30 Empowering Verses for Seasons of Waiting

Are you going through a season of waiting? We’re all waiting on something and these periods test our patience and faith. You may be waiting for a new home, a new job, graduation, a spouse, you may be waiting for healing or for a loved one to get saved. Whatever it is that you’re waiting for, we find much encouragement in the Bible. It is full of stories of people who went through periods of waiting (sometimes very long seasons).

Here are 30 empowering verses for seasons of waiting. Leave a comment below, which verse(s) have empowered you in your seasons of waiting?

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Ecclesiastes 3:11

He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

Psalm 27:14

Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

Luke 1:45

“And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.”

1 Samuel 12:16

Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the Lord will do before your eyes.

Isaiah 40:31

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.

Psalm 37:7

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.

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John 13:7

Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

Philippians 1:6

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

Exodus 14:14

The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

Hebrews 6:15

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Micah 7:7

Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

Romans 12:12

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer

Colossians 1:11

Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness

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1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

James 5:11

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

Lamentations 3:25

The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

Isaiah 30:18

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.

James 1:12

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Psalm 40:1-2

I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

Psalm 62:5

My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.

Acts 1:4

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 6:9

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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Psalm 33:20

Our soul waiteth for the Lord: he is our help and our shield.

Psalm 130:5

I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.

Psalm 31:14-15

But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God. My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.

Psalm 62:7-8

In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.

Isaiah 58:11

And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

Isaiah 33:2

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.

James 5:7

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.