What God Is Growing While You Wait | Genesis 43

Main message: Waiting is not passive but a purposeful season God uses to strip misplaced confidence, produce spiritual fruit, and prepare people for future roles — as seen in Joseph's story and in the speakers' personal stories.

Key points:

• Waiting can be the wiser, active choice (Joseph’s patience in not immediately revealing himself).
• God uses waiting to remove pride and false identity and to rebuild confidence centered on Christ.
• Seasons of waiting produce fruits others seasons do not: empathy, compassion, diminished bitterness, and strengthened faith.
• Grieving is a legitimate spiritual discipline within waiting that leads to healing and prevents reactive, sinful responses.
• Personal examples (lengthy unpaid internships; prolonged singleness) showed God preparing and providing in his timing.

Scriptures mentioned: Genesis (Joseph narrative, e.g., Genesis 37–50)