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Example sentences for "waiting upon"

  • If the assembly is waiting upon God, in earnest intercession for the progress of the work, it will not be a question as to the one who is to take the preaching, provided Christ is preached and souls are blessed.

  • It is impossible that our preaching can be marked by power and crowned with results, if we fail in waiting upon God.

  • How could it be otherwise when we so fail in waiting upon God?

  • It is not the power of eloquence, but the power of God; and this can only be had by waiting upon Him.

  • Despair is an unprofitable thing; it will make a man weary of waiting upon God (2 Kings 6:33).

  • Why in the first place, to be sure thy backsliding from God will not prove thy election, neither thy growing weary of waiting upon God.

  • And (that I accuse my self, no farther then I am guilty) the principall reason of my breaking the appointment of waiting upon M.

  • He hoped, therefore, that she would allow his son the honour of waiting upon her, and permit him to talk with Mr Briggs, who he understood was her acting guardian, upon such matters as ought to be speedily adjusted.

  • Day by day I am waiting upon God, concerning this object.

  • I am continually looking out for help, and am sustained in waiting upon God, and in being enabled daily, and generally several times every day, to bring the matter about the Building Fund before Him.

  • I could only have such "need" supplied by waiting upon God.

  • With her ladyship's permission, General Braddock would have the honour of waiting upon her at Castlewood, and paying his respects to the daughter of so meritorious an officer.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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