Why God's timing really is perfect.

Hillsong Australia- City Campus

God's timing. That can either stir your heart with excitement of what's to come or make you really uncomfortable... because waiting really isn't fun. But today I'm here to share with you my testimony on waiting and hopefully it encourages you deeply in knowing what's on the other side to your wait. I pray that you will feel confident upon reading this for what is coming for you! 

Ok, here we go...

Fall of 2018. I started college at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona. At the same time, God took me on this incredible journey in discovering what worshipping him meant. I started singing that year and had a newfound passion for it that I so eagerly wanted to develop. I also wrote a lot during the semester and found myself even crafting song lyrics as an overflow to what God was placing on my heart. It was absolutely mind-boggling to me because I've never done any of that before. Of course at the time I was so brand new to this whole musical side of myself that I simply did not know existed a couple months before that. (God's plan really is so spontaneous! I love it). With all of my newness to the concept of song and songwriting, I wanted to know more about it. I wanted to nurture that new craft and grow deeper in what I found God so naturally expressing through me. As December was coming around, my idea came to be to switch majors. I was a Pre-Med major wanting to swap on over to Worship Arts at GCU for my second semester in January (2019). So, I signed up and really thought it was going to fall through, I mean God started this in me and wouldn't He want me to grow this gift? But in the last second the door closed for that time. Yet, the entire door of GCU closed. It wasn't easy to understand why, but I soon came to a realization that maybe it wasn't the desire to grow in worship that was closed, but the timing and how God wanted me to do it.

Side note of utter encouragement: The thing about God is ... He WON'T disappoint! Yes maybe your timing was shut off, but may I assure you that there's a reason God is holding off for a bit. His timing is actually always right on time. Never late, never early... just perfect. He has faithfulness and loyalty in his DNA, and He can be trusted to keep his promises to you. He's created you to glorify him, and He's created us for community, relationships, big dreams, etc. So some of those desires you have, for example a God-honoring relationship, is from him! He will certainly fulfill your desires and it will be anything but disappointing! It will honestly be beyond your wildest dreams. That goes to say that we shouldn't be tied to the way and timeframe that we have made up in our mind for own plan, because that will only lead to our own disappointment. Psalm 37 says to commit to him your plans. Give him permission to do it his way and in his timing, knowing that He's a good Father that delights in you and will certainly give you that Ephesians 3:20 (exceedingly and abundantly more than we ask) kind of answer!

If you're feeling low in the wait, remember Romans 10:11: "Everyone who believes in Him will not be disappointed!"

Now let's get back to the story!

At my time away from GCU, I couldn't see it, but God was leading me to something immeasurably more than all that I have dreamed of. The wait was quite interesting though. During January-June of this year (2019), I wasn't doing anything worship related as I was attending a community college nearby, finishing some pre-recs. I honestly forgot about my worship/singing desire at that time because it was so pushed aside... but throughout that time God never forgot about it. Yet, I believe He was placing people and appointments in motion, so divinely structured, to get me to where He wanted me to be very soon. At the same time, God grew me in other crucial areas. I truly believe that God had to work on me before granting some heart desires. He also had to prepare me for the next season I was going to enter! Think about it, if God gave you what you wanted prematurely, before you were truly ready for it, that would really be a mess lol!

So here's where it gets crazy. Nearing the end of 2019. I surely did not see this coming in the beginning of the year, the fact that God has led me to somewhere beyond my wildest dreams... Sydney, Australia! At Hillsong college with the opportunity to pursue Him through worship! Out of the freaking country! Somehow God not only led me somewhere where I get to nurture my worship passion, but to a place that actually meets some other desires as well. I've always had a love for being near the beach, the city, and for little things like being able to see the sunset out of my window. Man, when it was God's timing, He gave me was 10000x better than what I planned last year!

I'm so glad that previous door was closed! This testimony serves to say that God's timing really is the perfect timing. So take heart my friends... never stop committing your plans to Him, knowing that He is a God that will fulfill your hearts desires + more. Exceeding them all! Trust His way of doing it! Trust the wait! Because one thing is for sure... He will never disappoint. 

Now, onto waiting for God's timing for the next thing... hehe!

Love you all!
Rithika, xx.