The word of God speaks of waiting on the Lord continually.

God has taught me so much in times of waiting. He’s proved to me that He is to be trusted. I look back at every trial I’ve been through the past 4 years and I see His faithful hand in every part of it. When waiting for what seemed like forever, now seeing in hindsight, He always made a way. Not only do I see the way He made but that there was purpose in His timing. He saw things I could not— His ways and thoughts being so much higher. In my heart, God was building endurance in me the whole way through— endurance to keep seeking Him and never give up.

I am walking through so many answered prayers right now. When I was first saved I had about 22k in debt— credit cards and student loans. I remember at one point it was all I could really think to want, to be debt free. I prayed ceaselessly about it and now I am completely debt free! God supplied it all. There were so many things God did along the way. Including teaching me dependence on Him to meet my material needs as well as salvations of coworkers I met in the jobs God used to supply this need.

What happens in the waiting is God is working. Working on turning all things for your good and for His glory. Recently I’ve come to a point in my walk with the Lord where it is as if I feel almost everything has been restored. I am living a truly blessed life. But even now I have things I am hoping for. Things I am praying and trusting God for. Big hopes and dreams.

I’ve gone through times of struggling, wrestling with the Lord even. Having to continually come before Him and surrender. Knock, ask, and seek. Through this persistence I see something God is accomplishing in me. He is producing Godly character. It’s like He is lovingly applying a holy pressure upon me. In my heart, things are shifting. He is making me brand new.

Worries about the things of this world matter less to me because they are supplied to me by the Father. As a result I no longer relate to the outside world the same way I did before. I am fully dependent on God and because of this I have supernatural peace. My mind is fixed on things above. All of this was established in me from times of waiting on the Lord.

I am consumed by love for my Savior. I am fully given over to Him. This is often a great struggle— to surrender over and over again. But through the struggling I am learning to deeply depend on the Lord in whole humble-hearted submission.

What happens in the waiting is more precious than earthly eyes could discern, but the spiritual fruit of it is evident. As we wait, God works, and He teaches us more about His infinite timeline. He is Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, All-Knowing, and the source of all love and goodness. Where we see delay, He is in no rush yet in His infinite understanding He has compassion on His children who live in time.

In the waiting we learn long-suffering. The same suffering of our Savior. The long-suffering of a Heart that loves His creation and made the Way to redeem souls to salvation. He waits and waits for those He loves to come to repentance. To return to Him wholly and completely. Imagine, the pain of God’s heart— the magnitude of His long-suffering for fallen creation to be restored to right relationship with Him.

In the waiting we become like Jesus. We are pressed, pruned, refined and consumed by God’s holy fire. We are called higher in holiness and deeper into His presence. We are made to be less like this world and even more ready for eternal glory. In the waiting we are altogether transformed.

"Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, 
And He shall strengthen your heart; 
Wait, I say, on the LORD!" 
Psalm 27:14