ANDREAS INSIGHTS

After waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised” (Hebrews 6:15 NIV). When you’re waiting on God, remember that you’re in good company. Billions of saints before you have sat in God’s waiting room. You’re not alone. In fact, if you’re in the waiting room right now — maybe you’re waiting on a job, on an answer, or on a prayer — there are a lot of other people around you who are in that same situation. Hebrews 11:2 says, “People who lived in the past became famous because of faith” (ICB) — and every one of those people had to wait. Think about Hannah, who had to wait years to have the baby that she was praying God would give her. Think about Joseph, who had a God-given vision of being a ruler from a very young age but spent years in a prison for a crime he did not commit. Think of Moses, who wandered in the wilderness for 40 years while he waited to receive his next assignment and to know his purpose in life.  Think about Noah, who waited 120 years before it rain

Faith is visualizing the future. It’s believing before you see it. Hebrews 11:1 says,  “Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see”  (NLT).  How will you see 2018 through eyes of faith? A lot of people say, “I’ll believe it when I see it!” God says the exact opposite is true: “You will see it when you first believe it.” There are many things in life that have to be believed before they can be seen.  In 1961, the Soviet Union sent the first cosmonaut into space. When the cosmonaut returned to Earth, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev declared they’d been to space and didn’t see any god there. About  10 months later , the United States sent John Glenn into space. He circled the earth three times on his Mercury mission, came back down, and told the world, “I saw God everywhere! I saw his glory in the galaxy. I saw his splendor in the universe. I saw his majesty in the stars.” Which one was right?