Oct 9, 2024 … Learning Patience and Endurance

Oct 9, 2024 …  Learning Patience and Endurance   

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... </b>  

… Please take time to hear the group Apollo LTD, with music and lyrics, singing Patience, calling on Christians to seek to wait on God patiently to give us the patience and strength to let God teach us to trust Him in times that overwhelm us.  

    

<b><u>Highlight Verse:</u> … James 1:3-4  [NLT] … </b> 

<i>  3 For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. 4 So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.  </i> 

… Jesus’ brother James calls on fellow Christians to patiently wait on God to endure and wait on God in times of trial.    .   

<b><u>Highlight Passage (in context)  … James 1: 2-12  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… James calls on fellow Christians to let the trials of life develop our patience to follow the Lord.  

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Reference Passage: … Proverbs 3:5-6 … [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…  God’s wisdom, thru Solomon, on patiently following God’s power and direction by always  trusting in God.

Reference Passage: … John 8:31-32 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus teaches believers to patiently follow Him as The Truth, which, when we follow Him, will set us free from fears and anxiety.        .                              

Reference Passage: … John 15:4-5  [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…    Jesus teaches His disciples to patiently abide in Him so that we can become fruitful.             

Reference Passage: … Galatians 5:22-23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

…    The Apostle Paul teaches fellow Christians about the fruit of God’s Spirit which comes when we patiently follow His way rather than our own.  

Reference Passage: …Hebrews 10:35-36 [NLT] …  USE THIS Link …   

 …God, thru the Author of Hebrews, teaches on developing patient endurance by trusting in following God’s truth and his promises.  

Reference Passage: … Revelation 14:12 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

…   God reveals to John that God’s chosen people must endure persecution maintaining their (our) faith in Jesus as Messiah and Lord, no matter what they (we) face in life.  

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Mike Whittier -  AT THIS LINK  -was experiencing a flight delay and cancellation, which caused the ODB author to see - in faith - that God was taking him thru that experience to help the author develop his patience and Christian endurance.  

And. tho I’m not a betting man; but ,  if I were, I would wager that many of those who read with me here, …. today, … find it difficult to faithfully endure - with patience - when we’re delayed by situations like a delayed or cancelled flight, or some other trying or troubling situation.  Common, … admit it!  When God is teaching us to wait or have faith that He’s leading us in HIS way, sometimes it ’s tough, isn’t it?  So, I’m praying we can - and will - as God calls us in the Scriptures shared above, … to wait, with our faith, that God is developing our patience to follow Him in those troubling circumstances.      

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for helping me to be more patient and follow You, Lord, in these troubling times.             

My Prayer Today:  Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I’m praying that those who read with me here will join me to be patient and seek God’s way, even when it’s trying or troubling  to do so.  … Amen

 

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