Why God Delays the Blessing You’re Praying For
This message teaches that one of the greatest problems in the Christian life is bad timing—doing the right thing at the wrong time or trying to force life according to personal ambition rather than God’s plan. God has a perfect timing for every aspect of life: salvation, relationships, promotion, suffering, blessing, and even discipline.
Believers get into trouble when they refuse to wait on God and instead operate through inordinate ambition, lust, competition, or emotional reaction. Even good desires—success, marriage, prosperity—become destructive when pursued outside God’s timing. Bad timing leaves believers spiritually unprepared for disaster, suffering, and testing.
True wisdom comes from consistent intake and application of Bible doctrine, which teaches believers the proper time and procedure for every situation (Ecclesiastes 8:5–6). When timing is right, even adversity becomes an opportunity for spiritual growth and glorifying God. When timing is wrong, believers fragment under pressure.
The life of Joseph illustrates God’s timing: imprisonment, delay, and injustice were part of God’s preparation. Joseph was kept in the dungeon until he stopped trying to deliver himself and learned to trust God completely.
God promotes believers only in His time, not theirs. While waiting, believers are called to be faithful in the little things, humble, disciplined, and organized around doctrine. Promotion—whether in life, relationships, or vocation—comes from God alone.
The message also warns against judging others, seeking revenge, or demanding immediate justice. God handles judgment perfectly and on His schedule. Believers are to trust the Supreme Court of Heaven and wait.
Bad timing is seen when believers neglect doctrine, chase emotional stimulation, reject sound teaching, or replace truth with feel-good religion. Such believers may be saved but waste their time on earth and miss the fullness of God’s plan.
Good timing means a life synchronized with God’s will, plan, and purpose through faithful perception, metabolization, and application of doctrine.
Bad timing means a life out of sync, driven by self, resulting in instability, confusion, and spiritual failure.
The message concludes with a call to recover God’s timing through grace, prayer, humility, and renewed commitment to doctrine, reminding believers that as long as they are alive, it is never too late to realign with God’s plan.
MC42 615 Doc: Problems & problem solving, part 11. Good timing vs. bad timing.
Ecc 8:5-6; 7:17; 3:17; Psa 9:9; 37:39.
Date: 02-11-1993 Why God Delays the Blessing You’re Praying For
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