90. PATIENCE
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But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect & entire, wanting nothing (Jam.1:4).
1. God's delays are not denials, so sometimes we just have to wait.
2. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty, & he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city. (Pro.16:32)
3. Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools. (Ecc.7:9)
4. Angry impatience is a sign of lack of perfect faith & rest in the Lord.
5. Try love and patience: it really works!
6. Waiting and learning patience is part of your training.
7. Getting hard and tyrannical is a fleshly compensation. It's not the lord's solution.
8. Laziness is often mistaken for patience.
9. The secret of patience is doing something else while you're waiting.
10. The longer you keep your temper the more it will improve.
11. Hitting the ceiling is a poor way to rise in the World.
12. People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
13. How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
14. The only way we can be patient with others is to know what a hopeless case we are ourselves!
15. Learning patience seems to be one of God's most frequent lessons yet one of our rarest virtues, as it really tests our faith & drives us to the Lord & His Word, to Whom & which we might not otherwise give so much time & attention.
16. The patience of Jacob!--He stuck to his job for 21 years!
17. It just doesn't pay to be in a hurry. You always pass up much more than you catch up with.
18. It's better to be slow and do it right, than be fast and do it wrong.
19. Though the mills of God grind slowly,
Yet they grind exceeding small.
Though with patience He stands waiting,
With exactness grinds He all.
20. Funny thing about temper: You can't get rid of it by losing it.
21. Speed kills! Haste makes waste! Patience takes faith.
22. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get!--Squeeze, don't Jerk!
23. A wise man controls his temper. He knows that anger causes mistakes.
24. He patiently waited in faith for God's best.--And God gave him nothing less.
25. It's natural to be impatient, unless you have the patience of God which comes through faith in His Word.
26. The farmer is a perfect example of faith & patience.
27. God will undoubtedly use your hidden talents at some time or other, sooner or later, somewhere, if you'll just be patient and faithful.
28. What patience Jacob had!--He worked seven years for one girl, fourteen years for another, & twenty-one years for the flocks! Some of you can't even wait a few weeks for what you want!
29. Patience is the result of real faith, & without faith it is impossible to please God, because faith worketh patience. (He.11:6; Jam.1:3)
30. Lord, we ask that You will teach Thy sons and daughters patience & faith--which takes time.--Teach them never to get in such a hurry, not to push themselves so hard as though they need to do it in their own strength.
31. Jesus, you're the picture of patience, calmness, love, gentleness, longsuffering. Help us to be like You! Help us to be forgiving & patient, & to have mercy as we want mercy.
32. We should be very faithful & patient with our children in the Lord who are really babes in Christ, who need a lot of love, a lot of understanding, a great deal of patience & before whom we should manifest our own faith by being patient & loving & gentle & meek & lowly in spirit as Jesus was.
33. Moses, the meekest of all men, sometimes was honestly, righteously & justifiably angry with God's people & bawled them out good & proper for their sins, & they needed it!
34. Be sure that your anger is in the right spirit with the meekness & gentleness of a tender & gentle & loving & contrite heart in all humility.
35. Patience is slowness, waiting. Impatience is hurry, rush, haste, push, pressure, tension. Patience shows faith. Impatience shows lack of faith.
36. This Family didn't happen overnight & this revolution wasn't built in a day. It took time & a lot of hard work & patience & faith & waiting, waiting for God to lead & do God's will & a lot of stopping & just waiting sometimes--just sitting around waiting for God to tell us what to do when we didn't know what to do, because it wasn't His time to do it.--So He didn't tell us.
37. It took the Lord 49 years to prepare me for this job, so obviously He wasn't in a very big hurry!
38. When you don't know what to do, wait.
(See also No.11, 31, 75, 313, 315, 565, 583, 703, 718, 835, 960, 1250, 1374.)
39. PSA.27:14 Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
40. PSA.40:1,2 I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
41. PRO.14:17 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated.
42. PRO.15:18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
43. PRO.16:32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
44. PRO.20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and He shall save thee.
45. PRO.25:28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
46. PRO.29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
47. ECC.7:8,9 Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
48. LUK.8.15b Bring forth fruit with patience.
49. LUK.21:19 In your patience possess ye your souls.
50. ROM.2:7 To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life.
51. ROM.5:3,4 And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope.
52. ROM.12:12 Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer.
53. 2CO.6:4-6 But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned.
54. GAL.5:22,23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
55. EPH.4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.
56. 1TH.5:14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
57. HEB.6:15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
58. HEB.10:36 For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
59. JAM.1:4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
60. JAM.1:19,20 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
61. JAM. 5:7,8 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the Earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
62. 1PE.2:20 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
63. 1PE.3:20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
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