36 Bible Verses about Waiting For God's Timing
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As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is precise: a shield to all those that wait in him.
And therefore will the LORD wait for you, that he may have mercy on you, and therefore will he be exalted having mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all those that wait for him.
Wait for the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, for the LORD.
The Lord is not late concerning his promise, as some count lateness, but is patient with us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Wait for me a little, and I will teach thee; for I yet speak on God's behalf.
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those that persecute me.
Because I, the LORD, will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall no longer be prolonged, for in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and will perform it, said the Lord GOD.
The small one shall be as a thousand; the youngest as a strong nation; I the LORD will hasten it in its time.
For much that thou dost say, he will not look upon it, submit to judgment before him, and trust thou in him.
I said, I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bit while the wicked is against me.
Daleth Be silent before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not be angry with him who prospers in his way, with the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
These wait all upon thee, that thou may give them their food in due season.
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass.
He has made every thing beautiful in his time: even the world he has given over to their will, in such a way that no man can attain to this work that God makes from the beginning to the end.
Behold, O God my saving health, I will trust and not be afraid for JAH, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he also is become saving health unto me.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie; though it tarry, wait for it because it will surely come; wait for it.
Gimel Turn thy way unto the LORD and wait in him, and he shall bring it to pass.
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,
Here is the patience of the saints; here are those that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
Therefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each one have praise of God.
(For he saith, I have heard thee in an acceptable time, and in the day of saving health I have succoured thee; behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of saving health.)
But of that day and hour no one knows, no, not even the angels of the heavens, but my Father only.
but when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
For my thoughts are not as your thoughts, neither are your ways as my ways, saith the LORD.
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said unto him, Rise up, make us gods which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
Preach the word; be instant in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Therefore, it came to pass when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, she bore a son and called his name Samuel, , saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were deserting from him.
And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was consumed.
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- Timing (3 instances)