“Wait on the LORD;
Be of good courage,
And He will strengthen your  heart;
Wait, I say, on the LORD!”  Psalm 27:14

And how are we to wait, in what manner are we to wait?  Let’s see what Scripture has to tell of this very thing.

We wait with the soul:
As with the Psalmist,
“Truly my soul silently waits for God;
From Him comes my salvation.”  Psalm 62:1
And verse 5,
“My soul waits silently for God alone,
For my expectation (hope) is from Him.”

We wait in quietness:
Lamentations 25-26 tells us,
“The LORD is good to those who wait for Him,
To the soul who seeks Him,
It is good that one should hope and wait quietly
For the salvation of the LORD.”

We wait with patience:
“I waited patiently for the LORD;
And He inclined to me,
And heard my cry.”  Psalm 40:1

We wait all the day:
“Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
For You are the God of my salvation;
On You I wait all the day.”  Psalm 25:5

We wait continually:
“So you, by the help of your God, return;
Observe mercy and justice,
And wait on your God continually.”  Hosea 12:6

We wait with hope:
“I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
And in His word I do hope.”  Psalm 130:5

What is the object of our waiting?  To name a few--
*We wait for salvation:
“And it will be said in that day:
‘Behold this is our God;
We have waited for Him, and He will save us.
This is the LORD;
We have waited for Him;
We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.’”  Isaiah 25:9

*We wait for protection:
“Our soul waits for the LORD;
He is our help and our shield.”  Psalm 33:20

*We wait for The Kingdom of God:
“Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,
And saying, ‘the kingdom of God is at hand.  Repent, and believe the gospel.’”  Mark 1:14-15

*We wait for The Holy Spirit:
“And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father…”  Acts 1:4
“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”  Acts 1:8

Read Acts 2: 9-41 and see how God’s commission to the eleven disciples quickly spread!
Vs. 41 tells us,
“Then those who gladly received his (Peter’s) word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.”

*We wait for Jesus
In 1Thessalonians 1 Paul is commending the Thessalonians for their turning from idols to God after hearing the word to turning to and ‘serving the living and true God’
“And to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raise from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.”  Vs. 10

We wait on You, our loving, gracious, merciful Lord God almighty with grateful hearts.  You are our good and faithful Lord God and King. We love and adore You. Amen