Bible Verses About Trusting God's Timing
Patience when God seems slow.
When life feels like a series of delays and detours, it is easy to become discouraged with the pace of your journey. Yet, the Word of God reminds us that He makes all things beautiful in His perfect and sovereign timing. By practicing a holy patience, we learn to trust the Heart of the Father even when we cannot see His hand at work. Find your strength in the assurance that He who promised is faithful and will not fail to fulfill His purpose for you.
Key Passages
"Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD."
"For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."
"For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD."
"The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him."
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"And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid."
"And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life."
"If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come."
"O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent."
"These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season."
"The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season."
"He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes."
"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:"
"O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble."
"A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time."
"And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:"
"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, it will not tarry."
"And he said unto them,It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power."
"And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee."
"But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it."
"For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope."
"But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you."
"But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing."
"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."
"Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water."
"¶ These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God."
"And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."
"And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth."
"¶ And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
"¶ And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:"
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