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Book Description: In our modern world we give little thought to our lifestyle, how we live our daily lives, or the thought patterns that govern our minds and our hearts as we go about our days.

How often do we check in on our attitudes? How often do we take a good hard look at our inner world and see if our thoughts and attitudes are lining up with what pleases God?

This book is an exploration of a Lifestyle Of Waiting on God. It is an exploration on how to foster and grow in that Lifestyle Of Waiting on God.

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Chapter 10: Recognizing The Empty Places

Embracing a lifestyle of Waiting on God requires us to examine ourselves and find all the empty places within us. These empty places, the places we strive to fill with all the pleasures of this world, are the places that God wants to fill in us. He wants to come and give us life and life more abundantly. He is the answer to every question we have and the One who fills all our lack. In Him we have no lack.

It is in the place of waiting on Him that all our empty places are filled by His Holy Spirit. Are you lonely? Draw near to the Lord and let Him fill You with His Holy Spirit. Let Him wrap His arms around you and hold you close to Himself. Listen for His still small voice in the quiet places to be renewed and strengthened in His love. He is THE priceless treasure. He is the living waters that fill us to overflowing! He is life and He is life more abundant.

God is not like anything on this earth. The things of this world do not satisfy our hearts, only God can satisfy us if we allow Him to. All our endless searching ends in Him. It is harder to come to this final conclusion as we battle our flesh in this world. The flesh, our fallen nature in us, that wages a war against the Holy Spirit of God. This is the conflict we will have until we are finally resurrected into eternal life in heaven with God and made new.

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Chapter 18: Waiting In Want

Today, I am sitting in a mostly empty apartment on the floor of an empty room writing this chapter. A Lifestyle Of Waiting will always find us on our knees before the Lord and it will train us that whether we have or do not have we still depend on the Lord. He is our all. He is our all when we have nothing, and He is our all when we have everything. Our life circumstances do not change our need to wait on God. We owe all we have to Him and so we must learn to continue to wait on Him as we journey through this life. This is part of our personal preparation for how life will be eternally with God, when all we are flows from Him.

There is a difference between need and want. Want in this chapter is not speaking of needs, those vital things we must have for life, but it is speaking of wants, the things we want to have or think we need to have to be happy. The truth is that nothing in this world can make us happy or satisfy us. Only God can truly satisfy our deepest desires. But you can’t just one day understand this… you must walk the path of the cross. You must die to your own ways and your own will. You must listen and obey Him. As you do these things, He will lead you down the path He has uniquely planned for your life. And it is a path that only You and He can walk together. You cannot walk it alone. Not for one moment can you run ahead of Him or fall behind Him. You must remain in His presence to fulfill all He has planned for your life. So, when you want something, consider if that thing will bring you closer to God or push you further away. Is it of His kingdom or of the kingdom of this world? Does it glorify Him and build up your body and mind? Most often when we want something we find that once we have gained it, we are right where we were before we had it. This is the truth. Think about this and ponder it. Ask God to show you the truth of all this and to lead you in the way you should go.

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