Three Ways to Grow While You Wait

November 26, 2025

By Rick Warren

God wants to do something incredible through your ministry. No one can take that away. Your critics can’t. Neither can Satan.

But that doesn’t mean you won’t have to wait for it. Sometimes God cracks a door and lets you see your future before you’re ready to walk through it.

Why does he do that? First, if God showed you all your future at once, it would scare you. You’d take one look and say, “Oh no, God wants me to do that?” You’re simply not ready right now to see everything God wants to do through you.

God also wants to keep you close to him as you trust him to do what he is calling you to do. It’s like he writes his plan for you on a scroll. You unroll the scroll a bit and do what he says. Then you unroll a bit more, and he gives you a little more of the vision.

(Read the article here.)