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While We Wait Calvary Fellowship’S 2020 Fall Campaign While We Wait Calvary Fellowship’s 2020 Fall Campaign “The waiting is the hardest part” – Tom Petty Thanks to Covid-19 and quarantining, life in 2020 feels like it has been put on hold. So many of us find ourselves spending a lot of time waiting and hoping for normalcy, certainty, and stability to return. Speaking of return–a bigger picture event that followers of Jesus are waiting for is the return of Jesus as we long for His presence with us and the ultimate fulfillment of all of His promises to us. But what do we do while we wait for the pandemic to be over and our Savior to come back? In Calvary Fellowship’s 2020 Fall Campaign, While We Wait, we will talk about moving beyond just waiting out difficult times, and we’ll seek to engage in actively waiting on God in a way that can make us and our world better in the times we are in right now. We will emerge ourselves in this season of growing together as a church community as While We Wait becomes the focus of our Sunday messages, our Home Fellowship discussions, and this devotional which you are reading. To get the most out of this shared growth experience I encourage you to attend (in person or online) each Sunday service. Please join and engage in a Home Fellowship, and plan to keep up with the devotions in this resource. There are only two per week and they have been written by people within our church. While We Wait begins October 4 and concludes on November 29. Please pray that God will move powerfully in you and in our entire church during this time so our wait can be one of purpose rather than passivity. Pray that we will rise up in the wait to do and become all He has for us in this season. May God transform our lives and use us to be a redemptive force in the community all around us – even in the wait! Blessings, Bill LaMorey 1 Table of Contents Week 1 The week of Oct. 4 – “What Are We Waiting For?” 3-6 - Fernie Cosgrove Week 2 The week of Oct. 11 – “Wake Up!” 7-10 - Jaleith Gary Week 3 The week of Oct. 18 – “Grounded in God’s Word” 11-14 - Crystal Hall Week 4 The week of Oct. 25 – “Don’t be Anxious” 15-18 - Rumbi Masamvu Week 5 The week of Nov. 1 – “Stick Together” 19-22 - Bill LaMorey, Crystal Hall Week 6 The week of Nov. 8 – “Get to Work” 23-26 - Fernie Cosgrove Week 7 The week of Nov. 15 – “Hold on to Love” 27-30 - Kenny Legan Week 8 The week of Nov. 22 – “Grow Up!” 31-34 - Nicholas Leadbeater Week 9 The week of Nov. 29 – “Share What You Have” 35-38 - Sam Kim *Unless otherwise noted all scripture is NIV. 2 What Are We Waiting For? – Day 1 “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:21 We can all agree that 2020 has not looked like any of us planned. We came into this year full of expectations, plans and a vision that was quickly disrupted as a worldwide pandemic impacted our lives. All of our routines, plans, dreams, and I daresay hopes for the year quickly changed. Now we are in a season of waiting. But what are we waiting for? What are you waiting for? To start, I’d like to ask you to take an honest look at your life and answer: what are you waiting for? Write the first things that come to mind. The answers to this question reflect the position of our hearts. I can say with confidence that most of the things that we are waiting for are good. We long to see our loved ones, we pray for peace, we want all sickness to go away, we crave community and fellowship with one another, we want answers, we miss our normalcy, and we most likely wish things went back to the way they used to be. The things we had, the things we long for, the things we miss came from the hand of God! They were good and perfect things from our Heavenly Father. James 1:17 says, “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change life shifting shadows.” From this verse, I’d like to focus on three quick things. First, every good and perfect thing we have are gifts. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines gift as “something voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation.” They are unmerited, undeserved and we did not pay for it. God, in His grace, gave you and me every good thing we have. This may be hard for us to accept as we live in a culture that praises personal effort, sacrifice and guarantees that if you work hard enough you will get access to what you want. But as Christians, we have a different understanding. This leads to our second point: every good thing comes from our Heavenly Father. We need to recognize that all we have is an undeserved gift from God, and we need to treat it as such. More than that, we need to be able to recognize that if it all comes from God, our eyes need to focus on the giver of gifts not on the gifts themselves. Ouch, that is so hard! Especially when all we had and known has been taken away or changed for the rest of the year, or even longer. 3 How do we do this? How do we focus on God and not on what we have lost or are waiting for? James suggests that we are able to do this because God does not change like shifting shadows. Our third point is that we are able to wait on God because He does not change, our hope comes from the reality that we have a God who is steadfast, faithful, good, sovereign, holy and He does not change. The promises He has made to His people from the beginning of time remain the same today. He does not change! He is with us and He will not be taken away from us because of a pandemic. Praise be to God that He doesn’t change and that He is always with us! Please read Matthew 6:19-21. What are the treasures you have in your life? What does it say about the hope you have for the future? Please read 1 Peter 1:3-9. What kind of hope have we been given through the resurrection of Jesus Christ? What is the promise we are given about this hope and inheritance? (see v. 4). Brothers and sisters, while we wait, we have hope! Because Jesus died for our sins on the cross, conquered death through His resurrection, and now sits at the throne – we have hope! We have a living hope that can “never perish, spoil or fade” (1 Peter 1:4). And this is why we rejoice! Not because everything is the way we like it or because there are no trials in our lives. We rejoice in the middle of a global pandemic because our hope, our living hope, is in Jesus! And nothing, absolutely nothing, can take that away from us. “Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2). Let’s wait on him! Let’s wait on Jesus Christ! Prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, thank You for the cross. Thank You that because we’ve believed in Your sacrifice for us on the cross, we have been given a new and living hope. Thank You that through this very difficult year you remain the same and although we are suffering for a little while, You will sustain us and help us grow in our faith. Lord, we ask that You forgive us for waiting on things that will perish. Forgive us for putting our hope on the things we have instead of on the One who has given us these gifts. We pray that You help us set our eyes on You. We pray that You help us rejoice in the beautiful hope You have given us and that while we wait, we may be transformed for Your glory! In Jesus name we pray, Amen. 4 What Are We Waiting For? – Day 2 “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty’ who was, and is, and is to come.” Revelation 4:8 Waiting is hard and I am the first one to confess that I hate waiting. I know hate is a strong word, but I truly hate waiting. I am so impatient, and I tend to also be a bit of a control freak. At some points in my life, I’ve had three working agendas, so go figure. You must imagine that this season of COVID-19 has been truly challenging. But God in His mercy and daily grace has taught me to truly rely on God and wait on Him, instead of waiting on my circumstances. Please read Matthew 24:30-44. Through the gospels, Jesus spoke over and over about His second coming. He warned the disciples to be watchful and ready for His return. Although no one knows the time or the day of His return we are called to be waiting for it. As Christians, we are living in the now but not yet time of history. We are now saved, redeemed, washed by the blood of the lamb, have been made holy, and set apart as God’s people.
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