God Isn’t in a Hurry: Learning to Slow Down and Live
Overview
Why doesn’t God work more quickly? Can he have a purpose for making me slow down?
Here is encouragement for those times when you are impatient with your Christian walk.
In our instant society where we eat microwaveable meals and see serious problems resolved in less than half an hour on TV sitcoms, we resist waiting on the Lord. Yet God uses trials to test our patience and cultivate fruit in our lives.
Warren Wiersbe exhorts you to relax in God and enjoy the journey through life walking with him. Sometimes he leads down smooth, tranquil paths, but at other times he takes us on bumpy roads where we can’t see what lies ahead. This warm, insightful book gives practical instruction for sharpening your discernment, developing a powerful prayer life, being involved in a church on the move, and standing firm in the furnaces of life.
Periods of suffering, affliction, and dryness, are inevitable. God Isn’t in a Hurry encourages you to persevere through these times, believing that your loving heavenly Father will use them to conform you to Christ.
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- Discusses the nature of God and how he appears in daily life
- Examines your walk with God, prayer life, and involvement in the church
- Describes what it means to “Wait on the Lord”
- God Isn’t in a Hurry
- The High Cost of Shortcuts
- An Hour at a Time
- The Economy and Eternity
- Don’t Forget Today
- No Time for Second Opinions
- Contemporary or Temporary?
- “Quiet Time”—Quite a Time!
- Keep the Word in Your Mouth
- The Power Source
- Winning Your Wings
- The Furnaces of Life
- We’re a Bunch of “One-Persons”
- Wanted: Hinge People
- Four Familiar Fallacies
- Nothing but Manna?
- The Fact We Dare Not Ignore
- Church on the Move
- Learning to Listen
- Forgiven—And Enjoying It
- What’s in It for Me?
- Wanted: Discerning Christians
- The File-Card Mentality
- Speaking of Spiritual Things
- Remedy for Believer’s Burnout
- Weighing the Converts
- Take Your Stand—The Right Way
- Dig Up Those Bitter Roots
- One World at a Time
- Back to the Father and Home
Top Highlights
“All these things are against me,’ cried Jacob (Gen. 42:36) when, in reality, all things were working for him.” (Page 8)
“God has waited a long time for you to come along,’ he reminded me, ‘and he can wait until you graduate. Don’t sacrifice the permanent for the immediate.’” (Page 9)
“Corporate worship is only as good as what each person brings to it, and that means each of us must spend time alone with the Lord.” (Page 40)
“God must prepare us for what he prepares for us, and a part of that preparation is the furnace of affliction.” (Page 56)
“But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing’ (James 1:4)” (Page 7)
- Title: God Isn’t in a Hurry: Learning to Slow Down and Live
- Authors: Warren W. Wiersbe
- Publisher: Baker
- Publication Date: 1994
- Pages: 150
Warren W. Wiersbe (1929–2019) was an internationally known Bible teacher and pastor. He studied at Indiana University and Northern Baptist Theological Seminary and taught at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Grand Rapids Theological Seminary.
In 2002, Wiersbe was awarded the Jordon Lifetime Achievement Award by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. He was the former pastor of three churches, including The Moody Church.
For 10 years Wiersbe served as general director and Bible teacher for the Back to the Bible radio broadcast. He wrote more than 150 books, including the popular Old Testament "Be" Series and New Testament "Be" Series of expositional Bible studies, which has sold more than four million copies, and The Strategy of Satan.