The Word on Waiting
As “waiting” has been on my heart, and in my advent study, I’ve also been working throuh a Melissa Spoelstra study on Isaiah. (Check the blog category for more on the topic of Waiting)
Once again, the Lord has connected it all today as I was in Isaiah 49. The author’s focus was “we can trust God’s timing because He sent His Son, Jesus, just as He promised.” This message is very similar to what I’ve learned through the advent study, Our Hope Has Come! So, yes, Lord, I am listening while I’m waiting and waiting and waiting!
I needed this reminder today and wanted to share some great waiting scriptures you, too, can read and remember when you wonder if He hears what you are praying and waiting for. Start where Melissa Spoelstra took me today in Isaiah 49. Read this with the focus on God’s timing and what you are waiting for.
Israel thought God had forgotten them and their needs and yet, look at what God says in Isaiah 49:8, “This is what the LORD says:
‘I will answer you in a time of favor, and I will help you in the day of salvation.'”
We don’t know when the day of favor will come upon us to end our wait, and we may also think He has forgotten our prayer. But He asks us, too, to wait patiently and trust His mercy and compassion in every single waiting room He has allowed us to be in.
See how the nation of Israel feels, and how God answers:
Zion says, “The LORD has abandoned me; the Lord has forgotten me! ” “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the child of her womb? Even if these forget, yet I will not forget you.
Isaiah 49:14-15
In the author’s video this week, she referred to this passage:
Therefore the LORD is waiting to show you mercy, and is rising up to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. All who wait patiently for him are happy.
Isaiah 30:18
Another passage in Isaiah, familiar to many of us, reminds us what He will do through us as we wait.
…but those who trust in the LORD will renew their strength; they will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not become weary, they will walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31
When we wait on and trust in Him, our strength is renewed, we will soar and not faint, even if the wait is much longer than we hoped for, or imagined it would be. And if you can’t tell, I am speaking to myself as much as to you! Patient waiting is HARD!
Check out these passages if you need more encouragement and Truth to help you wait patiently:
- Psalm 27:14
- Lamentations 3:25
- Psalm 33:20-22
- Exodus 14:14
- Psalm 62:5
- Psalm 37:7
- Psalm 46:10
- Isaiah 64:4
Wait, and trust that His timing is always, always perfect!
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