Why does God make us wait? What do we do when he doesn’t seem to move fast enough? Could his delay mean he plans to give us something better? In today’s episode, Luke shares how Luke 8:40–56 shows that Jesus’s timing is better than ours, and his answers are often greater than what we asked for.

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Passage: Luke 8:40–56