Obedience continued: Have you ever wondered just how long the disciples would have waited? “And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me” (Acts 1:4). I think they would have waited until especially after Jesus took Peter aside following his “I go a fishing” (cf. John 21:3).
Have you ever left wrongfully and “gone fishing” ahead of what the Lord would have you do? You know, ran to Tarshish instead of going to Nineveh like Jonah (Jonah 1); or took matter into your own hands instead of following the Lord’s direction like smiting the rock instead of speaking to it as did Moses (cf. Numbers 20:8-11). I think that after this third explicit time Jesus showed Himself to the apostles, probably within the first week of His resurrection coupled with the other 30 plus days afterward that that Jesus spoke things concerning the kingdom (cf. Acts 1:3) the disciples would have tarried in Jerusalem until.
Now is not the time to leave too early from our season of prayer; now is not the time to grow weary thinking revival will not come—it will come at the appointed time! “I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint…For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end–it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay” (Habakkuk 2:1, 3 ESV).
PRAYER FOCUS
God has spoken in His Word just what will take place; He desires revival and He desires salvation for His people. Pray Psalm 52:9 today, “I will thank you forever, because you have done it. I will wait for your name, for it is good, in the presence of the godly” and wait obediently.
