Habakkuk 2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end, it shall speak, and not lie; though it tarry, wait for it because it will surely come.
Habakkuk is a great book of the Bible when it comes to vision. It talks about waiting for the revelation of the Lord, it “awaits an appointed time”.
“Wait” here means hope. In the Hebrew it is the word “hakah” meaning to wait in anticipation, waiting patiently for an expected event. This hope from God is a positive, confident expectation. Habakkuk 2:3 says that “it will surely come”. God’s hope is a sure thing!
It can be a struggle to just wait and do nothing. We don’t even like to wait a few minutes for the traffic lights to change or for the train to arrive. But to wait and receive the Lord’s revelation, the Lord’s way, in the Lord’s timing, is more important than anything we can do.
Whenever you are waiting for the Lord’s revelation – “prayer” is your answer.
So much of your prayer life involved waiting. Just waiting on the Lord, praying, giving Him the honor of your time, at the breaking of a new day. This daily routine of prayer, waiting on the Lord appears slow, almost inactive, like the slow walk of the camel through the desert. But that is the pace of God that brings breakthroughs into your life. Billions of people wake up every day and rush off to do their things. Like the story of the hare and the tortoise, the hare races off but it's the tortoise that comes first. God says the “last shall be first”.
Humanity today is probably the most harried and busiest we've ever been. Modern wisdom seems to be: ‘if we are not busy running in a circle breathing down the back of our own necks, we are not effective’. We have to be seen to be doing something! But how can you find time to just think, if you are always active? And for the Christian, how can you ever hear the Lord’s quiet, still voice, if you are always active?
Jesus said to His disciples ‘stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high’. (Luke 24:49) That’s what prayer does, it makes you slow down and clothes you with power. It is the power of the Lord that makes you effective.
When you resist the temptation to race ahead of God and simply slow down and wait on Him, you will see the Lord's power at work in your life and Him doing exceedingly and abundantly for you!