Love in the Making 2019

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Proverbs 365 Ministries

Dee Casper

The Weight of Waiting

Father in heaven, thank you for the privilege to address an important topic.

And I just pray, Lord Jesus, that you would do something in this room right now that will minister to each of us and to those who will hear it afterwards.

God in heaven, do something wonderful now, we pray.

So, first off, shameless plug, I am working with the Pennsylvania Conference and we're starting a school of evangelism with multiple tracks.

So, the first thing is it's 9 months in length.

We're working on a second track during that 9 months that people could come basically in January and go till June 1st with a main emphasis on Bible work.

We have work-study options to make it more affordable, and we think it's going to be a life-transforming experience.

Bible work, canvassing, digital media evangelism, health evangelism, organic agriculture, and you'll spend about 3 to 4 weeks overseas doing mission work.

We're also going to address the topic of mental health.

We see a lot of schools where they're training people to be missionaries, but the problem is if you have lots of skills in ministry, but you can't get out of bed because you're dealing with depression, what good is it?

And so we want to address the topic of mental health, practical Christianity, public speaking, and so forth.

Dwight Nelson, Pavel Goya, James Rafferty, Stephen Grabner, Skip McCarty, Don McIntosh, Randy Sebold, Nathan Renner, Jay Rosario, Israel Ramos, Rico Hill, Paul Conniff, and Chad Bernard and others.

So anyway, Withings is going to be an amazing experience.

You can find more information on our website, paconference.org forward slash core, and there's also postcards right here so you can get access to those and take them with you, and if you'd like to take more back to share with your, you know, collegiate age group or your high school age group at your church, feel free to take more cards with you, no problem, okay.

I'm totally okay with free advertising to places I can't get to.

And Lastly, there's a program that we've developed for 3ABN, some friends and I, for the demographic of the 15 to 30 age range dealing with raw, heavy topics that no 1 wants to talk about publicly.

And so, we established a process where people can ask their questions anonymously and then they can see the answers to their questions anonymously.

It's all on YouTube, on Facebook, just go to RQRA3ABN on Facebook, or just go to 3ABN's YouTube channel and there's a playlist called Raw Questions, Relevant Answers.

We're working on a process of planning for season 3.

They're only 14 minutes in length, and you can share them easily through Facebook and YouTube with people, and it's a great way that you can ask questions and receive answers in total anonymity, so that stuff you may not be comfortable in asking people.

I hope you do have people in your local church you can talk to, family, pastors, and so forth, but if you don't, this is an option, okay?

And so, on this topic, I saw a post earlier this week from someone, he's an amazing singer, his name's Vassa, and Vassa, he posted this on Facebook last week.

He said, I think it's funny when people ask me for relationship advice.

If I knew what I was doing, I wouldn't be sleeping next to my unfolded laundry.

Now, I may be a little more neat than Vassa is.

I put my laundry in my, you know, I can't leave it on the bed to sleep.

Like I got to fold that stuff and put it away.

So we're going to be addressing the topic of singleness, was what I was asked to speak on.

So we'll have 2 messages or 2 presentations.

The first 1 is the weight of waiting, W-E-I-G-H-T, the weight of waiting.

Now, God having his people wait to receive promises from him is not a new idea.

In fact, scripture is filled with situations like this.

Abraham waited 25 years to receive the child that God promised him.

Isaac was nearly 40 when he got married and seemed to just be totally content.

Abraham is the 1 that sends his servant to go look for a girl.

He brings her back and they get married that day.

Isaac said that Jacob, he waited 7 years and 7 days for the girl that he wanted.

But the thing is, I was just informed of this this morning, the guy was nearly 80 years old when he gets married.

Look at the genealogies and look at how long things took.

Joseph waited 14 to 20 years for his promise.

14 to 20 years, that's a decent length of time for something that was an amazing promise from God.

And then the stuff that Joseph goes through for this promise to be fulfilled seems like it's all a waste.

But the amazing thing is, Joseph never would have been the prime minister of Egypt had he not been thrown in prison.

Which tells me that our pain in waiting must be directional.

We feel that when we're waiting nothing's happening, But we're actually on a track.

It's a conveyor belt that's leading us to something important.

I think Shane's hanging out here just because, I mean, he says he's filming, but I think Shane's hanging out because he wants to get these gems for the single guys.

So anyway, having people wait is not something that God is, you know, it's not a rare thing.

And if you're thirsty, take the water of life freely.

In fact, Psalm 105 talks about this and look at the language that they use.

It says, He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

And then listen to this, until the time that his word came to pass, what was it that tested him?

The thing that tested Joseph while he was waiting was the promise God gave him that he was waiting for.

And that's very helpful for me to know that again, my waiting is not a waste.

God is active in our waiting, even when we feel like we're passive.

And we shouldn't be passive in our waiting, and we'll get to that.

The Weight of Waiting

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