WAIT!

Hey, everyone!

Thank you for stopping by today! I have a really great challenge to share with you today. Be sure you visit Christina to see her page, too. This is Wednesday so I am going to share my Scripture Challenge scrapbook page. The key word for this week is WAIT. That is such a little word on paper but when you have to actually put that word into action, it seems so much bigger. I am not the most patient person in the world. I am much more patient now than I used to be and it is something that I try to work on, but I get impatient waiting on the microwave, so you can see what I mean! LOL

For the most part, society has put so much emphasis and pressure on us to be BUSY. We have to be doing something all the time to seem like we have value. I remember growing up and the summer days felt like they lasted forever. My sisters and brother would meet up with our cousins and play until long after dark and our parents made us go inside. Now it seems like the days are shorter and years go so fast it feels like it was only weeks. The waiting, however, doesn't get any easier and it sure doesn't feel any faster.
I journaled about some things I had to wait for recently that were sort of frustrating, and sometimes it was very stressful, but through this week's Bible study I have learned so many things. I want to share the scriptures that gave me the most strength and encouragement this week and I pray that they will bless you, too.

PSALM 130:5
I WAIT FOR THE LORD, MY SOUL DOTH WAIT, AND IN HIS WORD DO I HOPE.

PSALM 27:4
WAIT ON THE LORD: BE OF GOOD COURAGE, AND HE SHALL STRENGTHEN THINE HEART: WAIT, I SAY ON THE LORD.

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.

PSALM 52:9 NIV
I WILL PRAISE YOU FOREVER FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE: IN YOUR NAME I WILL HOPE, FOR YOUR NAME IS GOOD. I WILL PRAISE YOU IN THE PRESENCE OF YOUR SAINTS.

JAMES 5:7-8 NKJV
THEREFORE BE PATIENT, BRETHREN, UNTIL THE COMING OF THE LORD. SEE HOW THE FARMER WAITS FOR THE PRECIOUS FRUIT OF THE EARTH, WAITING PATIENTLY FOR IT UNTIL IT RECEIVES THE EARLY AND LATTER RAIN. YOU ALSO BE PATIENT. ESTABLISH YOUR HEARTS, FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD IS AT HAND.

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.

LAMENTATIONS 3:24-26
THE LORD IS MY PORTION, SAITH MY SOUL; THEREFORE WILL I HOPE IN HIM. THE LORD IS GOOD UNTO THEM THAT WAIT FOR HIM, TO THE SOUL THAT SEEKETH HIM. IT IS GOOD THAT A MAN SHOULD BOTH HOPE AND QUIETLY WAIT FOR THE SALVATION OF THE LORD.

MICAH 7:7
THEREFORE WILL I LOOK UNTO THE LORD; I WILL WAIT FOR THE GOD OF MY SALVATION; MY GOD WILL HEAR ME.

GALATIANS 5:5
FOR WE THROUGH THE SPIRIT WAIT FOR THE HOPE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH.

ROMANS 8:24-25 NKJV
FOR WE WERE SAVED IN THIS HOPE, BUT HOPE THAT IS SEEN IS NOT HOPE; FOR WHY DOES ONE STILL HOPE FOR WHAT HE SEES? BUT IF WE HOPE FOR WHAT WE DO NOT SEE, WE EAGERLY WAIT FOR IT WITH PERSERVERANCE.

God bless you!

Hugs,