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    There Are No Mcdonald's in Heaven: Waiting on God
    There Are No Mcdonald's in Heaven: Waiting on God
    There Are No Mcdonald's in Heaven: Waiting on God
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    There Are No Mcdonald's in Heaven: Waiting on God

    By RL Keller

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    There Are No McDonalds in Heaven: Waiting on God attempts to focus on the spiritual characteristics we, as believers, must acquire and cultivate to enable us to successfully wait on God as long as it takes to get His answer. The goal of this book is to help the reader learn what it takes to grow your faith and trust in God. There is a lot more to waiting on God than meets the eye. One thing we all find out sooner or later is that Gods timing is always perfect, and His answers are always just what we needed at the time they are provided.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJul 12, 2012
    ISBN9781449756697
    There Are No Mcdonald's in Heaven: Waiting on God
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    RL Keller

    Richard Louis Keller was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1955 and grew up in Middletown Township. He graduated from Montclair State College in 1978 with a degree in broadcasting. Rich gave his life to Christ in 1979. Since his conversion, he has spent time ministering for the Lord in various capacities. God gave Rich the gift of communication. He writes a daily devotional blog and has had two other books published.

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      There Are No Mcdonald's in Heaven - RL Keller

      THERE ARE NO McDONALD’S IN HEAVEN

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      Waiting on God

      RL Keller

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      Copyright © 2012 by RL Keller.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4497-5668-0 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-5670-3 (hc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4497-5669-7 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012911160

      WestBow Press rev. date: 07/24/2012

      Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter One    Need versus Entitlement

      Chapter Two    A Look at Faith

      Chapter Three    Belief in the Unseen

      Chapter Four    A Look at Trust

      Chapter Five    Trustworthiness of God

      Chapter Six    A Look at Patience

      Chapter Seven    How to Treat Others

      Chapter Eight    A Look at Perseverance and Temper

      Chapter Nine    A Look at Consistency and the Price Paid for Our Sins

      Chapter Ten    A Look at Prayer and Righteousness

      Chapter Eleven    A Look at Specifics

      Chapter Twelve    What Is Important to You?

      Chapter Thirteen    It’s Not Just Prayer

      Chapter Fourteen    Waiting on God

      Special Thanks

      I thank God for the gift of being able to put two sentences together and have them actually make sense. He has provided for me and sustained me through thick and thin, and I am eternally grateful for that. May His name be praised, and may all glory for this written effort go to Him and Him alone.

      Author’s Note

      All word definitions are taken from www.merriam-webster.com. Unless otherwise noted in the text, Scripture verses are taken from Today’s New International Version. CEB is the Common English Bible, published by Common English Bible, 2011. NLT is the New Living Translation, Tyndale House, 2006.

      Introduction

      I gave my heart to Christ on March 21, 1979, my birthday. I was twenty-three when the gospel was presented to me, and I was goofy enough to think that it would be cool to wait until my birthday to receive Christ into my heart. Being a guy, I knew I might be in danger of forgetting that date, so I had it correspond with the day of my birth. It worked; I have never forgotten that glorious day.

      God has been extremely gracious to me. I have stumbled at times and made some poor choices, but in the end, God remained my pillar, my foundation. His patience in the face of my impertinence has been a marvel. His instruction and direction have led me here; to the place He wanted me all along, writing a book.

      I have felt that I had a book in me for quite some time, but I could never seem to sustain focus long enough to accomplish this feat. As I was writing my blog entry the other day (about waiting for God), the statement There’s no McDonald’s in heaven popped into my head. I thought that would be a catchy title for a book. The more I pondered that thought, the more I thought I’d like to attempt to pull something together. You see, it has long been my passion to do just that: encourage and build up those who are down, discouraged, and despairing.

      I haven’t led a pretty life. It has had many potholes along the way, riddled with poor judgment and wounded hearts I caused without meaning to. In the end, when the dust settles, I am nothing more than a frail and fault-filled man whose only desire is to minister to one soul, bring a smile to one face, uplift one heart, and give some semblance of hope to whoever may take the time to read this effort. I am humbled at the charge that God has placed before me.

      This is probably where I should put a disclaimer: I am neither a minister nor a theologian, nor am I the son of one. What you will find in these pages is my opinion based on my thirty-three years of walking with God. I figure I must have absorbed something of value that is worth sharing. Let’s hope I’m right.

      The God of peace be with you all. Amen.

      —Romans 15:33

      Chapter One

      Need versus Entitlement

      I’m astounded by how impatient we’ve become. Think about how things were fifty or one hundred years ago. Could you imagine placing some of us back in that period? We’d be without cell phones, iPhones, smartbooks, laptops, or CDs. There’d be no more ignoring life around us as we chat endlessly on our iPhones, no more driving down the interstate at seventy or eighty miles per hour while texting like fiends. Heck, one hundred years ago there were few cars at all. What would people do if we actually had to spend our time outside in the fresh air doing something constructive? Or perhaps just sitting or rocking on a porch swing, enjoying peace and solitude? On a side note, this might be an interesting premise for a movie. Lord knows that it doesn’t seem as if Hollywood has come up with an original movie idea in years.

      It’s no wonder that believers have no time to listen to God. We never slow down, and we’re never quiet long enough to hear anything except the sounds of our own voices or our Christian music blaring on whatever we’re using to listen to it these days.

      In this book, we will look at the components that I believe go into waiting effectively on God, even in the face of delays. Now let’s get started, shall we?

      Impatient: restless or short of temper especially under irritation, delay or opposition; intolerant.

      What has made us such an impatient group of people? The answer is obvious—and certainly nothing you haven’t either heard before or said yourself a time or two: technology. The emergence of modern technology has made information so rapidly available to us that now, if something takes mere seconds as opposed to split seconds, we think there is something wrong with our Wi-Fi connections. We can now take our computers with us wherever we go. Laptops enable us to go online wherever there is a Wi-Fi connection. Internet access is available at hotels and motels, Barnes & Noble bookstores, Schlotzsky’s sandwich shops, Starbucks, you name it. You can link up almost anywhere so you don’t ever have to miss the latest entry on someone’s Facebook or Twitter page. Oh my gosh, the horror that would cause. Taking a person’s iPhone away would be like asking an Italian to speak with his hands tied behind his back.

      We are impatient regardless of the length of the wait. The minute the light turns green, some of us immediately beep our horns to signal other drivers to GO! If a store is crowded and we have to wait in line, the world knows that we are not happy about it because of our body language as we shift our weight constantly, roll our eyes, and fidget. And don’t even mention gridlock on the Interstate. Geez Louise, that causes multiple anxiety attacks throughout the region! We speed through parking lots and fly through stop signs and yellow lights as they are changing to red. What is wrong with us? What is the hurry? I’m not saying I’m immune to impatience. I am awaiting the arrival of an important document in the mail and am not at all pleased with the apparent delay in its getting here.

      While some people I have encountered in my life don’t happen to like the phrase I am about to use, I believe it to be true. Yes, Virginia, there is truth out there outside of the Bible, and here it is: It is what it is. Now, I obviously didn’t make that up, but I believe it. You cannot change some things that take place in this life. You have to ride them out. We can also say that it will be what it will be. God will see to that. We must realize and accept the fact that God is in all things and over all things. With one word from God, everything you think you know and understand can be altered. Reality as you know it could be completely changed to accommodate His plan for someone, perhaps you.

      Everything takes time. It is amazing how many non-experts seem to know exactly how long something should take. They have never done that thing or had to wait for it to materialize, but they know it couldn’t possibly be taking this long. They put pressure on those trying to make something happen. High blood pressure and raw nerves are often the result for all involved.

      Bosses love to do this to their employees. They have never done the project, but they will demand that an unrealistic deadline must be met, and when you go to them and say that it is simply not humanly possible to accomplish this project in such a short time, they often reply, Well, then, why are you standing here jawing at me? You’d better get moving. You will have it done on time or else. This is unfair, to say the least. In that type of scenario, I would keep my résumé polished and ready to distribute.

      Sometimes our tardiness creates emergency situations; our mistakes create panic. Everything in this life takes time, but we forget that. We push our emergency situations on other people, forcing them to play a part in the final

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