PATIENCE

Donna Braman

Wait Upon The Lord

Scripture Reading: James 1:2-4

In meditating on this devotional and searching scripture this morning I saw that there are specific benefits to patience.  It is a fruit of the spirit that God gives promises to when we practice it. When living the principle of seed and harvest, patience is an ingredient to persevering in the wait time.  First, to have a perfect work, to be complete in Him and lacking in nothing, patience is the quality that you must possess. What produces patience? Hah, this is the place where we don't like to go but necessary in order to reap a harvest in our Christian walk. Patience is produced by various trials and testing of our faith. So every time you are tested count it joy because you know you are closer to reaping your harvest.

Let's take a look at the benefits of counting it all joy when the Lord puts us through things that result in patience.

1.  You will be strengthened.

Isaiah 40:31 says, "Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. 

2.  You will inherit the promises according to Hebrews 6:12.

3.  He hears your cry when you pray and then wait patiently for His answer. Psalm 40:1. People give up too quickly on their prayers.  Persistence gets God's attention.

4.  Patience results in better relationships with the people we love and with those that get on our nerves as well.  Ephesians 4:2

5.  Patience results in revelation and the promise of the Lord.  Habakkuk 2:3

6.  It produces "The Rest".  Don't try to get what God is giving to others around you sooner than the Lord wants to give it to you. Psalm 37:7

7.  Patience gives you endurance to do God's will, resulting in His promises to you.

8.  It teaches us not to give up or to become weary. Most of us give up just before the promise land and miss their harvest. Galatians 6:9

9.  Patience keeps us seeking God that causes His goodness to come to us. Lamentations 3:25

SEED WORD:

A lot of us become weary on our journey to be perfected and established with God but don't faint because remember that our perseverance in the race is energized by the greatest promise of all in Habbakkuk :2:3.  For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false.  Though it linger, wait for it: it will certainly come and will not delay.  We are closer to the return of the Lord than we could even imagine.  The more I meditate on beholding His Glory and sitting at His side for 7 years at the great wedding banquet, the harder I want to work to adorn myself with his precious jewels and walk in the fruits of the spirit, no matter how many trials or time it takes to make me His perfect bride without blemish.