Waiting For The Promise

🔥 did they wait?

All these were continually devoting themselves with one mind to prayer, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers. – Acts 1:14

While He was blessing them, He parted from them and was carried up into heaven. And they, after worshiping Him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and were continually in the temple praising God. – Luke 24:51-53

Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord was adding to their number day by day those who were being saved. – Acts 2:46-47

And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and preaching the good news of Jesus as the Christ. – Acts 5:42

🔥 did they wait?

These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers – Acts 1:14 NKJV

“And when you are praying, do not use thoughtless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words” – Matt 6:7

🔥 did they wait?

But David said to Saul, “Your servant was tending his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and took a sheep from the flock, I went out after it and attacked it, and rescued the sheep from its mouth; and when it rose up against me, I grabbed it by its mane and struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.” And David said, “The Lord who saved me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear, He will save me from the hand of this Philistine.” 1Sam 17:34-37a

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose – Rom 8:28

All scripture is from the New American Standard Bible unless otherwise noted