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**STUDY COURSE!!**
Now there's a Study Course to accompany You're Late Again, Lord! It's an 8-week course for your Sunday School Class, Bible Study, or other Ladies Group.
Availabe as a pdf file that you can print and distribute to your group members, the course follows the book, provides more items for discussions, and helps you furnish your "waiting room" with everything you'll need for your journey with the Lord.
Because this file is ready to be printed, you can buy one copy and then share it with your group! It's a cost-effective study to correspond with the popular book loved by readers everywhere.
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It's great for personal study and alone time with God, too!
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"The ideal situation would be to have Karon leading your group discussion on waiting rooms and growth while stuck there. However, her study guide is the next best thing! Want to dig deeper? Want to be encourgaged while you wait? Want to know why? Then this study guide is for you.
Understand what you need to be in order for God to teach you why you are waiting. Understand how to react the right way and open yourself for learning. Most of all, make your time in waiting productive by sharing with others who are struggling as well.
There is no greater experience than having others close who have been there or are also going through a wait. Karon's guide will bring you all together and inspire you to share and hold each other up before God in a unique time of need. The discussion topics will cause you to look deep inside of yourself and get to the root of the issues, as well as guide you through the most productive waiting time you have ever had. There is no greater learning experience and support network than these group discussions and the written inspiration from the word of God."
~~ Julie Bonn Heath
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"I am currently on my second time through, and the truths and piercing wisdom have helped me to feel God's peace in the midst of the turmoil. In fact, after reading your book, I have seen a dramatic difference in how I am handling this 'wait' as opposed to others in the past. Thank you, thank you! My goal is to share your book with all my friends."
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"You're Late Again, Lord! has changed my life, and I've passed several copies around to my close friends. It's an anointed book that will stay in my library forever."
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"This is a must–read book for anyone in a time of transition."
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"Thanks for going through the school of waiting, so others can benefit. You are writing my life. Your book is capturing the essence of what I thought God was trying to teach me. Now I have it in front of me."
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"It's exciting to think how many women you will help in their Waiting Rooms. So good!" Darlene Sala, author of Created for a Purpose and Encouraging Words for Women
"Your book has God's fingerprint all over it . . . a true blessing."
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"In a humorous fashion, Karon will show you that God works on His schedule, not yours. She also explains how to use this "waiting time" to your advantage. "You're Late Again, Lord!" will offer you inspiration, insight and inner peace." Kim Wilson, Co-author/Co-editor Living Miracles: Stories of Hope from Parents of Premature Babies
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 You're Late Again, Lord!
The Impatient Woman's Guide to God's Timing
Barbour Publishing, February, 2002
ISBN 1586604104
**An Exclusive Hardcover Edition now available from
Family Christian Stores**
by Karon Phillips Goodman
This book will show you how to wait purposefully -- by acknowledging God's greater perspective on your life, deepening your relationship with Him, and embracing the positive changes He desires for you. You'll be amazed at the blessings waiting can bring! |
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From the Introduction:
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
And in His word I do hope.
Psalm 130:5 (NKJV)
I have to be, with a doubt, one of the most impatient people our Lord ever put on this earth. Perhaps you're a close second, or Heaven forbid, even worse. We live, therefore, we wait. It seems endless. Forever we wait on something to happen in our lives - to get a job or to get a promotion, to quit a job or to move, to sell a house or to buy a house, to save money or to have children, to start school or to finish school, to get through a difficult time or to overcome a hurt - it's always something. Whoever said "life is short" must have never known the frustration of waiting forever on something that never seems to come.
Sometimes, our days feel like one long checkout line: constantly waiting, barely inching forward, unable to see the obstacles, doubtful of a satisfactory outcome in this lifetime. And then what we're waiting for comes or it doesn't, we adjust, recover and move on. But are we any better for the wait? Did we find the purpose the Lord had tucked so carefully inside? Did we listen to God and learn, or did we just complain about the circumstances?
Either way, when that wait is over, we shift our focus to a new wait, and the feelings are all very familiar. Again, we grow impatient. The cycle never ends. Through all the delays that we misunderstand, we never seem to get very far from where we started. We stand still on the path that matters most. The waiting is nothing more than a time of frustration. We argue with our Lord over his timing and fail to see that every day is a chance, full of purpose - even if we're waiting. Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. (Proverbs 19:21 NIV)
Yet we resist, complain and sometimes get quite angry. Desperate for God's touch, we move farther from him when we should be moving closer. Do you ever find yourself in that kind of cycle - angry, frustrated and anything but patient for God?
If you do, welcome to the club, the Impatient Women's Club. Our numbers swell daily when we are forced to abandon our normal plan of attack and wait on God. We have become so accustomed to ordering and orchestrating and planning and scheduling that it is incredibly hard to admit that not all is within our control. Many decisions every day are ours to handle, and we get pretty good at taking care of things. We believe that we could carry on even better if God would only cooperate. We demand the answers we need from him, and yet we hear no response. We question and condemn the intolerable delays in the events we need to happen in our lives, and yet nothing changes. Doesn't God know that we need those answers NOW?
Yes, he knows, but thankfully, he's smarter than we are. Because he knows how hard it is for us to wait, to abandon control and to trust beyond ourselves, he has devised a plan just for us. The basis of the plan appeared many years ago, but it applies so well today, to you and me. God is so clever.
Your waiting doesn't have to be unproductive - he knows our workhorse hearts. He knows our need to do while we wait. So when your life is at a standstill over what you can't control, and when you're waiting on answers that never seem to come, God says to use that time to work where you are. God says to learn the art of waiting purposefully. Maybe that's what God had in mind all along. Maybe that's why we wait.
Our stubborn hearts resist the wait, yet there is no need. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. (1 Corinthians 15:58 NKJV) We do steadfast and immovable pretty well, don't you think? In this case, the instruction is to "stand firm" and not be swayed from God's work. The instruction is to follow God instead of trying so very hard to hurry him up.
When we ignore God's work for us, we misuse our valuable time and yet can't understand why we have to wait over and over and over again. You know the feeling. You see the waiting as an inconvenience, but instead, it is a gift. There is no better time than waiting time to learn how to become the disciple God needs and the follower you want to be. Your work during that time is the vehicle that will get you closer to God, if you let it. The Lord, in his generosity and compassion, has already provided everything you need. You can uncover the amazing blessings the waiting brings.
Beware, though, because the plan God has provided takes work. It's no quick fix. Waiting purposefully means working while you wait, following God's word and surrendering to his will. It means focusing on his view, not yours. It means coming face to face with God, in all his glory and all your humility. It rarely means waiting for what you think you're waiting for, but don't ever be afraid: the reward is worth the work, and you don't have to wait. You can start now.
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Table of Contents
- Part 1:
The Highly Over-rated Virtue of Patience
- Part 2:
Gathering Your Tools
- Part 3:
Knowing Who You Are
- Part 4:
Rediscovering the Guidance That's Hidden by Doubt
- Part 5:
Rediscovering the Courage That's Hidden by Fear
- Part 6:
Rediscovering the Peace That's Hidden by Worry
- Part 7:
When the Waiting Is Over
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