VERSES EVERYTHING HAS ITS TIME

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 the LORD. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for the LORD.

I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries towards the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it, because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

Therefore the LORD will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

I wait for the LORD. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Our soul has waited for the LORD. He is our help and our shield.

but those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,

Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.” So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Commit your way to the LORD. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offence.

Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

The LORD will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

For I know the thoughts that I think towards you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; and those who wait for me won’t be disappointed.”

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

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 the LORD, our God, until he has mercy on us.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient,

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD, the LORD, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

Trust in the LORD, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture. The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice. The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide. The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to kill him. The LORD will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. Wait for the LORD, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it. I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found. Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace. As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off. But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble. Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

“Come to me, all you who labour and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learnt in whatever state I am, to be content in it. I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learnt the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

I have hoped for your salvation, LORD. I have done your commandments.

But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

The eyes of all wait for you. You give them their food in due season.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

One thing I have asked of the LORD, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in the LORD’s house all the days of my life, to see the LORD’s beauty, and to enquire in his temple.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Yes, in the way of your judgements, LORD, we have waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray and not give up,

Show me your ways, LORD. Teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation. I wait for you all day long.

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

But you be strong! Don’t let your hands be slack, for your work will be rewarded.”

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD 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. I will be exalted amongst the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience towards God. as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow, For what glory is it if, when you sin, you patiently endure beating? But if when you do well, you patiently endure suffering, this is commendable with God.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honour prefer one another,

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.

It shall be said in that day, “Behold, this is our God! We have waited for him, and he will save us! This is the LORD! We have waited for him. We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation!”

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

For I hope in you, LORD. You will answer, Lord my God.

For we through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Wait for the LORD, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Yes, no one who waits for you will be shamed. They will be shamed who deal treacherously without cause.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient towards all.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed towards us.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward person is decaying, yet our inward person is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory, while we don’t look 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.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the LORD.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for the LORD, and he will save you.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so you are also of the comfort.

My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

“By your endurance you will win your lives.

Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

“Therefore wait for me”, says the LORD, “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 on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and into the perseverance of Christ.

LORD, in the morning you will hear my voice. In the morning I will lay my requests before you, and will watch expectantly.

But as for me, I will look to the LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

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