N8tivegirl

Becoming Patient

Loving God More Than the Promise

Have you ever had a prophecy spoken over your life?

At first, you’re excited. You hold on to every word. You replay it in your mind, imagining how and when it will happen.

But as time passes, excitement turns into waiting.

Waiting turns into questions.

And questions, if we’re not careful, can turn into disappointment.

Sometimes we don’t give up on God — we give up on the promise.

What we forget is this: God’s timing is not our timing.

What feels like ten long years to us may only be a moment to Him. Delay does not mean denial, and silence does not mean absence.

The real test of patience is not whether the promise comes —

it’s whether we still love Him when it hasn’t.

Because the goal was never the promise alone.

The promise was meant to draw us closer to the Promiser.

When we love the promise more than we love God, waiting feels unbearable.

But when we love God more than the promise, waiting becomes sacred.

Patience teaches us how to trust without a timeline.

How to remain faithful without evidence.

How to worship even when the outcome is unclear.

And often, in the waiting, God is not withholding —

He is preparing us to carry what He spoke.