Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In whatever state a Christian finds himself or whatever his desire may be, he must exercise patience and guide his affairs with discretion.

Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints. But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful. Hence James, the apostle, exhorted the Christians and said: “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works. Cite this page: Editor: Stephen Smith. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Q So that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. A second display of God’s patience is His patience with the world and its rebellion against Him. Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth. – Job 2: 7-10. Even though God Almighty gave him great power by which he could have subdued his enemies, he bore their reproaches with equanimity and endured his sufferings with patience in obedience to his Father’s will for the sake of sinful mankind. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope. (Rom. As it is written: “But Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.” – Psalm 86: 15; see also Romans 15: 5 and 2 Peter 3:9. L

You also, be patient. “But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving kindness and truth” (Ps. ‣ It is patience coupled with faith that will make us endure the tribulations and temptations of the devil without offending God or falling away from His Organisation. Publisher: OpenBible.info. What? It’s an acrostic — PBPGINFWMY — “Please Be Patient God Is Not Finished With Me Yet.” It’s a request for others to be patient with us as we are growing by God’s grace. St. James wrote: “Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. The ungodly desire of some to get rich quick has pushed them into committing crimes which landed many in jail and made some die untimely. ‣ But how many people have the patience to wait for God and His time? For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. ‣ I certainly began to develop it. K For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD they shall inherit the earth.” – Psalm 37: 7-9. With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Visit the Bible online to search for words if you don’t know the specific passage your’re looking for. ‣ “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.

Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. God is displaying His. Today, “our Lord’s patience gives people time to be saved” (2 Peter 3:15, NLT).

Peter highlights the patience of God in 1 Peter 3:20, pointing out that God had immense patience with the evil people of Noah’s day, delaying judgment as long as possible (Genesis 6). M We’re continuing the series on God’s character.

My goodness, I think of all the questions that I ask the Lord, and then I think of my stubborn streak against Him; I think of my inability or refusal to learn. For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. It is those who wait on God with patience and continue to do righteousness in faith that He blesses NOW in this old world and will make to inherit the New World in abundance of peace and happiness. C It has been extremely helpful for me to think about God’s patience as it is displayed in the Scriptures, in history, and toward me as I continue to seek the fruit of the Spirit in my own life, including that illusive, yet glorious, element called “patience.”. But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man is fully set to do evil. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. The Holy Bible shows that patience is a virtue-a good thing that everyone who worships God in truth should have. 86:15). Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.” – James.

He doesn’t have to learn it. The Christians in the apostolic age were admonished to be patient till the return of Christ. As it is written: “So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels and a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand she asses. On one Saturday morning, my wife and I were teaching our eldest daughter how to count.

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

The key text is “He is patient toward you,” not wishing for any of you to perish. But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly. He continually displays it. In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials. Since He has not come yet, the skeptics say this is the evidence that there is no Christ and there is no Second Coming. ‣ Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour also set an example of enduring quietly under pain or annoyance for his followers to copy. Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to him who judges justly. As the tribulations of Job increased more and more his faithless and foolish wife said to him: “Dost thou still retain thine integrity? The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

V For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. Whatever we want from God we should be patient and wait till His due time.

For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. ‣ 5: 7, 8. OpenBible.info He had also seven sons and three daughters…And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren. It is such a state of frenzy that drives some so-called Christians into compromising with witches and wizards and committing idolatry, thereby falling out of God’s favour. God is certainly gracious.

And I see His patience in the establishment of the church in the New Testament. But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools. The mission, passion and purpose of Ligonier Ministries is to proclaim the holiness of God And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons?

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