E57 When God Makes You Wait: How to Stay Faithful, Overcome Frustration, and Grow in the Waiting Season

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT:

Jen Cudmore (00:00)
Waiting on God is hard.

really hard, especially when you feel ready, when you feel like you’ve prayed enough, when you’ve done all the right things and still nothing seems to be moving. It’s easy in those moments to feel overlooked or forgotten or even you get frustrated at the Lord. But what if waiting isn’t punishment? What if it’s actually protection and preparation? What if the thing you’ve been asking God for isn’t being delayed, but it’s being developed? I think that for so many

and waning feels like silence, like absence. It feels like God forgot you. But what if it’s not actually happening that way at all? What if there’s more going on behind the scenes than you can see? Today, Rosalind and I are gonna be discussing all of this and so much more. So let’s dive in.

welcome, welcome everybody. This is Into the Depths podcast where we go below the surface. We dive into who we are and break free of who we’ve been. Nobody likes waiting, right? What about you Rosalind? No way. No way. But I think that our culture really has become dependent on getting what we want and getting it right away. Would you agree?

Rosalynn Lasley (01:31)
.

⁓ No. No. ⁓ I do not love it.

Yeah,

absolutely. Instant gratification is almost like a pandemic for our generation and our society.

Jen Cudmore (02:03)
It is so easy to see like ⁓ all around us, but then when it comes to ourselves, I think, and I get impatient and I’m like, wait, maybe this attitude and this behavior is not really the way I want to portray myself, but we can just get in that mood or that mode of just like, to have it, want to get it done kind of thing. So I don’t know for me, I just can’t stand being in a line, even at a drive through, even like for fast food, I’m like, this isn’t fast.

Rosalynn Lasley (02:17)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Jen Cudmore (02:32)
up or something, know? Yeah.

Rosalynn Lasley (02:34)
Yeah.

with driving the other day, I was thinking like, what is wrong with you? Everyone is in my way and like, this is not who I normally am. So I can’t imagine saying that to somebody like face to face, but you know, driving and having to wait is a nightmare.

Jen Cudmore (02:50)
I know for me even little things like you get annoyed when ⁓ you text a question to a friend and they don’t answer you right away and you’re like, come on. sometimes we get wrapped up in our own lives and forget they have their life too. they’re, you know, they’re probably legit busy and we’ll get back to me in a little bit. You know what I mean? So we just can get really impatient over some silly little things.

Rosalynn Lasley (02:59)
Yeah.

Yeah, there’s.

Yeah, I remember

once a friend had texted me a question and I didn’t respond because I was at a funeral. Afterwards, I responded and said, sorry, I was at a funeral. Then I thought, wait a minute, why am I apologizing that I was at a funeral and didn’t respond? There’s nothing that couldn’t wait for me to be finished. She never said anything to make me feel bad for not responding immediately, but I felt like I needed to apologize that I wasn’t just immediately responsive to what she needed.

Jen Cudmore (03:25)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Rosalynn Lasley (03:41)
Like how

warped is that perspective?

Jen Cudmore (03:45)
Totally, I’ve been that way before. You apologize for not being fast enough because like we said, like in our culture, we’re just, we’re so conditioned to doing things quickly. And so, and of course we would want a quick response, right?

Rosalynn Lasley (03:59)
Yeah. Yeah.

Jen Cudmore (04:01)
I just don’t like that ugliness, ugly impatience in me. I definitely want to get better about that. But let’s talk about why waiting is good for us. I think this will be really fun to discuss. was, I was thinking about like how waiting is such a like major part of being a believer and follower of Jesus is like, there’s so much that we are waiting for, like that it’s just a normal part of life. And so why is that? You know,

Rosalynn Lasley (04:07)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Jen Cudmore (04:31)
Why did God set that up to where sometimes we have to wait for things? You you plant seeds and then you have to wait for them to grow. It doesn’t just happen overnight, and it’s that way in so many, so many areas of life. So give me some thoughts your side of it.

Rosalynn Lasley (04:45)
Well, and even

scripture talks about weight on the Lord, ⁓ weight I say on the Lord. And it’s so hard because even if outside of our current generation, where we have everything at our fingertips in a moment’s notice, ⁓ it had to have been a theme of ⁓ discomfort of having to wait for things, otherwise it wouldn’t be written down. But there’s so much that is developed in us and so much we learn about

the character of God in that season of weight, but that doesn’t make it any easier.

Jen Cudmore (05:18)
So good.

sometimes it takes a little while for all the pieces to get arranged. Especially if it’s sort of like a big thing that you’re waiting for. Sometimes God has to move some resources into place or some people into the right places at the right time in order to open the doors for you. And he wants to give us the best blessing possible, which means sometimes we have to wait for all those little pieces to be brought all together. And we forget that sometimes, don’t we?

Rosalynn Lasley (05:25)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Yeah.

Jen Cudmore (05:48)
It’s not just about us.

Rosalynn Lasley (05:48)
Well, and I can remember at the end of my pregnancy with our youngest, she was what you would call a rainbow baby. Like she was the baby that came after a loss. And I remember just those last few weeks, I was in so much physical pain because, you know, I had my accident right before I’d gotten pregnant with her. And then the emotional torment of anxiety of like, is she going to be okay? I felt like I could never fully let my guard down until she was safely in my arms.

And so that last season of waiting, it just felt like an eternity because we’d already waited so long for the Lord to allow us to conceive her to begin with, but then waiting for her to be in our arms, it just felt like torture. And I remember a friend saying like, you know, God has already determined when her birthday will be. And, know, you’re just going to have to wait. And I remember being so irritated, like, yeah, I know I have to wait. Like I don’t get a say in how long it’s going to take. But really, like there’s so much developmentally.

Jen Cudmore (06:42)
Yeah.

Rosalynn Lasley (06:45)
that happens with the last few weeks of pregnancy that for her own growth and development and long-term health and for my health and development, it was important to wait for things to be finished for her before she was born, but it was so difficult. And I mean, the rational side of you would think, do you want a baby that’s in the NICU or struggles with medical complications because you were so eager to have her or would you rather wait until

Her body is fine tuned enough that the Lord said, okay, now she gets to have a birthday. But in the thick of it, it just felt like that season of weight went on and on and on and on and on and I was so ready to be through it.

Jen Cudmore (07:24)
I could totally get that. mean, I think just a regular pregnancy, feels like it goes on and on and on. And when you don’t have complications and then obviously for you after the miscarriage, I mean, how much more stressful.

Rosalynn Lasley (07:32)
Mm-hmm.

Jen Cudmore (07:37)
Another really important ⁓ part of it is I think of that verse, Bible verse in James where it talks about counted all joy when you encounter a trial and because it works perseverance and character, like it builds things in you. And I think that if we didn’t ever have to wait for anything, would we ever learn how to be patient? Would we ever learn how to be resilient? I remember a few years ago when God gave me my word for the year, you sometimes at the beginning of the year, the Lord will give someone a word or a phrase and he gave me the word four to

And I was like, well, that’s a weird word fortitude. And you know, that entire year, God really just focused on building resilience in me and making me stronger and helping me build endurance. And you know, that’s not very glamorous. It’s not very fun, but obviously I needed it, right? I needed to develop that muscle because, you know, obviously there were some areas in my life where I needed to grow and mature. So.

Rosalynn Lasley (08:21)
No.

When I look back on that season of my life, I can’t think of a time that I ever prayed more like humble, earnest, desperate, like guttural prayers than I did, you know, waiting for the Lord to allow us to conceive her and then waiting through my pregnancy to have a healthy baby in our arms. Like, I can’t think of any other time in my life before or since that I’ve really sought the Lord in that.

there was times that it was very messy and confusing. And, you know, I’ve even thought times like, why am I even praying about this, Lord? You already know, you already know that this is a desire of my heart. I’ve already asked you a million times. Maybe your answer is no, so why keep bringing it to you? ⁓ But in that time that I continued to seek that conversation with him, he grew my faith and that faith has carried me through.

so many seasons since then. Like I think, you if the Lord was so precious and comforting and provided during that time that, you know, my heart was ripped out, surely He’s going to provide in all these other little small, less significant moments of my life too. And had I not had to wait on Him, my faith would not have grown the way that I needed it to so that I could continue to be encouraged by that.

Jen Cudmore (09:51)
Yeah, exactly. And that is why he lets hard things happen to us sometimes. ⁓ There’s always a lesson. I feel like when you have to wait for something, there’s always a lesson and it’ll look different depending on the situation. I think that ⁓ like one of the major ones for me was when Tim and I were really struggling with some marriage things several years ago. And, you know, all of my prayers were circled around like, Lord, fix my husband and really ⁓ being

At the time, I didn’t recognize that I was being resistant to my own personal growth, but I absolutely was. I really wanted to blame him for all the problems in the marriage. And I think that’s common for women, that we can really be blinded to the fact that we think it’s all their fault and it’s not. But for me, delaying that reconciliation between the two of us really, ⁓ for me was nine months of really intense personal growth. mean, God really taught me what

intimate friendship with him looks like he really helped me understand what is worship like when your life stinks so terribly, ⁓ you know how to go to him and ⁓ partner with him and how to let him meet your needs when your needs are not being met on earth, you know, things like that. And it was one of the hardest seasons for me. ⁓ But I also came out of that learning so, so much. And it really set the stage or set a foundation for me to be able to

Rosalynn Lasley (10:58)
Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Jen Cudmore (11:19)
move into a much deeper freedom and healing journey ⁓ in all sorts of ways. So definitely I think that when it comes to waiting, ⁓ he has to withhold some things from us in order to get us to grow and help us become who it is that he wants us to become.

Rosalynn Lasley (11:38)
Right. And I feel like gratitude is so much greater on the other side of waiting. ⁓ And you’re like, Lord, I’m grateful for all the things, but truly, like, I can’t think of a time I was ever more grateful than to have that healthy baby in my arms, like never before and ever since. And, know, I think about how much I took for granted with my other kids that were healthy and, you know, uncomplicated and life just went just as I wanted it to. ⁓

Jen Cudmore (11:43)
for sure.

Yeah.

Rosalynn Lasley (12:08)
Of course I was grateful for them, but there’s just a different level when the Lord has ⁓ refined you through waiting. of course I never want to wait, but I am so thankful for it because it’s changed everything about who I am.

Jen Cudmore (12:20)
think that ⁓ God has to use pain in our lives to push us forward and to mold us and to refine us and make us more like Jesus. Right. That’s just kind of how it works. Pain has a purpose and we don’t like it. It’s uncomfortable. But ⁓ God always brings something good around.

I think that we think that we’re grateful, but if everything came easy, would we be grateful? I feel like gratitude.

really can be linked to hardship or maybe hardship is not the right word, like, ⁓ definitely believe that we will have, we will be more thankful after we go through the waiting, after we endure a little bit of suffering, a little bit of pain, or maybe it’s not even that uncomfortable. Maybe it’s just a simple thing that we’re like trying to trust the Lord that it’s eventually going to show up. know, right now, Tim and I are down to one vehicle ⁓ and I can’t wait till the day that I can get my own car, you know, and be able

have my own car. And so that’s like not a super stressful type of situation, right? ⁓ But it’s still a waiting thing and it’s still the Lord testing me. I mean, I think I’ve done really good with being content, but even just a couple of weeks ago, or this might have been last week, actually, I remember starting to get frustrated that if I just had my own vehicle, I could go take care of this errand by myself and not have to like have all this complication. But I was proud because I caught myself and I was like, wait, I’m not

going to go down that road. I’m going to choose to be content. Like Paul says, I believe it’s in the book of Philippians, I have learned to be content in all circumstances. So I can choose to pout and be upset that it was inconvenient, or I can continue to have that heart of gratitude while I wait for the right time for us to get the second vehicle. And I think the Lord is definitely challenging my heart. Are you going to be okay with this, Jen? Are you going to choose to accept and surrender that this is just for a season and you’re going to eventually get another car?

You know, so a fresh example

Rosalynn Lasley (14:18)
And I think sometimes waiting

can be confusing because it’s hard to know if the Lord is asking you to wait or if he’s telling you no. And I remember in that season of waiting for a baby, it was like, are you telling me no or am I supposed to wait? like, am I irritating you? Because I just keep begging so much for this thing. Maybe you don’t have planned for me. You know, and I remember praying, Lord, if it’s not your will, change my heart.

Jen Cudmore (14:27)
Yeah.

Rosalynn Lasley (14:45)
because it’s hurting my heart to have to keep waiting. ⁓ And I think that going through that really hard time of waiting where it was hard to be patient, it was really confusing. was, you know, people made comments because they knew that was my desire and well, maybe God thinks you’re not a good mom and so that’s why he’s not allowing you to have more children. You know, the enemy will use that. But in the end, ⁓ he is good and faithful. And if his answer is no,

Jen Cudmore (14:45)
Mm-hmm.

Rosalynn Lasley (15:12)
On the other end of that season of waiting, there’s going to be a good reason for it. And eventually he does reveal that to us, I think as a encouragement of like, no, it didn’t work out and this is why. you know, we, you know, nobody ever likes to wait, but on the other end of that, there’s oftentimes that we’re grateful for the no or the wait because we see finally, okay, I understand now why you made me wait or I understand why. ⁓ on the other side of it, the answer was no. And this season.

felt like a wilderness season for us because even in your know, there’s something good for us.

Jen Cudmore (15:46)
Well, and that kind of leads me to my next thought is what does God expect from us in the wait because I definitely feel like there’s a way to wait well and there’s a way to not handle it well, right?

Rosalynn Lasley (16:03)
Yeah.

Jen Cudmore (16:03)
there’s times where we, when we get upset and we’re resisting and or pouting or whatever, if we’re being frustrated or even, you know, quiet discouragement can be, well, I think it is normal. know, we don’t want to miss out on what God’s trying to do. Like we want to make sure that we’re in alignment and sort of going the same direction as him, right? And not just kind of off doing our own thing because we didn’t like the fact that we had to wait.

Rosalynn Lasley (16:30)
a while back I remember a friend talking, and I think we were talking through the fruits of the spirit or something like that, but with one of the fruits of the spirit being patience. And she said, patience is the ability to wait nicely. And I was like, hmm, because sometimes waiting, we don’t get a choice in that. We have to wait, but can we wait nicely? And I was like, man, that’s good. And I think about that frequently when.

Jen Cudmore (16:45)
Thanks.

Rosalynn Lasley (16:55)
you know, we’re having to wait. Am I waiting nicely? Am I being patient? Am I, you know, embodying the fruits of the spirit that I claim to dwell within me? ⁓ Is that reflected in my season of weight and how I handle it?

Jen Cudmore (17:07)
I think it’s really important to remember that God always has a purpose when He makes us wait and we can trust Him. It’s just a matter of will we? Like are we going to choose that? Right? And so let’s talk about what does it look like to wait? Well, I would love to hear some of your thoughts around that.

Rosalynn Lasley (17:20)
you know.

I think having a good attitude about it rather than being irritable or there’s times where people turn their back on their faith because they’ve been asked to wait for something, ⁓ whether it’s healing or financial provision or housing situations, like who knows what the season of wait looks like for you. ⁓ But is it so disruptive that it’s willing to shake up your faith and

Jen Cudmore (17:47)
down.

Rosalynn Lasley (17:53)
cause you to doubt the goodness of God. What do we do with our season of wait? Do we turn to Him or run from Him? I think about Abraham and Sarah in the Bible, God said they would bless them with children and then they had to wait. And so then they went against what God had planned for them because waiting was hard. And so, I don’t know, it’s just…

Jen Cudmore (18:03)
Mm-hmm.

Rosalynn Lasley (18:21)
I don’t feel like I’ve really crushed it on waiting well. ⁓ And sometimes that comes to leaning on other people, drawing from your faith, drawing from other people’s circumstances or ⁓ examples of it, because it can be really hard to wait well.

Jen Cudmore (18:25)
Haha.

for sure. And I do think going through a few emotions is okay. there’s nothing wrong with getting a little angry or sad at times. ⁓ So I want to be clear that we’re not saying you can never have any emotions around this. You just have to go with it. Because it’s normal for us to do that. But it’s a matter of like, are we going to keep it in balance? Are we going to keep it in check? Are we going to let it overcome us and like you said, rule our attitude? or are we going to be like, okay, I can do this. I can handle this,

Rosalynn Lasley (18:51)
Right.

Jen Cudmore (19:05)
you need to say to yourself to stay calm and make sure you’re trusting the Lord. I think one thing that helps though is to praise God in the midst of it, right? The whole idea of praise Him in the storm. ⁓ Keep your focus on Him. Abide. Dwell with Him. Focus on ⁓ His characteristics and His attributes and growing closer to Him while you wait.

Rosalynn Lasley (19:08)
Right.

Right.

there’s been times where I’ve found that what it is that I’m waiting for almost becomes like an idol in my life. I become so focused on that thing that I want that I’m like, okay, let me just check all the boxes and if I do all the Christian things just right, then the Lord will bless me with my desire. Or you become so consumed with how do I make this work in my own timing, in my own ways that you forget that

it’s all in God’s hands and we don’t have to try and manipulate the circumstances and we can’t with God, we can’t manipulate his circumstances or his mind ⁓ to have him give us what we want. But do we do that? Do I put this want on a pedestal and let that be what consumes me that my praise is fake because I’m just trying to gain his favor?

Jen Cudmore (20:22)
Yeah, I agree. think that sometimes the things that we want can become an idol. We can get a little obsessed with our desires. And that can be sometimes hard to recognize too. And so he’s not going to give it to us if it’s bad for us, right? I mean, we can go out and try to get it for ourselves.

Rosalynn Lasley (20:37)
not.

Jen Cudmore (20:41)
I think also it’s…

⁓ when you’re feeling impatient with the process or whatever, it’s just like day by day you keep choosing. I’m just gonna keep choosing. I’m gonna choose to be patient. I’m gonna choose to have peace. I’m gonna choose to accept that this takes a while. I’m gonna lean into endurance and practice that consistent mindset, in those moments where you’re kind of feeling the ups and downs of the emotions, right?

Rosalynn Lasley (20:51)
and

and continue to have conversation with the Lord. Like, is there something that you want to change about me in this season of waiting? Like, are you intending this to be a refining time in my life? And if so, I want to submit to that. show me what it is that you’re wanting from me. Show me the areas where you need me to grow. Teach me what it is that you want me to know about you so that this season of waiting isn’t for nothing.

Jen Cudmore (21:34)
That’s so good. And I think that like even taking that a step further, like I will do that. But then I’ll also be like, OK, let’s do this. OK, Lord, what do I need to learn? OK. And it’s like another way of trying to rush him. Right. It’s like, just give me the lesson. Let me do it. And then we can move on with the party. Like, that’s not what he wants. Like it’s sometimes his deepest work is most important work in our hearts. It’s it’s in this time and you can’t push like you can’t rush that.

Rosalynn Lasley (21:43)
Yeah.

Jen Cudmore (22:03)
right? It’s something you have to lean in. You can’t resist it, but you can’t rush it. It’s like you just got to ride the wave with it and go on God’s timing ⁓ because even if there’s a lesson you got to learn, sometimes those lessons take time. You can’t just get it done and get it over and move on.

Rosalynn Lasley (22:04)
Yeah.

And we want to eagerly seek what that is and sincerely seek that, not because we’re going to get something out of it at the end, but because the lesson matters.

Jen Cudmore (22:30)
Exactly. not just doing it out of obligation. Like, OK, fine, Lord, I’ll do what you want. So you’ll give me what I want. Right? And that’s obviously not the right attitude that we want to have. We want to really be able to fully yield and surrender to his way of doing it. Right? Lay down our will. Yes, exactly. Yeah, that’s such a perfect way to say it. It’s not transactional.

Rosalynn Lasley (22:37)
Right.

Yeah, it’s not a transactional, not a transactional situation.

Jen Cudmore (22:55)
also sometimes there might be some action that we have to take while we’re waiting But we don’t always necessarily I think sometimes when we’re waiting for something We just expect god to just like drop it in our laps and make it happen But sometimes there’s maybe things that we need to do to make room for that new thing that we’re asking for right? like maybe you need to set aside some funds and like save up because the lord wants you to take a class or join a group or you know, Whatever or you know to travel some

Rosalynn Lasley (23:14)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Jen Cudmore (23:23)
Maybe you need to learn a skill develop a skill and become better at something so that you are able to Do the thing that you are asking for right or there could be like a little bit of ⁓ heart healing that you might have to do like you’re not ready to handle a certain situation because you haven’t dealt with your Insecurities and wounds from the past I mean there’s so many different ways that you might not actually be ready for that thing that you’re asking for and You know you got to use that time of waiting to do

something. mean not every time is action going to be required. I’m just saying sometimes it is. So what are you doing during your waiting period? Are you using your time wisely or not?

Rosalynn Lasley (24:05)
Yeah,

and sometimes it’s like the Lord is withholding this because He knows that the time is not right, that we’re not ready for whatever it is that we’re asking of Him. It doesn’t make it easier when we feel like we are ready and He’s like, no, no, you’re not. And I find personally, sometimes it helps for me to think of it in the way that I respond to my own kids as a mom, in the way that I withhold things, ⁓ you know, whether it’s for their own…

Jen Cudmore (24:11)
Yup.

Mm-hmm.

Rosalynn Lasley (24:31)
development or their own responsibility level where they’re just not quite ready. And when I feel like I can’t see that in the relationship with God as my father, I can understand it when I think of the way that I care for my own children. And that helps tremendously because it’s like, wait a minute, you wouldn’t let a 10 year old drive, you know? So like, yes, yes, she does want to drive, but at some point she will get to just not yet.

Jen Cudmore (24:47)
That’s.

Yeah.

Yes, exactly. think looking at it from a perspective of a parent can be super helpful for sure because like you look at kids and you don’t let them have certain things or do certain things because you know maturity wise they can’t handle it or you also don’t want to, ⁓ what’s the right word, like because they’re so innocent you don’t want to ruin some of that, right? You don’t want to tell them about the real world too soon because you want them to enjoy childhood ⁓ and not have the cares and burdens that

Rosalynn Lasley (25:17)
Yeah.

Jen Cudmore (25:27)
adult has to deal with. there could be some of that in there too. Like what is the Lord protecting you from because you don’t need the hassle that comes with it just yet.

Rosalynn Lasley (25:38)
Yeah, I hadn’t thought about that. But yeah, that’s so true.

Like, what is it that, like, once you see this or once you know this, you can’t unknow it. So, you know, it’s just just not yet. I look forward to heaven someday when we can see all of the reasons and seasons that he’s made us wait and how it all fit together in the end to be such a beautiful like beyond comprehension.

Jen Cudmore (25:58)
Yes.

Rosalynn Lasley (26:05)
piece of what our life looks like because of the times that he’s made us wait or said no or I have something different for you.

Jen Cudmore (26:11)
I totally agree. I had one other thought and this came up recently is that sometimes what we’re waiting for, we have a wrong perspective about what it’s supposed to look like and God wants to make it bigger and better. Like we think we want this one thing and it’s going to look like this and God’s like, well, I’m going to give you that later, but I’m going to make it even cooler. I’m going to make it even like, I’m going to blow your mind with how

Rosalynn Lasley (26:36)
Yeah.

Jen Cudmore (26:36)
I put it together and I know the Lord has done that to me a couple of times and it’s like ⁓ I thought I knew what I wanted I thought that ⁓ this thing over here would be good for me, but sometimes I think ⁓ The delay happens because he wants to expand our mind right he wants to expand our thinking and be like What if we could go bigger? What if we could go better or you know? What if we shifted directions here? so I just I love that too because it really puts that expectation or that ⁓

Rosalynn Lasley (26:44)
Right.

Jen Cudmore (27:05)
Anticipation is a better word of, okay, well here’s what I think I want, but God, I am open. If you want to do something like even bigger, even better, like let’s go there.

Rosalynn Lasley (27:08)
Yeah.

I love that. think there’s probably many, many times where if he would have given me what I wanted at that time and hindsight, had I known what he had in store instead, we would be disappointed or feel like, you know, we’ve been shorted because what he had is so much better than what we wanted at the time.

Jen Cudmore (27:35)
Yep, exactly. so.

Rosalynn Lasley (27:37)
I’m like, thank you for

never letting any of my high school relationships work out.

Jen Cudmore (27:42)
Exactly. there’s so much to this concept of waiting.

I think of that scripture Isaiah 40 I think it’s 31 where it says they that wait on the Lord will renew their strength They will mount up with wings as eagles. They will run and not be weary. They will walk and not faint and I love that too because I think also part of The reason that God waits to give us stuff is because he wants us to learn to partner with him And how to do certain things like sometimes we will try to do things in our own strength And you did kind of touch on this a little bit before of like doing it ourown way just because we’re tired of waiting. But learning how to partner with the Lord so that He is our strength, right? And He teaches us how to wait with Him. ⁓ And that can be a really a time of really sweet communion, honestly, if we will learn to just wait and trust Him. Yeah.

Rosalynn Lasley (28:24)
Yeah.

Absolutely. Yeah. Well, and like

for us, you know, waiting for a child, you know, recently that was something that we, that part of our testimony we used to encourage her. Like the Lord has a huge purpose for your life. Like you are an answer to so many prayers, so many more than you can even comprehend. Like God very intently gave you to us at the time that he did for a reason.

And so let that be encouraging to you that you’re not here for nothing. You’re not here ⁓ by mistake. You’re not here just at a chance. Like your life was ordained for such a time as this by the one who knit you together. And that season of waiting became not just our testimony, but hers too.

Jen Cudmore (29:19)
Yeah, that’s so beautiful. That’s so beautiful. I love that. Yeah, I can’t wait to see how God uses that girl for sure. All right, well, any other final thoughts ⁓ as we wrap up our episode on how to wait well? ⁓

Rosalynn Lasley (29:26)
Yeah.

I think just trying to remind ourselves that there’s blessing in the waiting and know that it is for our own good, even when it doesn’t feel like it. And what our own good looks like is different for every circumstance and for every person, but God’s character is unchanging.

Jen Cudmore (29:40)
Yeah.

Yeah, so good. That’s so good. So as we go about this week, let’s explore the depths of this final thought. In what areas are you waiting on God to move?

would you say that you are waiting well or maybe not so much? And again, this isn’t about condemnation. Like I say a lot. This is just to get you thinking and reflecting on, you know, where might God want to stretch me a little bit? But how can you begin to lean into your waiting season? What is it that you’re asking the Lord for? And where do you need him to come through for you? But in the meantime, how can you begin to

lean into any of the things that God might want to accomplish during that waiting time frame. So bless you, friend. Have a great week. We’ll see you next time.