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I was listening to a sermon by Pastor Bill Johnson from Redding, CA. and wanted to share a few things that I jotted down.
1Cor. 13:4 says, “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up.”
A lot of the time we apply this scripture to us but it actually applies to God.
Long suffering teaches us to focus on God and not our behaviors.
Patience becomes a necessary quality of service to God. It is also expected that we exercise that same quality of patience towards others that God demonstrates towards us.
Patience means to leave things up to God, expressing full confidence in Him. It is an act of worship!
We are not in control. God is. My world is not up to me.. therefore I give up my life to God! Patience says, “I turn it over to God and wait, just like He waited for me.”
Impatience is the fight to be in control. Trying to fix what we don’t have the ability to fix.
Anxiety and worry is me trying to take the control God has and contending with who’s in charge.
To wait entails confident expectations and active hope in the Lord – never passive resignation
God says, “Let go, I waited for you and now you wait for Me.”
Will you wait?
I encourage and empower Christians through the love and grace of Christ.
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up here Patience – Love Suffers Long. And I do have 2 questions for
you if it’s allright. Is it simply me or does it look as if like a few of these responses appear like written by brain dead people?
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Thank you! As we continue to seek the Lord more, it becomes more about Him and less about us. Blessings!
Thank you Jance for these encouraging word , very inspiring as we get more of life experience we see God is in control . We feel kind of lost . for we been so busy trying to fight for control and fixing things . But when we see and wear ourselve out and see what control do we have is none and we have made a mess of things . But thank God He can take our messes and turn them into a message . God bless you and thank you for this site . I to look forward to this <3 (^_^)
Thank you Janice for this message. My children want me to move closer to thme I now live 11/2 hours north of them. I agree I should be closer but my home is not selling and we have left this in God’s hands as we all know that he is in control. I just need the patience to wait on him.
Thanks so much for you site. I look forward to reading them. You are a special woman,