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.
because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking in nothing.
For there is yet a vision for the appointed time; it will give witness to the end, and it will not lie. If it tarries, wait for it, for it will surely come and not delay.
Therefore Yahweh waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he will rise up to show you mercy, for Yahweh is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
And not only this, but we also boast in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces patient endurance,and patient endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope,
He who is slow to anger is better than him who is mighty, and he who controls his spirit than him who captures a city.
Trust Yahweh with all your heart; do not lean toward your own understanding.In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will straighten your paths.
For you have need of endurance, in order that after you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.
But those who wait for Yahweh shall renew their strength. They shall go up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not grow weary; they shall walk and not be faint.
Be quiet before Yahweh and wait for him. Do not fret about one who succeeds in his way, about a man making plots.
Yahweh is good to those who wait on him, to the person that seeks him.It is good to wait in silence for the salvation of Yahweh.
Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the soil, being patient concerning it until it receives the early and late rains.You also be patient. Strengthen your hearts, because the coming of the Lord is near.
And let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap, if we do not give up.
Your lifestyle must be free from the love of money, being content with what you have. For he himself has said, “I will never desert you, and I will never abandon you.”So then, we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What will man do to me?”
The understanding of a person makes him slow to his anger, and his glory overlooks offense.
And he did not waver in unbelief at the promise of God, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God
Behold, we consider blessed those who have endured. You have heard about the patient endurance of Job, and you saw the outcome from the Lord, that the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
For I know the plans that I am planning concerning you,’ declares Yahweh, ‘plans for prosperity and not for harm, to give to you a future and a hope.
Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as indeed you are doing.
in which you rejoice greatly, although now for a short time, if necessary, you are distressed by various trials,
And kings shall be your guardians, and their queens your nurses. They shall bow down, faces to the ground, to you, and they will lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; those who await me shall not be ashamed.
For the Lord Yahweh, the holy one of Israel, said this: “In returning and rest you shall be saved; your strength shall be in quietness and in trust.” But you were not willing,
Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to Yahweh our God, until he is gracious to us.
And the slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but be kind toward everyone, skillful in teaching, tolerant,
Look! God is my salvation; I will trust, and I will not be afraid, for my strength and might is Yah, Yahweh; and he has become salvation for me.”
Trust Yahweh and do good. Abide in the land and feed on faithfulness.The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.The law of his God is in his heart. His steps will not slip.The wicked watches for the righteous and seeks to kill him.Yahweh will not abandon him into his hand, and he will not let him be condemned when he is judged.Wait for Yahweh and keep his way, and he will exalt you to possess the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.I have seen the wicked acting violently and spreading himself out like a luxuriant native tree.Then he passed on and behold, he was not. And I sought him, but he could not be found.Observe the blameless and look at the upright, for there is a future for a man of peace.But transgressors shall be destroyed altogether. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.And the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh, their refuge in the time of trouble.Take pleasure in Yahweh as well, and he will give to you the requests of your heart.
Not that I speak from need, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am.I know how both to make do with little and I know how to have an abundance. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to have an abundance and to go without.
Why are you in despair, O my soul, and disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, for the salvation of his presence.
But seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and is a rewarder of those who seek him.
For in hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope, for who hopes for what he sees?
Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for the one who promised is faithful.
“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him—this one bears much fruit, for apart from me you are not able to do anything.
One thing I have asked from Yahweh; it I will seek: that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Yahweh, and to consider his temple.
Therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and dearly loved, put on affection, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience,
Surely we wait for you in the path of your judgments, Yahweh, for your name and renown are the desire of the soul.
Make me know your ways, O Yahweh. Teach me your paths.Cause me to walk in your truth and teach me, because you are the God of my salvation. I await you all day long.
Therefore let us approach with confidence to the throne of grace, in order that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
But as for you, be strong and let not your hands be weak, for there is reward for your labor.”
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations; I will be exalted in the earth.
For this finds favor, if because of consciousness of God someone endures sorrows while suffering unjustly.like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if you endure when you do good and suffer for it, this finds favor with God.
being devoted to one another in brotherly love, esteeming one another more highly in honor,
Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, it does not boast, it does not become conceited,
And one will say, on that day, “Look! This is our God! We have waited for him and he saved us! This is Yahweh; we waited for him! Let us be glad, and let us rejoice in his salvation.”
Therefore, since we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,
And since ancient times they have not heard, have not listened, no eye has seen a God except you; he acts for the one who waits for him.
The Lord is not delaying the promise, as some consider slowness, but is being patient toward you, because he does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance.
Wait for Yahweh and keep his way, and he will exalt you to possess the land. When the wicked are cut off, you will see it.
Now may the God of patient endurance and of encouragement grant you to be in agreement with one another, in accordance with Christ Jesus,
Understand this, my dear brothers: every person must be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
Indeed, none who wait for you should be put to shame. Those who betray without cause should be put to shame.
in order that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who inherit the promises through faith and patience.
And we urge you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, console the discouraged, help the sick, be patient toward all people.
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered for a short time, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
For I consider that the sufferings of the present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is about to be revealed to us.
Therefore we do not lose heart, but even if our outer person is being destroyed, yet our inner person is being renewed day after day.For our momentary light affliction is producing in us an eternal weight of glory beyond all measure and proportion,because we are not looking at what is seen, but what is not seen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is not seen is eternal.
And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose,
enabled with all power, according to his glorious might, for all steadfastness and patience with joy,
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The end of a matter is better than its beginning; better to be slow to anger than hot-headed.
And our hope for you is firm, because we know that as you are sharers in the sufferings, so also you will be sharers in the comfort.
My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning. Yes, more than watchmen for the morning.
“Therefore, wait for me”—a declaration of Yahweh— “for the day of my rising as a witness. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out my wrath upon them, all my burning anger. For by the fire of my anger all the land shall be consumed.
Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and toward the patient endurance of Christ.
O Yahweh, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will set forth my case to you and I will watch.
But as for me, I will look to Yahweh; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.