Be Still...

 "Be still and know that I am God.....", (Psalms 46:10 ), inserted as edifying verse 

Credit :Rachael Mumo's Facebook 'Faith Remnants' devotional sermon 

Ever wondered why God mostly comes at the last minute when almost all hope is lost?…

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1

One of the most confusing and faith shaking patterns in Scripture is that God often comes when there is no time left. Not early. Not conveniently. But at the very edge, when human strength, options, and explanations have completely run out. This is not neglect. This is divine intention.

God does not arrive late. He arrives when He alone can be credited.

✅Look at Elijah on Mount Carmel. God did not answer when the altar was being built. He did not answer while the prophets of Baal were shouting. He waited until the sacrifice was laid, the altar repaired, the trench dug, and water poured again and again until fire was the only impossible outcome. God waited until the moment where fire could only be God. When heaven finally responded, it was not just fire, it was clarity. The people fell on their faces and said, “The Lord, He is God.” If God had answered earlier, the moment would have been impressive. But waiting made it undeniable.

✅Abraham and Isaac reveal something even deeper. God spoke early, but He acted late. Abraham walked for three days with the weight of obedience and unanswered questions. Isaac was bound. The knife was lifted. Only then did God speak again. Why not earlier? Because God was not just testing Abraham’s willingness to obey, He was revealing Himself as Jehovah Jireh. Some names of God cannot be known in advance. They are only revealed at the edge of loss. Provision is not proven until lack is total.

✅Daniel in the lions’ den shows another layer. God did not stop the decree. He did not shut the lions’ mouths before Daniel was thrown in. He allowed the night to pass. Scripture says Daniel spent the night in the den. Faith does not always mean immediate escape. Sometimes it means sustained preservation. God waited so that the testimony would not be that Daniel avoided danger, but that God rules over it.

✅The Hebrew boys were not saved from the fire. They were met in it. God waited until the flames were heated seven times hotter. The ropes burned off, but the bodies were untouched. Why? Because there are deliverances that only happen inside what should have destroyed you. If God had stopped the fire, Nebuchadnezzar would have never seen the fourth man. Some revelations of God require a furnace.

✅At the Red Sea, God waited until Pharaoh was behind them and water was before them. No side routes. No alternatives. Then He said, “Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.” God did not part the sea to make travel easier. He parted it to make trust unavoidable. When escape is possible, faith is optional. But when the sea is in front of you, faith becomes survival.

✅In John 11, Jesus deliberately stayed away. Lazarus was sick, and Jesus did nothing. Not because He lacked compassion, but because He was aiming for resurrection, not recovery. If Jesus had come earlier, He would have been praised as a healer. By waiting, He revealed Himself as the Resurrection and the Life. God sometimes allows things to die because what He intends to reveal cannot be seen while they are still breathing.

✅Even the cross follows this pattern. In John 19, heaven was silent while the Son of God hung bleeding. No angels intervened. No fire from heaven. Darkness covered the land. To the human eye, it looked like God had failed to show up. But the delay was not absence. It was redemption unfolding. If God had intervened early, there would be no salvation. God waited until death did its worst so that resurrection could do its best.

✅Hebrews 11 ties all of this together. It says some received their promise, and others died believing. Faith is not validated by speed. Faith is validated by trust. God’s timing is not designed to comfort the flesh. It is designed to mature the spirit. When He waits, He is not watching you panic. He is watching faith grow roots.

God often comes at the last minute because that is the only place where idols die, self reliance collapses, and faith becomes pure. Last minute spaces strip you of control and leave you with only one option: to believe that God is who He says He is.

So if you feel like you are at the edge, where nothing makes sense and time has run out, you are not abandoned. You are positioned. The last minute is often the doorway to the greatest revelation of God you will ever know.

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