Power of Patience

We’ve all heard the prayer: “Lord, make me more patient—and do it now!”

Why is it that patience evaporates when we are late for a critical engagement and are caught in a traffic jam? Or we rush to the “10 items or less” line at the store, only to find someone in front of us with 16 items!

Being forced to wait ratchets up the stress and shortens our fuse. When that happens, we not only fail to be patient but we undercut the Spirit’s work in our lives.

Patience is not just a virtue, it’s a fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22)—which means that demonstrations of impatience reveal the sour fruit of our fallen hearts rather than the sweetness of Jesus in our lives. Since God is a patient God, when we abandon patience we miss the opportunity to show our world the glory of God through our lives.

Bursts of impatience only demonstrate that we are more concerned with our own agendas than the needs and struggles of others. So let’s all take a deep breath and turn our focus away from ourselves by patiently loving others instead of ourselves in the midst of stress.

Patience gives us the privilege of sharing the refreshing fruit of God with others. — Joe Stowell

Our wrath uncurbed will not fulfill
God’s perfect plan for us;
We must be patient and refuse
To fret, to fume, to fuss. —Sper

Be patient. Show your world what God is really like.
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Take this opportunity to share this short write up which i think its quite meaningful.
The Power of Patience is really great and can affect our life in term of personality and behaviour.

Have u ever once thought why patience is so important? Did u ever lost your patience before?

For me, i have lost my power of patience when i was in the army for the past 2 years. It may be due to the working style of the environment that every seconds mean alot, that most of the time i expect it to be perfect or to be on time. Patience was an alien word to me in NS time. Instead the substitute words for it was "rush", "hurry" and "quick". 2hrs i want that objective taken, 15mins everythings ready, 1030 vehicles line up, 1035 first vehicles roll out, 30 sec all form up to charge in....

Until today, then i discover that one of the many important things/thinks that i lost for the past 2 years was "Patience".

Hope that my post today will help you to realise the important of Patience too. If you have once lost it like me, hope that you will find it back soon. Let's work together to recover back our Power of Patience.