How Much Longer, God?

Abraham and Sarah waited a long time for their promised child. Joshua and Caleb waited forty years to enter the promised land. So why does God allow delays to your blessings? Get the answer in this must-hear message by Joseph Prince and be encouraged to know that delays don’t spell the death of your dreams.

•  See how waiting time is not wasted time as the Lord preserves you and imparts to you what you would otherwise not have.
•  Be recharged with renewed hope and a fresh consciousness of His love for you as you continue to look to Him for the manifestation of His promise!

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Dear Lord,
Today…….I am asking all my prayer warriors to say a prayer that may help others. So many people are hurting right now. Many are struggling with finances and need jobs. Some are facing foreclosure and don’t even know how they are going to make it from week to week..

Many are lonely. . Many are heartbroken. . Many are facing sickness and health is fading. . Some are dealing with difficult family members. Many have lost HOPE.. Tonight, let us put our prayers and faith together decree and declare breakthrough over our families. Financial miracles WILL take place. Jobs WILL be found. Our Bodies WILL be made whole & sickness WILL flee. Marriages and relationships WILL be restored. Family members WILL find Jesus. Heartbreaks WILL be healed. JOY WILL be restored and HOPE WILL be found. In Jesus Name. Amen!!!!!! Keep God First…….

Today, I wanna share with you about delay.
Like if you’re asking pastor, I’ve been praying, I’ve been praying for this and I know God wants me to have this.
It’s in His word. You have preached on it, pastor.
But I see it in the word for where is the manifestation? David sometimes says, has God forgotten his mercies?
Why is it so slow? Have you forgotten me?
Well, well, Abraham felt that way too, isn’t it Abraham?
When God called Abraham out of the, which is the present day Babylon area, Iraq.
When God called him out, I’ll show you a land.
God says, and I’ll make of you what a great nation. How can you have a nation without posterity?
Right? So God promised him from that day, God promised him that God will make him a great nation when he didn’t even have a baby.
And Sarah had always been barren even in her young age and now she is 65 at that time and he was 75 when he departed to go to the land of can.
Well, the Lord told him he wasn’t perfect, was he? But God called him?
You know, and think about it.
If you were in Abraham’s shoes, you waited year after year for your manifestation, God Almighty appeared to you.
In fact, Stephen, in his address in acts seven, in the book of acts, he said this, the God of glory.
I like that. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham.
When God appeared, God appeared to Abraham as the God of glory.
I’m sure there was an amazing light effusing out of Him, his being his presence.
When God said I’ll make of you a great nation.
And yet month after month, Sarah would cry, weep become months, months, become years, years become a decade, even a decade pass.
And all these things going on, please.
I’m talking about you and you believe in God and you asking the question, why?
Because you are special because Abraham was special. Abraham was special.
He look around, he look at the Philistines, Philistine’s wife walking around another one, walking with a wheelbarrow, he look around everywhere he went.
Every city he went, he went to Egypt or Egyptian women walking around didn’t carry it, you know, left and right by servants or slaves because they are so pregnant.
Some of them are triplets, quadruplets, sex triplets and they are just so full and these are heathens and, and Abraham saw all this and Abraham says the God of glory appeared to me and it’s not recorded for us how many times Sarah would tell him what’s happening, Abraham.
Are we missing God? No, I wanna tell you something about the devil.
The devil will turn your times of delay. All right, of non manifestation into times of questioning God.
If your faith is such that you say, I know my God, don’t he slay me like job yet?
Will I trust him? Right? If your faith is like that, then he would, he would do the other approach, something wrong with you, then there must be some sin in your life.
There must be something you did maybe in the past.
All right, that is now haunting you that is now affecting this whole thing.
You know, there’s nothing wrong with God, right? There’s something wrong with you.
Something wrong with your wife, something wrong with your parents. You you accused at the drop of a hat.
Every time something happens like this, he would do his very best to make sure you come under condemnation because condemnation is something that will cause you to repeat that behavior.
Is it because of the wrong decisions that the baby was delayed?
No, God was gonna give him a revelation of himself that all the hidden women that walk around pregnant will never know.
I find ladies who are believing God for a baby. Let me tell you this.
I find that in the Bible ladies who are barren when they believe God and some of them long delays before they conceived, they always bring forth champions.
They always bring forth champions. Sarah brought forth Isaac Amen man.
Noah brought forth Samson in their old age. Amen. Zachariah, his wife Elizabeth.
The first two names you find in the New Testament. Zachariah Zakar.
Zakar means, remember God Yahweh remembers Elizabeth. Ali means God’s promise.
God remembers his promise and brought forth grace.
John in their old age, in their old age when the child is born out of faith.
Now most of the rest of them, they just all right. Get together. Boom.
Imagine a Philistine pass by. What do you call up on your God? Pray to your God.
Pray to your God. Huh? How do, how do you think Abraham felt?
Abraham looked on Abraham wondering they are getting manifestations or are they Abraham?
You don’t know, you don’t see their hearts. Yes, they have the physical thing.
But that child is not a champion. Your child will be.
I said your child will be when the child comes. Wow, what a champion?
Amen. You know how long Abraham waited, you know how long Abraham waited until finally Isaac came.
And during this time, you know what he did, he did his best, you know, he listened to his wife, the wife says, looks like God doesn’t want me to bear anymore.
I mean she she she literally said, God has restrained me from bearing.
So when I go to my servant girl, Abraham says, ok, Abraham to the servant girl and then got Ishmail from the servant girl.
After that, you know, Sarah came complaining because now Hagar is proud the maiden girl who got pregnant by her master.
Abraham is proud looking at her mistress saying mhm. All right.
And now Sarah came to Abraham and say it’s your fault. My wrong be on you.
You know, say no, you blame me, you know, and then imagine all the quarrel they went through all the while Abraham is saying, where is your promise?
God, where is your promise? What happened to your promised law?
Are you in that place?
You know how long he waited 24 years, 24 years, 24 years, just waiting for a chance to tell her how I love her and maybe get a second glance.
But now I gotta get used to not living next door to Alice 24 years.
That’s an old song, by the way, you all wouldn’t know this generation. All right, I sound so young.
Praise God anyway, 24 years. That’s how long he waited for all.
But when the boy came, Hallelujah, he was a champ.
And during this time just before the boy came, you know what God did you know the story?
He went down and uh to this place in, in, in uh a Philistine area and the Abby Malek, which is the title of the Philistine king saw Sarah.
And this time Sarah was about 90 years old.
In other words, if God makes you wait God will.
God is a God who restores if God makes you wait, God will keep you young.
If God makes you wait, God would do something to your body that other women do not have.
Because when she was 90 years old, something happened to Sarah’s body.
She was beautiful that even a hidden king and don’t forget, hidden kings go by their eyesight.
They have no spiritual discernment.
So God literally change the physical beauty of Sarah, make her young again a man.
And there was something else that the devil accused them of.
Look, Abraham prayed for what for God to heal Abbi Malek in which area for the Lord had closed up all the wombs of the house of a male.
He is praying for open wombs when his wife is not even pregnant for years.
So the devil will try to make you feel like a hypocrite.
But Devin lies God’s wisdom when you don’t have the manifestation, find somewhere and bless someone else with it.
Pray for someone else, pray for a blessing on someone. See what happened in the next verse. Next chapter.
I put it down there because it’s all one continuous flow.
All right, the next chapter says, and the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as he had spoken.
And why is it that this verse comes right after he prayed for the open wounds.
Pray tell me, why do you think that is so God wants you to know.
Do not stop praying for the sick.
Even when you are sick, do not, do not stop ministering to people.
Even when you don’t have that manifestation, the devil will tell you how can you, you are a hypocrite.
Are you listening people? 24 years. He stopped praying.
I don’t know whether He God used him to pray for anybody else. But it’s amazing.
Maybe he was under accusation. I do not know.
But one thing I do know when he started praying for open wombs, his wife’s womb opened.
Sometimes we are so self absorbed, my healing, my healing, my manifestation, my child manifestation, my, my my family, my family that God wants to break out of that self occupation and start getting involved in praying for other people.
If you are in the clinic, start praying for people that you see around you, pray for that child, pray for that lady.
Pray for that man. Start praying, amen.
And you also you find your own stress level, your your worry level, anxiety level just drops, start praying for others.
And God turned the captivity of job when he prayed for his friends, what the devil want to tell you is that it’s your fault.
Something is happening because of this delay. It’s your fault. No, my friend listen in the old testament even right?
Like Abraham’s story. It wasn’t because of Abraham’s sin. Are you listening?
God waited and Abraham could not. And then when Isaac came, all the glory goes to God.
God waited until Abraham could not.
But the thing is this, there was a lesson when Abraham finally received his manifestation.
Listen, God told Him I’ll multiply your seat as the stars of the heaven and as the sand on the sea shore.
And today when I look, we look around, look, look, look, all this is the seat of Abraham.
Abraham has more seats than all those Egyptian women walking around. Amen.
All the the Philistine women walking around pregnant Abraham. Today we are called sons of Abraham.
Best of all, Abraham started learning about who God is his wonderful person that all these other people never got to know sometimes in the delays of revelation and because He loves you, he delays so that you have a revelation that others don’t have those.
He never knew the revelation that Ibraham hat. Isn’t it wonderful?
Or we can draw near today because of what she or you’ve paid it on this that day to the tidy cross of Jesus arrived.
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Oh, hi.
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