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Waiting with Purpose
Wait with faith, not frustration—there's power in the pause.
Gospel Letters
May 08, 2025
"And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, 'which,' He said, 'you have heard from Me."
Dear Friend,
Let’s pause the scene:
Jesus had risen triumphantly from the grave, appeared to His disciples over forty days, and then instructed them to wait.
Just … wait…
After witnessing history's greatest miracle, after their hearts had soared with the reality of resurrection, they were told to pause.
Not to go, not to do, but to wait. In a culture that prizes immediate action and visible progress, this command seems almost counterintuitive—yet it was the doorway to their greatest empowerment.
This waiting wasn't passive or purposeless. The Greek word used here—perimeno(G4037) —to wait for; suggests an active, expectant waiting, a remaining in place with anticipation.
The disciples weren't merely passing time; they were positioning themselves for promise. Christ knew what they could not: that the waiting itself was sacred preparation. Without the ten-day pause between Ascension and Pentecost, they would not have been vessels ready to receive the outpouring that would transform them from fearful followers into fiery witnesses.
 | Your season of waiting is not divine indifference—it is divine preparation. Every delay has design. Every pause has purpose. The Father is not withholding from you; He is readying you. |
As Smith Wigglesworth, that mighty apostle of faith, once declared, "God never intended His people to be ordinary or commonplace. His intentions were that they should be on fire for Him, conscious of His divine power, realizing the glory of the cross that foreshadows the crown."
Your waiting room is actually God's preparation room, where your capacity is being enlarged for the very promise you await.
What if, instead of resisting these waiting seasons, we leaned into them with holy expectation?
What if we saw them not as divine neglect but as divine investment?
The same Jesus who told the disciples to wait is telling many of us the same thing today. And just as their waiting culminated in tongues of fire and a harvest of souls, your faithful waiting will result in an outpouring that accomplishes far more than your striving ever could.
For reflection: What "upper room" has God called you to wait in right now? How might you transform your frustration into expectation, knowing that this waiting is actually preparation for promise?
Take time today to pray, "Lord, show me what You're preparing in me during this waiting season."
Writing always with Love and Light,
– The Living Gospel Letters Team