Category: patience
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Problems with Patience
Have you really had struggles or trials with patience? Think back and see what you really thought during such times. Were you eagerly awaiting something, only to discover that you needed to exercise patience? Patience can become a problem when you have taken the ready position without any means of going forward. Some folks can […]
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Revisit the Vision
For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry. – Habakkuk 2:3 (NKJV) You haven’t seen it yet. Although you know it is from God and of God, […]
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From Eden to Egypt- Day 21
1 Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children. But she had an Egyptian slave named Hagar; 2 so she said to Abram, “The LORD has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.”- Genesis 16:1-2 (NIV) 5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “You […]
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Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials– James 1:2 (NASB) Can you consider your troubles as times to boost your joy? James thought so. Better yet, James believed so. He said it to other believers about what they endure as a “testing” of their faith. James spoke of enduring such trials, […]
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Forgiven People Forgive
Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven– Luke 6:37 (NIV) People who have been forgiven should be forgiving people. Grace, mercy, love and patience should all intertwine in order to offer forgiveness to others. Since God has forgiven […]
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Open to Opportunities
“God sends us the opportunities; it is up to us to seize them.” – D.L.Moody Ministry involves being open to opportunities. I am speaking of God-ordained opportunities, not some secular stuff. We need to be so in tune with God that we see His hand moving in every situation and circumstance that emerges in our […]
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Patience in Practice
I waited patiently for the Lord; And He inclined to me, And heard my cry.- Psalm 40:1 (NKJV) I dare anyone to say that David was not patient. I truly suspect that David endured enough to learn extreme levels of patience as God bought him up as a shepherd boy, a man of war and a priest-like king. […]
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Patience as a problem
Patience is more than endurance.– Oswald Chambers Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.- James 1:3 (ASV) Patience can present a problem. Patience becomes a problem when it leads to pitfalls. You have to be careful to exercise patience to the right degree in the right situation. Do not allow your patience to […]
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Beyond Today
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Hebrews 11:6 (NIV) You’re getting nowhere with your plans. Yes, God gave you the vision. You have prayed and sought counsel on the matter. You have […]
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Answering a Fool
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself.- Proverbs 26:4 (NIV) Yes, it is true that Jesus said that we are not to call our brother a fool. The caveat to that teaching is a study of context that speaks about the anger in which we […]
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