Dr. Jim Richards

Religion has tried to make us believe there is some special unique time in the future when all the factors are aligned, you have jumped through all the religious hoops and suddenly you find yourself in the perfect timing of God; then He will finally answer your prayer or meet your need. This type of thinking removes our focus from the Lord Jesus and His finished work to an endless pursuit of an elusive, nondescript, undefinable moment when it is safe to trust God. This entire concept of the timing of God is contradictory to the New Covenant which says: now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation (2 Corinthians 6:2). Sadly, we have reduced the word “salvation” to only apply to the “born again” experience. But salvation includes everything Jesus did for us on the cross: saved, healed, delivered, blessed, prospered, protected, set apart, and everything else included in our joint inheritance with Jesus. This means we are never waiting on God; He is always waiting on us to move from hope to fait