Waiting on the Lord for Him to Speak or Act During a Worship Service

All the scriptures in the NIV Bible for you to consider about waiting on the LORD for Him to speak or act during a worship service are listed below.

You can also view the scriptures for “All the Introductions to and Prayers of Requests in the Bible,” “All the Introductions to and Prayers of Requests and Thanksgiving in the Bible,” and “Lying Down in the Presence of God, Falling Under the Power of God, and Resting in the Spirit During a Worship Service.”

Since the following scriptures may contain an incomplete verse and have been removed from their contexts in the NIV Bible, it is up to you to make the final determination if they will properly accomplish the purpose for which you are going to use them. Scriptures that are listed below that are incomplete will have an asterisk after their references.

 

¹ After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.” ² But Abram said, “Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?” ³ And Abram said, “You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir.” ⁴ Then the word of the LORD came to him: “This man will not be your heir, but a son who is your own flesh and blood will be your heir.” ⁵ He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” ⁶ Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness. Genesis 15:1–6

¹⁰ Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. ¹¹ When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. ¹² He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. ¹³ There above it stood the LORD, and he said: “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. ¹⁴ Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. ¹⁵ I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” Genesis 28:10–15

¹ Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. ² There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. ³ So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.” ⁴ When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.” Exodus 3:1–4

⁵ Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud; he stood at the entrance to the tent and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When the two of them stepped forward, ⁶ he said, “Listen to my words: When there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams.” Numbers 12:5–6

⁹ “Be silent . . . and listen! You have now become the people of the LORD your God.” Deuteronomy 27:9*

¹ Listen, you heavens, and I will speak; hear, you earth, the words of my mouth. ² Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. Deuteronomy 32:1–2

⁶ Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the LORD says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. ⁷ Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.’ ” 2 Kings 19:6–7

¹³ “Why do you complain to him that he responds to no one’s words? ¹⁴ For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it. ¹⁵ In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds, ¹⁶ he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings, ¹⁷ to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride, ¹⁸ to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword.” Job 33:13–18

⁸ My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, LORD, I will seek. Psalm 27:8

¹⁴ Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. Psalm 27:14

²⁰ We wait in hope for the LORD; he is our help and our shield. Psalm 33:20

⁷ Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him . . . . Psalm 37:7*

³⁴ Hope in the LORD and keep his way. Psalm 37:34a*

¹⁵ LORD, I wait for you; you will answer, Lord my God. Psalm 38:15

¹ I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry. Psalm 40:1

⁹ You are my strength, I watch for you; you, God, are my fortress, ¹⁰ my God on whom I can rely. Psalm 59:9-10a

¹⁶⁶ I wait for your salvation, LORD, and I follow your commands. Psalm 119:166

⁵ I wait for the LORD, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope. ⁶ I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning. Psalm 130:5–6

² I have calmed and quieted myself, I am like a weaned child with its mother . . . . Psalm 131:2

¹ Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong. Ecclesiastes 5:1

¹⁷ “I will wait for the LORD . . . . I will put my trust in him.” Isaiah 8:17*

⁸ Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts. Isaiah 26:8

¹⁵ This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One . . . says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength . . . .” Isaiah 30:15*

¹⁸ Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! Isaiah 30:18

³ “Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live.” Isaiah 55:3a*

⁴ Since ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him. Isaiah 64:4

²⁴ I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” Lamentations 3:24

²⁵ The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; ²⁶ it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. Lamentations 3:25–26

⁶ [Y]ou must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and wait for your God always. Hosea 12:6*

⁷ But as for me, I will look to the LORD, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. Micah 7:7

¹ I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint. Habakkuk 2:1

Other Scriptures to Consider

¹⁰ The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen!” Genesis 4:10b*

²⁰ “See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. ²¹ Pay attention to him and listen to what he says. Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion, since my Name is in him. ²² If you listen carefully to what he says and do all that I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and will oppose those who oppose you.” Exodus 23:20–22

² When Balaam looked out and saw Israel encamped tribe by tribe, the Spirit of God came on him ³ and he spoke his message: “The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly, ⁴ the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who falls prostrate, and whose eyes are opened:” Numbers 24:2–4

¹⁵ Then he spoke his message: “The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of one whose eye sees clearly, ¹⁶ the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who falls prostrate, and whose eyes are opened:” Numbers 24:15–16

¹⁹ “I myself will call to account anyone who does not listen to my words that the prophet speaks in my name.” Deuteronomy 18:19

⁷ But a man of God came to him and said, “Your Majesty, these troops from Israel must not march with you, for the LORD is not with Israel—not with any of the people of Ephraim. ⁸ Even if you go and fight courageously in battle, God will overthrow you before the enemy, for God has the power to help or to overthrow.” ⁹ Amaziah asked the man of God, “But what about the hundred talents I paid for these Israelite troops?” The man of God replied, “The LORD can give you much more than that.” ¹⁰ So Amaziah dismissed the troops who had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home. They were furious with Judah and left for home in a great rage. 2 Chronicles 25:7–10

¹⁵ “You [God] will call and I will answer you; you [God] will long for the creature your hands have made.” Job 14:15

¹⁴ “[H]ow faint the whisper we hear of him [God]!” Job 26:14a*

⁹ All my longings lie open before you, Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you. Psalm 38:9

¹⁰ He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10

¹ Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. Psalm 91:1

⁵⁸ I have sought your face with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise. Psalm 119:58

⁹ You women who are so complacent, rise up and listen to me; you daughters who feel secure, hear what I have to say! Isaiah 32:9

¹ Come near, you nations, and listen; pay attention, you peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world, and all that comes out of it! Isaiah 34:1

⁴ “Listen to me, my people; hear me, my nation . . . .” Isaiah 51:4*

⁷ “Hear me, you who know what is right, you people who have taken my instruction to heart . . . .” Isaiah 51:7*

¹ See, the LORD’s hand is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear. ² Rather, your iniquities have been barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. Isaiah 59:1–2

¹ In the sixth year, in the sixth month on the fifth day, while I was sitting in my house and the elders of Judah were sitting before me, the hand of the Sovereign LORD came on me there. ² I looked, and I saw a figure like that of a man. From what appeared to be his waist down he was like fire, and from there up his appearance was as bright as glowing metal. ³ He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. The Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and in visions of God he took me to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes to jealousy stood. ⁴ And there before me was the glory of the God of Israel, as in the vision I had seen in the plain. ⁵ Then he said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” So I looked, and in the entrance north of the gate of the altar I saw this idol of jealousy. Ezekiel 8:1–5

¹⁹ Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night, and Daniel blessed the God of heaven. ²⁰ Daniel said: “Blessed be the name of God from age to age, for wisdom and power are his. ²² He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with him. ²³ To you, O God of my ancestors, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and power, and have now revealed to me what we asked of you, for you have revealed to us what the king ordered.” ²⁶ The king said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to tell me the dream that I have seen and its interpretation?” ²⁷ Daniel answered the king, “No wise men, enchanters, magicians, or diviners can show to the king the mystery that the king is asking, ²⁸ but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has disclosed to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen at the end of days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed were these:” Daniel 2: 19–20, 22–23, 26–28

³ “Be silent!” Amos 8:3c*

⁹ Listen! The LORD is calling . . . . Micah 6:9*

²⁰ The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him. Habakkuk 2:20

¹⁵ “Whoever has ears, let them hear.” Matthew 11:15

¹⁸ “[C]onsider carefully how you listen.” Luke 8:18a*

⁴⁷ “Whoever belongs to God hears what God says.” John 8:47a*

²⁷ “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.” John 10:27

¹³ On the sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer; and we sat down and spoke to the women who had gathered there. ¹⁴ A certain woman named Lydia, a worshiper of God, was listening to us; she was from the city of Thyatira and a dealer in purple cloth. The Lord opened her heart to listen eagerly to what was said by Paul. Acts 16:13–14

⁷ God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted: “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.” Hebrews 4:7

⁷ “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” Revelation 2:7a*

¹¹ “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” Revelation 2:11a*

¹⁷ “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” Revelation 2:17a*

²⁹ “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” Revelation 2:29

⁶ “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” Revelation 3:6

¹³ “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” Revelation 3:13

²² “Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” Revelation 3:22

⁹ Whoever has ears, let them hear. Revelation 13:9