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When you\u2019re waiting on God, Scripture can feel like the only solid ground beneath your feet. And some days even that feels shaky.<\/p>\n

There have been seasons in my own life when I wondered if God had forgotten my name. When the prayers felt like they were bouncing off the ceiling. When I opened my Bible, desperate for just enough strength to make it through one more day of not yet.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s where you are right now, in the middle of a wait that has gone on far longer than you ever imagined, this post is for you.<\/p>\n

My friend Johanna Henderson sat with Acts 4 one morning and found something that stopped her cold. A man who waited forty years for his miracle. Forty years of unanswered prayer. Forty years of waking up the same way he went to sleep. And then Jesus showed up through Peter and John, changing everything.<\/p>\n

I think God put this in her heart<\/a> for you today.<\/p>\n

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40 Years of Waiting and Praying<\/h2>\n

I was reading Acts 4 and was so amazed by the verses below. My eyes lingered, and I could not move off two specific words.<\/p>\n

Forty years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cFor everyone was praising God for this miraculous sign\u2013the healing of a man who had been lame for more than forty years.\u201d Acts 4:21b-22<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

40 years he waited for a miracle.<\/p>\n

40 years his life had not changed.<\/p>\n

Hurt. Sadness. Unanswered Prayers. When would his healing come? He must have given up at some time in his life<\/a>, waiting for things to change. I know I would have. Maybe he was finally apathetic with the lot that life had handed him. But John and Peter were not! When they came on the scene, they came preaching the good news about Jesus\u2019 resurrection.<\/p>\n

When they came on the scene, they healed this man in the name of Jesus!<\/p>\n

He was Healed in the Name of Jesus!<\/em><\/p>\n

And what did the \u201creligious\u201d people of their time want to do to them? Encourage? Edify? Exhort? Learn from them? No! Instead, they attempted to stop them from spreading the news about Jesus.<\/p>\n

Friends, if we believe that when we are doing God\u2019s good work, only encouragement will come our way, that is not the case. Opposition will come. Keep pressing into the Lord, and pressing forward to do His Good Work! No matter what He has called you to, do it in the name of Jesus! And let all the naysayers go! Do NOT allow their words or actions to hurt your heart or ministry of what the Lord is calling you to do in this journey with Him.<\/p>\n

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5 Ways to Keep Moving Forward When Nothing Has Changed<\/h3>\n
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  1. Believing the Lord- no matter the outcome<\/li>\n
  2. Having FIRM faith (Read the complete chapter of Acts 4)<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Not growing weary in doing good<\/li>\n
  4. Shaking the dust off when others\u2019 comments or actions are hindering what God has called you to do<\/li>\n
  5. Keep moving forward<\/a> in the call of your life with Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I am encouraged by Peter\u2019s firm faith after utterly failing<\/a> Jesus at the cross. What hope I have in knowing that when I fail, I can get right back up and keep trusting in the Lord and keep moving forward with Him. God does not want us to feel<\/a> guilty and condemned; He wants us to trust Him and forgive ourselves, others, and keep doing what He has called us to do.<\/p>\n

    As I sat with this passage, the Lord kept bringing me back to those two words. Forty years. The community knew this man. They had seen him at that gate day after day, and now he was healed, and it was causing a stir. The religious people did not like that one bit.<\/p>\n

    And this man\u2019s story made me stop and look at that word more closely.<\/p>\n

    The definition of lame is: \u201ccrippled or physically disabled, especially in the foot or leg so as to limp or walk with difficulty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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    2 Questions to Ask the Holy Spirit to Reveal About Your Waiting Season:<\/h3>\n
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    1. Do you feel \u201clame\u201d in a specific area of your life? Do you feel like your faith walk is being crippled by something?\n