When God Says "Wait"

Navigating Life's Detours and Delays Without Losing Your Faith, Your Friends, or Your Mind

By: Elizabeth Laing Thompson

Narrated by: Elizabeth Laing Thompson

Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

A job, a true love, a baby, a cure...

We’re all waiting for something from God. And the place between his answers can feel like a wasteland where dreams - and faith - go to die. When we’re waiting, we wonder, “Why?”, “Why me?”, and “How long?” But the truth?...

When God says, “Wait,” he doesn’t tell us for how long. When God says, “Wait,” we face one of life’s greatest tests. When God says, “Wait,” we have decisions to make. When God says, “Wait,” we can control only two things: how we wait, and who we become along the way.

Author Elizabeth Laing Thompson invites you to walk alongside people of the Bible who had to wait on God...imperfect heroes like David, Miriam, Naomi, Sarah, Joseph, and others. Their stories will provide a roadmap for your own story, helping you navigate the painful, lonely territory of waiting, coming out on the other side with your faith, relationships, and sense of humor intact. They might even help you learn to enjoy the ride. This book is about the journey of waiting, the space between answers, and the people we become while we live there.

©2018 eChristian (P)2018 eChristian

Just what my heart needed

This book helped me process and put words to my infertility and season of waiting.

Awesome!!!!

This book makes me feel like I am sitting down for coffee with a good friend! I love the imagery used to describe the stories in the Bible as well as the author sharing her personal journey. I love that she is real and relatable and gives us courage to be completely honest with God, dream, believe and wait. Thank you Elizabeth Laing Thompson...especially for making this an audiobook!! I am forever grateful!

So much better than I expected

I started this title in a moment of desperation, thinking that the Christian approach was probably going to be “too much” for me but hopeful that it would offer some guidance or perspective. Not only am I looking at my waiting season through a new lens, but I was inspired to revisit my relationship with God. I especially loved how stories from the Bible were told in ways that were entertaining and more importantly, relatable. If you’re stuck in a waiting season or maybe wondering if God remembers you exist, give it a listen.

Great read for anyone seeking comfort in their times of waiting.

Excellent, motivating, life changing; written in such a personal way that I could relate to. I laughed, cried and rejoiced as Liz told her story and those of others. The Bible came to life as its characters were “ fleshed out.” Great read for anybody seeking comfort while in their waiting room.

That I could relate to this

Amazing book everything about it I could relate.she really got deeply in my heart and soul. I couldn’t be more content with it.

Reasons To Wait

This book lets you appreciate waiting the way God designed it to be! I will forever carry the lessons I’ve learned from this book and will definitely pass it on to as many as possible. Awesome book Elizabeth!

Timely for my lufe

I loved listening to the stories and appreciate the connections made. Thank you much.

Seriously great

have a short attention span when it comes to Christian books. Unfortunately, a lot of them bore me after a while, but THIS was something I couldn't "put down. " This was truly "a word" from God. Thank you for writing this book. It speaks to you in ways that others attempt to, but just don't quite deliver in fullness.

Really good!

I love this. The helpful references we great! Highly Recommend. print the journal pages for extra.

An unexpected

I originally found the Bible reading plan by the same title. I had prayed about doing a weekly Bible study with a few friends based on the YouVersion Bible app reading plan. As I began the plan, I found the book and the journal. I went crazy buying them from everywhere and as cheap as I could find, like pre-owned or the half price bookstore, so that all 12 of us would not have to pay a lot of money to get started on this. So I personally have a paperback copy, the journal and the digital recording through audible.
WOW! I will tell you it was worth every dollar I spent and there were a lot of dollars. My friends who joined me on this journey said I should not have been so generous but I kept saying this is going to change our lives. This is going to change the way we pray for things. This is going to change the way we WAIT!
I absolutely loved the book. I plan to read more of Elizabeth's books.
I will also add getting into this bi-weekly Bible study with my friends has pushed me not only to read Elizabeth's books and to journal. my thoughts but also to get into the Word of God more and to search and to study what God has to share with me.
May you too find joy in your journey.
Remember God sees, God hears, God cares.