What Is God Developing While You're Waiting?
★This Season Might Feel Slow, But It’s Not Wasted
I know waiting can feel frustrating.
It’s easy to think nothing is happening when life goes quiet.
But the truth is, waiting isn’t wasted.
It’s not just a delay, it’s development.
God doesn’t stop working when things feel still. Sometimes, He’s just working on you first… before anything changes around you.
God doesn’t stop working when things feel still. Sometimes, He’s just working on you first… before anything changes around you.
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. (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
Sometimes God doesn’t say no. He just waits until you’re ready.
What you’re asking for might be good, but He cares more about who you’re becoming.
He wants you to have it, but with the character to carry it well.
★This part isn’t about open doors it’s about an open heart
What if this season isn’t really about doors opening at all?
What if it’s more about your heart softening…
About learning how to trust, how to wait, and how to stay faithful even when it’s quiet? Maybe God is doing something in you first before anything changes around you.
About learning how to trust, how to wait, and how to stay faithful even when it’s quiet? Maybe God is doing something in you first before anything changes around you.
Maybe this part of your life isn’t about things happening the way you expected. Maybe it’s more about what’s happening inside you, learning to trust more, let go, and stay open. Not every season is about progress. Sometimes it’s about your heart being softened first.
Sometimes we get so focused on the next opportunity, the next answer,
the next open door, that we forget what God might be doing inside us first.
Maybe this season isn’t about big moves or obvious breakthroughs. Maybe it’s more about
slowing down and letting your heart open, to trust deeper, to heal, to release control.
God works in quiet ways.
And often, before He opens anything around you, He’s first opening something within you.
★You’re Not Behind, You’re Being Prepared.
Don’t compare your timeline to anyone else’s.
You’re not behind.
You’re not being punished.
You’re being prepared for something real.
And when the time is right, it will come, and you’ll be ready, because you didn’t skip the process.
And when the time is right, it will come, and you’ll be ready, because you didn’t skip the process.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven (Ecclesiastes 3:1)
Just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean God said no.
Sometimes He’s just taking His time, not to hold you back, but to make sure you’re strong enough to handle it when it comes.
He’s building your foundation, even if you can’t see it right now.
— Stephen Wealth
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