Christian Healing Ministry - Devotionals

Devotional for July 30, 2026

GOD’S TIMING IS THE BEST

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 James 5:7

Therefore be patient, brethren until the coming of the LORD. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early rain.

Additional Verses

📖 Genesis 25:20-34; 1 Samuel 1:1-28; Acts 1:1-8; James 5:7-20

You may have been praying and praying for a particular need in your life and you don’t seem to be receiving anything at all. Let me assure you that you are not forgotten at all. A seemingly delay is not a ‘No’ in the eyes of God. God guides with wisdom and not with speed. Keep trusting His direction even when it stretches your faith. Remember that God is willing to address all your issues in life. You must know that God’s time is the best time. All what you need to do is to cultivate in yourself the special virtue of patience. When Abraham was promised that he would be a father of many nations and that he would also be a blessing to many nations, it did not just happen overnight. First he had to wait for a long twenty five years before he received the blessing of his son Isaac through whom the promise of God upon him would be fulfilled. Isaac also had to wait patiently for twenty years before his wife Rebecca could conceive and give birth to their two sons Jacob and Esau. It also took the sons of Jacob and their descendants four hundred years before the LORD raised Moses to deliver them from the Egyptian bondage. Even though they had been delivered from the Egyptian bondage, they did not enter into the Promised Land right away. Instead they had to spend another forty years in the wilderness before occupying the Promised Land. In 1 Samuel Chapter 1, Hannah had to wait patiently, year after year until the Lord God heard her prayer through the Priest Eli who then declared that she would receive that which she had been praying for. 1 Samuel 1:26 says, “And she said, Oh my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, l am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto the Lord. For this child I prayed, and the Lord hath given me my petition which l asked of Him.” Even when Jesus Christ was born into this world to deliver us from bondage of sin and the devil, He had to wait until He was thirty years old and only then did He begin His Ministry. When Jesus Christ rose from the dead, He did not immediately empower the apostles to begin to go about witnessing for Him. Instead He commanded them to wait in Jerusalem until they received the power of the Holy Spirit. Acts 1:8 says, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” The problem with many children of God today is that they don’t have the virtue of patience which was manifest in the many great men and women in both the Old and the New Testament Bible. They want to receive from God immediately and if what they have prayed for does not happen today, in this church, they move to another and if it has not happened, they immediately give up on God. Today I am encouraging you to learn from Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Hannah and the Apostles and many men and women of faith in the Holy Bible. They never pushed God at all, but instead they always waited upon God’s time. They never allowed their immediate situation or circumstances to dictate to them the direction of their faith but they continued to hold fast to God’s promise to them. I will assure you again that you are not forgotten. God’s favor will certainly fall upon you at His own appointed time. Alleluia!

Prayer

Help me Heavenly Father never to allow my immediate situation or circumstances to dictate the direction of my faith, but to instead hold fast upon Your promises to me. Thank You LORD Jesus Christ, Amen.