MESSAGE - 8/17-18/2019
HABAKKUK  “I Will Wait For God"
Habakkuk 2
 
THEME:  Wait for God in the dark times of life.
 
INTRODUCTION: 

1. Psalm 37:7  Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!  
   
2. 2 Peter 3:8-9   But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

 
I.   WHEN I HURT I WILL                               FOR GOD.

1. v. 1  I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.  Sometimes God needs to tell us what we                          want to hear.
   
2. 2 Corinthians 12:9  Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me.
   But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

 
II.  WHEN I HURT I WILL                         TO GOD.

1. v. 2  And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.
   Don’t let Satan take your              off God.
   
2. Acts 16:25  About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them…

 
III. WHEN I HURT I WILL                                 FOR GOD.

1. v. 3  For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
   God’s                                   are not God’s                               .
   
2. v. 4b  …but the righteous shall live by his faith.
   v. 20   But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.

 
CONCLUSION:  Luke 15:24  ‘For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.’ And they began to celebrate. 
 
WORDS:  come, delays, denials, don’t, focus, listen, wait.