#48 Rebecca Brewster Stevenson [What are You Waiting For?]
Whether you’re waiting for something that will change your life or you’re waiting in line at the grocery store, we can all relate to the frustration of our needs or wants not being immediately satisfied. We all wait. Rebecca Brewster Stevenson joins me to take a deep dive into the heart behind our frustration and gives ideas on where we can place our focus during our waiting.
Rebecca explains that waiting for what we want, not having what we want, puts us on the outside and how being on the outside is an exile of sorts. And in our exiled state, we look for home…a deeper relationship with our heavenly Father. Our satisfaction is found in Him.
Rebecca and I talk about the difference between expectation and expectancy. Although very slight, the distinction is crucial. She says, “expectation invites us to look for things. Expectancy invites us to look to God.”
Rebecca shares her story of struggling for years waiting on the Lord and how while he did provide, He didn’t always meet her family’s needs in the ways they wanted. Instead God asked them to watch Him be faithful in the ways He choose.
We chat about praising God in the midst of waiting and why it might be even more precious to Him than praising Him once we receive what we’ve been waiting for.
Rebecca Brewster Stevenson writes in Durham, North Carolina, where she lives with her husband and children. In 2012 she left teaching to pursue writing full-time, and is author of the critically acclaimed novel Healing Maddie Brees. She is a speaker and a regular teacher at The Well, a women's Bible study at Chapel Hill Bible Church. She recently released her second book, Wait: Thoughts and Practice in Waiting on God.
Wait: Thoughts and Practice in Waiting on God
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