3 Signs God Is Telling You to Wait for Someone

Should you wait for that person you want to be with or is God telling you to move on? In this article, we will discuss 3 signs that God is actually telling you to wait for someone you want to be with.

This is a big topic that actually leads to a lot of other topics, such as how to wait, when to be proactive, and how to use your waiting to prepare for the future. This is one of the reasons I’ve created AGW University. Within these relationship training courses, I give you the biblical and practical tools needed to meet, date, and marry the person God may have for you.

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1. God May Be Telling You to Wait for Someone If Waiting Is the Only Way You Will Know If You and This Person Will Date One Day

Knowing whether or not you should wait for someone is complicated because the relationship variables that are unique to each situation should dictate what you should do. The reality is, some of you should keep waiting and some of you have waited long enough.

How will you know which course of action is best for you? One sign that waiting is the right path for you is if waiting is the only path for you. In other words, there are situations where there is literally nothing else you can do but wait.

I usually recommend doing something proactive if you like someone because this then gives you a much better chance to get clarity. By being proactive you will usually cause the other person to reveal their feelings for you one way or the other. If they respond positively to you it probably means they are interested and if they respond negatively it means you should probably move on.

In some instances, though, it is possible for your proactive attempts towards this person to still leave you in the dark about what will happen. If you have tried something but now there is nothing left to do but wait to see what will happen next, oftentimes this is the Lord saying you should just wait for this person to see what will happen.

With that said, I strongly caution you to avoid extremely long seasons of waiting for someone. There comes a point where a long season of nothing happening is actually something happening. In other words, the lack of interest from this person or the lack of connection that is not being built over a long season of waiting is a sign you should stop waiting.

Isaiah 40:31 states, “But they who wait for 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.” If your waiting is not resulting in being strengthened, then you are not waiting on the Lord. You are just waiting. When God is truly telling you to wait and you are obeying him, it will result in positive things happening in your heart and life.

2. God May Be Telling You to Wait for Someone If You and This Person Do Want to Date But There Is a Specific Issue That Needs to Be Overcome First

Vagueness and generalities are your enemy when it comes to knowing if you should wait for someone or not. If you can’t identity a specific reason you should be waiting for someone, then usually this means you should not be waiting for them. Ideally you should be able to explain what you are waiting for in a sentence or two.

For example, “I believe God is leading me to wait for this person because we both just became Christians and we agree that we need some time to develop in the Lord first before we are ready to date.” Or, “I believe I should wait for this person because we were hitting it off but then she got sent away on a 6-month work assignment overseas. When she gets back, I would like to see how things progress between us.”

There should be a specific reason that is measurable and reasonable. The reasoning should not be vague like, “Well, I know this person said they are not interested in me but for some odd reason I just believe if I wait this person’s feelings will change one day.” When there is no reasonable evidence that the variables will be different if you keep waiting, usually this is a sign God is telling you not to wait.

Pray for the wisdom to know what God is saying to you. Ultimately it comes down to waiting on God and not just waiting on life. As Micah 7:7 states, “But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.”

3. God May Be Telling You to Wait for Someone If You Two Are Actually Headed Towards Dating But You Just Need More Time to Connect First

In my opinion, the best reason to wait for someone you want to date is if there is tangible evidence that you two will date one day but you just need more time to connect. Christians often desire an abundance of confirmation before dating, which is good. But this also means it often takes a bit more time before they feel released to actually enter into a dating relationship.

If you and someone are connecting but it is still a bit too soon to make it official, God is probably telling you to keep connecting with this person while you also wait for the right season to progress into something more serious with him or her.

Whatever your situation may be, always depend on the Lord for your wisdom and counsel, for as Lamentation 3:25 states, “The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.”

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