Five kind of waits/intimacy as a warrior bride of Christ:
1. Wait is to wait with quiet trust. It is a form of waiting that is built upon deep relational trust. When we have come to know the Lord well enough, our hearts can be still and trust in Him in the midst of life’s worst storms.
2. Wait is the more commonly thought of, “waiting patiently.” It is from the place of trust developed through intimate relationship that we come to know, without a doubt, that God will eventually come through, and we are content in the waiting.
3. Wait implies an active faith. We may possess a deep relational trust in God, but that faith requires action. We must wait on the Lord with action while being full of expectancy for what He has promised, rather than just sitting back and hoping or wondering if He will come through.
Your assurance that God will move compels you to live a life of radical obedience, make bold declarations, and take risky steps of faith without losing heart if there is a prolonged season before seeing any fruit. You rest assured in God’s promise that you and your generations will reap of what you sow.
4. Wait means “to be braided together with something or someone.” This is the kind of waiting referred to in Isaiah 40:31; “Those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength.” Wait here is translated from qavah in Hebrew, which means “to bind together by twisting; to become braided together.” Through this waiting we become one with the Lord.
In the waiting process that occurs from a relational position, the Lord draws us close to Him in such a way that our hearts become one.
Bound together like the strands of a cord, we feel the same emotions and think the same thoughts, resulting in a multiplication of strength for accomplishing His will. It is the fulfillment of Proverbs 16:3, “Roll your works on the Lord, commit and trust them completely to Him, and He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable with His will. And so shall your plans be established and succeed.” (Amplified Version)
5. Wait wasn’t “wait,” it was: “W-E-I-G-H-T.”
This refers to the heavy, substantive, weighty presence of God’s glory. The Hebrew word for glory actually means heavy or weighty.
The Lord is saying, “If you will learn to wait on me in these days—trusting, patiently, expectantly and becoming one with Me—I will come with the weight of my glory. I am coming to awaken cities and regions, and I will cause my weighty, shekinah, abiding glory to dwell among you and within you.
Just as Adam was crowned with My glory and saturated in My presence, bearing My image and likeness, so too, will I crown you with My glory. I will put my weighty presence on you, and you shall be My government in the earth.
You will walk in great authority and power with signs, wonders and miracles following.
As in the days of the book of Acts church, people will recognize Me through you and you will say, such as I have, I give to you (Acts 3:6.)
Now is the time for the sons of God to be made manifest in the earth and the whole earth filled with My glory! Now is the time; the masses are coming!”
For too long, we have lived far below the revelation God wants us to walk in. He’s now summoning us into a higher place of understanding, where we are fully aware that the God of glory lives inside of us, we are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and the same power that was in Jesus resides within us to perform and exceed His supernatural works.
The Lord desires to raise up many “heavyweight” men and women, who carry the cloud of God’s glory into every room and into every sphere of society, to deliver and transform entire nations!
He is waiting on you; are you willing to wait, wait, wait, wait on Him until the glorious weight of His presence and power intensifies within you? You may need to turn your TV or social media off for a season, or clear some things off your calendar so you can have more of Him, but I promise you, He is definitely worth waiting for!