14 Bible Verses About Trusting God’s Process



  • Jeremiah 29:11 was written to exiles in Babylon, and verse 10 says the promise would be fulfilled “when seventy years are completed.”
  • Isaiah 40:31, Psalm 27:14 and Lamentations 3:25 use the Hebrew verb qavah, to wait for or hope; it appears twice in Psalm 27:14.
  • Habakkuk 2:3 answers the prophet’s complaint “How long, Lord?” by telling him to wait for a revelation that lingers.
  • James 1:2-4 and Romans 5:3-5 both say that suffering or testing produces perseverance.
  • Hebrews 11:13 says the people of faith it lists died without receiving the things promised.

The Bible asks people to trust God through long stretches whose outcome they cannot see. Proverbs 3:5-6 sets that trust against a person’s own understanding, Hebrews 11:1 calls faith “assurance about what we do not see,” and Jeremiah 29:11 was written to exiles facing seventy years in Babylon. Habakkuk 2:3 tells a prophet to wait for a vision that lingers, and James 1:2-4 says testing produces perseverance. Several of the Old Testament verses below use the Hebrew verb qavah, to…

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