When you drive into a busy highway, coming from the ramp, you've got to wait until you get an opening on the road before you can drive into it. This takes patience, focus and timing. If you miss any of the aforementioned three, let's just say it could be disastrous. You can have faith and couple it with action but is the timing correct? This explains why God patiently delays us as a way to protect us because if we had it our own way and the timing was wrong that may be an impending disaster. To avoid this, you pray and trust God with His timing. After all, He is the Alpha and Omega, He knows everything that will happen and counteracts any plan the enemy has for you, not only for your protection and for His blessing to make rich and adds no sorrow with it (Proverbs 10:22). Faith with action is great and even better with His timing.