Quotes about Waiting

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.

Defraud not the poor of his living, and make not the needy eyes to wait long.

Hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown.

Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?