The Trials of the Waiting Room by kierra smith-denham

Author:kierra smith-denham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

Monday, August 29, 2016

Yesterday, my husband woke and confirmed that he would be attending the evening service at church. I agreed to ride with him, but he said, “No, drive your own car because you’re not ready when I’m ready to go.” Since I want to understand his position and encourage him and not discourage him, I make a compromise. “Well Babe, if you’re the driver then I’ll have to leave church when my ride is ready to leave church.” He says, “Yeah ok, and if not then you’ll need another ride home.”

Why do men have to be so extra? I already said that I was going to leave when he was ready. Previously, there were several reasons why I wouldn’t leave church when he was ready:

1. He is never the driver.

2. If the Spirit is moving, then it’s usually a distraction from the devil that’s trying to pull me from the service to stop my husband from getting what he needs from God.

Often, wives can tap into the spirit a lot quicker than husbands because by nature, a wife is a seeker. More often than not, it’s the wife who sanctifies the husband. In order to do so, she has to go through sanctification, first. What am I saying?

I’m saying that sanctification is a process. When a wife is processed, it brings her to the throne of God. Her process makes her stay at the feet of Jesus in order to endure it. That means, she understands how to command her spirit to tap into the spiritual realm, quickly. Or, she waits because she knows that sometimes, God requires you to tarry.

Tarrying is when you wait and linger until something happens - until God’s presence comes. Men aren’t patient by nature. There are very few men that I’ve encountered who are patient. And if they are patient, then they are older in age. They aren’t 27 year olds like me or 32 year olds like my husband. On this journey, I’ve had to learn how to be patient and wait on God. While my husband and everyone else is worked up about how long the process is taking - my entire argument with him is, You owe God something for what you’re asking Him to do.

Some people teach that we are to praise God because of and not in spite of. Those who praise God because of, have an entitlement spirit with no idea that praise should be done in spite of. Therefore, when things don’t happen the way that we feel they should, we aren’t upset with God. Why? Because, we understand that praise should continually be in our mouths.

Nonetheless, we get to church and the Word is good. Bishop preaches for about an hour and before he concludes, he tells my husband:

“ Boss, you’ve had a struggle with going from carnal to spiritual, from single to a husband, and soon you’ll be a father, thus saith the Lord. While you have some friends and brothers, you seem to be the senior spiritual one out of everyone.

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