While Waiting: Finding God Faithful in the Space Between
While Waiting is a Christian living book that speaks honestly and compassionately to every believer who has ever found themselves in a season of delay, unanswered prayer, or uncertain direction. Written by retired physician and author Titi Akinremi, the book draws on personal experience, biblical narrative, and pastoral wisdom to reframe waiting not as lost time but as one of God's most purposeful and transforming seasons.
Spanning thirty chapters across five parts, the book explores what waiting truly means in Scripture, how to guard the heart through prolonged delay, how to recognise God's activity in the silence, and most distinctively, what to actively do while waiting. Part Four, the heart of the book, equips readers with seven practical spiritual preparations that make faithful waiting possible, including growing in the Spirit, wearing the full armor of God, cultivating gratitude, and building a lifestyle of faith before testing arrives.
While Waiting speaks to a wide range of real life waiting seasons, including crossroads decisions, financial hardship, illness, grief, infertility, unanswered prayer, and the longing for love and companionship. It closes with the ultimate horizon of waiting, the return of Christ, and an extraordinary addendum revealing that God Himself is the most patient Waiter in the universe.
Written in warm, flowing prose with rich scriptural grounding, While Waiting is both a devotional companion and a practical guide for the waiting heart. It is for every believer who needs to be reminded that delay is not abandonment, silence is not absence, and the God who ordains the dawn has never once failed to bring it.
Three appendices complete the book: a practical guide on what to avoid in seasons of waiting, a rich collection of scriptures organised by waiting season for easy reference, and a succinct personal reflection and discussion guide for individual or group use.
