Now listen very carefully because this message will confront one of the most abused spiritual practices in the church. Prayer. Prayer is powerful but prayer is not a substitute for discipline.
Many people pray sincerely yet live carelessly. They intercede passionately but manage poorly. They cry in the presence of God and then return to the same undisiplined habits that created their problems.
And they wonder why nothing changes. Prayer cannot fix what discipline refuses to handle. Prayer was never designed to replace responsibility.
Prayer was designed to empower obedience. When prayer is used to avoid discipline, it becomes ineffective. Not because God is weak, but because principles are being violated.
God does not answer prayer by bypassing law. He answers prayer by empowering alignment. Many believers misunderstand prayer.
They believe prayer is asking God to step in where they refuse to step up. But God does not function that way. He will not override your will to rescue you from irresponsibility.
From the beginning, God established a pattern. He gives instruction, then he expects compliance. Prayer comes after instruction, not before responsibility.
Adam did not pray for the garden to flourish. He was commanded to tend and keep it. Discipline preceded blessing.
Let me say this clearly. Prayer without discipline is noise. It may be emotional.
It may be sincere. But it is ineffective. If you pray for financial breakthrough but refuse to budget, prayer will not fix it.
If you pray for health but refuse to discipline your body, prayer will not fix it. If you pray for peace but refuse to establish order, prayer will not fix it. God is not mocked.
Whatever a man sws that he will also reap. Prayer does not change seed. Discipline does.
Some believers pray against harvest they planted themselves. But prayer does not cancel harvest. Repentance and correction change future planting.
This is why Jesus emphasized discipline so strongly. He spoke about denying yourself, taking up your cross daily and following him. Daily discipline, not occasional prayer, was his standard.
Discipline is the ability to keep your decisions after the emotion of the decision has passed. Emotion makes promises. Discipline keeps them.
Many people make spiritual commitments during prayer, but they break them in daily life. They confuse inspiration with transformation. Inspiration excites you temporarily.
Discipline changes you permanently. God never promised to bless excitement. He promised to bless obedience.
This is why many prayers are repeated endlessly. Repetition is often evidence of disobedience. When obedience is present, prayer becomes concise and effective.
Prayer reveals what discipline must execute. Let me say something strong. God will not heal what you keep injuring.
He will not restore what you keep neglecting. He will not bless what you refuse to manage. Prayer cannot override carelessness.
God is not impressed by how long you pray if your life remains disorderly. He is not moved by volume. He responds to alignment.
This is why the kingdom message feels heavy to some people. It removes the comfort of irresponsibility. It restores the demand for self-government.
The kingdom of God is not run by emotion. It is run by laws. And discipline is the law that governs behavior.
You cannot pray yourself into discipline. Discipline must be chosen. Grace empowers discipline, but grace does not replace it.
Some people misuse grace as permission to remain undisiplined. But grace was never given to excuse disorder. Grace was given to enable obedience.
Let me speak directly to you. Now, the area of your life that keeps frustrating you is likely the area where discipline is missing. Prayer exposed it.
Now, discipline must address it. God has already shown you what to do. He has already convicted you.
He has already instructed you. Now he is waiting. Waiting for discipline because prayer cannot fix what discipline refuses to handle.
Now let us confront emotional Christianity because emotion is one of the greatest enemies of discipline. Emotion is powerful but it is unstable. It fluctuates with environment, circumstances and feelings.
Discipline on the other hand is steady. It operates regardless of mood. Many believers confuse emotion with spirituality.
They feel moved, inspired, excited, and they assume change has occurred. But emotion does not equal transformation. Emotion is a reaction.
Discipline is a decision. You can cry in prayer and remain unchanged. Tears do not build habits.
Feelings do not restructure life. Only discipline does. This is why many people experienced powerful moments in worship but return to weak lifestyles afterward.
They were touched emotionally but not corrected behaviorally. God does not measure spirituality by intensity of feeling. He measures it by consistency of obedience.
Consistency is proof of discipline. The kingdom of God does not respond to emotional bursts. It responds to sustained obedience.
That is why Jesus emphasized daily discipline. He said, "Take up your cross daily, not occasionally, not when you feel inspired. " Daily.
Daily obedience is not exciting. It is effective. Many people say, "I will change when I feel ready.
" That is emotional language. Discipline says, "I will change because it is necessary. " Readiness is not a feeling.
Readiness is a decision followed by action. Emotion waits for conditions to improve. Discipline creates conditions for improvement.
This is why emotional people remain unstable. They rise when they feel good and fall when they feel discouraged. Discipline removes that instability.
Let me say this clearly. God does not reward emotion. He rewards obedience.
Obedience is often uncomfortable. It requires denial. It requires restraint.
It requires saying no to yourself. That is why discipline is rare. It costs comfort.
Many believers want blessings without boundaries, favor without discipline, and progress without restraint. But that combination does not exist in the kingdom. Boundaries protect blessing.
Discipline sustains favor. Let me speak to motivation. Motivation is emotional fuel.
It is helpful, but it is unreliable. When motivation fades, discipline must carry you. If your faith depends on motivation, it will collapse under pressure.
Discipline sustains faith. When emotion disappears, this is why God often allows dryness. Dr seasons expose whether your obedience is emotional or disciplined.
When feelings are gone, discipline reveals maturity. Mature believers obey without applause. They remain consistent without excitement.
They continue even when nothing feels rewarding. God is more pleased with one act of disciplined obedience than with many emotional prayers. Emotion promises.
Discipline performs. Some of you keep rededicating your life because you never installed discipline. Rededication without discipline is repetition.
You do not need another emotional moment. You need another structure. If your prayer life is inconsistent, discipline is missing.
If your finances are chaotic, discipline is missing. If your growth is stagnant, discipline is missing. Prayer revealed it.
Discipline must address it. God will not change outcomes produced by emotional living. Emotional living produces instability.
Instability produces frustration. The kingdom requires rulers, not reactors. This is why Jesus said, "Set your face like flint.
" Flint does not respond to pressure. It remains firm. That is discipline.
Discipline is the ability to obey when emotion is silent. Some of you must stop asking God to give you motivation and start asking him to give you discipline. Motivation excites you briefly.
Discipline changes you permanently. God has already given you the capacity to be disciplined. You do not lack power.
You lack structure. Install structure. Create routines.
Decide in advance. Remove negotiation. Because prayer cannot fix what discipline refuses to handle.
Now let us deal with habits. Because habits are the visible form of discipline. You do not live by intentions.
You live by habits. Intentions express desire. Habits express decisions.
And destiny is shaped by what you do repeatedly, not occasionally. God does not work through spontaneity. He works through systems.
Systems are habits organized intentionally. And when systems are godly, outcomes become predictable. Many people pray for change but refuse to change habits.
But habits are the infrastructure of life. Prayer may inspire you to change, but habits must be rebuilt if change is to last. Let me say this clearly.
God will not heal a habit you refuse to replace. He will not deliver you from patterns you continue to practice. Habits operate silently.
They shape your life quietly. You may not feel them working, but they are always producing something. This is why small habits matter.
They accumulate. They compound. They determine long-term outcomes.
Some people think their problems are big, but their habits are small. And small habits repeated over time create big problems. If you want a different life, you must design different habits.
God designed the universe to operate on routine. The sun rises and sets by schedule. Seasons follow order.
Growth follows process. Creation does not rely on emotion. It relies on consistency.
So when God calls you to discipline, he is inviting you to align with how he designed reality to function. Let me speak to prayer again. Prayer will expose the habit that must change.
Conviction will highlight it, but God will not remove it for you. Habits are replaced, not rebuked. Some believers rebuke what must be restructured.
They pray against what must be disciplined. If you are undisiplined with time, prayer will not give you more time. Only habits will.
If you are careless with words, prayer will not repair relationships. Only discipline will. If you neglect your body, prayer will not sustain health.
Only habits will. God respects habits because habits reveal character. Character is not what you intend.
It is what you practice. This is why discipline must be daily. Weekly obedience is not discipline.
Discipline is daily structure. This is why Jesus said daily bread, not monthly, not occasionally, daily. Daily habits produce daily results.
Let me say something sobering. Your future is not decided by what you pray once. It is decided by what you practice daily.
Prayer initiates change. discipline maintains it. This is why many miracles fade.
The miracle was genuine, but the habits were unchanged. God healed bodies, but people returned to unhealthy lifestyles. God restored finances, but people returned to mismanagement.
God delivered hearts, but people returned to old patterns. The miracle ended because discipline never began. Let me say this clearly.
God does not maintain what discipline does not support. This is why self-control is listed as fruit of the spirit. Fruit grows slowly.
Fruit requires care. Fruit must be maintained. Self-control is evidence of maturity.
You do not need more prayer time if your habits are disordered. You need to redesign your routines. This is not anti- prayer.
This is pro-effectiveness. God expects prayer to lead to action, action to habit, habit to character, character to destiny. So today, examine your habits honestly, not emotionally.
Ask yourself, what do I do daily that contradicts what I pray for? That answer reveals why prayer is not producing results. God is not withholding answers.
He is waiting for alignment. Prayer cannot fix what discipline refuses to handle. But when discipline is installed, prayer becomes powerful again.
Now let us confront self-control because discipline without self-control is impossible. Self-control is the ability to govern yourself when no one is watching. It is the proof that you are no longer ruled by impulse.
And until self-control is established, prayer will remain frustrated. Self-control is not suppression. It is regulation.
It is the ability to say no to yourself in order to say yes to your destiny. Many believers want God to control what they refuse to control themselves. But God will never replace your responsibility with his sovereignty.
God does not override your will. He trains it. This is where many people fail.
They ask God to remove temptation instead of developing restraint. They ask God to silence desire instead of governing appetite. But appetite is not evil.
Appetite must be managed. From the beginning, God gave Adam permission with restriction. Permission without restriction produces chaos.
Restriction without permission produces rebellion. Self-control balances both. Let me say this clearly.
God expects you to manage your desires. He will not do it for you. This is why prayer alone cannot fix lack of discipline.
Prayer may expose desire, but self-control must regulate it. You cannot pray away appetite. Appetite is part of human design.
You must govern it. This applies to every area of life. If you eat whatever you feel like eating, prayer will not heal your body.
If you speak whatever you feel like saying, prayer will not preserve relationships. If you spend whatever you feel like spending, prayer will not produce financial peace. If you indulge whatever you feel like indulging, prayer will not protect your future.
Feelings are real, but they are not rulers. Self-control means you do not obey every feeling. You acknowledge them, but you do not surrender to them.
Discipline is the refusal to be ruled by impulse. This is why the Bible lists self-control as a fruit of the spirit. Fruit does not grow instantly.
Fruit requires cultivation. Fruit requires time. Fruit requires patience.
Self-control is evidence that the spirit is governing you, not your emotions. Many believers are sincere but undisiplined. They love God genuinely, but they live carelessly.
Love without discipline becomes sentimentality. And sentimentality cannot sustain obedience. God does not want emotional followers.
He wants governed sons. Self-control is how you demonstrate that you are ready for responsibility. Responsibility cannot be given to people who cannot restrain themselves.
Authority is dangerous in the hands of undisiplined people. That is why God delays promotion. Delay is not denial.
Delay is development. God waits until self-control is evident. Some of you are asking God to elevate you.
But elevation would expose your lack of discipline. God is protecting you. Let me say something sobering.
God loves you too much to give you what you are not disciplined enough to handle. Self-control protects blessing. This is why boundaries are necessary.
Boundaries are not limitations. They are protections. Boundaries preserve purpose.
Boundaries guard destiny. Many believers resist boundaries because boundaries feel restrictive. But without boundaries, freedom is destroyed.
Freedom without discipline becomes bondage. That is why people who reject boundaries often end up enslaved to debt, to addiction, to habits, to people, to emotions. Self-control is freedom's guardian.
Let me speak to your prayer life again. If prayer does not lead you to set boundaries, prayer is incomplete. Prayer should make you stricter with yourself, not softer.
Grace does not remove boundaries. Grace empowers you to keep them. Grace gives you strength to say no when everything in you wants to say yes.
Some people misuse grace as permission to remain undisiplined. But grace was never given to excuse disorder. Grace was given to empower obedience.
If grace makes you careless, you misunderstood it. Self-control is how grace becomes visible. Let me say this plainly.
God will not protect you from what discipline would prevent. He will not rescue you from choices you refuse to regulate. Self-control is your responsibility.
This is why Jesus said, "If any man will follow me, let him deny himself. " [snorts] Denial is self-control. It is the conscious decision to restrain desire for a higher purpose.
You cannot follow Christ without self-denial. Christianity without discipline is a contradiction. Many believers want Christ's power without Christ's discipline.
that does not exist. Power flows where discipline is present. Self-control governs habits.
Habits govern character. Character governs destiny. If you want your destiny to change, self-control must increase.
Let me ask you honestly, what do you indulge that you should restrain? What do you tolerate that you should regulate? What do you excuse that you should confront?
Those answers reveal why prayer has been ineffective. God is not waiting for you to pray louder. He is waiting for you to govern yourself.
The moment self-control is embraced, prayer becomes effective again. Because prayer and discipline finally align, prayer provides strength. Self-control applies strength.
Applied strength produces change. Prayer cannot fix what discipline refuses to handle. And discipline cannot function without self-control.
This is not condemnation. This is empowerment. Because self-control returns authority to you.
You stop being ruled by urges. You stop being driven by impulse. You stop being controlled by mood.
And you start governing your life intentionally. That is maturity. That is discipline.
That is kingdom living. Now let us confront boundaries and delayed gratification. Because discipline without boundaries collapses under pressure.
Boundaries are the practical expression of discipline. They are the lines you draw in advance so you are not forced to negotiate with temptation later. Many believers fail not because they lack prayer but because they lack boundaries.
They trust emotion in moments where discipline should have decided long before the moment arrived. Boundaries are decisions made ahead of desire. God never intended you to rely on willpower alone.
Willpower is emotional strength. Boundaries are structural strength. Structure always outlives emotion.
This is why God gave laws. Laws are boundaries. Laws are not restrictions meant to frustrate you.
They are protections designed to preserve you. Every blessing God releases comes with boundaries. When boundaries are ignored, blessing turns into burden.
Let me say this clearly. God does not bless without restraint. He blesses within restraint.
Freedom without boundaries becomes chaos. Freedom with boundaries becomes dominion. Many people think boundaries limit them.
But boundaries actually create capacity. They protect energy. They preserve focus.
They guard destiny. If you do not establish boundaries, life will impose consequences. Boundaries are voluntary restraint.
Consequences are enforced restraint. Wisdom chooses boundaries. This is why delayed gratification is critical.
Delayed gratification is the ability to say no now in order to say yes later. It is the proof that you value future reward over present comfort. God works through delayed gratification.
Destiny is never handed to people who want everything now. Impatience disqualifies many from their assignment. Let me say something sobering.
Impatience is a form of rebellion. It says, "I want it my way in my time. " But the kingdom does not submit to impatience.
God always tests patience before releasing power. Because power in impatient hands becomes destructive. This is why Abraham's impatience produced Ishmael.
Ishmael was not evil. He was premature. Premature results create permanent complications.
Many people are living with Ishmael problems because they refuse delayed gratification. They rushed relationships. They rushed decisions.
They rushed investments. They rushed promotions. And now they are asking God to clean up what patience would have prevented.
Prayer cannot fix impatience. Discipline must train patience. Patience is not waiting passively.
Patience is disciplined obedience while waiting. It is staying aligned while time unfolds. God does not reward speed.
He rewards obedience. Some people say if God wanted this it wouldn't be so hard. That is not true.
Difficulty is often proof that restraint is required. Ease does not mean approval. Resistance does not mean rejection.
Delayed gratification protects you from becoming something you are not ready to manage. This is why God withholds certain blessings until your boundaries are strong enough to protect them. Some of you want influence but you have no boundaries with people.
Influence without boundaries leads to burnout. Some want money, but they have no boundaries with spending. Money without boundaries leads to poverty.
Some want intimacy, but they have no boundaries with desire. Intimacy without boundaries leads to regret. God is not cruel for delaying.
God is wise. Boundaries are not walls to isolate you. They are fences to protect what matters.
Let me speak to your prayer life again. Prayer should lead you to establish boundaries, not relax them. The closer you get to God, the stricter you should become with yourself.
Holiness is not about avoiding people. It is about governing desire. Self-denial is not loss.
Self-denial is investment. When you deny yourself temporarily, you invest in future authority. Jesus endured the cross because he saw the joy set before him.
That is delayed gratification at its highest level. He chose pain now to rule later. Every ruler must master delayed gratification.
This is why God often says no to you now. Not because he's against you, but because he sees what you will destroy if released too early. Premature blessing is dangerous.
It exposes immaturity. Boundaries slow you down so maturity can catch up. Let me ask you honestly, where have you removed boundaries and replaced them with prayer?
Where have you said God understands when God expected discipline? Grace does not eliminate boundaries. Grace strengthens them.
The spirit of God does not remove restraint. He empowers it. That is why self-control is fruit, not gift.
You cultivate it. You develop it. You protect it.
Boundaries must be intentional. You must decide what you will not do, where you will not go, what you will not tolerate, and who you will not allow access. If you do not decide in advance, emotion will decide in the moment.
And emotion is a terrible ruler. Prayer cannot fix what discipline refuses to handle. Discipline cannot survive without boundaries.
Boundaries cannot stand without delayed gratification. And delayed gratification is proof of maturity. God is not waiting for you to pray harder.
He is waiting for you to restrain yourself. When boundaries are restored, discipline strengthens. When discipline strengthens, prayer becomes effective.
When prayer and discipline align, destiny accelerates. This is how the kingdom works. Now, let us confront endurance and consistency.
Because discipline that does not endure will eventually collapse. Many people begin well, but few continue well. And in the kingdom, beginnings impress people, but endings impress heaven.
God does not reward passion, he rewards perseverance. Passion is emotional energy. Perseverance is disciplined, commitment over time.
Passion ignites action, but perseverance sustains obedience. This is why many believers experience temporary breakthroughs, but long-term stagnation. They are consistent for a season, but they cannot endure structure.
They obey until it becomes inconvenient. They are faithful until pressure increases. But the kingdom is not sustained by bursts of enthusiasm.
It is sustained by steady obedience. Consistency is proof of maturity. It means you do the right thing even when the results are not immediate, even when there's no applause, even when nothing seems to be changing.
God works slowly because he works deeply. He is not interested in quick results that collapse under weight. He is committed to lasting transformation.
Many people abandon discipline because they do not see immediate reward. They mistake delay for denial. But delay is not denial.
Delay is development. God develops capacity before he releases outcome. Let me say this clearly.
Discipline that is not tested over time is not discipline. It is motivation pretending to be obedience. Time reveals truth.
Anyone can obey for a week. Anyone can change for a month. Anyone can commit when emotions are high.
But discipline is proven when emotions are absent. This is why endurance is critical. Endurance is obedience stretched over time.
It is discipline that survives boredom, resistance, and disappointment. God tests endurance deliberately. He allows situations to last longer than you expect.
So your character can be examined. If God ended everything quickly, you would never know who you are. Endurance reveals identity.
Some people say, "I'm tired. " Fatigue is not always physical. Often it is emotional fatigue caused by inconsistency.
Inconsistent people get tired faster than disciplined people. Discipline reduces fatigue because it removes internal conflict. When your life is structured, you are not negotiating with yourself daily.
Endurance simplifies life. It removes drama. It removes fluctuation.
It stabilizes behavior. Let me say something sobering. Many people quit just before discipline produces fruit.
They stop when resistance increases. But resistance often signals growth. Seeds resist soil before they break through.
Muscles resist weight before they grow. Destiny resists discipline before it yields. If you quit when resistance comes, you abort growth.
God often allows resistance to test whether your obedience is conditional or covenantal. Conditional obedience obeys when it feels good. Covenantal obedience obeys because it is right.
Heaven rewards covenantal obedience. This is why scripture says, "He that endures to the end shall be saved. " Salvation is not just rescue.
It is completion. God values finishes. Many people want miracles, but God wants managers.
Managers must endure. This is why discipline must be boring. Boredom tests commitment.
If discipline depended on excitement, no one would mature. Endurance requires vision. You must know why you are disciplined.
Discipline without purpose feels like punishment. Discipline with purpose feels like preparation. God always attaches purpose to endurance.
He never wastes endurance. Some of you are enduring right now and you are tempted to stop because you do not see progress. But endurance is working even when results are invisible.
Roots grow before fruit appears. If you dig up the seed every day to check progress, you will kill it. Endurance trusts process.
This is why faith and discipline work together. Faith trusts God. Discipline obeys God.
Trust without obedience is fantasy. Obedience without trust is drudgery. But when faith and discipline unite, endurance becomes possible.
Let me speak to your prayer life again. Prayer sustains endurance. Prayer reminds you why you are disciplined.
Prayer renews strength. But prayer does not replace consistency. You pray to keep going.
You discipline to keep changing. Consistency over time is more powerful than intensity in moments. God does not bless the loudest prayers.
He blesses the longest obedience. Many people say, "I tried discipline, but it didn't work. " No.
Discipline always works. It only fails when it is abandoned too early. Endurance is the difference between people who talk about destiny and people who fulfill it.
Let me say this strongly. Quitting is a habit. So is endurance.
And habits shape destiny. If you quit easily, life will train you to remain small. If you endure, life will expand you.
God does not beg people to grow. He waits for those willing to endure. This is why prayer cannot fix what discipline refuses to handle.
And discipline that does not endure produces nothing. Endurance is discipline matured. When endurance is established, character stabilizes.
When character stabilizes, authority increases. When authority increases, destiny accelerates. God trusts enduring people.
So today, decide not just to be disciplined, but to be consistently disciplined. decide not just to obey but to endure obedience. Endurance is the silent proof that prayer and discipline are aligned.
And when endurance is complete, the results you prayed for will appear not suddenly but inevitably because consistency always wins. Now let us bring this truth to its final demand. Because revelation without response only increases responsibility.
God never reveals truth to impress you. He reveals truth to change how you live. And at this point, change is no longer optional.
It is required. Prayer has done its job. Understanding has been released.
Conviction has been stirred. But now, heaven is waiting for action. God does not respond to agreement.
He responds to obedience. Many people say that message was powerful and nothing changes. That response does not impress heaven.
Heaven waits to see what you do differently tomorrow. Truth that does not alter behavior becomes judgment. So let me say this plainly.
Prayer has already exposed what discipline must now handle. You know the habit. You know the weakness.
You know the inconsistency. You know the area where obedience has been delayed. God is not waiting to hear you pray about it again.
He's waiting to see you manage it. This is where many believers fail. They keep returning to the altar with the same request, hoping repetition will produce results.
But repetition without obedience produces frustration. God is not deaf. He is disciplined.
Heaven operates by laws. Laws do not respond to desperation. They respond to alignment.
God is not withholding answers. He is withholding interference. Because if God interfered every time you avoided discipline, you would never mature.
If God rescued you from every consequence, you would never learn obedience. If God fixed everything for you, you would never grow. Discipline is not punishment.
Discipline is proof that God believes you are capable of growth. This is why discipline feels heavy. Responsibility always does.
Authority is weighty. Dominion is demanding. But maturity requires weightbearing capacity.
God is training you to carry weight. You cannot rule if you cannot restrain yourself. You cannot lead if you cannot govern your habits.
You cannot influence if you cannot endure consistency. Prayer may open the door, but discipline must walk through it. Some of you must stop spiritualizing what is actually disobedience.
You must stop calling avoidance waiting on God. Waiting on God never contradicts obedience to God. Waiting on God is active alignment, not passive delay.
God already told you what to do. He told you to manage your time. He told you to govern your appetite.
He told you to discipline your speech. He told you to order your finances. He told you to establish routines.
You do not need more instruction. You need execution. This is not condemnation.
This is empowerment. Because discipline places power back into your hands. You stop feeling helpless.
You stop blaming circumstances. You stop depending on emotion. You begin to rule.
Let me say something that must be heard clearly. God will never violate your responsibility to prove his love. Love empowers.
It does not excuse. Grace strengthens discipline. Grace does not remove it.
If grace makes you careless, you misunderstood grace. If grace makes you disciplined, you understood it. Grace trains you to say no to ungodliness and yes to righteousness.
Grace is not permission. It is power. So today, settle this in your spirit.
You will no longer pray instead of obeying. You will no longer cry instead of correcting. You will no longer fast instead of fixing habits.
You will discipline yourself not perfectly but consistently. Not emotionally but intentionally, not temporarily, but permanently. Because discipline does not require perfection.
It requires commitment. God is not waiting for flawless obedience. He is waiting for responsible obedience.
And the moment you choose discipline, heaven partners with you immediately. Strength comes. Clarity increases.
Resistance weakens. Not because God changed, but because you aligned. This is the kingdom.
Prayer reveals, discipline executes, consistency sustains, endurance completes, and destiny responds. So go now not to pray again about what you already know, but to manage what God entrusted to you. And as you do, the change you have been asking for will no longer be delayed.
It will begin immediately.
