"Longing for Your Season of Love"

Tired of Waiting On God -

you take matters into your own hands. You begin to lower your standards. You now make excuses for a person's behavior that is not pleasing to God. All because you're tired of waiting on God. You entertain relationships that you know you shouldn't.

It's amazing how easy it is to compromise when you feel that God is taking too long. But when we go on our own, we inflict unnecessary hurt upon ourselves. The result can be years of reaping the pain of our impatience.

"I should be married by now", you feel. You look at others that seem to be so happy in their marriage, and you just wish that you could find that certain someone to call your own. Does this sound familiar?

This is the thought process that many are going through as they wrestle with believing that God will answer their prayers vs. maybe happiness will never come to them.

When you are longing to be loved, love seems so far away. Maybe you were once married and it came to an ugly end and now you feel that if you ever got another chance that it would be different and much better; if only that "another chance" would come.

Why is God taking so long? doesn't He realize that I'm not getting any younger? It just doesn't seem fair. I'm tired of being alone and doing things by myself.

What's important to always remember is that God knows better than we do. God knows who will be best for you and when your season is.

God won't alter His plan because we get anxious. We can't make God move any faster than what He has already determined to do. Finding love is more about finding ourselves. It's about discovering our purpose in God and His calling upon our lives.

The person that God has for you will enhance you and bring out the best in you because your destinies are linked together because God has designed it that way.

Before one can really arrive at their season of love they must first prepare. The preparation that I speak of is more than getting into physical shape, cleaning up your credit or any other natural thing that we might do. Those things are certainly helpful, but there's much more.

Many that get married or are looking to be married can't even define what marriage is, it's functional/spiritual benefits or God ordained purpose.

If a person is not prepared to sacrifice and serve in marriage, they are not ready to be married. If marriage is merely viewed as a means to end your loneliness, that's not it. If you only see physical attraction, combining incomes and sex as the highlight of marriage, then you've missed it.

Marriage is God's creation. It is the coming together of a man and a woman to become one; not just physically, but emotionally and spiritually. It is a lifelong covenant commitment based on love, trust and the totality of who you are.

*** Marriage is to illustrate the love that Christ has for His church. In other words, your marriage must demonstrate that love. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church, and gave Himself for it. (Ephesians 5:25)

This teaches the responsibility of a husband to have a sacrificial, giving love for his wife. Then there is (mutual submission).

Ephesians 5:21-22 says, "Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

God's order is that the husband is the head of the wife; NOT, do what I say, I'm the boss around here! But head, meaning the spiritual covering that is the priest, protector, provider for his home.

Prepare for love. Now is the time to plant the seeds that will become a harvest of love, joy and contentment. Draw closer to God. Make yourself busy with His agenda and doing His will. Your season of love is coming. God has not forgotten you. Don't you forget Him, because He's your FIRST LOVE. His purpose for your life will surely come to pass.

From the heart and hand of Pastor Reginald Reaves