NEW MERCIES DAILY!
DATE: Monday, October 6th, 2025
SERIES THEME: The God of Times and Seasons (Daniel 2:21)
Day 2 : “The God Who Shortens the Season of Waiting”
SCRIPTURE TEXT:
“And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry… and I am come down to deliver them.” – Exodus 3:7–8
BY: EFFIONG ETOK
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
“The God who once cut short Israel’s captivity can shorten our own season of waiting.”
MESSAGE:
Beloved, the pain of waiting is not only in the length of time—it is in the haunting silence of unanswered questions. How many have carried promises to the grave, never seeing them fulfilled? How many Hannahs have wept until their tears became their prayer language? How many Josephs have sat forgotten, carrying oil on their heads while buried in prisons of life? God forbid—that this should be our own story, in Jesus’ name.
But hear me: the God of times and seasons is also the God who shortens waiting. He told Abraham, “Your seed shall be strangers for 400 years” (Genesis 15:13). Yet Israel remained 430 years, their prophecy stretched by forgetfulness and weariness. But mercy always speaks when human effort fails. And on the appointed day, Heaven thundered, “I have come down to deliver them.” Suddenly, centuries of tears collapsed into one night of exodus.
If God had not cut short Saul’s reign, David would have died in caves with wasted anointing. If God had not remembered Hannah, her reproach would have written her story forever. But when God arises, waiting seasons give way to fulfillment, and silence turns into songs of victory.
So we cry this October: Father, is there hope for those Sisters who are now fifty + and still waiting for husbands? Have mercy. Remember our brothers and sisters who have been bedridden for years—some even at this very moment. As You remembered Noah in the tenth month (Genesis 8:5), by Your mercy, remember these ones, O Lord. May our waiting not end in death; let every season of delay be cut short by Your hand. Turn our tears into laughter, our silence into testimonies, and let every reproach be swallowed up in victory, in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
