--- id: ff20_wait_on_god_airline_financing_hebrews title: "FLYINGFREE - Wait on God: Airline Financing and Hebrews 11:1" category: Biblical Life Counsel predicted_narrative_arc: panic-deal-to-wait-on-god-faith sentiment: Convictional emotions: - Convictional - Practical - Hopeful keypoints: - Ultimate plan of action in crisis: consult God - Faith defined as belief, trust, and loyalty to God - Startup airline financing: panic, bad deal, cash-flow reality - Christian banker: wait on God — then acceptable offer came - Hebrews 11:1 — faith as confidence in what we hope for summary: > Dean closes with consult-God as the recovery plan, Webster’s faith, the airline financing mistake of hurrying, a banker’s “wait on God,” and Hebrews 11:1. tags: - flying-free - chapter-20 - faith - hebrews - airline - financing - wait-on-god - dean-rush - book-excerpt sycophancy: 0 truth_score: 9 entropy: 2 sample: false consent: owner_approved agent: flyingfree created: '2010-01-01' updated: '2026-09-09T00:00:00Z' vault_stage: 07_CODEX headwaters: FLYINGFREE prefix: FLYINGFREE enrich_status: ok enrich_blockers: [] enrich_method: manual pipeline_filename: FLYINGFREE_20_wait-on-god-airline-financing-hebrews.md source_kind: book_excerpt proposed_topic: FlyingFree lane: FlyingFree voice: desk active_voice: desk voices: - desk routing_source: carbon corpus_topic: FlyingFree content_status: active date: '2010-01-01' share_url: https://deanrush.net/downloads/flyingfreebook.md source_url: https://deanrush.net/downloads/flyingfreebook.md site_category: Flying Free book_title: Flying Free book_chapter: 20 book_chapter_title: A Moment to Act – Use Faith source_file: flyingfree/flying-free-20-a-moment-to-act.md description: > Chapter 20 — consult God; airline wait-on-God story; Hebrews 11:1. --- # Wait on God: Airline Financing and Hebrews 11:1 **Author:** Dean Rush **Book:** *Flying Free* · **Chapter 20:** A Moment to Act – Use Faith **Full book:** [deanrush.net/downloads/flyingfreebook.md](https://deanrush.net/downloads/flyingfreebook.md) ## Context for the Reader Chapter 20 ends where action and faith meet: consult God, define faith, and a startup financing story where waiting on God beat panic acceptance. This lesson closes the chapter’s prose arc. > Voice note: Everything under **Dean's excerpt** is Dean's original prose (lightly cleaned only). Sections marked **Biblical foundations**, **Scholar sidebar**, **Takeaways**, and **First-time learner** are enrichment for Asker / first readers — not Dean speaking. --- ## Biblical foundations (preface) Faith trusts God enough to refuse panic deals and to wait for His timing while still working the problem under His will. | Dean's claim | Scriptural undercarriage | | --- | --- | | Consult God as ultimate plan of action | If any of you lacks wisdom, ask God (James 1:5); in all your ways acknowledge him (Proverbs 3:5–6) | | Faith: belief, trust, loyalty to God | Without faith it is impossible to please him (Hebrews 11:6) | | Panic financing without prayer | The one who hurries his footsteps errs (Proverbs 19:2) | | Wait on God; better offer followed | Wait for the Lord; be strong (Psalm 27:14); those who wait for the Lord renew strength (Isaiah 40:31) | | Faith confidence in hoped-for things | Hebrews 11:1 (Dean’s citation) | --- ## Dean's excerpt ### Consult, define, wait I believe the ultimate plan of action for attacking a crisis is to consult God. He will show the way to escape the problems. The whole plan for recovery from a trying circumstance in life is found in the Bible. One of the prerequisites to using any plan is to find faith in the strategy you have developed. Merriam-Webster defines faith as “Belief and trust in and loyalty to God.” The key to starting a positive recovery in life is to develop and utilize a firm faith in God. I remember a time when I was starting the airline business and we were attempting to obtain financing for the first airplane that we would use to haul freight. We investigated sources of financing all over the country and found no one willing to take a chance on a start-up airline. That was the initial feedback from every source I investigated and I began to panic and feel we were going to be out of business before we started. I was willing to take any financing available. I just wanted the problem solved, and now. I never thought of praying about the situation or waiting. That seemed to be the solution for a weakling and I certainly wanted to avoid that classification. Finally, a finance company offered us a deal and I jumped on it without hesitating. Shortly after making the initial acceptance, one of our finance guys suggested I evaluate the cash flow of the company. When I did that I realized that we could not afford to accept the deal. We could never make a profit. I spoke with a banker friend and told him about the issue. This friend also was a Christian and he gave some very valuable advice. He was very professional but he stepped out of his normal banker role in this instance to tell me that I was making a mistake. He said I would not find the answer to the financing problem by hurrying the process. He said simply, wait on God. His premise was straightforward and something I should have considered all along as we processed the start-up of our new company. He felt that God was in charge, and if we acknowledged that control, good things would happen. My partners and I backed off, waited on an acceptable offer, and were rewarded with a reasonable deal a week later. The lesson was not lost in my life, as I began to realize that if God is involved things go much better. The solution may be not what we expect, but God’s participation allows us to follow His will. Again, faith is the key. “Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.” Hebrews 11:1 (NIV) > **Scholar sidebar — Wait is not passivity** > Dean panicked, skipped prayer, grabbed a lethal deal, then learned cash-flow truth and a Christian banker’s counsel. “Wait on God” here includes backing off a bad contract and receiving a reasonable deal — Psalm 27:14 / Isaiah 40:31 posture with diligence still in play. Hebrews 11:1 and Webster’s definition close his chapter argument: faith is the key. --- ## Takeaways 1. **Consult God first.** Ultimate action plan for crisis recovery. 2. **Faith defined.** Belief, trust, loyalty to God — firm faith starts recovery. 3. **Panic deal.** Any financing; no prayer; weakling fear. 4. **Cash flow said no.** Accepted deal could never profit. 5. **Wait on God; Hebrews 11:1.** Reasonable deal a week later; faith as confidence in hope. --- ## First-time learner ### What is Dean saying in one sentence? Consult God, hold firm faith, and — as in the airline financing panic — wait on God rather than grab a disastrous hurried deal; Hebrews 11:1 names faith as confidence in what we hope for. ### What did the banker say? Wait on God; you will not find the answer by hurrying the process. ### Key verses to read with this lesson - **Hebrews 11:1** — Faith as confidence and assurance. - **Hebrews 11:6** — Without faith impossible to please Him. - **Psalm 27:14** — Wait for the Lord. - **Isaiah 40:31** — Wait; renew strength. - **James 1:5** — Ask wisdom. - **Proverbs 19:2** — Haste errs. ### A simple practice Before one financial or career decision this week, pray first, run the real numbers, and ask a wise believer whether you are hurrying. Delay any “panic yes” 48 hours. ### How this feeds Ask Dean Seed material for: *What is Dean’s airline financing wait-on-God story? How does he define faith at the end of chapter 20?*