“When is it my turn, God?” is a question I’ve asked God over and over again. If you are also stuck in a waiting season, you know how hard it is to wait on those “unanswered prayers” to be answered. Days feel like weeks, weeks feel like months, and months feel like years. You get the point. But regardless of how hard it is to wait, there is beauty in God’s timing. That’s why today I’m going to share 22 bible verses about God’s timing.
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22 Bible Verses About God’s Timing
1. God measures time differently than we do.
2 Peter 3:8 But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. (NKJV)
2. What seems like an eternity for us, is only a moment for God.
Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past,
and like a watch in the night. (NKJV)
3. There is a time for absolutely EVERYTHING.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven. (NKJV)
4. God has made everything beautiful in its time.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end. (NKJV)
5. God is never late.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. (NKJV)
6. Just because it is taking time it doesn’t mean it won’t happen.
Habakkuk 2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. (NKJV)
7. Our times are in God’s hands.
Psalm 31:15 My times are in Your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies,
And from those who persecute me. (NKJV)
8. Nobody can interfere with God’s perfect timing, will, and purpose.
Ecclesiastes 3:14 I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it. (NKJV)
9. God works in an acceptable time.
2 Corinthians 6:2 For He says: “In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you. Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. (NKJV)
Isaiah 49:8 Thus says the Lord:“In an acceptable time I have heard You, and in the day of salvation I have helped You; I will preserve You and give You as a covenant to the people, to restore the earth, to cause them to inherit the desolate heritages. (NKJV)
10. We don’t have to understand God’s timing in order to trust in it.
Acts 1:7 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. (NKJV)
11. Everything works perfectly in God’s timing.
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. (NKJV)
12. We will reap in due season if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. (NKJV)
13. God’s timing is always right because His thoughts are always better than ours.
Isaiah 55:8-9 For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. (NKJV)
14. God’s timing works according to His will for us.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. (NKJV)
15. We can wait on God’s timing with certainty knowing that He hears us.
Micah 7:7 Therefore I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. (NKJV)
16. God strengthens our heart so that we can patiently wait on His timing.
Psalm 27:14 Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord! (NKJV)
17. God renews our strength as we wait on Him.
Isaiah 40:31 But those who wait on 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. (NKJV)
18. God is good to those who wait for Him.
Lamentations 3:25 The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. (NKJV)
19. When we are still and wait on God, He manifests His power.
Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth! (NKJV)
20. We can rest from our anxieties when we wait patiently on God.
Psalm 37:7 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass. (NKJV)
21. It is better to trust in God’s timing than to lean on our own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. (NKJV)
22. We have to let go and let God.
Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. (NKJV)
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FINAL THOUGHTS
I hope you enjoyed reading this list of the 22 best bible verses about God’s timing. In the comments below let me know which Bible verse about God’s timing you loved the most.
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Sending you blessings & love,
Gabby Abigail
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