25 Powerful Bible Verses About Waiting on God’s Timing

Timing is something that God is very mindful of according to the Scripture. Somehow, in some way, God knows the perfect time when to unfold His promises in our lives. You also need to remember two things: One, God is never in a hurry. And two, God is never late. Waiting on God’s timing is always perfect. 

Everything God has promised you, comes in His timing. When you do not get the answer right away, do not operate in fear, do not give up, cave in, or quit. So be assured, what God promised you, will surely come to pass in His timing. But the Importance of waiting is as important as His timing.

I know a lot of you are in a waiting season. Waiting for your answer. Waiting to hear from God. Sometimes it is hard to understand and see the reason for waiting on God’s timing, that is why we have to trust God’s timing.

Waiting on God’s timing is hard. Especially when you need any answer to pray now. His timeline is almost never aligned with the one we desire. Yet, his timing is always perfect – even though it can be hard to wait for. God’s timing is always right.

It is especially difficult when we have done everything we know to do, to wait, pray, and praise. After waiting, in still of the nights, the delays, the silence, can make the waiting even more painful. What I discovered was that just because God seemed silent, did not mean that the answer was no.

When waiting on God’s timing, it can take weeks and sometimes months before the manifestation of His promise.

And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. Galatians 6:9 (KJV)

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What Does the Bible Say About Waiting for God’s Timing?

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

“But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”  Isaiah 40:31 (NKJV.)

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. Lamentations 3:25-26

“Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.” Psalm 27:14 

Sometimes we can fall in the trap of comparing ourselves with others. It is very easy to compare ourselves to others and wonder why something has come through for them, but it does not happen for us.

We may not always understand why God answers some prayers, does not answer some and sometimes makes us wait, but God knows why He does what He does because He knows what is best for us.

God knows what we need even before we ask Him. He knows everything about us. Rather than becoming impatient, frustrated, or giving up all together while waiting on God’s timing concerning our prayers, or for what we are believing Him. What do we need to do is?

1. Trust in God’s Timing, because God has a time and a season for everything (Ecclesiastes 3:1)
2. Keep believing that God knows what is best for us and that He will answer our prayers in His own Timing, His own way according to His wisdom.
3. To Keep Praying and thanking God for His goodness, mercy, and grace.
4. To Keep believing in the promises of God for us which are all Yes and Amen in Christ (2 Corinthians 1:20)
5. To be patient.
6. To watch for His answers.
7. To Keep fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2).
8. To trust in His unfailing Love
9. To remember that He has not forgotten about our prayers, about us.
10. To remember that we are not alone but that God is with us and that He will never leave nor forsake us.
11. To believe that God will give us the strength we need while we are waiting on His timing. He will renew our strength. (Isaiah 40:31)
12. To remember that God is faithful. (2 Timothy 2:13)
13. To remember that God is in control. God is always on time and never late, trust Him.

We need to understand that there is a purpose and reason for something not happening or not changing. It is us that needs to be doing the changing, starting with being patient. God is patient with us and we in return should be patient with him.

What Does It Mean to Trust God’s Timing?

It is not just God’s timing that you should trust—it is God himself. Once you fully understand that the Lord is faithful and in control, you will start worrying less.

Therefore, get to know God through Christ Jesus more. When you go through a season of testing and waiting, read more of the Bible and pray always. These will help you trust Him with all your heart.

Remember David was the anointed king of Israel, but before he could enjoy the realization of God’s promises, he had to go through a season of testing and waiting. During this time, he was forced to run for his life and hide out in caves. King Saul, who was bent on David’s destruction, continually hunted for him.

Perhaps the Lord has given you a promise through His Word. You are ready to see it unfold, but it has not happened yet. You have waited, but hope does not seem to be on the horizon.

Remember that God’s timing is perfect. He knows what you need and when you need it. He knows that if we are going to learn how to walk with Him in the daylight or the good times, we must also learn to trust Him in times of darkness.

At some point, each of us has waited for God’s promises to come. David may have wondered when the Lord would open the door to blessing. However, he never allowed his thoughts to turn to doubts. In fact, he praised God for the victory he knew would be his one day: “[God] delivered me from my strong enemy, and from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me…He brought me forth also into a broad [or spacious] place; He rescued me, because He delighted in me” (Psalm 18:17,19).

When God delivers you from trial and trouble, you can be sure He will bring you out into a spacious place of joy and delight—one that also will glorify Him and add encouragement to your life.

Have you been pushing and shoving in an effort to get where you think you should be? If so, stop and choose instead to wait on God’s timing. God, the Father of lights (James 1:17), will one day reward you for the time you spend waiting in darkness.

Trust God’s Timing, because God has a timetable and a season for everything. (Ecclesiastes 3:1)

Keep believing that God knows what is best for us and that He will answer our prayers in His own Timing, His own way according to His wisdom.

To Keep Praying and thanking God for His goodness, mercy, and grace.

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The Importance of Waiting on God’s Timing.

The Bible contains a lot of promises that we can hold on to. One thing that should give you hope is the truth that God’s Word never fails. So, if you have received God’s promise, rest assured that He will fulfill it no matter how long it takes. You just have to wait on the Lord patiently.

We always want what we want quick and in a hurry that we then have a very hard time in adjusting to the slower ways that God will work things out in our life.

One of the things I have found out in my own personal walk with the Lord is that many times, He will have a much slower way of working things than I ever thought He would.

The reason God likes to make us wait from time to time is to not only test our faith in Him and to properly prepare us for what He is making us wait for, but to also develop the fruit of patience and determination in us.

As a believer I know that what Jesus did over two-thousand years ago, everything I need, God has already provided.

Try to move ahead of God’s timing with what He wants to do in a particular area of your life, and you will find very quickly that everything will fall apart and completely unravel.

Throughout the Bible, you will see countless examples of God’s faithfulness and love displayed when waiting on God’s timing. Instead of taking matters into your hands, you should wait patiently for God to answer and move on your behalf.

Here are some ways you can use yourself in waiting on God’s timing:

Waiting on God’s Timing requires patience and faith…

Waiting in a season of uncertainty is where our faith is tested. Waiting will manifest impatience, worry, discouragement, fear, and lack of trust in God. I can tell you from first-hand experience that God will eventually make a move to work patience into your personality, and one of the ways He will do it is by making you wait for Him to make something happen in your life.

There will be times that you will feel your patience and faith in Him get literally stretched to a point where you feel you can no longer hold on, and then He will come in with the big breakthrough you have been waiting for.

Waiting on God’s Timing when to move and when not to move.

If you can learn how to wait on God’s timing on when to move and when not to move, you will end up being very good and successful in each one of the jobs that God will have you work at in this life.

Pray

Prayer is the one thing God has established to make contact with what he has already decreed. Where there is no prayer there is no contact, and where there is no contact you do not get what God has already declared for you to have, known as his will. Do you want your prayers to be more effective? Your job is to distribute what God makes to happen from the invisible spiritual to the visible physical.

Read Your Bible.

The effectual prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much”. Prayer and reading the Word of God is important when waiting on God’s timing. Prayer makes things happen. God hear your prayers. He is working out the plan, the next step, even though you might not know all the details right away. Just believe.

“Wait for the Lord; be strong and courageous. Wait for the Lord.” Psalm 27:14.

Focus on the Blessings.

Praised God for the victory

Bible Verses About Waiting on God’s Timing

The Bible is full of scriptures about waiting on God’s timing. Without question, one of the hardest things for many Christians to do with the Lord is to wait on His timing to make certain things happen in their lives.

• “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” (Galatians 6:9)
• “Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.” (1 Peter 5: 6-7)
• “The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.” (Lamentations 3:25-26)
• “I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in His word I do hope. My soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning …” (Psalm 130:5-6)
• “The eyes of all look expectantly to You, and You give them their food in due season.” (Psalm 145:15)
• “Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!” (Psalm 27:14)
• “My times are in Your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.” (Psalm 31:15)
• “Truly my soul silently waits for God; from Him comes my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved … My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be moved.” (Psalm 62:1-2, 5-6)
• “And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You. Deliver me from all my transgressions … (Psalm 39:7-8)
• “I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined to me and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.” (Psalm 40:1-2)
• “Wait on the Lord, and keep His way, and He shall exalt you to inherit the land ….” (Psalm 37:34)
• “For evildoers shall be cut off; but those who wait on the Lord, they shall inherit the earth. For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more …” (Psalm 37:7)
• “Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; on You I wait all day.” (Psalm 25:5)
• “Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for You.” (Psalm 25:21)
• Then the Lord answered me and said: “Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it because it will surely come, it will not tarry.” (Habakkuk 2:2-3)
• “He has made everything beautiful in its time … God shall judge the righteous and the wicked, for there shall be a time there for every purpose and for every work.” (Ecclesiastes 3:11,17)
• “And I will wait on the Lord, who hides His face from the house of Jacob; and I will hope in Him.” (Isaiah 8:17)
• “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.” (Isaiah 40: 31)
• “Whoever keeps the fig tree will eat its fruit; so he who waits on his master will be honored.” (Proverbs 27:18)
• ” … in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began, but has in due time manifested His word through preaching …” (Titus 1: 2-3)
• Then Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.” (John 7: 6)
• Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” (Mark 1: 14-15)
• And He said to them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.” (Acts 1:7)
• ” .. that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, which He will manifest in His own time, He who is blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords …” (1 Timothy 6:14-15)
• “And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way. And then the lawless one will be revealed …” (2 Thessalonians 2: 6-8)

Think about all the times God came through for you. If He, did it once, He will do it again.

Humble yourself and praise God that He is in control. Trust in His plan and that He is working out everything for good in your life.

Pray and wait for God’s timing. The best is yet to come!

Prayer

Dear God, forgive me for the times I have tried to do things my way; for neglecting Your commands and forcing my own timeline. Right now, Lord, teach me to trust more in You and help me see that Your ways are far better than mine. Give me eyes to see Your plans and breakthrough in my situation. Help me learn the things I need to learn to grow more like You. I acknowledge my total dependence on You at this moment. Today I say, God, not my will but Yours be done. Amen.

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