This week, I’m diving deep into what it means to truly wait on God. We live in a world where we’re always on the go, but sometimes, God calls us to slow down and listen. It’s not always easy—trust me, I struggle with it too! But the grace we find in that quiet waiting can be life-changing.

Join me as I talk about how I’ve navigated moments of feeling distant from God, and what I’ve learned about hearing His voice in the stillness. We all need patience, fortitude, and hope, and I hope this episode helps you find some in your own journey.

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📚 Bible verses for reflection:

Psalm 130:5 – “I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in His word I put my hope.”

Isaiah 40:31 – “But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”

Micah 7:7 – “But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.”

Matthew 10:30 – “But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.”

Luke 22:44 – “And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly; and His sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.”

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Hello my friends and welcome back to another episode of just a guy in the pew. I am your host John Edwards and I’m super excited to be back in the studio putting down another episode that hopefully you and those around you will enjoy. But folks this week I’m going to be doing it by myself. Victor and I were both traveling last weekend.

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Because we’ve got almost 300 episodes now, right? That’s a lot of stuff to have talked about and sometimes I can feel the pressure of what are you going to talk about next and I don’t try to just go searching for something I oftentimes just try to look at my own life and See where God is moving in it or the things that i’m experiencing myself and realizing that you know we’re all human beings.

We’re all You know, we all go through the same things. We all deal with similar things. And so I try to look there in my own experiences to try to share what’s going on in this week is no different. And if you were listening to the show last week, that Victor and I put out a show on persevering in desolation.

And we talked about. What it was like in those moments where it feels like god is abandoned you or left you or you can’t feel god And the truth of it as we said is god never really abandons you there’s a lot of times in our life where we’re looking for god or we’re looking for answers and it could seem like we’re waiting on god and that’s the thing.

I want to talk about this week is waiting on god I mean it is You know, desolation, consolation, all those things. We could feel like we’re waiting on answers. And a lot of times in our life, we have a decisions or places we’ve come to where we need to lean on God. And we’re trying to, when we go to him in prayer and we’re trying to listen or feel him and this past weekend, I, in Muncie, even I was talking about this.

One of my talks I was talking about spiritual warfare and the different voices, that we can hear in our head and in our lives. And, I always talk about how the devil is the loud one, and he’s usually You know sitting there accusing us or are trying to convince us that we’re never no better than our worst sins and How loud he is and how he could say things like you can’t you won’t you never you know You shouldn’t you don’t deserve you’re not worthy All those things he says but I talked about hearing our own voice like distinguishing between his and our voice and then especially listening for god’s voice And after I, was through with that talk, we were on a short break and waiting for the third talk of the mission, the one on relationship with Christ, one of the guys came up to me and he said, Hey, you were talking about the voices and man, I could totally feel what you’re saying about the devil.

I experienced that in my life. And just those negative voices that we hear, the negative voice, it’s of the evil one. He said, but you mentioned like listening for God and that God’s in the whisper. And I, I was talking about in the old Testament, how, Elijah didn’t hear God in the storm or the fire and the earthquake or whatever.

He heard him in the whisper and the silence and that still quiet voice. And that’s the way I’ve heard God so often in my life. God doesn’t show up with a bullhorn most of the time and go, Hey, you look at me and listen. Although we probably all would wish that because it’d be much easier to find his voice and make decisions and, get that confirmation that we’re making the right choices and moving in the right direction.

But oftentimes it’s not that way. It never really has been in my life. It’s been this. Small whisper in and a lot of times the times where I’ve heard God has been where either one of my own volition and my own choice slowing down and stopping and Trying to be more present to him or in the case of going to jail where he actually sat me down in a place where I had to slow down and that’s the thing like Not only do we need to persevere as we talked about last week in desolation just persevere in seeking god But there’s another aspect to it We need to be patient in our waiting on God, right?

That’s the thing we have to wait for. And that’s what I told that man. I said, look, here’s the thing. It’s hard to hear that whisper because we’re never willing to slow down. I, we live in a world that tells us to go more than ever. And we feel like we have to be doing something all the time to, to be productive, right.

To show something for our work. I don’t know about you guys, but I always feel like in my life, I have to go. If I sit down and I stop what I’m doing, even for a second. To enjoy something or just to be still I feel guilty there’s something I should always be doing if i’m at home there should be some laundry or I should be cooking dinner or I should be doing yard work or I should be, you know tidying up around the house or You know doing something like I really feel guilty a lot For sitting there and not doing anything on purpose like being idle And I know that we hear idle hands are the work of the devil And that’s what i’m talking about like people saying look you need to be doing something You need to be doing something But God didn’t make us human doers.

He made us human beings. And this is something we’ve talked about before on the show. And while yes, there is merit to making sure the time you spent is a value and you’re getting things done that you need to get done, right? That we’re not being lazy or slothful. There’s a point to that. But there’s a difference too in between being lazy and slothful and actually taking time that we have purposely set aside for being with God to wait on him.

All right. And part of the reason we don’t want to slow down is because we actually have to start thinking about things in our life that maybe we don’t want to. Like it’s in those slow moments that things start to bubble up that need our attention. And oftentimes we don’t want to give our attention to those things.

So we busy ourselves to take our mind off of it, right? When there’s bad things going on in our life, or when there’s a decision that we’re waiting to come down for some way, or we don’t want to sit and ponder and just fixate on that, so we want to busy ourselves, and that’s a good thing for some, but for others, we can get so busy that we never sit to listen to God, and that’s the thing.

He is found in that whisper. He’s found in that stillness. That’s also why the devil, the world, and the flesh around us try to put everything around us to keep us from being with God. Everything to distract us, like these stupid things here, these phones, the ding and you got emails one second and notifications from all your apps and social media, alerts and all that stuff and the news cycle alerts and all that stuff is meant to distract you.

And so often it comes from me right in the middle of when I’m about to sit down with God and it’s ding, don’t forget this. And it might as well be Satan going, ding. Don’t sit down with God. I don’t want you to. So look over here. It really is like squirrel, for a dog where a dog is just intent on something and then boom, there goes a squirrel and you’re off in the grass somewhere in that.

The deep hedges, off to yourself and lost. And that’s what the devil is trying to do because he knows when we slow down and we take time for God in our lives, we’re actually going to have a chance of hearing him. We’re actually going to have a chance to connect with him and he doesn’t want that.

And that’s why waiting for God is so hard because we get impatient again. We feel like we need to be doing something. We feel like we’re failing at life. If we sit down and we aren’t just going every second, I don’t know about you, but even at night when I try to go to sleep, it’s like. I fight with my mind to slow down and to stop and to give me peace and to give me rest.

It’s because most of the time during the day i’m not taking opportunities to stop even if it’s just for a couple of minutes to acknowledge god and acknowledge that need a break from the going right from the hamster wheel From the never ending highway of life, busyness that is brought before us all the time And so when this man said this to me, I was like look you have to be intentional I was like, you have to find time to pray.

And he said I do, and I go to adoration and things like that. And the thing is, it made me think about that. And even my own experience in adoration yes, I will take time to go to adoration and be with God, but how often do I have a stack of books, like from my hands of where you barely see my face of all these things in case I need some sort of inspiration or in case I need to read something, or I’ve got my rosaries or all these different devotional things to bring with me in case I need something.

But folks, honestly, if I’m being truthful with you about how it is for myself, sometimes I do it because I’m afraid to sit in silence, right? I need to be doing something even in that. What am I going to do if I just go sit and I look at the Eucharist and the monstrance? Right and I just focus on that and you can feel that tension like oh, I better take something in case I get bored or in case I run out of something to say Or in case I need something to commune with god and look I know that we need places to start Our conversation with god that’s good to take A magnificat or something in there and maybe look at the daily reading and ask god then To put it down then and say lord.

All right, where do you want to take me through this? What sticks out? There are good things like that. But folks a lot of times we’re being honest We take those things in there for distractions as well Because we’re afraid of simply being still and we get worried about well, what if I fall asleep or what if I this You know what?

At least you fell asleep in the arms of God, right? Like we just we said all this stuff before us because we don’t like waiting on God. We’re impatient we don’t and we don’t like sitting in that awkwardness I we don’t like feeling like we don’t have anything to say and that’s why so many of our prayers are Practiced and we say the same thing over and over again because we could feel like we did something then But the point of being with God is not feeling like you’ve done something The point is being with him, like literally taking that time out to listen to share, of course, what you need, not like God doesn’t know what you need, but to help you voice that to him, to get it out and then to listen, and then to flip the switch and close the mouth and open the ears. But again, we don’t want to do that because we feel like we have to be running the conversation. We feel like we have to be saying something. If we’ve run to the end of our words and that must mean we’re at the end of our time with God, and that’s not the truth.

Like everything in this world pushes us to be doing stuff. To try to be as efficient in our lives as we can be by trying to do 24 billion things at the same time. And the same thing with our phones. You can have 8 billion apps doing 8 different things. Our schedules are just full of constant running and things over things and meetings after meetings and all this other stuff.

We feel like we got to keep up with the Joneses to be just as busy as somebody else, but the Lord is inviting all of us. To slow down, to be willing to sit in that awkward silence, and to listen and to wait for him. That’s where we hear him and we see it with Jesus, right? Jesus would even go, he would steal away to pray, right?

It says he went off on a mountain to pray. He went away in a place to be by himself because he needed to hear the voice of God. He needed to hear his father because that’s where he got his marching orders. That’s where he started to figure out everything in his life. So not only is it about persevering in these times where we feel we don’t feel God or we’re not getting answers that we want.

Part of that perseverance is having patience. It’s waiting on God and it’s in the waiting, which often feels uncomfortable and we get frustrated and we get angry. It’s I’ve been doing that and God’s not telling me anything. We have this tendency to look at these as things where we’re not getting our way or we’re not getting an answer when we want to.

It’s some sort of punishment, but actually what it is a gift from God. There’s grace in the waiting Like that’s what i’m coming to find out in my own life if there’s grace in the waiting Right and just those moments because god is bestowing grace upon you so that you can build virtue yes god could snap his fingers at any time and do whatever he wanted to give you whatever he wanted to But what kind of people would that make us be probably more demanding?

And wanting to slow down and listen to him less and just demanding and hoping that we can treat God like a vending machine, right? Just, okay, now I want this, now I want that, it needs to fly out of the chute and be in my hand instantly. But if that’s what we’re doing, we’re treating God like a genie instead of our Lord and our Father, right?

It’s not about rubbing a lamp and getting what you want. It’s about sitting there and do these things that the Lord knows that you need. Jesus has told us that he knows the hairs on your head, right? He gives the everything to the birds of the air. How much more important are we? Jesus tells us these things.

But he also invites us and shows us through his own acts to go and to sit in the silence and be patient That is the hard part and through those things we find the virtue. All right, look at jesus in the garden He went in his times of suffering in his times of needs and he was sitting there sweating blood and he was fearful But he went and he spoke to god and he listened to him and he what did he find he found the fortitude he needed to move forward in the plan that god had for his life his earthly life there You He moved forward with that in the strength that he found in God because he was patient enough to wait, right?

And he spent so much of his time being patient. That’s what we have to do, right? Waiting is something that is going to be a part of every aspect of our life. All right, and we have to get away from this notion and this push for the culture in the world that we got to have something right now.

And if we don’t, then we need to be upset. We need to lose our peace. Now, we need to learn to understand maturity. We need to learn to understand to be patient and be grateful in the situations that we are. Even in our worst moments, we’re still six feet above the ground. We’re still breathing. We still have an opportunity for blessings in our lives and to be a blessing to other people.

The grace is in the waiting. Now, what do I mean by that? In the waiting, like I said, we find virtue. The first of which is patience, right? We learn that hey, slow down, slow your roll, ease up, take a breath, and just look at the graces that are around you already. Have a conversation with God you need to have, but slow down and be patient, right?

St. Thomas of Aquinas talks about this. He says, grant me, O Lord, my God, A mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. We hear it from St. Basil the Great too, he says, And so let us be glad and bear with patience everything the world throws at us, secure in the knowledge that it is then that we are most in the mind of God.

Folks, this is the grace of the waiting, right? And we hear it in the scriptures too, it’s Psalm 130 verse 5. It says, I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope. It goes on, Isaiah goes on to say in Isaiah 40, 31, He says, but they who want, who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength.

They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. Micah, even in chapter seven in verse seven, he says, but as for me, I will look to the Lord. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me. This is what’s so great about patience, right?

Is sitting there and what an opportunity to sit with the Lord and just to imagine yourself at the Lord’s feet. And whether he’s giving you an answer or not What a grace it is to just be in his presence and to be received by him And that’s what all these things are saying. St. Thomas Aquinas is like saying To be faithful in his perseverance and waiting for you.

How do you do that with patience? And what is the benefit of patience fortitude, right? When we actually sit down and we make ourselves be patient and we quell the voice of that spoiled little kid that the world tries to build in us that we want what we want right now and Give me give me god And why aren’t you answering me?

And if you don’t, then I’m going to go have a pity party because I didn’t get the answer right now. I’m speaking about this folks, because I know that’s where I’ve been in my life all the time. What gives God, I’m doing what you’re asking me to do. I’m trying to live this life. Why won’t you give me answers right now?

Why won’t you tell me what I need to know? Because God knows better than you and he has better timing than you. And what he asks of you is not demanding from him. Cause think about how ridiculous that is and how insolent that is to demand things from God. But he waits for us to be patient and to trust in him.

And to know and to believe that he really has our good in mind. And while it may not be on our time, it’s on his time. And guess what? His timing has saved me from a lot of things I thought I wanted. Then when I turned out seeing what he was doing, I was glad I didn’t get right. But it helps you with fortitude because you’re able to start growing in patience and growing in this, in these virtues, which lead to other virtues, fortitude.

Like I’m going to sit here and I’m going to grow my will. I’m going to grow my strength, right? That I don’t have to be some flippant child that needs something right then and there and demands it No, I could sit here in my love of the lord and find this fortitude And those moments of going you know what the devil’s coming at me and he’s in my ear and see god’s not good God doesn’t love you.

God’s not giving you what you want. If he was a loving father, he would I could sit there and go, you know what? Get behind me. Satan. As we heard Peter say in this past Sunday’s readings, or as Jesus say to Peter, get behind me, Satan. That’s what he says to Peter when he’s hearing a voice that is contrary to the will of his father, and contrary to the plans of God.

He says that to Peter, get behind me. Satan. We should say the same thing in those moments of, but you deserve this. You need this. You’ve worked hard. Like why isn’t God giving you an answer? Why is he, you’re showing you a hundred steps right now instead of the one little dim light he’s showing in front of you.

Get behind me satan. We need to be stronger than that right to build our fortitude so that we can withstand these attacks and withstand these temptations and these self absorbed thoughts that lead us away from god and not to him that make us be some demanding servant instead of A quiet and listening and loving and trusting servant, right?

It’s that perseverance and that patience that teaches us obedience in all things But also in that patience and that perseverance and that obedience we find hope Because how often no matter when you how long you’ve been waiting Sometimes you’re waiting so long you forget you’re even waiting But then god reveals this some gift to you Or some grace he’s bestowed on you and you’re like, oh That’s what I was waiting for That’s what you were doing That’s what I didn’t see And folks I gotta tell you i’ve seen that so many times in my life when I was working for that small ministry cardinal studios when I first got out of my job at napa auto parts Like I worked for them and it seemed to be going good and then all of a sudden things happened Where it wasn’t feasible any longer for them to employ me.

They had to go in a different direction You know for where god was calling them And that was right at Christmas Eve one year. Like I was literally about to go to Mississippi and be with my dad. And in a moment’s notice, like I found out that I wasn’t going to be with him the next year. I thought I was calling to have a call to find out about plans for next year.

And the plan was God had a different plan for my life. And so I started this very nonprofit that we’re in now and doing the work that we’re doing. But in the beginning of that, like I took money. I didn’t have, I started this nonprofit. And I was like, okay, God, where are you? What do I do? What do I do in a nonprofit?

How am I going to survive? How am I going to feed my family? What do you want me to do? And weeks went by and I felt myself getting full of despair and darkness and hurting and getting angry with God and say, God, where are my answers? I’ve done what you wanted me to do. So many people in this world don’t care about you and I’ve given up everything.

I’ve taken a massive pay cuts and I’m sitting here on the floor of my bedroom. Each and every week, watching my wife go to work and support my family while I’m sitting here playing ministry. And I’m so angry. I was so angry. The point where I threw a Bible across the room on my bed and said, you know what?

God, I give up. I give up. Like you either got to show me something or I quit, which I don’t recommend you demand things of God. But it was a week later. I had one event that got canceled. I was even more in a depression of that. Cause at least I would be able to hand some finances to my family at the time.

But all of a sudden I got a call from a friend of mine who wanted to start an online conference company. We didn’t even say that. We’re just like, we want to do a, an online conference because the Eucharist, we were unable to get to the Eucharist because of COVID everything was shut down. And all of a sudden we did that and the Lord blessed it.

It turned into a ministry in a company that supported my family and help give me time to build out just to get on the pew and what it was going to be. And we were able to help so many people through the process of all of that. So God wasn’t working on my timing. He was working on his. And so here’s the thing, all that aside.

Now I can go back anytime that I’m like, God, where are you? God, what if I, I take the step and why won’t you just tell me this is what I need and why don’t you make it clear? And why don’t you make it obvious? I can look back on the times where I trusted and I waited for God and see that he has never let me down, that he’s never left me desolate and alone.

Even in the times it felt like that, he showed up with a better plan, with a better option. He showed up to lift me out of that darkness and to show me what he had in store for me the entire time. But folks, it took patience. I learned in all those times where I was being short sighted, where I was demanding things of God, that he had his own timing and no matter how much I wanted it to be right now, and I wanted a plane to fly by with a banner with exactly what he wanted me to do, that didn’t happen.

But because of those hard times, I was able to go through because of those times of desolation, because of those times of wondering and waiting, I found out that he had a better plan and I grew in virtue. I learned to be patient with God, trusting in the places where he’d already shown me That he was who he says he was, and he was good to his word.

Folks, this is why it’s so important to wait on God. This is why it’s so important to slow down and to listen to him. To fight the noise of the world and the anxieties you have when you sit for a moment. That’s where you exercise patience. When all those annoying things, and those things that are on your mind, and the grocery list, and the chores, and the errands you have to run, when you’re in adoration, That’s when you sit there and you go, get away from me, get behind me, Satan.

I’m gonna be here, I’m gonna spend this time, and I’m gonna sit patiently, quietly waiting on the Lord. Because I know that eventually He’s gonna show up. I know that eventually He’s gonna make it obvious what He wants in my life. I know that He’s gonna, He’s gonna show me the next step that I need to take in my life.

That’s where we grow to hear the voice of God. That’s where we grow in patience that leads to fortitude, and that fortitude leads to that hope. That’s what I’m talking about. When God has shown up and you have time and time again seen that in your life because you were patient enough to wait on him, then you start to grow in that virtue of hope.

That virtue is so necessary in our faith. That virtue that keeps us away from falling to temptation and turning away from God is that hope that’s found through patience and fortitude, but none of those things are found Without waiting for God, it’s in the waiting that we see a gift. We see the waiting now.

A lot of us in our lives is a pain. As a nuisance as a punishment, but it’s not it’s another invitation from god It’s another gift from a god to enter into that quiet relationship where you can learn his voice Where you can learn his mannerisms where you could see his movements and you can learn more about yourself and grow in virtue as well Folks, that’s what we need now more than anything and there’s saints that say that There’s saints that say let us be patient and bear with patience everything the world throws at us securing the knowledge That is then that we are most in the mind of god st Basil fulton sheen says page patience is power patience is not an absence of action as many of us think it is Rather it is timing it waits In patience, it waits for the right time to act, for the right principles, and in the right way.

Patience is not an absence of action, he says, rather it is timing. It waits for the right time to act, for the right principles, and in the right way. That’s who God is. And that’s what he shows us when we have the virtue of patience. St. Faustina says, patience, prayer, and silence, these are what give strength to the soul.

That’s what waiting for God gives us, is that. And then finally, St. Augustine says patience is the companion of wisdom folks. If we want the answers we’re looking for, we’re looking for the wisdom to move forward in our life, then we have to be patient, have patience in prayer. And in silence, these are the things that give strength to the soul.

In the words of St. Faustina, that’s where I invite you to this week. So the next time you want to seek God, the next time you’re looking for answers. Take time to sit down. Don’t feel guilty about it. Prepare the time, make a deal with yourself about the time you’re going to give and no matter where the devil shows up and the distractions, cast him out.

Get behind me, Satan. Sit there, make the commitment to simply sit there and be quiet. And when you go to adoration and all that stuff, if you want to take something to get you started, fine, but don’t take so much stuff that just distracts you. Sit there in the awkwardness, in the weirdness, in the uncomfortableness that you could feel sometimes.

And sit there and wait for God and I promise you he will show up He’s done it in my life and he will do it in yours Let’s take you to prayer in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit. Amen Heavenly father So often in life we can get rushed We feel like we need to be doing everything and to be moving nine to nothing every single second of the day But lord you made us human beings not human doers So remind us in those times that we feel that we need to be rushed or we need to move or we need to get Up That you want us to sit you want us to be still and you want us to listen for you Lord, the grace is in the waiting for you help us to remember that and help us to find perseverance Patience fortitude and hope in the moments that we wait on you In the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit.

Amen