READ: Numbers 32:6-22
So Moses and Aaron did it; as the Lord commanded them, thus they did. MOSES WAS EIGHTY YEARS OLD and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Exodus 7:6-7 (NASB)
Moses was eighty years old when he met with Pharaoh. Things started to gallop after the burning bush experience. Moses was catapulted into the forefront of ministry. After forty years of suffering in the wilderness and after the short meeting and encounter with God at the burning bush, Moses was ready for public ministry.
Moses wandered in the wilderness for forty years of his ministry. His ministry was to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt and into the Promised Land.
He was God’s great prophet who had received a definite calling at the burning bush. This was the “Word of my patience”. Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. By the time Moses was ready to die, another forty years had gone by. Therefore, Moses ministered for forty years before he was able to accomplish part of his ministry. Indeed, he did not even finish his ministry after forty years of struggling in the wilderness.
I do not know the kind of calling you have but I can tell you that it has the characteristics of the “Word of my patience”. The call of God needs time, patience, forbearance, tolerance, endurance and longsuffering to accomplish it. Do not be unhappy because you have not achieved much in three years. The call of God is the “Word of my patience”. It takes many years to accomplish the will of God.