Faith, Patience, and the Unstoppable Purposes of God

By Nicholas Uanikhoba

Delay often fuels unbelief.
Unbelief, in turn, sponsors impatience.
And impatience drives us to take matters into our own hands.

God’s promises are always good, but acting outside of His timing never produces good. Impatience leads to sin, not because we are weak, but because we’ve stepped out of faith.

That’s why we need help to overcome the spirit of impatience. It’s one of the enemy’s strategies to rob us. He cannot stop God from giving a promise. And if he can’t stop us from believing and obeying, he’ll try to stop us from waiting for the manifestation.

But here is the good news:
Even our impatience cannot cancel God's promise.

It may delay it.
It may bring pain and detours.
But if we repent and return to faith, God’s Word will still come to pass.

Nothing can stop the promise God has made.
Not Satan. Not time. Not age. Not even death.

Consider Abraham and Sarah.

When Sarah grew weary of waiting, she acted in the flesh. She gave her maid to Abraham, and Ishmael was born. It was a painful detour, but it didn’t change God’s promise.

God had spoken: Isaac would come through Sarah’s womb.
And when Sarah, at ninety years old, returned to faith, God fulfilled His Word.

“Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.” (Hebrews 11:11).

God had factored in the delay. He had taken into account every force that would rise against His promise. And when it looked impossible, He moved. That’s why He is God.

Consider Lazarus.

Jesus declared:

“This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God…”

But Lazarus died.
His sisters, overwhelmed with grief and unbelief, buried him.
Still, even death could not cancel the promise.

When Jesus came and said, “Take away the stone,” they obeyed. That simple return to faith was enough. And Lazarus walked out of the tomb.

God’s promises may look delayed or buried, but they are never dead. The words of Jesus cannot fail.

The Foundation of Abraham’s Faith

As I pondered these truths, the Spirit seemed to whisper, “Understand the foundation of Abraham’s faith.” Then came this verse:

“(As it is written, ‘I have made you a father of many nations’) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did.” (Romans 4:17).

This is our God.

He gives life to the dead.
Dead situations are His raw materials.
Even death cannot stop His promises.

Because it’s not about you or me. It’s about His purpose.

He chose us, weak, imperfect, and unqualified; not based on our credentials but for His divine plan. The battle isn’t even ours; it’s between God and the enemy. Our role is simple:
Believe. Obey. Wait patiently.

Even the promises God made to your parents, though they are gone, shall still come to pass.
His purposes are still unfolding.

Shalom.