When Waiting Feels Unsettling
If you’re still waiting for God to provide, it can feel unsettling. There’s often this quiet uncertainty underneath everything. Not always panic, but a steady pressure. You might be trusting God, but still wondering how things are going to work out, or what you’re meant to do next.
Waiting doesn’t usually feel peaceful straight away. It often feels like holding questions with no clear answers, while trying to stay faithful in the middle of it. You believe God will provide, but you don’t know when or how, and that space in between can feel uncomfortable.
When God Prepares the Heart First
Looking back, I’ve noticed that waiting often looks like God preparing the heart before He provides for the situation. Seeds get planted long before anything changes on the outside. There have been seasons where I didn’t even realise what God was doing at the time, only to look back later and see that He was shaping me before opening the next door.
There have also been moments where it felt like the rug was pulled out from under me. Times where I genuinely didn’t know how things would work out. Those seasons weren’t easy. Sometimes they were really hard. But somehow, every time, I got through. God showed up in ways I couldn’t have planned, and often not in my timing, but always in His.
How Waiting Changes You
What those seasons taught me is that waiting changes you. Each time you go through it and see God come through again, something shifts. You stop being as shaken when things go wrong. You don’t spiral the way you once did. There’s a deeper peace, even when by the world’s standards you probably should be anxious.
Waiting has taught me that God doesn’t leave. He doesn’t forget. He doesn’t stop being faithful just because things feel uncertain. Over time, I’ve learned to release control, even when everything in me wants to hold tighter. There’s a kind of peace that comes when you realise that even if things don’t make sense right now, you are still held.
Sometimes the waiting feels hard because God is removing things before He provides something new. Letting go of what no longer serves you. Stripping back what you were relying on. Those moments can be uncomfortable, but they often lead to growth. They make space for reflection. They shape character. They prepare you for what’s coming next.
If You’re Tired of Waiting
If you’re feeling tired or discouraged right now, it’s okay. Waiting can wear you down. But God’s character hasn’t changed. He has shown up before, and He will show up again. He doesn’t want His children to suffer, and He isn’t distant from you in this season.
Maybe this moment is an invitation to pause and reflect. To ask what God might be showing you here. To remember who He has already proven Himself to be.
If He has come through every other time, why would this time be different?
Waiting isn’t wasted. Provision hasn’t been forgotten. And even when it doesn’t feel like it yet, God is still at work.
Even in the harder moments, there is something powerful about choosing gratitude and praise. Not because everything feels easy, but because you remember who God has already been. Thanking Him for what He has done, and praising Him for who He is, shifts something in the heart. Worship in the waiting is an act of trust. It’s a way of saying, I remember your faithfulness, and I believe you will be faithful again. When we praise Him before we see the outcome, we anchor ourselves in hope rather than fear.
