February 29

Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD! — Ps 27:14 BSB

How often do we hear this phrase in the Bible—yet how little we understand it! It’s what an old monk called “the practice of the presence of God.” It’s the habit of prayer, a continual communion that not only asks but receives.

Sometimes people ask us to pray for them, and we have to say, “God has already answered our prayer for you. Now you must take the answer.” It’s waiting for you, but you must claim it by waiting on the Lord.

This is what renews our strength, so we can “mount up with wings like eagles, run and not grow weary, walk and not faint.” Our hearts are too vast to take in all of God’s fullness at once. We must live in the atmosphere of His presence until we absorb His life. This is the secret to spiritual depth, rest, power, love, and prayer.

I am waiting in communion at the blessed mercy seat,
I am waiting, sweetly waiting, on the Lord;
I am drinking of His fulness; I am sitting at His feet;
I am hearkening to the whispers of His word.