PERFECTING
PATIENCE THROUGH WAITING
BREAD
12 Be
joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12 (NIV)
22 But
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, 23 gentleness
and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 (NIV)
14 Wait
for the Lord; be strong and take
heart and wait for the Lord. Psalms 27:14 (NIV)
5 I wait
for the Lord, my soul waits, and
in his word I put my hope. 6 My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for
the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning. Psalms 130:5-6 (NIV)
And
we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Romans 5:2 (NIV)
But
hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? 25 But if we hope for what we do
not yet have, we wait for it patiently. Romans 8:24-25 (NIV)
34 Wait
for the Lord and keep his way. He
will exalt you to inherit the land; when the wicked are cut off, you will see
it. 35 I have
seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like a green tree in its native
soil, 36 but he
soon passed away and was no more; though I looked for him, he could not be
found. 37 Consider
the blameless, observe the upright; there is a future for the man of peace. Psalms 37:34-37 (NIV)
10 And we
pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please
him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of
God, 11 being
strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may
have great endurance and patience, and joyfully 12 giving thanks to the Father,
who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom
of light. Colossians 1:10-12 (NIV)
8 But do
not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand
years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The Lord is not slow in
keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not
wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:8-9 (NIV)
20 We
wait in hope for the Lord; he is
our help and our shield. 21 In him
our hearts rejoice, for we trust in his holy name. 22 May your unfailing love rest
upon us, O Lord, even as we put
our hope in you. Psalms 33:20-22 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Waiting patiently in expectation is the
foundation of spiritual life.” Simone Weil
“The conviction of
the Holy Spirit is always precise: He
identifies root causes of sin, and He moves the heart to specific acts of
repentance and obedience. All those who
trust God sufficiently to desire to obey Him, and who are patient in waiting
upon Him, will find unfailingly that HE gives clear guidance. ‘In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will
direct your paths’, promises Proverbs 3:6.
For those who love God everything is aboveboard. To know Him is to know what He requires and
more than that, it is to have the power to carry it out. In fact these two—enlightenment and
empowering—go hand in hand, and where they do not, then the Lord is not in it.” Mike
Mason
“How
do we wait for God? We wait with patience. But patience does not mean
passivity. Waiting patiently is not like waiting for the bus to come, the rain
to stop, or the sun to rise. It is an active waiting in which we live the
present moment to the full in order to find there the signs of the One we are
waiting for. The word patience comes
from the Latin verb ‘patior’ which
means ‘to suffer.’ Waiting patiently is suffering through the present moment,
tasting it to the full, and letting the seeds that are sown in the ground on
which we stand grow into strong plants. Waiting patiently always means paying
attention to what is happening right before our eyes and seeing there the first
rays of God's glorious coming.” Henri Nouwen
“I
am waiting on Thee, Lord, to open the way.”
J. Hudson Taylor
“Keep
bringing your prayers to God. If you think your request is legitimate, keep
asking, keep seeking, keep knocking. God wants to teach us through persistent
praying to wait on Him and to watch. While we're praying and waiting for God to
answer our prayers, do you know what He's doing? He's working on us, conforming
us more and more to the image of Christ. And when we're ready, the answer will
surely come.” David Jeremiah
“To the missionary who works only for visible results there are certainly many disappointments on the foreign field, and during the long pioneer days of waiting and of sowing seed, only the consciousness that one is doing his duty and obeying the Lord of the Harvest can keep the heart full of peace and full of faith as to the ultimate results.” Dr. Susanna Carson Rijnhart
“Patience is the
fair handmaid and daughter of faith; we cheerfully wait when we are certain
that we shall not wait in vain. It is
our duty and our privilege to wait upon the Lord in service, in worship, in
expectancy, in trust all the days of our life.
Our faith will be tried faith, and if it be of the true kind, it will
bear continued trial without yielding.
We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and
how graciously He once waited for us.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
HEART SAVOR
- · Waiting is not inactivity. It is simply doing the next right thing until God makes the path clear.
- · God desires for me to patiently wait on His best for my life – and I want that as well as His will is always good, pleasing and perfect! Who wouldn’t want that?
- · I am to be joyful in hope as He always has my best interest at heart.
