Sis. Kim Haney- God Has a Waiting Room

Wow what do you say after all of that that was really nice thank you Pastor you can be seated this morning and I want to thank brother Suleiman for helping me out this morning and the choir that they sing my favorite song Lord your holy and that was a real special song I'm just real thankful for that you know this morning before I get started I want to let you know that I do honor with the highest esteem this pulpit and it's a very very high honor that they would even ask me to come speak to you today but I want to talk to the ladies very briefly about our upcoming ladies advance retreat and if brother Tim could go ahead and put the slide on ladies this is going I know I say this every year but I say it again it's going to be a very very special time three days and we're so blessed to have dr. Gerald Jeffers come to be our speaker he is as highly sought after evangelist and we are very blessed that he was able to fit us in his schedule and I know God has something so special for those who come I urge every single woman do whatever you can to be there it's going to be held at the Doubletree Hotel in Sacramento this year and um in a church this size we have many many single mothers and the ladies advance staff we watch each year how these mothers they struggle and they try to scrape together they save and they tediously budget to be able to come up with the registration fees for the ladies advance and I you know we try to help them as much as we can but we still have costs that are involved and I want to put forth a call today to the mothers of this church I want to ask you and I'm going to do this I'm not asking you to do something that I'm not going to do personally we have special gift certificates and I want to ask you if you would support a single mom so that she would be able to go to ladies advance this year you can do partial payment you can do half you could do full registration whatever you are able to do but this is the best way you could bless another mother it's the greatest gift that you could give her so I urge you to see the ladies advance booth after service today right back here in the main lobby sister hot and we'll be able to help you with that and thank you the ladies advance well happy Mother's Day to all you mothers and I know brother Lopez did this earlier but I'm going to ask if you're a mother or a grandmother in this place won't ask you to stand you are a mother or a grandmother or great-grandmother or great-great-grandmother stand up can we just give them a round of applause whoa you're awesome mothers you are awesome we honor you today we honor you God honors you you are awesome thank you you can be seated someone once said a very profound statement that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world and it's the truth and I I'm just afraid that we don't have very many hands willing to rock the cradle anymore and I'm not going to go there but mothers don't ever be fooled or deceived to think that you have no influence in the life of your children and your teenagers because they will make you think that you don't I have one and almost two you have the greatest influence in the life of your children the greatest and fulfilling God's divine plan for you when you have a baby God's will for you begins with your children that's God's plan for your life that's number one and few fulfill God's divine plan in your life no matter how unappealing it looks to the world or how and as Allah it may seem in the eyes of other people you will be a woman who will be not only blessed by children that follow in your footsteps but also a woman who has purpose in her life a woman who has peace within herself because she's fulfilling her purpose in life and I'm not going to go there either because that's a whole nother subject but anyways as most of you know the last four or five months this Haney family has walked down a path that we have never before walked down with my husband has been going through several extensive surgeries and if you have ever lived with anybody who has battled a sickness or a disease you'll understand when I say that the entire family goes through it you carry the load it's not just that person but the family understands what it's like to walk down this path and through all of this I can honestly say that I have felt the gentle hand of God lift me to a place that I have never been in him and I thank God for this time I've never experienced what I have experienced these last few months and I know this may sound crazy but you know we've moved during all this time and my kids have been sick through the winter you know with just cold and I've never been tired I never got even a cold this winter I mean God has that's what God does for you he lifts you above your circumstances sometimes but um whenever he was going through all this my husband it took a lot of our time in the waiting room and I'll be honest with you I hate waiting rooms haha I heard a name and I cannot stand waiting rooms I am probably a very impatient person um but these waiting rooms just about drove me nuts and you know I didn't want to complain to him because he was going through all this but Oh every time I knew it was going to be a long way you ask any of my friends might thank my kids they know this about me I don't even like to shop with other women because I might have to wait on them that's I just can't stand away and I've got a program and a plan and I just want to get get it done so here I am in this surgery waiting room and he's in there and I'm out there and I mean it has been hours does anybody here know what I mean hours and I'm sitting there in this surgery waiting room and I have written about 20 thank-you notes I've talked the lag off of the man next to me until he fell asleep I have walked the halls I have called the nurse's station probably more times than what they wanted me to I just I was going nuts there in that waiting room but I knew I wasn't going to go anywhere I was going to stay right there because I knew that someday soon or some moment soon that nurse was going to come around the corner and call my name and say well you can come you know visit your husband so I sat there and and finally finally they came and mrs. Hainey you know your husband's in recovery and so I was getting all my stuff together and walking down that really long hall and you know if you've ever been here you're a little bit nervous about what you're going to see and so she you know opens the door and they're real busy in this recovery room and in my mind you know I'm kind of nervous about what he's going to look like and you know or what did--what I'm going to see and so I you know when you walk in there's just curtain bed curtain bed curtain bed all the way around this room and you first walk in and it's all these people are kind of blue and they're kind of puffy if anyone has ever been in there so you know that kind of freaked me out a little bit at first so she's like oh he's right over there you know they're just scurrying around he's right over there and the third on the third left-hand side of the bed the bed on the left-hand side so you know I'm kind of creeping around the curtain and um and I look and if you knew what I saw I just was like oh in my heart she didn't know it she accidentally led me to the wrong man and there was an 80 year old man in that bed I thought Lord I'm married to Abraham the patriarch what happened to him so I'm just kind of stare and I didn't know what to say and I think that they saw me stand-in there and I knew I when I got to look and I was like that's not him we thought sure open up so the nurse is like oh no honey he's right over there that's where so I walk over there and you know and he's all drugged and everything I don't even know if he knows that I was there but I knew I was there I knew that I could say I was there when he needed me the most and you know what's amazing is you forget about the wait I forgot about that waiting room I forgot about the hours that I was driving myself crazy cuz I was there with my precious husband when he needed me and I knew it wouldn't last forever and this morning if you will allow me to share with you on it for me it's a very personal and an intimate level understanding that God has given me in the waiting room and I'm not talking about the surgery waiting room I'm not talking about the doctor's office I'm talking about a waiting room that is not of this world God's waiting room did you know God has a waiting room and I think I need to repeat that for someone here God has a waiting room God has a waiting room and you know some of you are here this morning and you've wondered why your prayers have not been answered the way you think they should have some of you are ready to throw in the towel of faith some of you mom some of you dads that are here because the wait has been so long you're wondering God are you even here in my prayers do this prayer even work I feel like somebody here this morning has thought that this week is prayer really worth it because God has allowed you to take a seat in his waiting room you are not out of the will of God when you're sitting in the waiting room God has you sitting right here because he's ready to give you something that's greater than your prayer being answered he's getting ready to infuse inside of you a greater treasure than you getting your prayer answered or your healing or your miracle I'm not saying it's not going to come it will come it will come but I want to talk to you about the masters waiting room this more I want somebody to know here today that there's gold in the waiting room there's gold there's treasure in the waiting room sometimes we get our sights so set on getting what we're after forgot from God and he's saying no no no I've got something better for you sit in the waiting room and we're so blinded and and so focused on my miracle my answer that we blindly walk by the greater treasures that he's trying to put inside of us and give to us and I stand before you this morning a changed person I am a different person today than I was last year when I stood before behind this pulpit not because I got my miracle I'm thankful but because God allowed me to sit in the waiting room that's what has changed me that's what has changed me and I'm going to ask you to pardon my personal reference throughout this message I usually do not try to do that and I don't like to do that but I felt the Lord encouraged me to share with you some personal things this morning and let me tell you it's not because I am somebody and I don't want anyone in here to think that it's not because I think of myself as spiritual or as you know a great prayer warrior anything like that I honestly this I'm not telling you because of that you see me as your pastor's wife you see me sitting over there in my little corner and you you know you see me smiling unless you see me getting on my kids you know you a lot of you think that our life is really great and grand and and all that but you see God saw a little over a year ago this woman right here I was at the end of my rope this was less no not last summer the summer before last I'm telling you I was so bitter with my situation in life I was so filled with frustration I was angry at everyone around me you didn't know that God knew that and one day I remember and I'm kind of embarrassed to even share this with you but I feel that this might help someone I remember I was in the house and a situation came up and I can't even remember what it is and you know how the boiling point tips over and you just explode well I grabbed the closest thing to me which was the garbage can in the kitchen and I took it and I dumped it upside down on the kitchen floor and I said I can't take any more I can't take any more I just can't take any more and I just walked out of the house got my car and just drove off have you ever looked back and really surprised yourself on the way you responded in God's waiting room have you ever done anything like that I'm just being real with you so I'm I want to tell you God comforts us 2nd Corinthians 1 for says he comforts us in every affliction so that we may be able to comfort those who are also in their time of affliction by means of the very same comfort that we ourselves were comforted of God so that's why I'm going to share with you this morning I want you to realize God is for you he is with you and and before we get started I want you to lay your hand upon your heart and I want you to pray and you don't have to be loud or where the person next to you can hear you but I want you to sincerely close your eyes and I want you to talk to God and ask the Lord to open your heart to his word and his spirit this morning Lord Jesus help us God to get real this morning help us to open up our hearts to you what you would say to your church today God I open my heart to you right now I open my heart to you right now Jesus bring revelation and understanding to my life casaya McLaury ashati la la boqueria sia de la boqueria see hallelujah well in our situation it all started about two years ago we were we were out on a family drive and we were driving around east of highway 99 down marauder Lane and we came upon this house we were just out driving weren't looking for a house we came upon this home and it was the gates were all barred shut locked shut and it was torn down it was it was in very bad shape I mean a tree had fallen the Arbor was falling really overgrown it looked like a mess but it was a neat place it really was I thought wow I hadn't seen the inside I just was looking at the outside and had a barn and you know my husband loves horses and you know we just thought it was empty you know he had just been sitting for years empty and we thought wow that's a neat place but you know what we didn't have any money we didn't have any money to buy a house and so we just went home and you know really didn't think much of it well that was on a Friday the next day my husband came in from prayer and I remember it very distinctly he came in and he hung his hat up on the little post right there by the door and he said you know Kim he said I was praying this morning and I believe the Lord spoke to me that he's going to give us that house that we saw yesterday and so I was like well praise God I'm said that's awesome you know I'm just so excited I so ready to move and you know just really got excited and and then about a week later God confirmed to me in a dream that he gave me I literally walked inside of that house in my dream and and saw it and God began to show me that this is the house I have saved for you I've seen your sacrifice this is the house I'm gonna give you so we knew we knew we just I began to speak faith I told my friends I told my relatives I was telling everyone God's got us a house God's got us a house he's going to give us this house got so excited and so we got our realtor and we went to look at the house and you saw in the video it needed a lot away much more than what I thought a lot of work and I just knew though that God you spoke and I know that you're gonna help us get this house I told people we're gonna be moving soon you know just oh you got you a house well not yet but God God told us he's going to give us this house we're gonna be moving and oh well that's awesome you know and so by faith we put in an offer and I've got to tell you what happened though one day God confirmed this to us that this was our home we had his my husband's parents had come over and we were like we want to show you the house God's going to give us and so we pulled in and there were these men there working on the septic tank it was a septic company and so we just you know kind of just walked around the property and just then we were ready to leave his parents had already left and this man who was working on a tractor we've never seen him before didn't know he didn't know us from Adam he comes around the house and he walks up to the front where we were standing and he said you know he said I don't know if you're Christians or anything but I was sitting back there on my tractor and the Lord wanted me to tell you this house belongs to you now what more evidence do you need than that and so we just lifted our hands there and just praise God and I mean now wouldn't you really believe that God was going to give you a house if he allowed that to happen you know that was just so exciting and so we put in an offer and I knew this was it you know we've been faithful we'd given everything that God had asked us to give and so now he was gonna reward us he was going to give us our home and so we put in an offer and I like I said my faith was so high I just knew I was even starting to pack up going through all my medicine cabinet cleaning it out you know how you do and just getting ready getting prepared and so one day a couple days went by and I was in the mall at the t-mobile store some had gone wrong with my phone and so I was there and then the call came so I was my realtor and I answered it and I just you know was just so excited whoo so I answered it in and he said Kim this is so-and-so I just wanted to let you know that the bank has accepted somebody's else's offer I'm really sorry and have you ever been hit so hard that it knocks the breath out of you especially whenever you've really believed God that something was going to happen when he told me that I literally felt like I could not breathe so I hung up and I just finished my transaction just kind of in a daze and started walking really fast out of the mall and with each step I just felt the tears start welling up in my eyes you know you know that feeling where you just can't control it and so I finally got to my car I opened it climbed in and I just busted out in tears God you told me that with our house you told me we're gonna give that to us I believed you I trusted you I felt so let down have you ever been there have you ever been there so you know what I did I called my husband and I just was on the phone just crying good you're not going to believe what happened and he told me that somebody they got somebody else is offering just you know just going hysterically and in his trademark unshakable unmovable real quiet voice on the other line it almost made me mad cuz he was so quiet he said Kim I'm gonna tell you what she need to do I want you to go straight to the church in the sanctuary meant this sanctuary here no one was here he said you need to get on your knees and you need to thank God whatever what happened well you can clap you can a man it but do you think I felt like doing that oh it just made me so mad that he said that I wanted him to feel sorry but you see that was the most opposite reaction that I felt like doing was thanking God for something that I thought shouldn't happen thanking God was the last thing I wanted to question God I wanted tip to feel sorry for myself but you know what after I hung up and I started driving off guess where I headed right here I knew deep inside that what he said was right it's right and so that day the sanctuary was very dark and no one was in here and I know right there in front of this pulpit on that floor and I raised my hands to God as high as I could get him and I had tears streaming down my face and I said god I praise you I thank you for what has happened you are perfect in all your ways you are perfect in all your ways I thank you they accepted someone else's offer I thank you God that you blocked it where we couldn't get the house and I went through and I begin to think of every every emotion that I was feeling I blurted it out to God and I thanked him I thanked him that day I thanked him for allowing someone else to get that house because you know what somehow deep inside of me were right there on that floor I knew God was getting ready to take me on a growing up journey if I would allow him if I would allow him and do you remember the gold that I told you about in the waiting room gold piece number one the first nugget given to me learning to obey in the midst of temporary setbacks learning to obey in the midst of temporary setbacks how do you get rid of the heaviness that comes to you whenever you get hit with a blow that's totally opposite of what you thought should happen I mean you can't help those feelings that come you can't help it that you feel so heavy I'm going to tell you I want you to turn to Colossians 3:17 and Ephesians 5:20 and we're going to go through some scriptures here this morning and I encourage you get a pen and write these scriptures down in your Bible because these nuggets I'm going to give to you you will want to step on these someday you will want to use these in your own life I'm going to start with Ephesians 5:20 it says giving thanks always for all things unto God we lean so much on our emotions and allow them to control how we respond in the waiting room our emotions control us many times whenever God says ah giving thanks always for all things underline that in your Bible and in Colossians 3:17 Colossians 3:17 says and whatsoever you do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus and then it says giving thanks to God and the Father by him in other words you are to give thanks in Word and in deed and everything that goes through everything that happens in your life you give thanks you give thanks when you respond in obedience and not by feeling I want you to hear me you release the power of God to work in your life when you respond by obedience to what the Word of God says how to respond you release the power of God to work in your life by thanking him and praising him your act of obedience to his word releases you it releases you from the weight the heaviness the responsibility of your situation when I sat there and I begin to praise God you know what that little feel sorry for me attitude left I I didn't I can't say that I felt thankful at first but as I began to praise God out of obedience then the feelings came then the faith began to be born inside of me and um sister Freeman's sister Nona Freeman was with us this past September for a ladies advance meeting and she began to relay to the ladies a story of when they were in Africa her husband along with two other missionaries were involved in a very horrible car accident and when they she finally got the call with the news about her husband they said we're sorry mrs. Freeman but your husband has been cut in pieces and so she said she got dressed she she got to that Hospital as fast as she could and when she got there the doctor told her mrs. Freeman this will be your husband's last night and she's what can I can I stay with him can I you know please let me stay here no they told her you you're just gonna be in the way you go home there's nothing you can do and so here she goes home and she said I begin to plead with God save his life God heal him resurrect his body and she said the Lord stopped her right there and he told her if you will praise me there will be victory and sin so in obedience she began to thank him and she began to praise him from nine o'clock that evening till 2:30 in the morning she praised God and she thanked God 2:30 that morning she was all alone and she said that a bright blue light appeared to her in her home where she was and she said I knew then God had taken care of it so she fell asleep the next morning she got up and she went straight to the hospital and there was brother Freeman right there sitting up on the side of the bed just asking for things did you bring me this did you bring me that a total miracle a total miracle do you see it was in the obedience that brought the miracle I asked sister Freeman later on that week I took her out to lunch sister Amy how was with me and my daughter Mike hell and I had three questions I was going to ask her and one of them was this sister Freeman when God told you to begin to praise and thank him did you feel that did you really feel like God had already healed him and she told me she said no she goes I did not feel that God had healed him at first she said that out of obedience as I began to thank him and began to praise him then the feelings and the emotions and the faith came but it didn't come at first it was in the obedience that brought the miracle the obedience brought it and you know first John 3:22 I want you to turn there in your Bibles first John 3:22 and this is another one I want you to underline it says and whatsoever we ask we receive of him because circle that word because in your Bible because we keep his Commandments and do those things that are pleasing in his sight right there he shows us doesn't say anything about doing what you feel to do but you are going to receive from God by doing His commandments doing what he says in this word doing it his way his way always works does it make sense no it doesn't always make sense but doing it the way God says to do it Paul knew that praising God would at times be a sacrifice when he wrote in Hebrews 13:15 he said by him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually that means in the good times that means in the bad times that means when you understand that means when you don't understand continually means all the time praise him for it praise them in the midst of your setbacks praise them in the midst of the times that you feel like you're about to lose your mind praise Him praise Him when praising is the last thing that you want to do that's when it's the most effective that's when it's the most effective and I want to tell you praise releases you from the heaviness and the bondage of what you're going through and I don't it's sister Klee here this morning I don't know she's going through a bone marrow transplant but how many have seen sister Klee over here dancin I can see her from where I sit over there and I'm gonna tell you she touches my soul when I see her she praises God and she comes down here and she dances and even though her body's been wrapped in pain from cancer for months but she understands the power of praising God and I know that some of you have been through hell I know that I've been there myself these last couple of years I know some of your stories I know some of your situations but I promise you if you will learn to praise God he's gonna keep you in the waiting room for a long time until you learn to obey Him when your will comes to obeying his will I'm going to tell you what intelligent person wants to sit in a burning building when they know there's an escape route praise brings escape praise brings escape from your situation praising God God has a way of getting the fire so hot in our lives he does and I know Pastor Haney's preached a message on this and I'm not going to tell it again but a lot of things that have happened to you is that's not the devil God has allowed fire into our lives into the lives of his people to get us to the place where you never thought you'd be a fanatical worshipper you never thought you'd be down here shouting and dancing and praising God but I'm going to tell you the fire gets so hot sometimes you get to where you don't care you don't care what people think you don't care what your neighbor well that's so and so you know they've always been this way and and you know I'm gonna tell you what if you've got a friend that's it well now was that you down there dancing this morning without you oh you know and kind of poking fun at you I'm gonna tell you something you need to change friends get people in your life that encourage you that's what this thing is all about people he getting us ready for a greater place he's preparing us but praising God in all things and for all things is the most powerful thing that you can do and this is not a Christian life sinner teaching this is not a pastor Haney's ID or pastor Lopez or or some great good teaching this is the Word of God this is God's idea to us this is all about Wow how he tells us to do things and why don't we just lift our hands right now and thank him why don't we just don't pay him right now Jesus I praise You God I praise you for the good I praise you for the bad I praise you for the times I'm not understood I praise you because you're perfect in all your ways you're perfect you're perfect god you're perfect in all your ways oh ha sigh omaha Shama hi heartily I died on my car a tileable see you're perfect I'm your perfect Lord I thank you Jesus I thank you Jesus hallelujah ha siamak I we will always have seasons of testing as long as there's breath in our lungs and our heartbeats we will always have seasons of testing no matter how much we pray no matter how much we knock on the doors of heaven adversities going to come I don't care how good you are how much money you give to the church how much time you spend what your ministry is it doesn't matter adversities going to come into your life and let me tell you something you cannot pray away God's seasons you cannot pray away God seasons in your life the Lord has a purpose in not allowing us to be fruitful all the time and it hurts it's not easy and you go through times of questioning but God has a purpose in not allowing us to be fruitful all the time there's gold in the waiting room there's gold in the waiting room and many of you are in the waiting room right now this is where you sit and you've wondered God why why am I having setback after setback and this is where you sit you're not even looking around to see God is giving me this and he's given me this spiritual nuggets that only can be found in the waiting room you have your eyes so focused on just getting out of this place just get me all the way to room I can't wait to get out of the waiting room you have your eyes so focused on just get me my why my answer I want my answer when God saying no no no you don't understand you're gonna be disappointed when you get your answer because you pass by the greater nuggets that I have for you I've got you in a place that you are gonna look back and you're gonna say God you're gonna thank me you're gonna thank me for it so after God taught me how to praise Him in all things and for all things my situation became even more impossible it after this house apparently sold to another buyer at a really astronomical price there was a lawsuit placed on the property it was a less pendants and if anybody knows what that is it's where the property cannot be sold or bought it's frozen in quartz and so the previous buyer claimed they were in escrow when the bank sold it out from under them so I whatever got us do you know I kept in contact with the real estate agent and he kept telling me Kim the court that the lawyers are getting ready to settle the attorneys have got it all figured out you know just go look for something else they he told me this for months and I kept telling him oh but God's going to give us that house God's gonna give us that house and you know everything was against me and they didn't know this everything the fact that these people had a lot of money the fact I had no money the fact the attorneys were getting ready to settle and it looked like the property was going to someone else the fact I didn't even have a foot in the door didn't even it didn't even open not even a hair we had nothing I had people who were close to us and they knew Fanueil and Kim you know and people that really cared you need you need to go find something else you know the markets really good right now and there's some good buys out there and you know go look around and you know I can't stand here and tell you that I wasn't tempted to do that there are times that I did go look at other houses and nice houses and just you know just looked at good goodbyes and every time I would go though i I just questioned why can't I get released from this Murata house I mean the house was 40 years old it still was decorated in the 70s it was still the 70s you know all that wallpaper and stuff it was rundown it had been vandalized it had been flooded throughout the entire house sheetrock torn out three feet up every wall uh it was it was a mess I mean this house was nothing to crow about believe me it was nothing but I didn't understand why can I not get released from this Marana house I mean I've looked at much nicer houses what is it and the Lord began to show me at this time I am NOT fighting for a house it wasn't about a house it wasn't about the actual structure that you can touch and you can feel but I was fighting for a promise and when I realize this my eyes were open to the greater things it's it's not about the house but it became a spiritual battle it became as something and that was spiritually involved I knew God had told us was this was our home but I still had to make the choice to fight for it you have to make the choice to fight for a promise god has given you it's not going to just land in your lap and so when he gave me that promise in mark 1029 no man has left houses or lands for my sake and the gospel's that he shall receive a hundredfold in this time he gave me that promise he gently took my hand in the waiting room and he led me to the next nugget and that was learning the power of confession outward confession confessing your faith in God confessed confessing means to acknowledge faith in to profess belief in by speaking so you know what I did I got my little congregation together those five little beings over there my children I got them together and in our morning prayer time when I realized you know what this is a spiritual thing this is not about a house this is spiritual thing I got him together and I told them a my promise in mark 1029 God had spoken to me every day just about every day of the week me and my kids in the black suburban we would be headed home from school and we'd drive right by that house all overgrown and we pull up in that little area there where the gates were locked and we stretched with our hands to that house and all of us all of us we began to praise God and thank God for giving us that house we prayed in some days we'd be led by I mean we were there sometimes five ten minutes in that parking lot and we would bind the spirits of hell and then other days we thank God for it and we just fell whatever God was leading us to do we begin to pray but see during this time I was teaching God with teaching us he was teaching us how to receive from him and so we pull out and we drive off and after we pray I told I would tell the kids the impossible 'no sus getting the house i did not keep that from them I would tell them you know the realtor says that we're not going to get this house and there's two families that are fighting over this house right now they have a lot more money than we do and you know Mom and Dad we don't have any money right now but God said he's going to give us this house I didn't make it look all glamorous to them I wanted them to see the impossible situation because I knew I wanted them to stand upon this stone of victory for their future I wanted them to see God in action you see parents you're not fighting a fight of faith just for yourself you're fighting it for your children you are paving the way for them they're gonna walk on the stones that you pay for them spiritually they are going to walk on the stones that you're paving for them I want to ask you something do your kids ever hear you speak the Word of God when you pray do they ever hear you standing on a scripture when you're trying to get an answer from God think about that we used to do this in ladies prayer you know everybody has a need everybody has a require requests so we would ask them okay sister what scripture you stand it on and you know babe well I'm by her stripes I'm healed you know no I mean really you've got to have a promise to base your request on you've got to have a word of God you've got to know that I'm asking for this because your word says this do they learn to beg God when they hear you pray do your kids learn to beg Jesus Jesus I've heard that or do they learn to stand upon the word Lord you said with man it is impossible but not with God for with God all things are possible and that's the scripture we used every day we drive away from that house and we'd say well the attorneys say this the realtor says this bubbeleh you know we go through it and then we'd say Lord but you said with man it is impossible but not with God for with God all things are possible all things are possible I want you to turn to Hebrews 10:23 Hebrews 10:23 this is another one to underline the Lord showed me the power the power of professing your faith let us hold fast that means don't let go of it no matter how bleak how dark how impossible it looks hold tightly to the profession or the speaking publicly speaking out loud of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised he is faithful that promised open declaration don't be ashamed to tell what God is going to do in your life and Jesus himself wanted to reveal this nugget of power when he said in mark 11:23 I want you to turn to mark 11:23 he said and whosoever shall say underlying circle the words say shall say unto this mountain be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass he shall have whatsoever he saith he saith it said that's the that's the Nugget that God wants to give us no it doesn't make sense to speak things that you cannot see it sometimes it doesn't make sense to tell about things that you cannot see or feel or touch in the natural but you know what God says he said obey me don't understand me obey me you don't have to understand me just obey me speaking with your mouth what you believe and if you remember last year on Mother's Day I stood before this church and I told you about the house that God was going to give to us and at this time last year it was frozen in courts everything was against us I had not even a peep or a whisper of hope nothing and I was not going to tell you about the promise that God had spoke to us I wasn't going to tell you about it last year but you know God spoke to me when I was preparing that message to tell it Kim you need to tell it and so I did and I tell you God sent me a wonderful Saint brother John Baron he was just I don't know where brother baron is today's back there somewhere but he's serious he helped us so much to figure out what's going on in the courts you know you got to learn their language and he helped me through it and every time it'd be postponed postponed two or three more months two or three more months and no I just be like oh man you know and he'd say sister Haney remember God's timing is perfect and you know what I knew that but I sure hated to hear him say that you know when you're in the waiting room it gets long sometimes it gets long but anyway I got up and I told you about that house and you know I'll admit to you after I got up two or three weeks after that I kept hearing these voices come to me and they said you know what you were really a fool to get up there and to tell a lie I'm being honest with you that's what I you know and I I you kind of think who maybe I was the voices would say no what are you gonna do when that house goes to someone else what are you going to tell those people you better start thinking of something right now to tell them when they ask you why you didn't get your house that's what tormented me for the two or three weeks after that until God showed me what was taking place and so I said I resist you Satan I refuse to listen to your voice this I believe God I believe God but see Satan doesn't want God's people to get a hold of the power of professing your faith there is power in professing jesus said believe you shall believe that you receive it and then you shall have it you've got to profess it you've got to speak it and then you shall have it he knows if he can silence your mouth he can secretly silence your faith it's the very product that will produce your promise so for 16 months i sat in God's waiting room and waited for my promised unmovable know unshakable know believe me not always I had my times of frustration you know like the garbage can act I mean really yeah it's not easy it's not easy and waiting is the hardest thing that I think we Americans struggle with the most we do not like to wait especially on something we cannot see our fight of faith is sometimes in the weight and I want you to turn to numbers nine verses 18 and 19 numbers nine verses 18 and 19 and you know after being in slavery for 400 years the children of Israel are finally let loose from the bonds of slavery in Egypt they're on their way to their promised land they're excited they are being led supernaturally they've got a cloud that appears to them during the day and leads them they have a pill or a fire that God sends at night so that they could see it and they'll know where to go they're excited but I want to show you something that took place when they were on their way to their promise it says at the commandment of the Lord the children of Israel journeyed and at the commandment of the Lord they pitched or they they pitch their tents as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents it went to cloud tarried long I want you enter delight when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days then the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord and journeyed not folks this was the supreme test of obedience I'm sure it was exciting for them whenever they saw that cloud begin to lift up off the tabernacle and oh gods get ready poof hurry take your your tips takes up everyone gather your dishes we're moving God's moving us closer to our miracle he's moving that was exciting when you can see God working when you can literally touch and see and and know with by your physical senses that he's bringing you closer to your miracle and to the your answer it's exciting but I want to talk to you about trusting God in the times of tarrying trusting God when the tense stay in one place for many many days that's where a lot of you are at right now God's got you tearing in the waiting room he's got you right there and I want to show you something that the Lord showed me and this is gold nugget number three you have to release time to God you have to release time to God and by doing this you say God however long it takes you it's not going to sway me from what I believe I release time to you God's tearing time does not influence you in your believing this helped me so much and the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days the Bible says sometimes God keeps us waiting he keeps us in that waiting room in the middle of barren wilderness in the middle in the midst of enemies that are camped all around us in the midst of danger sometimes he keeps us tarried right there waiting on an answer waiting on him to move but when you release time to God you place yourself under his umbrella of protection and you have peace in knowing I don't know how long it's gonna take you but I believe you I trust you I release time to you and when you do that you have a peace knowing that nothing the enemy does can steal the promise of God from your life nothing the enemy does nothing heat none of his schemes are going to steal the promise that God has given you notice as long as the children of Israel tarried and trusted his timing I want you to notice what happened every one of their needs were met they had mana they had water they had shelter but most of all they had the presence of God in their tarrying time releasing time releases you and you know sometimes it seems so unsafe sometimes it seems like it's such an unsafe place to be not doing anything but just trusting God in the midst of all this turmoil but that's when you release him you release time to him and I want you to turn to Genesis 18 Sara at 75 years of age she laughed inside when the Lord told Abraham that she would have a son but I want you to notice it did not happen right away it says Genesis 18 14 is anything too hard for the Lord at the time appointed I will return unto thee according to the time of life and Sarah shall have a son and at age 100 Sarah gave birth to Isaac you know Sarah and Abraham had to sit in the waiting room for 25 years they sat for 25 years on October 7th I wrote in my diary that I just been informed that the people who had filed the lawsuit on this house totally walked away from it which was an absolute miracle totally walked away from it after 16 months of waiting the house was available again god only knew that during these past 16 months that the market would take a nosedive and that very same home would drop hundreds of thousands of dollars I didn't know that but he knew that the day the sign went up in the front yard three offers were submitted and ours was one of them God miraculously supplied a source that would help us to finance this home and we submitted what we felt God had told us to do and then on November 13th in the middle of the Esther conference I was on my way home from church to get dressed and I got the call from our realtor and he said Kim they accepted your offer and the house is yours praise God yeah you know what I was real excited but I can't tell you the feeling of the spiritual victory that I felt I was excited about the house I mean it it's I'm very thankful but the spiritual victory was really what was worth it and you don't want to tell you something incredible three and a half years ago we gave our house well no it's been longer now four and a half years ago maybe and do you know the very year and month that we moved out of our nice home this house went empty for three and a half years God blocked anybody from moving into that home he saved that home for us now you wonder well now God why did it sit empty for three and a half years why couldn't we were why were we able just to move from that house and move into this house and there was it didn't belong to anybody you know why the time spent in the waiting room gave me a greater treasure than ever just getting a house you know I wouldn't there wouldn't be this and there wouldn't be this and there wouldn't be this if I got my promise right away something greater something more powerful a transformation took place in the waiting room of God and I want to talk to you about rock number four the gold number four and this by far is the greatest of all this is the greatest nugget this is the greatest treasure that you will find in the waiting room this is called the weight of glory and Paul talked about the weight of glory I want to read that in 2nd Corinthians 4:17 this is what manifests in God's waiting room he said for our light affliction which is but for a moment waiting on God's promise to be fulfilled in your life work it for us a far more exceeding and eternal eternal I want you to think that word eternal weight of glory you see the time spin in the waiting-room brought me to a place that it was no longer about the house but it was about what God was doing inside of me that's what became the treasure through my struggle through temporal and material things being taken away from me through my seasons of silence and waiting I began to reevaluate what I thought was success and that's what the waiting room does to you you begin to reevaluate what you really thought success was the success of having the things that God promised me was not as important as what I initially thought it has a way of testing you the chair of the waiting room becomes the chair of the testing room and you know pastor and I we know what it's like to have a beautiful home that's debt-free and having a healthy bank account we know what it's like within a couple of years to turn around and be living in a mobile home that doesn't even belong to us we know what it's like to lose every dollar that we've had in the bank we've been there we know we know what some of you today are going through we've walked that path this is the chair that many of you sit in today this is not the waiting room but this is the testing room you know Jesus asked Peter one day Peter do you love me more than these what were the B's that he was talking about Abraham was asked to sacrifice his most precious possession his son Isaac was it Isaac that God really wanted no it wasn't that the actual boy Isaac God just wanted to know am I still number one in your life Abraham have the things of this world got a hold on you you and I were always real close but I just need to know it I just need to know it is there anything greater to you than I am and God wants to bring us to this place it's a place where he can give you anything but you are able to turn from all he's given you

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