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\"JakeThis is a guest post from Jake Ainsworth.<\/p>\n

Jake is a worship leader and speaker in his church and writes at Christ is my Author<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you would like to write a Guest Post for the Till He Comes Blog, begin by reading the Guest Blogger Guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Recently, I experienced a job loss. The resulting loss of income forced me to move my family from our home. As a man, I was devastated and demoralized.<\/p>\n

My life verse has always been Isaiah 40:31, \u201cBut they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.\u201d (ESV)<\/p>\n

When I had to sit down with my landlords and tell them that I couldn\u2019t pay them, I didn\u2019t feel very lifted up. My strength certainly did not feel renewed. I felt weary, like I was fainting on the path that life was leading me. And I couldn\u2019t understand why. Why wasn\u2019t God fulfilling the promise that I had called on so many times in my life? Why did I feel abandoned and alone?<\/p>\n

\"timesBy God\u2019s grace, I started to study my life verse. I needed to know that answer to my question: Why? One of the most useful things I have ever learned about studying the Bible is that I need to go back to the root of the text, find out what it meant in the original language. So I grabbed my Strong\u2019s Exhaustive Concordance and began to dig in.<\/p>\n

What I found floored me. The Hebrew word for \u2018wait\u2019 is qavah<\/em>, which literally means to bind together as in a rope. This does not mean to tie something to a tree. It means to take smaller strands and weave them together to make one solid rope.<\/p>\n

The revelation hit me like a freight train. The reason I wasn\u2019t feeling lifted up or renewed is because I had an obligation in that verse as well. Isaiah says that the ones who receive the renewing of strength and the lifting up on wings like eagles are those who wait on the Lord.<\/p>\n

I had been looking at this all wrong. How could I expect God to bless me and help me through tough times when I don\u2019t even acknowledge Him unless I\u2019m in trouble?\u00a0So I began to apply what I had learned from my studying. I started weaving God into every aspect of my life: the good, bad, ugly, and everything in between.<\/p>\n

Once I began to incorporate God, ever second of every day, I began to see a change. It wasn\u2019t a change in my circumstances or in those around me, but it was a change from within. I began to see things in perspective. It became clear to me that, by having allowed God to permeate ever part of my life, His presence became more evident in my life.<\/p>\n

I truly believe that the only way to true peace is to weave God into your life. Morning devotions are good, but they\u2019re not enough. Praying before meals is great, but it\u2019s not enough. We should be seeking God constantly, without exception; for it\u2019s only in doing so that we can truly experience the peace of God.<\/p>\n

How have you experienced times of waiting on God in your own life? What happened, and how did you find peace?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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