The Art of

Waiting
W H E R E N A Y O U ?

H E R E N A M E
ISAIAH 40:31

“THOSE WHO WAIT ON THE LORD SHALL

RENEW THEIR STRENGTH . THEY SHALL
MOUNT UP WITH WINGS LIKE EAGLES,
THEY SHALL RUN AND NOT BE WEARY ,
THEY SHALL WALK AND NOT FAINT.”
WHO WANTS TO WAIT?
The marshmallow test
 Anything that requires
Life requires a
growth, requires
lot lot more of
waiting waiting so do LOVE.
Young people questions for today:

- Who is the perfect partner?

- Where is the best place to look for a partner?

- When is the best time to have a life partner?

- How to know if he / she is the perfect partner?

- Why need to involve my family and church in choosing a life partner?

Waiting for perfect partner
Jacob and Rachel love story
Three Important lesson in the story of Jacob
and Rachel in the context of waiting

• 1. Occupy while you wait.

• 2. God has a perfect plan and Is well able to

carry it out.
• 3.You are valuable and so is your Love.
Lessson 1:Occupy while you wait
Rachel was a Shepherdees. We can’t put living on hold
until after we get married. Rachel was a single woman
who made herself busy and worked to provide for her
family . Much like Ruth , on the day she came face to
face with her husband to be , She was active and working
in the will of God.
8 THINGS TO DO WHILE WAITING FOR
YOUR GOD GIVEN PARTNER
• > READ YOUR BIBLE MORE

• > PRAY MORE

• > FAST MORE

• >GO TO CHURCH MORE

• >PAY YOUR TITHES

• >BE HAPPY ALONE

• >LEARN MORE

• >TRULY MAKE GOD THE CENTER OF YOUR LIFE

Read your bible
 Pray more
1 thes. 5:17 Pray
without ceasing
God has made it our duty to pray. The
riches of the universe belong to Him. He
has all temporal and spiritual treasures at
His command, and can supply every want .
 Fast more:
Fasting and prayer are a necessity
for Christians, to enable them to seek the
face of God wholly. We deny our carnal
nature in order to fulfill the desires of
God. ... Yet praying through fast
challenges sharpens our spiritual
discernment
 Go to church more:
“2 timothy 4:3” For the
time is coming when people
will not endure sound
teaching , but having
itching ears they will
accumulate for themselves
teachers to suit their own
passions”
Pay your tithe
Be happy alone
Learn more: self
reflection
 Make God the
center of your life
 • Singles are often concerned about
the Whos”, Where’s, and How’s
LESSON # 2: God of meeting our Jacob. The story
has a perfect plan of Jacob and Rachel is a proof
and is well able to that God has a plan. We don’t
carry it out have to go off the beaten path to
get a man. God does the work
 Jeremiah 29:11

“FOR I KNOW THE

P L A N S I H AV E F O R Y O U
S AY S T H E L O R D P L A N S
TO PROSPER YOU AND
NOT TO HARM YOU
PLANS TO GIVE YOU
HOPE AND A FUTURE”
Lesson #3: You are valuable and so is
your love
John 3:16

• For God so loved the world that

He gave His only begotten son
that whosoever believeth in
Him should not perish but have
eternal life
How much value will you put in your price
tag?

• A future husband should be willing to work for his future

bride. His heart should not say that I am going to do the
least I can to get this woman. Every man’s work may be
different from the other. Jacob had his work to perform in
order to earn Rachel . And your future husband has his. But
working and earning should be in action
Ellen G. White
• Higher than the highest human thought can reach is God’s ideal for His children.
Godliness—godlikeness—is the goal to be reached. Before the students there is
opened a path of continual progress. They have an object to achieve, a standard to
attain, that includes everything good, and pure, and noble. They will advance as
fast and as far as possible in every branch of true knowledge. But their efforts will
be directed to objects as much higher than mere selfish and temporal interests as
the heavens are higher than the earth.—Education, 17-19.
 1. Occupy while you wait

Three lessons 2. God has plan for your love

while you wait life

3.You are valuable and so is

your love
 Isaiah 60:22

“ WHEN THE TIME IS RIGHT ,

I THE LORD WILL MAKE IT
HAPPEN”