Waiting for the Promise of a Breakthrough

Is anything too hard for the Lord?
This ancient question echoes through time, challenging every believer who finds themselves in a season of waiting. When promises seem delayed and breakthrough feels distant, we're confronted with a choice: will we trust God's timing, or will we take matters into our own hands?

The truth is simple yet profound: waiting on God is not easy, but it is necessary.

Understanding What It Means to Wait
To wait on God means more than passive resignation. It means to look forward with anticipation, to expect with eagerness, to believe that God is actively working even when we cannot see it. Waiting is an active posture of faith that declares, "I know God is about to do something in my life."

Think about a child waiting for a store to open, pressed against the glass with excitement and anticipation. That's the kind of expectancy we should have when God has given us a promise. Not anxiety or doubt, but joyful confidence that what He has spoken will come to pass.

Here's a perspective that changes everything: waiting is not a punishment—it's preparation. God uses the waiting season to prepare our hearts for what He's about to give us. Sometimes we're not ready to receive what we're asking for. The delay isn't denial; it's development.

God Always Keeps His Promises
Throughout Scripture, we see an unbroken pattern: God keeps His promises. He told Abraham He would make him great—and He did. He told Moses to lead the people out of Egypt—and he did. God placed a rainbow in the sky as a promise that He would never flood the earth again—and He hasn't.

When God makes a promise, He always follows through. The question is never whether God will keep His word, but whether we will trust Him while we wait.

Many believers today have what could be called a "microwave mind"—we want instant results. We pray, and if God doesn't answer within our preferred timeframe, we move on to something else. But God doesn't operate on our schedule. If He's going to be God, He must be in control. And His timing is always perfect.

The wisdom of Proverbs 3:5-6 becomes essential here: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not to your own understanding in all your ways, but acknowledge Him, and He will direct your path." God already knows the future He has for you. He knows the career, the breakthrough, the blessing. The only way we miss it is by leaning on our own understanding and blocking our own blessing.

Three Lessons from Abraham and Sarah
The story of Abraham and Sarah provides three powerful lessons about waiting for God's promise of breakthrough.

Lesson 1: Don't Get Ahead of God
God promised Abraham and Sarah a son. The promise was clear and direct. But Sarah was 89 years old, and in her mind, it seemed impossible. So she decided to help God along by giving her Egyptian servant Hagar to Abraham to produce an heir.

This decision to get ahead of God brought years of complications and heartache. Whenever we try to fix things ourselves or help God out, we create problems that wouldn't exist if we had simply waited.

Never count God out of your situation. He can always work miracles. He preserved Caleb so that at 80 years old, he had the body of a 45-year-old man. God can do the impossible—if we'll trust Him instead of manufacturing our own solutions.

Lesson 2: Don't Doubt God
When the Lord appeared to Abraham and declared that Sarah would have a son, Sarah overheard and laughed. The Lord called her out: "Sarah, you laughed." She denied it, but God sees all and hears all.

Her laughter revealed her unbelief. She had concluded that what she'd been waiting for would never happen.

Then came the penetrating question: "Is anything too hard for the Lord?"
The same God who raised Jesus from the dead can raise anything in your life. He protected three Hebrew boys in a fiery furnace. He shut the mouths of lions for Daniel. He parted the Red Sea. He made the sun stand still.

There is nothing—absolutely nothing—too hard for God.
Unbelief slows things down. It causes us to make decisions based on fear rather than faith. But when we keep believing, when we maintain confidence in God's word, we position ourselves to receive what He has promised.

Lesson 3: God is Worth Waiting For
The Lord told Abraham: "At the time appointed, I will return unto you according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son."

And in Genesis 21, we see the fulfillment. Abraham and Sarah received their promised son, Isaac—whose name means "laughter." What had been the laughter of doubt became the laughter of joy.

When God blesses you, it will truly be a blessing. His presence will be in it. His favor will rest upon it. And you'll look back and realize that the wait was worth it.

Practical Steps for the Waiting Season
If you're uncertain about God's promise for your life, ask Him. Jeremiah 33:3 says, "Call upon Me, and I will answer." God wants to reveal His plans to you. He has plans to give you a future and a hope, not to harm you.

Consider keeping a record of what God promises you. Write it down. Then, as He fulfills each promise, check it off and take time to thank Him. This practice serves two purposes: it helps you remember to be grateful, and it builds your faith as you see God's faithfulness over time.

The Breakthrough is Coming
Don't give up. Don't decide it's too late. Don't tell yourself it's not going to happen. God is preparing you even now for what He's about to release.

The breakthrough is coming. Hold on to your faith. Keep believing. Keep trusting. Because the God who keeps His promises is worth waiting for.

Every move God makes in a believer's life is a promotion with benefits. He knows when the time is right. All you have to do is trust Him and wait with expectant faith.

Waiting on God is worth the wait.