God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
[To wait on God] means to pause and soberly consider our own inadequacy and the Lord’s all-sufficiency, and to seek counsel and help from the Lord, and to hope in Him (Psm. 33:20-22; Isa. 8:17)… The folly of not waiting for God is that we forfeit the blessing of having God work for us. The evil of not waiting on God is that we oppose God’s will to exalt Himself in mercy. God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.
It is the forces of darkness using the human agents of this world. People have been fed and are entrapped in a stronghold of lies. Christians are called to break down these spiritual strongholds with a spiritual arsenal. Our battleground is the mind. The Bible, which is all about Christ (Lk. 24:27, 44), is our primary “divinely powerful” (2 Cor. 10:4) weapon to bring people to “captive to the obedience of Christ” (2 Cor. 10:5) to be “rescued…from the domain of darkness, and transferred…to the kingdom of [light] (Col. 1:13).
