habakkuk believed God.  The prophet trusted God to work through him as he lived and lead others to see and come to know God’s Salvation.
Oh that we would remain strong like Habakkuk to wait upon the Lord’s timing.
Oh that we would trust God to work through us as God leads others to see and come to know Him through our words, our actions, and our witness of how God has changed our lives.

Prayer has many purposes.  One such purpose is to remind us of our dependence upon our LORD. 
Prayer is to remind us that no prayer is too small to bring to our LORD. 
Prayer is to remind us that us that no prayer is too big for our LORD. 
Prayer is to remind us that God’s timing is eternal and not bound by calendars and days lived or even by the death of the one praying, for God will reveal His answers to our prayers even as we reside in heaven after our death.

Imagine what a day that will be when we see our prayers’ answers, even there, in our heavenly home!!!!

• Let us receive the visions from God and let us write down the visions God provides so we do not forget the promises of God.
• Let us remain faithful to God, as we lift (each day) our concerns, our requests, and our needs to Him, and let us not waver in doubt.
• Let us run the race God has given us, straining for the ultimate prize—-a life lived for God, one where we keep our eyes fixed upon God, fully trusting Him as He leads us to do His will throughout our every day.
  
  “Then the LORD answered me and said [spoke to Habakkuk],
  “Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run.
  For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it hastens toward the goal and it will not fail.
  Though it tarries, wait for it,
  For it will certainly come, it will not delay.”

Sometimes God waits to answer our prayers—Because—
We are not prepared, not ready to receive His answer.
We have unresolved sin within our lives.
We are asking the wrong question, maybe one asked out of our own selfishness. 
We are not where we need to be within God’s will.
We are anxious and not waiting patiently upon God’s timing.

Never fear in the wait; God answers our prayers.
Never lose faith; God’s timing is always perfect.
Never worry and give up trusting God; pray about everything. 

“He said to them [Jesus spoke to them],
“It is not for you to know the times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority; but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest [the uttermost] part of the earth.”

(Acts 1:7)

There is a beautiful melody about waiting for God, sung by Mumford & Sons title “I Will Wait.” If today provides you space to listen, then I hope you will listen. I provided the YouTube link for the video below (the one with lyrics).

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=_qypbnyg4p8&feature=share

Let us Praise God & Remember—

God sees the big picture; we do not see with such clarity. 
God desires that we trust Him even when the timing seems slow by our earthly calendar.
God wants us to remain faithful and to believe and to share the gospel and to study His Word-–as we wait; God will sanctify us during our time of waiting as He develops something powerful in our lives.
May we pray with all our might, and may we trust God to do the rest—–What Only Almighty God Can Do!!!