The Benefits of Waiting on the Lord
Waiting is something we struggle with most of the time. We long that our expectations must be met immediately or we will lose hope and get disheartened.
However, we are told to wait on the Lord and we know that God's commands are not harsh, but rather intended to benefit us.
Everything God commands you to do is always for your benefit, even if it appears to contradict natural order.
We can't accomplish anything without God. According a Christian Bible verse - unless the Lord watches over a city, the watchman watches in vain. We need God's power and assistance in all we do.
Waiting on God is relying on Him and His strength because He is faithful and we know that it is impossible for Him to lie.
It is about holding on to God's promises through meditation on the promises, prayers and worship until you see the results - regardless of the situation you are in.
It is a very fulfilling activity, and if you want to advance in the things of God, you must study and practice this virtue.
Meaning of
waiting on the Lord
The dictionary defines wait as - to stay in expectation; it means to look forward expectantly.
Scriptural waiting is not a passive activity, nor is it a justification to be complacent. It is a demonstration of trust in God's capabilities and an expression of boldness and trust in Him.
Waiting on the Lord does have the following benefits:
- Renews your strength.
- You develop a strong godly attitude and character .
- Access God's blessings.
- The source of heavenly strength and tranquility.
- Source of mercy, safety and provision.
- Eliminates fear and anxiety.
- You receive divine guidance and godly wisdom.
How do you
wait?
You wait through fervent prayer, praise and worship, meditation on the scriptures and professing His promises.
The following are encouraging Bible scriptures about waiting on the Lord:
PSALMS 27:14 KJV
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
PSALMS 25:5 KJV
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
JEREMIAH 14:22 KJV
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
PSALMS 123:2 KJV
Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
PSALMS 104:27 KJV
These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
PSALMS 39:7 KJV
And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
PSALMS 33:20 KJV
Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
LUKE 2:25 KJV
And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
PSALMS 33:20 KJV
Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield.
PSALMS 59:9 KJV
Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.
HABAKKUK 2:3 KJV
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.
For the fulfillment of His word.
ACTS 1:4 KJV
And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.
GALATIANS 5:5 KJV
For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
PSALMS 52:9 KJV
I will praise thee forever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
ZEPHANIAH 3:8 KJV
Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
PSALMS 27:14 KJV
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
MICAH 7:7 KJV
Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
PSALMS 62:1 KJV
Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
PSALMS 130:6 KJV
My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
PSALMS 37:7 KJV
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret
not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who
bringeth wicked devices to pass.
LAMENTATIONS 3:26 KJV
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
PSALMS 130:5 KJV
I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
HOSEA 12:6 KJV
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
PSALMS 25:5 KJV
Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
ISAIAH 8:17 KJV
And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
ISAIAH 26:8 KJV
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
PSALMS 52:9 KJV
I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
PSALMS 62:5 KJV
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my
expectation is from
him.
ISAIAH 33:2 KJV
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.
JOB 14:14 KJV
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
ISAIAH 30:18 KJV
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
LAMENTATIONS 3:25 KJV
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
ISAIAH 49:23 KJV
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
ISAIAH 40:31 KJV
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
PSALMS 37:9 KJV
For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
PROVERBS 20:22 KJV
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.
ISAIAH 25:9 KJV
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for
him, and he will save us: this is the
LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his
salvation.
ISAIAH 64:4 KJV
For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
ISAIAH 42:4 KJV
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
PSALMS 123:2 KJV
Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
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