Waiting On God
Day 1—The God of Our Salvation
Day 1—The God of Our SalvationPsalm 62:1 - For God alone my soul waits in silence; from Him comes my salvation.If salvation indeed comes from God, and is entirely His work, just as creation was, it follows that our first and highest duty is to wait…
Day 2—The Keynote of Life
Day 2—The Keynote of LifeGenesis 49:18 - I wait for Your salvation, O LORD.It is not easy to say exactly in what sense Jacob used these words, as part of his prophecies regarding the future of his sons. But they do dictate that both for himself and…
Day 3—The True Place of the Creature
Day 3—The True Place of the CreaturePsalm 104:27-28 - These all wait for You, to give them their food in due season. When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are filled with good things.The one reason for which God…
Day 4—For Supplies
Day 4—For SuppliesPsalm 145:14-15 - The LORD upholds all who are falling and raises up all who are bowed down. The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in due season.If an army has been sent out to march into an enemy's country, and…
Day 5—For Instruction
Day 5—For InstructionPsalm 25:4-5 - Make me to know Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; for You I wait all the day long.I spoke of an army on the point of entering an enemy…
Day 6—For All Saints
Day 6—For All SaintsPsalm 25:3 - Indeed, none who wait for You shall be put to shame…Just think for a moment of the multitude of waiting ones who need this prayer. How many there are, sick and weary and solitary, to whom it is as if their prayers ar…
Day 7—A Plea in Prayer
Day 7—A Plea in PrayerPsalm 25:21 - May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for You.The prayer in connection with which the plea is put forth here is one of great importance in the spiritual life. If we draw close to God, it must be wi…
Day 8—Strong and of Good Courage
Day 8—Strong and of Good CouragePsalm 27:14 - Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!"Be strong and of good courage." These words are frequently found in connection with some great and difficult enterprise,…
Day 9—With the Heart
Day 9—With the HeartPsalm 31:24 - Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!The words are nearly the same as in our last meditation. But I gladly avail myself of them again to press home a much-needed lesson for all…
Day 10—Waiting on God In Humble Fear and Hope
Day 10—Waiting on God In Humble Fear and HopePsalm 33:18-22 - Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His steadfast love, that He may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for…
Day 11—Waiting on God Patiently
Day 11—Waiting on God PatientlyPsalm 37:7, 9 - Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices! For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who…
Day 12—Waiting on God, Keeping His Ways
Day 12—Waiting on God, Keeping His WaysPsalm 37:34 - Wait for the LORD and keep His way, and He will exalt you to inherit the land; you will look on when the wicked are cut off.If we desire to find a man whom we long to meet, we inquire where the pl…
Day 13—Waiting on God For More than We Know
Day 13—Waiting on God For More than We KnowPsalm 39:7-8 - And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in You. Deliver me from all my transgressions. Do not make me the scorn of the fool!There may be times when we feel as if we knew not what we…
Day 14—Waiting on God: The Way to the New Song
Day 14—Waiting on God: The Way to the New SongPsalm 40:1, 3 - I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry…He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD.Com…
Day 15—Waiting on God For His Counsel
Day 15—Waiting on God For His CounselPsalm 106:13 - But they soon forgot His works; they did not wait for His counsel.This is said of the sin of God's people in the wilderness. He had wonderfully redeemed them, and was prepared as wonderfully to sup…
Day 16—Waiting on God And His Light in the Heart
Day 16—Waiting on God And His Light in the HeartPsalm 130:5-6 - I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in His word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.With what intense longing…
Day 17—Waiting on God In Times of Darkness
Day 17—Waiting on God In Times of DarknessIsaiah 8:17 - I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in Him.Here we have a servant of God, waiting upon Him, not on behalf of himself, but of his people, fr…
Day 18—To Reveal Himself
Day 18—To Reveal HimselfIsaiah 25:9 - It will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for Him, that He might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for Him; let us be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”In this passage, we ha…
Day 19—As A God of Judgment
Day 19—As A God of JudgmentIsaiah 26:8-9 - In the path of your judgments, O LORD, we wait for you…For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.The LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wai…
Day 20—Who Waits on Us
Day 20—Who Waits on UsIsaiah 30:18 - Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you, and therefore He exalts Himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for Him.We must not only think of our waiting…
Day 21—The Almighty One
Day 21—The Almighty OneIsaiah 40:31 - But they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.Waiting always partakes of the character of…
Day 22—Its Certainty of Blessing
Day 22—Its Certainty of BlessingIsaiah 49:23 - …Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who wait for Me shall not be put to shame.”Blessed are all they that wait for him. (Isaiah 30:18)What promises! How God seeks to draw us to waiting on Him…
Day 23—For Unlooked—For Things
Day 23—For Unlooked—For ThingsIsaiah 64:4 - From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for Him.The previous verses in Isaiah, especially Isaiah 63:15, refer to the low state…
Day 24—To Know His Goodness
Day 24—To Know His GoodnessLamentations 3:25 - The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.There is none good but God. His goodness is in the heavens. "Oh how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for them that fea…
Day 25—Quietly
Day 25—QuietlyLamentations 3:26 - It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted". "In quietness and in confidence shall be your strength". Such words reveal to us the…
Day 26—In Holy Expectancy
Day 26—In Holy ExpectancyMicah 7:7 - But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.Have you ever heard of a little book, "Expectation Corners"? It tells of a king who prepared a city for some of…
Day 27—For Redemption
Day 27—For RedemptionLuke 2:25, 36, 38 – Simeon…was righteous and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him. Anna, a prophetess…began to give thanks to God and to speak of Him to all who were waiting for the red…
Day 28—For The Coming of His Son
Day 28—For The Coming of His SonLuke 12:36 …and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.1 Timothy 6:14-15 …to keep the commandment unsta…
Day 29—For The Promise of The Father
Day 29—For The Promise of The FatherActs 1:4 - And while staying with them He ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, He said, “you heard from Me;”In speaking of the saints in Jerusalem at Christ'…
Day 30—Continually
Day 30—ContinuallyHosea 12:6 - So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.Continuity is one of the essential elements of life. Interrupt it for a single hour in a man, and it is lost; he…
Day 31—Waiting on Him Only
Day 31—Waiting on Him OnlyPsalm 62:5-6 - For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken.It is possible to be waiting continually on God, but not only upon…
Waiting on God
Waiting on God CHARACTER COUNT Day 1—The God of Our Salvation 3,175Day 2—The Keynote of Life 3,136Day 3—The True Place of the Creature 2,911Day 4—For Supplies 2,984Day 5—For Instruction …