How to wait in NSThread until some event occur in iOS?

How to wait inside the NSThread until some event occur in iOS?

eg, We created a NSThread and started a thread loop. Inside the thread loop, there is condition to check whether the message queue has any messages. If there is a message, then it will call the corresponding method to do some operation, else it should wait until the message queue gets populated with a new message.

Is there any API or methods available to wait until some event occur?

For Example 

NSThread *thread = [NSThread alloc]....@selector(threadLoop)

- (void)threadLoop
{
   // Expecting some API or method that wait until some messages pushed into the message queue
   if (...) {

   }
}

Any help should be appreciated.