Sermons on Willing To Wait:

The Wait Of Glory

Contributed by Michael Hollinger on Jun 19, 2007

MP: God has nothing against pleasure – he’d just rather give you joy.

Long Branch Baptist Church Halfway, Virginia; est. 1786 Sunday, June 03, 2007 Enter to Worship Prelude David Witt Meditation Invocation Michael Hollinger *Opening Hymn #182 “For the Beauty of the Earth” Welcome & Announcements Morning Prayer [See Insert] *Hymn #541 “The Joy of the ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 8:9-12

Denomination: Baptist

Waiting For An Answer

Contributed by Mark Holdcroft on Feb 20, 2003

We need constant direction from God. Habakkuk was a man who knew how to wait for an answer.

Waiting for an answer. Two years ago, Elizabeth (my wife) and myself went to the lake district, and after dragging her up a mountain, while she moaned all of the way, we then decided to go for a row on lake Windermere. As when Liz rowed we tended to get a little bit dizzy, I mainly took control of ...read more

Denomination: Pentecostal

Waiting Faith Series

Contributed by Joseph Rodgers on Mar 26, 2007

A faith lived in the hope of the imminent return of Christ.

Foolproof – A Study of James WAITING Faith – James 5:7-20 Sunday AM Insert: It is exciting to know that Jesus is coming back soon. We must be prepared. There’s a phrase – Practice makes perfect. We need a little Rapture practice. Recap: For 12 weeks we’ve been studying ...read more

Scripture: James 5:7-20

Denomination: Baptist

Waiting For Christmas

Contributed by Dennis Lee on Dec 27, 2017

A Christmas sermon looking at Simeon and Anna and how they waited for the promise of God with great anticipation and expectation.

Waiting For Christmas Luke 2:21-38 Last week we looked at four major players in the birth of Jesus. Today I’d like to look at two more who, while they were not present at Jesus’ birth, waited with great anticipation and expectation for the day to arrive. None of us are very good at waiting. We ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:21-38

Denomination: Foursquare

Wait On The Lord

Contributed by Victor Yap on Mar 2, 2025

Psalm 27

WAIT ON THE LORD (PSALM 27) After a long sermon on forgiveness, the preacher asked how many were willing to forgive their enemies. About half held up their hands. Not satisfied he harangued for another twenty minutes and repeated his question. This time he received a response of about 80 ...read more

Denomination: Independent/Bible

The Waiting Father Series

Contributed by James ( Jim ) Highland on Jun 16, 2014

Jesus' memorable sermon includes two kinds of prodigals, those who go into far countries of life and those that stay close to home. Both need God's love and forgiveness.

The Waiting Father; The favorite story that Jesus told, The Prodigal Son, is really of the Waiting Father… of Two Prodigal Sons. Scripture: Luke 15:11-29 His audience was a large crowd of very religious people. Church Leaders and Biblical Scholars, hoping Jesus would give them some ...read more

Scripture: Luke 15:11-29

Denomination: Baptist

Waiting On God

Contributed by Alan Perkins on Dec 1, 2002

Advent reminds us that people have always waited on God. And so will we. Why? Because waiting plays an important role in our spiritual growth.

Today is the first Sunday in the season of the Christian year called Advent. The word "Advent" simply means arrival, or coming, and so during the next four weeks we will be celebrating the arrival of Christ. During Advent, we look back at the time when God became an infant child, born in a stable ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 7:14

Denomination: Baptist

A Season Of Waiting Series

Contributed by Alan Perkins on Mar 30, 2001

The key to thriving in a season of waiting is contentment, and trusting that God has a good purpose in it.

As you probably know, it’s now officially Autumn. Along with many of you, I was in southeastern Ohio yesterday for the church’s family retreat at Seneca Lake. It was beautiful there, wasn’t it? The air was crisp and cool, the sun was warm. The leaves were just beginning to turn. It was one of those ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 64:4, Philippians 4:11-13

Denomination: Baptist

Wait Training

Contributed by Derrick Tuper on May 14, 2012

We might think we have patience but the proof will be in the testing of it. Just like our faith needs to be tested, as James pointed out in chapter two, so does our patience. The people in chapter five had been under unjust suffering and they were, up to

WAIT TRAINING James 5:7-12 INTRODUCTION: Someone once said, “Patience is a virtue; possess it if you can. Found seldom in a woman; never in a man.” Of course, the men are agreeing with this except the part about never in a man and the women are agreeing except for the part about seldom ...read more

Scripture: James 5:7-12

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Waiting For Godot

Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Dec 22, 2001

How do we wait for God? 1. We wait patiently. 2. We wait expectantly. 3. We wait faithfully.

Samuel Beckett’s play, entitled Waiting for Godot, is a satire on the human condition. As Beckett sees it, humanity is waiting for Godot, or God, to come and save them, but he never shows up. Their waiting is in vain, for although they have been repeatedly told that God is coming, he never has, ...read more

Scripture: Luke 12:35-40, Luke 12:32-40, Luke 12:7-14

Denomination: Methodist

The Reward Of Waiting

Contributed by Garry Lewis on Mar 3, 2005

Obedience to the Word

The Reward of Waiting John 20: 19-22 Wait has several meanings. 1: to stay in place in expectation of: AWAIT intransitive senses 1 a: to remain stationary in readiness or expectation *wait for a train* b: to pause for another to catch up usually used with up 2 a: to look forward expectantly *just ...read more

Scripture: John 20:19-22

Denomination: Baptist

Waiting For Christmas

Contributed by Erik Estep on Dec 15, 2005

What is it you’re looking forward to this Christmas? What kind of gift would you like to get? There’s a gift just waiting for you that can transform your life.

Intro: It’s always exciting thinking @ X-mas. For me, one of the fun parts of X-mas is just watching my kids get excited @ it. Let me share w/you some letters kids wrote to Santa Claus. -“Dear Santa Claus, when you come to my house there will be cookies for you. But if you are real hungry ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:25-32

Denomination: Baptist

Opportunity Is Waiting

Contributed by Isaias Sanchez on Jan 21, 2006

There is no lack in God.In order to have great opportunities you must sow seed. A seed is a tiny beginning with a huge future.

Opportunity is Waiting Philippians 3:13 Brethren do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind & reaching forward to those things which are ahead, Today everybody has a fresh new start in every area of your life. God offers ...read more

Scripture: Luke 6:38

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Waiting Period Series

Contributed by Mickey Bell on Apr 3, 2006

What we do when God has us in a waiting period is very important to our outcome. Nehemiah teaches those steps we need to take through his own actions.

Nehemiah 2 The bible tells us that Nehemiah began praying in the month of Chislev (5th month of the Persian royal calendar.) Chapter 2 begins in the 9th month, which is called Nisan. Distressed by the report of Jerusalem’s broken and miserable condition, Nehemiah approached God on behalf of the ...read more

Scripture: Nehemiah 1:1

Denomination: Baptist

Painful Waiting

Contributed by Bala Samson on Jan 11, 2021

When waiting gets on your nerves........

Waiting Genesis 16:1”Now Sarai, Abram's wife had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.” When waiting gets on your nerves! As we read this chapter, it had been more than ten years since the promise was made regarding Abram’s descendants. Hey friend, waiting ...read more

Scripture: Genesis 16:1

Denomination: Pentecostal