Benefits of waiting on God

1)waiting changes the face of a mans life,business  and ministry 

Matthew 17:1"AND :days after this, Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves. vs 2"And His appearance underwent a change in their presence; and His face shone [a]clear and bright like the sun, and His clothing became as white as light. 3"And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, who kept talking with Him.

Exodus 34:28"Moses was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he ate no bread and drank no water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments. 29"When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of the Testimony in his hand, he did not know that the skin of his face shone and sent forth beams by reason of his speaking with the Lord.

Acts 10:38"How God anointed and consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the [Holy] Spirit and with strength and ability and power; how He went about doing good and, [f]in particular, curing all who were harassed and oppressed by [the power of] the devil, for God was with Him.

Matthew 4:23-24"And He went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and preaching the good news (Gospel) of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every weakness and infirmity among the people. 24"So the report of Him spread throughout all Syria, and they brought Him all who were sick, those afflicted with various diseases and torments, those under the power of demons, and epileptics, and paralyzed people, and He healed them.

2)Waiting offers you the opportunity of receiving specific directions

1kings 19:7-15" 7"The angel of the Lord came the second time and touched him and said, Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you. 8"So he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that foodforty days and nights to Horeb, the mount of God. 9"There he came to a cave and lodged in it; and behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and He said to him, What are you doing here, Elijah?(Read vs10-15

 

3)Waiting generates appetite for Righteousness and Holy- living. 

The place of waiting is the  place of dieing to the flesh

Matt 4: 1-4"THEN JESUS was led (guided) by the [Holy] Spirit into the wilderness (desert) to be tempted (tested and tried) by the devil. 2"And He went without food for forty days and forty nights, and later He was hungry.(A) 3"And the tempter came and said to Him, If You are God's Son, command these stones to be made [[a]loaves of] bread. 4"But He replied, It has been written, Man shall not live and be upheld and sustained by bread alone, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.(satan tried Jesus not knowing He was death to self