Wait Upon The LORD

"Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but 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." - Isaiah 40:28-31 (ESV)

In God's Time

Nehemiah 1 - Now it happened in the month of Chislev (Nov-Dec)...

"Now I was cupbearer to the king." - Nehemiah 1:11b (ESV)

Nehemiah 2 - In the month of Nisan (Mar-Apr)...

"And the king granted me what I asked, for the good hand of my God was upon me." - Nehemiah 2:8 (ESV)

God opens millions of flowers without forcing the buds. It reminds us not to force anything, for things happen in the right time.

For Such A Time As This

"Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king, to beautify the house of the LORD that is in Jerusalem, and who extended to me his steadfast love before the king and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty officers. I took courage, for the hand of the LORD my God was on me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me." - Ezra 7:27-28 (ESV)

"Now I was cupbearer to the king." - Nehemiah 1:11b (ESV)

"Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, "Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews. For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"" - Esther 4:13-14 (ESV)