20 Bible Verses about Anticipation

And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow LORD will do wonders among you.

But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of LORD came upon him. And he said, Thus says LORD, Make this valley full of trenches. For thus says LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain, yet that valley shall be filled with water, and ye shall drink, both ye and your cattle and your beasts.

Gird up now thy loins like a man, for I will demand of thee, and declare thou to me.

I will dwell in thy tabernacle forever. I will take refuge in the covert of thy wings. Selah.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life.

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem. They shall never keep silent day nor night. Ye who are LORD's reminders, take ye no rest,

Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says lord LORD: Wail ye, Alas for the day! For the day is near, even the day of LORD is near. It shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.

Therefore turn thou to thy God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Yea, and none has escaped them.

But as for me, I will look to LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Thus says LORD of hosts: If it is marvelous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes? says LORD of hosts.

And behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. And this man was righteous and devout, waiting for the encouragement of Israel, and Holy Spirit was upon him. And it was divinely revealed to him by the Holy Spirit, that he would not see death before he would see the Christ of Lord. And he came by the Spirit into the temple. And when the parents brought in the child Jesus, for them to do according to the custom of the law about him,read more.
he also received it into his arms, and praised God, and said, Now dismiss thy bondman in peace, Master, according to thy word, because my eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou prepared toward the face of all the peoples: a light for enlightenment of Gentiles, and glory of thy people Israel.

And I pray not about these only, but also about those who believe in me through their word,

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not comparable to the glory that is going to be revealed for us.

For we were saved to hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what is seen, why also hope for that?

But as it is written, What an eye has not seen, and an ear has not heard, and have not arisen in a heart of a man, are things that God prepared for those who love him. But God disclosed it to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness. Ye know therefore that those from faith, these are sons of Abraham. And the scripture having foreseen that God makes the Gentiles righteous from faith, proclaimed the good-news in advance to Abraham: In thee all the nations will be blessed.read more.
So then those from faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

All these died in faith, not having taken the promises, but who saw and greeted them from afar, and who confessed that they were foreigners and sojourners on the earth. For those who say such things show that they are seeking a fatherland. And if indeed they remembered that from which they came out, they would have had time to return.read more.
But now they aspire for a superior one, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.

And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask from God who gives to all generously and not reproaching, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by wind and tossed about. For that man should not think that he will receive anything from the Lord,

Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who begot us again according to his abundant mercy for a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, for an inheritance imperishable, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heavens for you,