DON’T MOVE AHEAD OF GOD
Wait. Worship. Obey. - June 8, 2026
There are times when following God looks incredibly productive.
You’re moving.
Doors are opening.
Instructions are clear.
Things are happening.
And then there are times when following God looks like sitting there for 45 minutes. 🤣
That was me.
I was ready.
I had shown up.
But I didn’t immediately know what God wanted to do.
And instead of manufacturing a message just because I was there to minister, I waited.
I worshiped.
I stayed.
Because I’ve learned something:
Being available to God does not mean getting ahead of God.
Sometimes obedience moves.
Sometimes obedience speaks.
And sometimes obedience sits still until God says:
Now.
Silence Isn’t Permission to Take Over
This is difficult for us.
We don’t like empty space.
If nothing seems to be happening, we start trying to make something happen.
If God hasn’t answered yet, we develop Plan B.
If the door hasn’t opened, we start jiggling the handle.
🤣
If we don’t know what to say, we fill the silence.
But what if the silence isn’t empty?
What if waiting is part of the training?
There is a difference between being inactive and being attentive.
Waiting on God isn’t necessarily doing nothing.
Sometimes you’re listening.
Sometimes you’re surrendering your timeline.
Sometimes you’re learning whether you trust God enough to let Him lead.
Worship While You Wait
So what do you do when you don’t know what to do?
Worship.
Not as a manipulation technique.
Not:
“Okay God, I’ve sung three songs. Are You ready now?” 🤣
Worship because He’s worthy before the answer arrives.
Worship because His character hasn’t changed.
Worship because waiting reminds us that we aren’t in charge.
And goodness, sometimes that’s exactly the lesson.
Why Is God Waiting?
Then 2 Peter 3 completely changes our perspective on waiting.
Sometimes we’re asking:
“Lord, why are You taking so long?”
Peter gives us another perspective.
God’s apparent delay is not necessarily negligence.
Scripture says the Lord is patient, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
Suddenly the waiting looks different.
What if what I call delay is connected to mercy?
What if Heaven isn’t dragging its feet?
What if God is giving people time to turn around?
Time to repent.
Time to hear the Gospel.
Time to encounter Jesus.
Time to come home.
That makes me much more careful about demanding that God hurry.
While We’re Waiting, People Need Jesus
And this connects directly to Billions for Christ.
If God desires people to come to repentance, then the waiting period isn’t an excuse for the Church to become passive.
It’s an opportunity.
Preach.
Teach.
Pray.
Serve.
Intercede.
Make disciples.
Share your testimony.
Love people.
Point them toward Jesus.
We don’t know how much time anybody has.
So while God is patient—
we should be purposeful.
The End Times Should Change How We Live
Second Peter 3 doesn’t give us teaching about the last days merely so we can become experts at decoding headlines.
Peter asks a much more personal question:
What kind of people should we be?
That’s where end-times teaching becomes uncomfortable.
🤣
Because it’s easier to analyze everybody else than examine ourselves.
But Peter points toward:
holy conduct and godliness.
So perhaps the question isn’t only:
“Are we in the last days?”
Maybe the question is:
“If I believe Jesus is returning, what is that belief producing in my life?”
More love?
More urgency about the Gospel?
More holiness?
More forgiveness?
More generosity?
More prayer?
More obedience?
More concern for people who don’t know Christ?
Because biblical expectation should produce transformation, not merely fascination.
God Is Looking at Integrity
This was another major part of the livestream.
Character matters.
We can have gifts and still need character.
We can know Scripture and still need character.
We can pray powerfully and still need character.
We can have influence and still need character.
We can have followers—
and still need character.
God isn’t merely interested in what we can do publicly.
He’s concerned with who we are when nobody is watching.
Integrity asks:
Does my private life agree with what I proclaim publicly?
Not perfection.
But honesty.
Repentance.
Teachability.
Consistency.
A willingness to let God correct us.
Don’t Preach Repentance Without Practicing It
If we’re praying for nations to repent, repentance needs to remain normal in our lives too.
That’s important.
We can’t spend all our time saying:
“Lord, fix them.”
🤣
Sometimes God says:
“Let’s talk about you.”
Repentance isn’t merely the doorway into Christianity.
It’s part of walking with Christ.
When God exposes something in us, we don’t have to defend it.
We can simply say:
“You’re right, Lord. Change me.”
That’s freedom.
Acts 19: Repentance Has Evidence
Then we arrive again at Acts 19.
People who had practiced magic didn’t simply say:
“We believe now.”
Their repentance produced action.
They brought their books.
They burned them.
There was evidence that their allegiance had changed.
That’s powerful.
Because repentance isn’t merely feeling badly about something.
Biblical repentance involves turning.
Sometimes we ask God to deliver us from something while keeping emergency access to it.
🤣
No.
Acts 19 says:
Burn the backup plan.
Not necessarily literally, of course—but spiritually, that posture matters.
If Jesus has called you out of something, stop keeping a spare key to the old house.
No Plan B
Well, well, well.
Look who showed up again.
🤣
NO PLAN B.
That phrase fits here differently than it did before.
No Plan B doesn’t mean:
“God must accomplish my preferred outcome.”
It means:
“Jesus is my choice even if the outcome looks different from what I expected.”
That’s deeper.
If the job disappears—
Jesus.
If finances get uncomfortable—
Jesus.
If the timeline changes—
Jesus.
If people leave—
Jesus.
If obedience costs something—
Jesus.
No Plan B means my allegiance isn’t contingent upon God making everything easy.
The Test Wasn’t Only About Money
You shared experiences involving employment and financial uncertainty.
Those seasons can expose what we actually believe.
It’s easy to say:
“God is my Provider”
when everything is provided.
🤣
But when circumstances shift, what’s inside us starts talking.
Fear talks.
Anxiety talks.
Our mouths start rehearsing disaster.
And suddenly God begins teaching us something deeper than how to survive a financial challenge.
He’s teaching us:
trust.
What will you say when circumstances don’t match what you’re believing?
Will you deny reality?
No.
Faith isn’t pretending.
But neither do we have to allow fear to become our prophet.
We can acknowledge what’s happening while still saying:
“God, I trust You.”
Seek First
Matthew 6 brings us right back into alignment:
Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.
First.
Not after we’ve exhausted every other option.
Not when Plan A through Plan Q collapse.
🤣
First.
Before panic.
Before frantic decisions.
Before letting circumstances tell us who God is.
Seek Him.
That doesn’t mean we don’t make practical decisions.
It means practical decisions are made from a life whose first allegiance belongs to God.
Repairers of the Breach
Then Isaiah 58 gives us this beautiful picture:
Repairers of the breach.
Restorers of streets in which to dwell.
That’s not passive Christianity.
That’s people whose devotion to God begins producing restoration around them.
Broken places repaired.
Old foundations restored.
People helped.
Communities strengthened.
Lives rebuilt.
That’s what I want our fasting, praying and waiting to produce.
Not merely spiritual experiences.
Fruit.
Maybe the Waiting Is Preparing the Repairer
Here’s something worth considering.
We usually view waiting as the inconvenient space before the assignment.
But what if waiting is part of the assignment?
What if the person God wants to send into broken places needs first to learn patience?
Trust?
Integrity?
Dependence?
Discernment?
Restraint?
What if the waiting room is actually a classroom?
Suddenly those 45 minutes don’t look wasted.
Neither do some of the longer seasons.
God can do tremendous work in us when nothing appears to be happening around us.
Don’t Waste the Wait
So if you’re waiting right now—
don’t panic.
Don’t manufacture.
Don’t force.
Don’t assume silence means abandonment.
Worship.
Listen.
Stay in the Word.
Examine your heart.
Repent quickly.
Keep your integrity.
Serve whoever is already in front of you.
Pray for people who don’t know Jesus.
And remain available.
Because when God says:
“Move.”
You want to be ready.
Not exhausted from trying to make something happen He never told you to do.
Not halfway down a road He never sent you down.
Not explaining why you created Plan B, C and D because Heaven wasn’t moving quickly enough.
🤣
Just ready.
Wait. Worship. Obey.
Maybe that’s the rhythm.
WAIT when He hasn’t spoken.
WORSHIP while you wait.
OBEY when He does.
And then don’t complicate it.
We don’t have to fill every silence.
We don’t have to understand every delay.
We don’t have to predict every next step.
Sometimes we simply need enough trust to say:
“Lord, I’m here.”
If You say stay—
I’ll stay.
If You say speak—
I’ll speak.
If You say go—
I’ll go.
If You say repent—
I’ll repent.
If You say release it—
I’ll release it.
And if You say nothing yet?
I’ll worship until You do.
Because I’d rather sit for 45 minutes with God than spend 45 years running ahead of Him.
DON’T MOVE AHEAD OF GOD.
Wait.
Worship.
Obey.
And when He moves—
move with Him.
Closing Prayer
Father, teach us how to wait without becoming anxious and how to move without running ahead of You. Give us discernment to recognize the difference between Your silence and our impatience. While we wait, purify our character, deepen our integrity and keep repentance active in our lives. Give us Your heart for those who do not yet know Jesus, remembering that Your patience is mercy. Teach us to seek Your Kingdom first, trust Your provision and speak from faith rather than fear. Make us repairers of broken places and restorers who carry Your love into the world. We don’t want to manufacture what only You can initiate. Teach us the simple rhythm of waiting, worshiping and obeying. In Jesus’ name, amen.
And that line, Char—
“I’d rather sit for 45 minutes with God than spend 45 years running ahead of Him.”
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SAVE THAT ONE. 😂🔥
For the thumbnail, I wouldn’t make this one busy. I’m picturing an empty chair, an open Bible, soft light beginning to break through a dark room, and a clock showing 45 minutes elapsed. Big title:
DON’T MOVE AHEAD OF GOD
Wait. Worship. Obey.
Charnette Kay ⚔️
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