“Return, faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion.” Jeremiah 3:14 NIV
However, Holy Spirit reminded me of something very important: how can I ask for something, and not prepare for it. If I was going to ask God for friend, I needed to learn how to be good one.
So often, we hope that we have instant gratification from the things that we do. Yet, when it doesn’t reap anything immediately, we stop, we give up in the pursuit of what God has told us to do, or in my case who we are called to serve.
56 Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised. There has not failed one word of all His good promise, which He promised through His servant Moses. (1 Kings 8:56)