“Wait for God…”
That’s a nice phrase….
But what does it really mean?
How do we wait for God when we’re under stress and want an answer now?
26 Bible verses…
On how and why we should wait for God….
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But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
For there is a time and a way for everything, although man’s trouble lies heavy on him.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, about this time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.”
So that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!
So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.
Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.
And Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the time of which God had spoken to him.
He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.
But he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father.
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.
From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him.
In the day of my trouble I call upon you, for you answer me.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
