Patience
What is patience?
the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
A great example of patience is waiting for the end of our life here on earth when we step into eternal life.
Does God want us to have patience?
It’s so easy to lose control, does it ever happen to us?
Does driving in traffic test our patience?
When we things break do we fly off the handle?
Patience is a virtue.
What is the opposite of patience?
Its easy to lose control, does it ever happen to us?
Does driving in traffic test our patience?
When something breaks or stops working do we fly off the handle?
Patience can be a key with a learning process.
Haste makes waste.
Dictionary;
bearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint.
manifesting forbearance under provocation or strain.
not hasty or steadfast despite opposition, difficulty, or adversity.
able or willing to bear.
Psalm 37;1
[ Exhortation to Patience and Trust ] [ A Psalm of David. ] Fret not yourself because of the wicked, be not envious of wrongdoers!
Proverbs 25;15
With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.
Matthew 18;26
So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’
Matthew 18;29
So his fellow servant fell down and besought him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’
Luke 8;15
And as for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bring forth fruit with patience.
Romans 2;4
Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
Romans 2;7
to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
Romans 8;25
But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
Romans 9;22
What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction.
2 Corinthians 12;12
The signs of a true apostle were performed among you in all patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.
Galatians 5;22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Ephesians 4;2
with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another in love,
Colossians 1;11
May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy.
Colossians 3;12
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience.
1 Timothy 1;16
but I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience for an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
2 Timothy 3;10
Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness.
2 Timothy 4;2
preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.
Hebrews 6;12
so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
James 5;7
[ Patience in Suffering ] Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receives the early and the late rain.
James 5;10
As an example of suffering and patience, brethren, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
1 Peter 3;20
who formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, during the building of the ark, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were saved through water.