If you’re longing to hear from God—waiting for direction, healing, provision, miracles, or peace—Waiting for God renews your hope with personal stories, strong biblical truth, and encouraging Scripture-based prayers. Guided to inhale God’s Word, exhale in prayers, and rest in God’s love, you will be equipped and encouraged to rejoice as you worship the Lord, even when the wait feels endless.
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Shadia Hrichi, Bible Teacher and the author of Hagar, Rahab, Tamar, and Legion – 5 Stars
Waiting for God is an uplifting collection of inspiring stories and heartfelt prayers that will encourage and strengthen you during those difficult seasons of waiting: Waiting for healing. Waiting for a wayward child. Waiting for God to answer your prayers. Xochitl beautifully captures both the struggles and the victories as she shares from her heart the burden – and reward – in clinging to God and His promises, even when prayers seem to go unanswered. This book is a precious gift for anyone in a season of waiting for God.
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Dr. Ganahl – 5 Stars – August 10, 2019
Transforming Devotional! Waiting for God: Trusting Daily in God’s Plan and Pace, is one of the best devotionals I have read. Reading Waiting for God has helped me trust in God more as I wait on His timing.
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Christine Abraham, Bible Café – 5 stars – August 2, 2019
Will You Seek the Holy Spirit Each Day? I’m reading this devotional again (and again) because it’s simply beautiful! I truly believe it’s written for this generation and the next. Each sentence is a movement on its own- like a well-versed worship song. When read together as a prayer piece, the impact is powerful and lingers throughout my entire day. If I were a rich woman (or as my husband and I often say ‘when our ship comes in’) I’d buy everyone I know a copy of this beautiful book!
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Danielle G. – 5 Stars
One of the best devotionals! Poignant! Waiting for God: Trusting Daily in God’s Plan and Pace may look like a typical 31-day Christian devotional, but it goes deeper, touches on pain, struggle, and trials many other devotionals merely gloss over. Each story touches the heart in its realness. Xochitl doesn’t minimize pain, instead, she shows how God redeems it.
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Patti S. – 5 Stars – September 2019
What an encouraging and inspiring book! I’ve read some of this author’s daily devotions on the “Our Daily Bread” website and knew that I wanted to read her book. Xochitl Dixon shares some of her own personal stories about waiting on God even through times of pain and suffering, and my own heart was challenged again and again as I read through these daily installments. This author is an excellent communicator, and I felt as if I’d had a personal visit with her as I finished this book. This book is meant to be read one chapter at a time through 31 days. There’s scripture to meditate on, and she’s written beautiful, heartfelt prayers to go along with each day’s reading. Because I was writing a review on this book, I read several of them at one sitting, but I am planning on going back and using this book as the author intended. If you find yourself yourself in a time of trial and waiting for an outcome, this book would be of great encouragement to you.
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Liza K. – 5 Stars – March 2020
This book has been such a joy and blessing to read! Each chapter was easily read on its own so I could take my time to savor the story told in relation to the Scripture it illustrated. The author completes each chapter with Scripture to “breathe in” and a prayer to “breathe out” – truly some of the most beautiful prayers I’ve ever read. I gifted a copy to my best friend – an absolutely inspiring read!
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Julie Lilly – 5 Stars
Xochitl Dixon has a beautiful gift of words. Her message is easy to read and soothing to the soul. It is rich with scripture and both relatable and realistic. You won’t find false promises here, but hopeful truth to equip us to successfully negotiate the pain, struggle and difficulties of real life. Order a copy…or TEN, and spread the hope and love around to those in your life who could use a dose of hope and encouragement. (HINT: It would make a great stocking stuffer!)
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Renne – 5 Stars
Love this devotional! I have many devotionals but not all move me the way this one does. Xochitl challenges our faith, while encouraging us to go deeper into God’s word. Her transparency and ability to use faith stories to encourage us, while reminding us we are not in this “wait” alone. I cheered. I cried. And mostly, I prayed. This is definitely a devotion that will stay by my bedside as well as a gift for friends. Truly a blessing!
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Sarah – 5 Stars – Sept 2019
You know that a book is written through the power of the Holy Spirit when each Scripture cited speaks to you personally and you find yourself continuously highlighting quotations from the book itself. One of my favorites early on was: “When we focus on living for God, like Joseph, we can accept everything that occurs during the wait as an opportunity to grow closer to Him and others.” That’s what it’s all about! Learning to rely upon God completely, and to look beyond the superficial shell of our trials to see the pearls growing within.
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Rejoice – 5 Stars – June 2019
This author willingly and beautifully gives readers rich messages from her life lessons learned through painful waiting times. It’s alternative thinking to hold onto hope in troubling times and explore the rich reservoir of relating to God through faith in His character and record. Her pleasant and sympathetic voice carries the reader through the truths about the goods gained through God’s goodness in the face of troubles. The riches of trusting in Him to carry us.
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Holly S. – 4 Stars
Solid, Nutty Food for the Weary. If you are in a season of waiting, be it from a frail body, a fatigued soul, or a grieved heart, this 31-day devotional models how to trust God, no matter your circumstance. If you are struggling and hurting and questioning the why, Waiting for God will be a balm for your weary heart.
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Andrea G. – 5 Stars
Waiting for God: Trusting Daily in God’s Plan and Pace is amazing. It has helped me as I work through my pain of unanswered prayer. Reading Waiting for God is helping me trust in my Heavenly Father’s timing.
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Myriam A. – 5 Stars
Simply a Blessing in My Life! In this time of instant gratification, Xochitl does a great job in using scripture and testimony, to remind us that God’s timing is not ours. Each chapter has you inhaling God’s word and exhaling in prayer. If you find yourself; like me, not knowing what to bring to the feet of our Lord, Xochitl leads the prayer.
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Jan – 5 Stars – August 2019
I’ve read lots of devotionals over the years, but I think this one is the best.
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Morethanlegs – 5 Stars
As a woman with a physical disability, my challenges can be draining. Waiting for God revives my heart each time I read it. It’s similar to sipping on a cold glass of lemonade on a hot summer’s day. Each short chapter contains examples of people who need to rely on God, combined with the perfect scriptures that will revive our hearts by refocusing our eyes on God’s faithfulness.
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