If you indicated that your prayer request is for yourself or someone else who needs patience. We can find the promises of God to be trustworthy. Here are some promises that you may find to be helpful during this time.
- Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord. (Psalms 27:14).
- Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. (Psalm 37:7).
- I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. (Psalm 40:1-3).
- I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. (Psalm 130:5).
- They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31).
- The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. (Lamentations 3:25-26).
- But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. (Matthew 24:13).
- We glory in tribulaitions also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience, and experience, hope. (Romans 5:3-4).
- And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. (Galatians 6:9).
- Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. (James 5:7,8).
- For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. (1 Peter 2:20).
- My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers tempations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. (James 1:2-4).
- For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. (Hebrews 10:36).
- Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a could of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. (Hebrews 12:1)
