God’S Waiting Room: Learning to Trust Him When You Can’T Trace Him
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This guidebook compares waiting for Gods guidance to waiting for a doctor. You can learn the essentials of waiting and ways to determine your number in line. Discover how to
make an appointment with God; recognize the consequences of missing an appointment; live a healthy and prosperous life; and help others move toward the Lord.
There are doctors for every physical ailment under the sunbackaches, stomachaches, and even heartaches. But when your problem requires divine intervention, you need a spiritual doctor who can give you the medicine you need.
Live a more spiritual life, and improve your life, health, and outlook on life. It all begins by going where you can get the right treatmentGods Waiting Room.
Ashanta Washington
Ashanta Washington resides in New Orleans, LA. She has always enjoyed writing and is very talented in poetry and motivational speaking. During Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005, Ashanta gave birth to her daughter Janese Washington, with her home destroyed and family displaced, Ashanta was forced to rebuild alone. Through it all her faith has become strong and steady in the Lord. During uncertain circumstances she always knew she could trust God when she could not trace Him. Almost 9 years later, Ashanta is still standing and growing in the things of the Lord. She works full-time in ministry and is passionate and dedicated about using her testimony to help lead others to Christ. Ashanta can be reached by: Facebook.com/ashanta210 Twitter @Gods_Grace4me
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God’S Waiting Room - Ashanta Washington
GOD’S WAITING ROOM
LEARNING TO TRUST HIM WHEN YOU CAN’T TRACE HIM
Copyright © 2012, 2014 Ashanta Washington.
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iUniverse rev. date: 01/29/2014
DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to Prophet Robert Charles Blakes, Sr.
Thank you for the wisdom you have imparted in me. For teaching me that in all that I do, do it in faith; for even when faith doesn’t make sense it does make miracles.
Your soul is at rest.
I love you, Pastor.
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My life is likened to a skyscraper.
I stand tall and fall back.
Faith tells me to fall because God will catch me,
but a lifestyle of faith instructs me to fall
because it is only God who is holding me up.
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Ashanta Washington, February 2012
Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.
—Proverbs 3:23 KJV
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Do You Need a Doctor?
2. Making Your Appointment
3. The Waiting Room
4. The Examination Room
5. Following Doctor’s Orders
6. Rest
Spoken Word: Poems by the Author
Acknowledgments
First, I give honor to the true and living God, who has never left nor forsaken me. It is my earnest desire that the life I live, despite my faults, gives you glory.
I thank my family and friends for always seeing something in me, so that even when I fell short, you helped me to get back up again.
To my church family, New Home Ministries, thank you for the support and prayers. Special thanks to Pastor Samuel R. Blakes and Dr. Jamal H. Bryant.
To my beautiful daughter, Janese,who always reminds me of God’s great grace. I love you so much, and I am blessed among women to be called your mother.
Thanks to everyone for the prayers, close and distant love, most of all, the support!
From the heart of my soul,
Ashanta
Preface
There is one person everyone seems to need—a doctor. If you ever want to know what is going on with your body, your best chance of finding out is to consult a doctor.
There are doctors for backaches, stomachaches, even heartaches. But what happens when the source of your problems is spiritual? Where do you go when your physician can’t help because he can’t see what troubles you? Is there a kind of doctor you can contact in those moments? Is there medicine for when your spirit is under attack and slowly dying, when you notice that everything on the outside is going well, but you still cannot seem to feel joy? Where do you go when things seem to be moving in your favor, but you still feel disturbed and don’t know why? Maybe the doctor you need deals not with the physical but the spiritual. People spend so much energy on eating right, thinking right, and getting things right immediately. What happens when your spirit is not on a strict diet or is out of control? Where is the place your spirit can been seen and attended to?
Just as Nokia cannot fix your iPhone or Honda cannot repair your Bentley, so is it with the spirit. Your cardiologist cannot diagnose the problems associated with your spiritual heart; your eye doctor cannot prescribe a lens for your spirit. You must try the spirit by the Spirit. You must seek what is hidden to the natural eye. Pursue what cannot be caged. It is time for you to know what the Lord says.
God’s Waiting Room is a place where you learn the process of