Quotes about Waiting

You may be sitting around waiting for God to change your circumstances. Then you're going to be happy, then your're going to have a good attitude, then you're going to give God praise. But God is waiting on you to get up on the inside. When you do your part, He'll begin to change things and work supernaturally in your life.

If you're not seeing God move in your life right now, one of two possibilities must be considered. Either your requests are not God's best and will probably not be answered the way you'd like or it must not be the right time. If God were to answer that prayer the way you are hoping, it could interfere with his ideal plan for you.

God can do in a split second what might otherwise take you many years.

God is going to work all things for your good. While you're waiting, when you don't see anything happening, trust Him enough to enjoy your life. See the good in each day; be grateful for what you have.

The key is to trust Him while you're waiting. Trust Him while His plan is unfolding. Don't get discouraged by what you don't see happening. Don't live frustrated because it's taking longer than you thought. The right time is the best time.

It may not happen the way you expect it or no your timetable, but God is a faithful God. It will happen.

Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, do not despair, for these things will surely come to pass. Just be patient! They will not be overdue a single day! Habakkuk 2:3 TLB

God is in control. You may not think anything is happening, but remember, God often works the most when we see it and feel it the least. Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors to open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.

Many times, before a promise comes to pass, you have to go through a season of silence where you don't see anything changing. This is when many people give up on what they're believing for. But just because you don't see anything happening doesn't mean God is not working.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

Maybe the first thing we need to pray about is for God to help us see the huge field of people waiting to be harvested and to give us an incredible love for those people.

Feed him [Micajah] with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.