“Wait on the Lord” (Psalms 27:14)

David probably wrote the 27th Psalm during  the fourteen years he waited on God to fulfill Samuel’s prophesy of his becoming king. Two times, God put King Saul directly into David’s hand, but David didn’t kill him. If it wasn’t for the Holy Spirit, he probably would have killed King Saul, and said, “the Lord gave him into my hand”. Just because God gives you an advantage, it doesn’t mean He wants you to take it. Men of God stumble when they interpret an unusual advantage as a license to sin. What they think is an opportunity, is really a test.

Some saints use Scripture to justify something they’ve already decided to do.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings” (Jeremiah 17:9-10).

Waiting until you have the peace of the Holy Spirit takes discipline. Your Old Man might say, “you’re a fool to wait!”, and your flesh says “strike while you can!” Call on God, and spread the case before Him; tell Him your difficulty, and expect Him to answer. Read Scripture and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the motives of your heart.

“The word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12).

The goal is to eliminate self-will. Say, “Even if you keep me many days, my heart is fixed upon You alone, God”. You need to reach the point you can sincerely say to God, “not My will, but Yours, be done” (Luke 22:42).