While we wait on God He is working behind the scenes of our lives to perfectly orchestrate His will. He is preparing you. He is preparing others. He is working all things out for your good and His glory.
God works while we wait. Even when you can't see what He is doing, God is always orchestrating the events of Heaven and earth to accomplish His purposes for your life. Trust in His unfailing love — love that moved Him to send a Savior from heaven to restore and rescue you.
Proverbs 3:5–6 says, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Bring your doubt and frustration to Jesus and ask Him to help you trust Him. Waiting is having faith that our lives are in God's hands.
PREPARATION: Waiting on God prepares you for His promises. Anything quality, anything good, and anything worth waiting for, comes through a process of preparation. Pray for God to prepare you now for what is coming and prepare your heart to be transformed into the image of Jesus. Prepare what you are praying for!
God is always waiting for you to repent and run to Him. He yearns to demonstrate His love for you, and His compassion overflows when you return to Him. He is patient and faithful. So, don't run to the world for the solutions to your problems.
God is waiting patiently for people to come to “repentance” (2 Peter 3:8-9). The compassionate God takes “no pleasure in the death of anyone” and He does not want “anyone to perish” (Luke 15:10, Luke 15:7 2, Peter 3:8-9).
Through a Sense of Peace
When God wants you to wait for someone, He often grants you a sense of peace about the situation. This peace acts as a divine confirmation that God is asking you to exercise patience and trust in His perfect timing. Embrace this inner peace and allow it to guide your actions.
Waiting on God increases and strengthens our faith in Him. We learn more patience, and our trust in God intensifies! Most importantly, we have God's peace knowing that when He does give us the “green light,” we are in His will.
Abraham - Waiting for a Promise to Be Fulfilled
Abraham was promised an heir through his wife Sarah despite her old age. This period of waiting lasted 25 years. Sarah did eventually give birth to Isaac “and the Lord did to Sarah as he had promised” (Genesis 21:1).
Waiting helps us to notice new things.
Waiting is a time for noticing, and sometimes, in the long season of being separated from what we want, we discover that waiting is the only time we notice God.
Waiting is a spiritual discipline because it allows each of us to more fully experience who we are, the world around us and the presence of God. Practice waiting and may you be filled with God's Spirit as you do.
James 5:8. "You also must wait patiently, strengthening your resolve, because the coming of the Lord is near." The Good News: The coming of the Lord is imminent, so we must always act as if tomorrow is the day we enter everlasting life with Him. Be patient, kind, and full of love towards others.
“Be still in the presence of the LORD, and wait patiently for him to act.” What does God want you to do while you're waiting on an answer to your prayer? Psalm 37:7 says, “Be still in the presence of the LORD, and wait patiently for him to act” (NLT). God wants you to wait patiently for him to answer your prayer.
Micah 6:8, the "Micah Mandate," gives a balanced answer to today's spiritual and political questions. "What does the Lord require of you? To act justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."
Abraham and Sarah trusted God and they waited patiently for him. This doesn't mean they waited perfectly. They took matters into their own hands at times. But God's grace covered them and he still fulfilled his promise, in his perfect timing.
So, be informed and be aware, God uses many things to teach us spiritual lessons. One of those means is the pain associated with waiting on Him. Don't rebel, don't complain, but ask the Lord to give us a heaping of grace to help us respond when the pain of waiting on Him is upon us.
Waiting prepares your heart today for the abundance coming tomorrow. It's in the waiting that God does his preparing for the gifts, goodness and greatness he will bring tomorrow. As we wait, impurities fall, so we're ready to walk into His best with purity. Waiting prepares us to become holy vessels.
What does 'those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength' mean? This means resting in God by allowing Him to take charge, believing that He is sufficient and powerful. Those who trust in Him must be strong in faith to contend with their foes or trials to triumph.
“And the Lord, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed” (Deuteronomy 31:8).
One possibility is that God is actually removing these feelings, it's just taking longer than you want it to. Just like physical pain because of a broken bone, the pain will go away one day but it will take a long time because there are things that need to heal and mend before those feelings can go away.
God's Patience
The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.