35 Bible Verses about Waiting For God's Timing

As for God, his way is completely good; the word of the Lord is tested; he is a breastplate for all those who put their faith in him.

For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.

Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.

The Lord is not slow in keeping his word, as he seems to some, but he is waiting in mercy for you, not desiring the destruction of any, but that all may be turned from their evil ways.

Give me a little more time, and I will make it clear to you; for I have still something to say for God.

When I was waiting quietly for the Lord, his heart was turned to me, and he gave ear to my cry.

The chances of my life are in your hand; take me out of the hands of my haters, and of those who go after me.

For I am the Lord; I will say the word and what I say I will do; it will not be put off: for in your days, O uncontrolled people, I will say the word and do it, says the Lord.

The smallest of their families will become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I, the Lord, will make it come quickly in its time.

How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

I said, I will give attention to my ways, so that my tongue may do no wrong; I will keep my mouth under control, while the sinner is before me.

Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

All of them are waiting for you, to give them their food in its time.

In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.

If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

See, God is my salvation; I will have faith in the Lord, without fear: for the Lord Jah is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.

He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.

For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back.

Put your life in the hands of the Lord; have faith in him and he will do it.

For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;

Here is the quiet strength of the saints, who keep the orders of God, and the faith of Jesus.

For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.

(For he says, I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: see, now is the good time; now is the day of salvation):

Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.

But of that day and hour no one has knowledge, not even the angels in heaven, or the Son, but the Father only.

But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.

And when the people saw that Moses was a long time coming down from the mountain, they all came to Aaron and said to him, Come, make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

Be preaching the word at all times, in every place; make protests, say sharp words, give comfort, with long waiting and teaching;

A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;

Now the time came when Hannah, being with child, gave birth to a son; and she gave him the name Samuel, Because, she said, I made a prayer to the Lord for him.

And he went on waiting there for seven days, the time fixed by Samuel: but Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were starting to go away from him.

Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.