Patience

Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. - Psalm 27:14

Impatience is just distrust with a deadline.

1. That person who frustrates you most? 2. God put them in your life on purpose. 3. Not to punish you. 4. Not to test your patience alone. 5. To form something in you that comfort never could.

1. Praying “Your will be done" but reminding Him what you want just in case. 2. Watching everyone around you receive the thing you've been praying for. 3. Surrendering something to God on Monday and picking it back up by Wednesday. 4. Being scared that if you fully surrender God will take that as permission to say no. 5. The moment you realize the waiting changed something in you that the answer never could have.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. - 1 Corinthians 13:4

Feeling stuck today? Let these theologians encourage you. 1. Whoever does not know the austere blessedness of waiting will never experience the full blessedness of fulfillment. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer 2. It is the bold Christian who can sing God's sonnets in the darkness. - C.H. Spurgeon 3. The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. - A.W. Tozer 4. God has promised to supply what we need, when we need it. He hasn't equipped us for hypotheticals. - Betsy Childs Howard 5. God is never late, but He is rarely early. He is always exactly right on time — with His time, not ours. - Corrie ten Boom 6. Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be. - John Ortberg 7. Whether you’re stuck or just in a waiting season, God is working in you. This time isn’t wasted.

Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. - Colossians 3:12

1. Don’t 2. give up 3. on the 4. promise 5. of God.

Jesus’ promises aren’t microwaved, instant meals. They’re slow-cooked masterpieces.

1: Trusting God is easy when life is good. But what about when it’s hard? 2: When the prayers feel unanswered. When the waiting feels too long. When the outcome feels uncertain. 3: Trusting God doesn’t mean you have all the answers. It's believing He does. 4: If you’re in a difficult season right now: God hasn’t forgotten you. He's working it all out, even if you can't see it.

Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly. - Proverbs 14:29

Your life produces fruit. Not apples or peaches or pears…

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. - 2 Peter 3:9

Comment with a gif. How do you keep your cool when people get on your nerves?

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. - Ecclesiastes 3:1

Faith grows daily, not instantly.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. - Galatians 6:9

Waiting can be hard...

Patience isn’t passive. It’s an active trust in God’s timing.