AV Daily Power Point: Waiting Season
A season of waiting can feel frustrating, uncertain, or even discouraging—but it can also be one of the most powerful times of growth, preparation, and alignment.
Here are some meaningful and practical things you can do while you’re in a season of waiting:
1. Reflect & Realign
Assess your priorities: Are your goals still aligned with your values?
Reflect on lessons: What has this season already taught you? Sometimes waiting itself carries wisdom.
Clarify your vision: Use this time to get really clear on what you’re waiting for—and why.
2. Prepare
Skill up: Learn new skills or improve existing ones that relate to what you’re waiting for (e.g., a job, relationship, move).
Plan proactively: Waiting doesn’t mean inaction. Research, network, and lay groundwork for the next step.
Get organized: Declutter your space, your schedule, or your digital life. Clean slates invite clarity.
3 Stay Present
Practice gratitude: List small things daily. It keeps your spirit grounded and eyes open to blessings now.
Mindfulness or prayer: Center yourself in quiet. Whether spiritual or practical, waiting becomes easier when your mind is still.
Connect with others: Don’t isolate. Often support, inspiration, or even answers come through community.
4 Act in Faith
Take small steps: Even while you wait, move forward. Action builds momentum and helps ease anxiety.
Serve others: Helping others redirects your focus outward and often brings unexpected joy and insight.
Trust the timing: Sometimes, things are shifting behind the scenes in your favor—even if you can’t see it yet.
5 Guard Your Heart
Protect your mindset: Avoid comparison or self-doubt. Your journey is yours.
Journal your thoughts: Writing can help you process your emotions and track growth over time.
Limit distractions: It’s easy to numb yourself with busyness or scrolling. Instead, lean into this season with intention.
Thankfully, God’s Word is sufficient in every season. Here are 7 verses for your encouragement today—
1. Psalm 37:7
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
2. Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.
3. Isaiah 30:18
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore He exalts Himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for Him.
4. Isaiah 64:4
From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides You, Who acts for those who wait for Him.
5. Lamentations 3:25
The Lord is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
6. Philippians 4:6-7
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
7. James 5:11
Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
The Old Testament prophet Hosea wrote the nation of Israel some words that we can also apply to our own seasons—
