You know, something I've really come to understand is that God's timing is perfect. Everything you've prayed for will happen when it's meant to. We often rush through life, burdened and worried about things happening quickly, but God makes it clear in His Word that there's a season for everything. So, take a deep breath and rest in the hands of your Heavenly Father. Everything comes at the right time, in the right place.
We need to remember that our time isn't the same as God's. His time is often referred to as kairos – that opportune, appointed moment. It's that perfect, heaven-sent timing that unfolds here on earth to bless us. God is never late. Trust in Him and wait for what you long for.
When you rest in God, you're showing your faith and the confidence you have in His promises.
Wait for Jehovah:\par\tab Be strong, and let thy heart take courage;\par\tab Yea, wait thou for Jehovah.\par
{\b For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.}\par\par\tab I waited patiently for Jehovah;\par\tab And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.And let patience have {\i its} perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, lacking in nothing.\par
For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.\par
And therefore will Jehovah wait, that he may be gracious unto you; and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for Jehovah is a God of justice; blessed are all they that wait for him.
In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.\par
And not only so, but we also rejoice in our tribulations: knowing that tribulation worketh stedfastness;and stedfastness, approvedness; and approvedness, hope:
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty;\par\tab And he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.
Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart,\par\tab And lean not upon thine own understanding:In all thy ways acknowledge him,\par\tab And he will direct thy paths.
For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.\par
Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him:\par\tab Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way,\par\tab Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, {\b I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.}So that with good courage we say,\par\tab {\b The Lord is my helper; I will not fear:\par\tab What shall man do unto me?}\par
The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger;\par\tab And it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
yet, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but waxed strong through faith, giving glory to God,
Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.\par
Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed,\par\tab A high tower in times of trouble;
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; and they that wait for me shall not be put to shame.\par
For thus said the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength. And ye would not:
But he knoweth the way that I take;\par\tab When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Behold, as the eyes of servants {\i look} unto the hand of their master,\par\tab As the eyes of a maid unto the hand of her mistress;\par\tab So our eyes {\i look} unto Jehovah our God,\par\tab Until he have mercy upon us.
And the Lord's servant must not strive, but be gentle towards all, apt to teach, forbearing,
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Jehovah, {\i even} Jehovah, is my strength and song; and he is become my salvation.
Trust in Jehovah, and do good;\par\tab Dwell in the land, and feed on {\i his} faithfulness.Delight thyself also in Jehovah;\par\tab And he will give thee the desires of thy heart.
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.I know how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul?\par\tab And {\i why} art thou disquieted within me?\par\tab Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him\par\tab {\i For} the help of his countenance.\par
But seek ye first the kingdom {\i of God}, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing {\i unto him}; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and {\i that} he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.
For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth?
let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for he is faithful that promised:
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.
One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after:\par\tab That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life,\par\tab To behold the beauty of Jehovah,\par\tab And to inquire in his temple.
Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee; to thy name, even to thy memorial {\i name}, is the desire of our soul.
My flesh and my heart faileth;\par\tab {\i But} God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
And he spake a parable unto them to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint;
Show me thy ways, O Jehovah;\par\tab Teach me thy paths.Guide me in thy truth, and teach me;\par\tab For thou art the God of my salvation;\par\tab For thee do I wait all the day.
Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help {\i us} in time of need.\par
But be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.\par
{\i I had fainted}, unless I had believed to see the goodness of Jehovah\par\tab In the land of the living.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Be still, and know that I am God:\par\tab I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully.For what glory is it, if, when ye sin, and are buffeted {\i for it}, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer {\i for it}, ye shall take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;
Love suffereth long, {\i and} is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Jehovah; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God besides thee, who worketh for him that waiteth for him.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Wait for Jehovah, and keep his way,\par\tab And he will exalt thee to inherit the land:\par\tab When the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus:
Ye know {\i this}, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Yea, none that wait for thee shall be put to shame:\par\tab They shall be put to shame that deal treacherously without cause.
that ye be not sluggish, but imitators of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.\par
And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all.
And the God of all grace, who called you unto his eternal glory in Christ, after that ye have suffered a little while, shall himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.
Wherefore we faint not; but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.\par
And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, {\i even} to them that are called according to {\i his} purpose.
strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;
Say not thou, I will recompense evil:\par\tab Wait for Jehovah, and he will save thee.
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.\par
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; {\i and} the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
and our hope for you is stedfast; knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also are ye of the comfort.
My soul {\i waiteth} for the Lord\par\tab More than watchmen {\i wait} for the morning;\par\tab {\i Yea, more than} watchmen for the morning.
Therefore wait ye for me, saith Jehovah, until the day that I rise up to the prey; for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger; for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.\par
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patience of Christ.\par
O Jehovah, in the morning shalt thou hear my voice;\par\tab In the morning will I order {\i my prayer} unto thee, and will keep watch.
But as for me, I will look unto Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.