When we haven't heard God our imagination runs wild. Like if you are believing God for something and you still haven’t seen it, you start to imagine things like He doesn't care, He didn't hear me, and the like.
The truth though —is God is waiting until you have exhausted your own works. Then, you certainly can hear Him in your desperation.
I was doing this recently. I was working to make something happen. I hadn't heard God say much about it, and because I didn't hear what I thought He should have said, I started feeling frustrated. I wanted Him to help me, but I wanted as well control this thing that I was trying to do.
In feeling frustrated I heard God tell me to let it go— I wanted to, but I had a hard time letting go. I had been doing this thing for a while, and besides it was an instruction from Him, and now He was telling me to cast my care of it. He was telling me to trust Him now and just let Him work it out. So I let it go that evening and went to bed, I casted my care on Him, because He cares for me.
The next morning was quite (He was quiet) as I started to tussle with this thing again. When I realized what I was doing I returned to my instruction from Him and let it go. That's when I heard Him tell me something that made total sense, He amazed me with seven words.
He then started showing me that what I was trying to do was stay in a season — a season He was taking me out of. I am about to enter a new season, thus I have to change what I am doing to fit into that season. It is actually a promotion, a change to be promoted into a higher place in my calling.
You can’t ever guess what God is going to say to you, but when you hear Him, it is always an ahh moment!
Although it is tempting to feel forgotten and even frustrated when you can't figure things out, don't. Press in to believe instead, and He will reveal Himself to you.
Let me encourage you today by sharing with you my experience, and that this —I have learned that God is indeed good. I have experience with Him to know that He is in love with me. Thus I know that He is faithful —and He has good in mind for me. I know that if I continue to trust Him no matter how things look—He will show up!
That said, I know that all I have to do is stay the same, keep trusting Him no matter how things seem. Then, suddenly, He will show up! He will say something —and then I can get what He is doing. Then I can see what He had been trying to show me, I will get that thing in which He is doing! You just can't figure out the good God is about to do until He shows it to you!
Until I can get what He is saying to me, He is waiting. I am not waiting for Him—but He waits for me.
Isaiah 55:8 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. 9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. AMPC
Let Him bring you up higher to His way!