Waiting is something that every person must do. Especially those of us fueled with hope of a great outcome in life. Most people know little to nothing at all about how to wait. Though everyone must do it, most do not know how. Additionally, many do not know that there are principles on how to wait in the Word of God. This book is taken from the living pages of the life of Tracy L. De Volt. A former drug and alcohol abuser who had submitted her life to the principles of Winning at the Waiting Game. Our greatest hope is that you will read them, apply them and WIN in life, business and ministry!

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Winning at The Waiting Game

How God Built Me to Last

By Tracy L. De Volt

AuthorHouse LLC

Acknowledgements, ix, 
Forwards, xiii, 
Section One: The Wisdom of Waiting, 1, 
Introduction, 3, 
Chapter 1 God makes Deals, 7, 
Chapter 2 Defining Factor of Disappointment, 15, 
Chapter 3 The Waiting Game: Why must we wait?, 19, 
Section Two: How to win, 23, 
Chapter 4 Principle of Rejoicing, 25, 
Chapter 5 Employing Patience, 31, 
Chapter 6 The Need for Wisdom, 39, 
Chapter 7 Believing Prayer, 45, 
Chapter 8 Serving While Waiting, 51, 
Section Three: More Strategies for Winning, 59, 
Chapter 9 Author & Finisher: Faith Food ..., 61, 
Chapter 10 To the Preaching Woman: From my heart to yours, 67, 
Bibliography, 81,

CHAPTER 1

God makes Deals

Wisdom involves knowing God and the subtleties of the human heart.

J. Oswald Sanders

My appetite for God became an insatiable one. Many days found me locked away in my room surrounded by different Bible translations seeking absolutes from the only Source I suspected had answers. Nonetheless, I realized how little understanding I was receiving: the more information I learned the more the realization came as to how little information was being learned. It was like scooping out water from the ocean with a teaspoon and realizing how much more you actually need to survive.

This is when the principle of mentorship was introduced to me. I remember saying, "I need a teacher. I need someone who knows ALL of this stuff and will simply teach me quickly so I can move on." Then the thoughts came, "As if such an individual existed and would take time with a zealous, ignorant kid like me", and more despair. Well, the awareness refused to leave until dimly I realized it was God bidding me to seek Him for such a thing as a personal mentor in His Word. As prayers for this person arose from my soul, people started helping me more and more. I remember how refreshing and empowering it was to sit at the feet of such Bible teachers such as: Pastor Roy Brown, Rev. Georgia Gordon, and Bishop Kenneth Davis. Oh my, what awesome learning I experienced.

Eating but hungry ...

Though these were my teachers, they were not my mentor. They each imparted what they were assigned to impart and simply sent me on my journey of discovery. I was yet reaching to God for something I knew not of and desired strongly. Others came along all of which I thought surely was "the one" but did the same as the others; taught me and sent me on my journey. This happened so consistently, I ignorantly perceived it as rejection. One day I was literally crying out to God, begging Him to give an Elijah for my life. I later learned that this place of intense pain and confusion was exactly where and what God wanted of me and for me. Not to wound me but to form me, to turn me and yes, to build me.

This fall day became the spring of my entire life's discovery in God. This day was the worst and best day of my life. I came to a place, at twenty-three years of age, that few come to know. As I cried out to God, He spoke to me. I remember it as if it were that very moment in time.

"Get up!" I did and very quickly. "Stop crying!" I stopped but started trembling in fear. What was going on, I marveled. As I sat on the side of my bed trying my best to gain composure and not run from the room screeching, God communicated to my spirit both personally and purposefully.

"I have dealt with others about mentoring you but for various reasons they would not. But how about I make you a deal ..." God makes deals? (This is a valuable lesson, friends. Please do not miss it.)

"How about I make you what you didn't have and if you let Me, I will build you to last". Make me what I didn't have and build me to last? I will admit, even though this was not an audible voice, it seemed so to me. God had communicated something to me I simply could not fully understand. Regardless of my lack of understanding, His joy and peace flooded my soul. I knew that day I had received something priceless; something divinely imparted; and above all something timeless. I knew, no matter what came my way (at the time of this writing, it has been well over twenty years) that day would never be far from my mind. That day would be a marked day in my life, ministry and journey with God.

Over the past twenty-five years, I have learned that my story is not so different from yours. We all have, by God's grace, come to a place of discovery, not only of God but ourselves. Our stories are expressly unique though unremarkably similar. What I learned here is a lesson I have taught in various venues across this country and it is simple; very simple. Are you ready to hear it? God is an adaptable God. Though He does not and cannot change in character; He can and does change everything else. Yes, He does! Yes, He can! Our God is limitless. He is not resourceful alone but He is the Source alone. We will discuss this in a later chapter, but please let me expound just a moment.

Being built requires yielding ...

When I say, God makes deals, I mean exactly that. He does. He takes what is seemingly an impasse or a dead-end and transforms it into a bridge or better yet a highway. What an amazing lesson to learn in one's sapling season. Just when I started to put some things together in my head as it pertains to absolutes God steps in and shows me that He is the Absolute of absolutes. He is the Source of resource. Looking back now, I marvel in amazement at how this simple yet profound truth served to curtail many future struggles and devastations. I have had my share of them, but Holy Spirit continues to bring me back to my center in God by reminding me of what He said all those days, weeks, months and years ago.

When God builds, He builds to last. I like that don't you? He has purpose, structure, and function in it all. However, like every Master Builder, He works in sections and segments; seasons and stations of our lives. It may look to us as though He should be constructing this part but we don't see Him anywhere on the landscape. We later learn He was over yonder in another seemingly unrelated station or section working on us. This is the mystery of being built to last. Why and where God is constructing us is not important at all. What is vitally important is how we are continually yielding to His workings. This, my friends, seems to be the most challenging part of being built to last that I have discovered. Letting God work on me within the confines of time and timing has proven me in many ways and I imagine you as well.

As we examine the principles associated with being built to last, we must first examine a couple of words and concepts lost to most and known to few. Buckle up! Let's go for a ride as we are by God being built to last.

CHAPTER 2

Defining Factor of Disappointment

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Charles A. Lindbergh, Aviation Pioneer

Overcoming obstacles is one of life's certainties that is if we are committed to fulfilling our destinies. This fact is not a popular topic but needful nonetheless. For the purposes of this book, I will focus on one; the defining factor of...

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