Tag: patience
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Patience’s Source
1 Corinthians 13:1 “Love is patient” Are you a patient person? I can assure you that I’m not as patient as I’d like to be. Oh, I can sit in a deer blind from morning to night, day after day and patiently wait to see just one deer. I can fish all day, even when…
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Gentleness
Galatians 5:22-23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is . . . gentleness . . . “ One of the most amazing things about our all-powerful Creator is His gentleness. Of all the characteristics that should draw us to Him, surely this is one of the most awesome. Here we have One Who is perfect, One Who…
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A Glorious Example
Colossians 3:12-14 “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” One of the most amazing statements of the…
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Some Marks of Supernatural Strength
Colossians 1:11 “being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy.” In Paul’s wonderful prayer for the Colossian church, one of the things he prayed for was that the believers would “be strengthened with all power according to his glorious might.” Whatever this was, the language used shows us…
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The Greatness of God
1 John 4:8 “God is love” Isaiah 6:3 “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God almighty” Psalm 25:8 “Good and upright is the Lord.” Exodus 34:6 “The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.” All of the statements above about God’s nature could be considered massive understatements, primarily…
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Gracious Restraint
Matthew 26:67 “Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him.” What does inner strength look like? How is it displayed? Perhaps one of the most magnificent displays of this strength ever seen is in the scene above as Jesus was being led to the cross. Here is an awesome example…
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Bearing spiritual fruit
Galatians 5:22 – 23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.” The fruit of the Spirit should be manifested in every Christians’ life. So, if you are a Christian, is it these things that describe you? Or do you…
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While we wait . . .
Psalm 130:5 “I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in His word I hope” Are you good at waiting for things? For example, how often have you heard, or thought, “I just can’t wait for this weather to change.” So often in life we find ourselves in positions of waiting, and more often…
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How to speak – to our self
Psalm 62:5 “For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from Him.” Do you talk to yourself? It’s something perhaps everyone does at one time or another. Sometimes that “talk” is silent, as we roll various thoughts over in our mind. As we lie on our beds at night, sometimes waking…
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Wait . . .
Psalm 62:1-2 “For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.” Some things are worth waiting for. That’s a tough message in this microwave society we live in. So often we’re in such a hurry.…
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