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Wait for the Lord<\/span>; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord<\/span>.<\/p>\n \n Now you can listen to Today’s Verse on iTunes, Spotify, Echo devices, and more!\n <\/p>\n If there is anything we don\u2019t like to do, it is to wait. Maybe that is why God is so interested in us learning to do it – to learn to prayerfully wait on him. There is something purifying about remaining strong in tough times and remaining faithful when ill winds blow. So God gives us times to wait on him to see whether our search is really about him or merely looking for an easy way out of our messes. I don’t know about you, but I am going to wait on the Lord<\/span> because that’s where my future, my hope, and my strength will come from.<\/p>\n Loving Father, I know you have waited patiently for me so many times – for me to show my faith, repent of my sins, grow in holiness, come to you in prayer, act more maturely, give to those who cannot return my grace and care, and you have waited on me for so many other things and in so many other times. Thank you! Thank you for waiting! Now please help me be strong and take heart as I wait for you to show me your way to handle my decisions, act to meet my needs, reveal your presence in my loneliness, and let me see your coming deliverance. I really do seek you with all my heart. So, dear Father, in Jesus’ name, I wait and trust in you. Amen.<\/p>\n Today’s Verse<\/strong> is a free daily devotional that includes a Bible verse, thought and prayer.<\/p>\n The Thoughts and Prayer on Today’s Verse are written by Phil Ware.<\/p>\n All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. \u00a9 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Now you can listen to Today’s Verse on iTunes, Spotify, Echo devices, and more! Thoughts on Today’s Verse… If there is anything we don\u2019t like to do, it is to wait. Maybe that is why God is so interested in us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[53,50,498,51,43],"class_list":["post-32786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bible-trivia","tag-october","tag-psalm","tag-sunday","tag-todays","tag-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Thoughts on Today’s Verse…<\/h4>\n
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