When you already know, and have for a while, but nobody else realizes it yet… just wait. It will show itself for them. They don’t have to say a word. Neither do you. Don’t waste your energy. Give it to God.
Tag Archives: waiting on God
Verse & Vision | August 1, 2026
Isaiah 40:31 promises that those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, run and not grow weary, walk and not be faint. This verse offers deep encouragement for seasons of exhaustion and waiting.
Verse & Vision | July 11, 2026
In Isaiah 30:18 we see the heart of God: He longs to be gracious and compassionate toward us, even when we drift away. This verse reminds us that the Lord is a God of justice and mercy who waits for us with open arms, and we are blessed when we wait for Him.
Verse & Vision | July 1, 2026
Paul doesn’t tell you to feel joyful about your affliction. He tells you to stay hopeful underneath it, to remain there without collapsing, and to keep showing up in prayer while you wait. Three present participles, one continuous posture — because removing any one of them collapses the other two. Corrie ten Boom prayed in a concentration camp barracks the guards wouldn’t enter. That’s what this verse looks like with skin on.
Dear Christians… | The World Found the Door — They Just Don’t Know Whose House It Is
For years I did what the world told me to do when life felt uncertain. I talked to trees. I cloud gazed. I journaled. I looked for signs from the Universe and listened to my body and sat in the quiet waiting for something to tell me which way to go. And here is the thing I was not expecting — it worked. Something was genuinely there in the stillness.
I just did not yet know His name.
The world did not invent stillness or wonder or the impulse to turn toward creation when the noise gets too loud. God did. Creation has always spoken of Him — Romans 1:20 says so plainly. When someone sits beside a tree and feels something ancient and settling move through them, they are not imagining it. They are standing inside His handiwork without the map to know whose house they are in.
The door is real. The peace is real. The quiet voice is real.
But without the Person, those tools curve back inward — toward ego, toward self-trust dressed up as enlightenment, toward a Universe that conveniently agrees with whatever we already wanted. I know because I lived there. The difference was not the practice. The difference was surrender. The moment I stopped trying to invite God in on my terms and accepted that He had already invited me — that I am His temple, already indwelt, already spoken to from the inside — everything changed.
He knocked first. He chose first. He loved first. And He has been speaking longer than any of us have been listening.
Verse & Vision | June 16, 2026
Paul says everything in Scripture was written to give us hypomonē — endurance, the ability to remain under the weight of something worth waiting for — and paraklēsis, the comfort that makes remaining possible. This isn’t a verse about feeling encouraged. It’s a verse about being equipped. The God who kept His word across centuries of waiting has not changed His approach. The record is the evidence. And the evidence holds.
Verse & Vision | June 10, 2026
Waiting, in Hebrew, is not passive. The root of the word — qavah — carries the image of a cord under tension: threads pulled together, strained toward something, held taut. It’s the same root as tikvah, the word for hope. Psalm 27 tells us twice to do it. The repetition isn’t stylistic — it’s the psalmist bracing himself. Harriet Tubman couldn’t read this psalm. But she lived it — thirteen missions into slave territory, navigating by the voice of God, learning when to move and when to hold absolutely still. “I always told God, I’m going to hold steady on to you, and you’ve got to see me through.” That’s qavah. That’s the waiting that renews strength.
Prophecy Without the Panic: Before You Build the Bunker | Daily Bread
You can run to and fro through scripture and still go hungry. The motion itself doesn’t feed you. And that’s the thing about prophecy. It was never meant to produce the panicked running to and fro it often seems to. Prophecy is meant to produce people who stopped running long enough to wait, who waited long enough to receive, and who received enough to rise. The wise will understand, not because they were smarter or more studious, but because they asked. Because they stopped. Because they let the Word do what the Word does when you give it room.
Presence, Not Passage: The Hours We Don’t See | Daily Bread
Everyone I know has said it at least once this year: “Where is the time going?” But I’ve been sitting with a different question lately. Not “where is the time going,” but “when did we stop paying attention to it?” Because I don’t think time is actually disappearing. I think we are.