Think about times in your life's story where you have waited a long time for God to answer a prayer.
How did you meet God in the waiting, and in the time when he finally answered?
Think of times where it seems God was moving things so he could accomplish something in your lower story.
We're looking in the Bible at the return home from exile of the people... based in the books of the prophets Haggai, Zechariah, and Ezra.