Developing Your Patience

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Developing Your Patience

• The Power To Change Your Life

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What is patience?

• Gal 522 - Patience (NIV) or Long suffering (KJV)
• Makrothumia (Gk) to be of long wrath
• Makro slow
• Thumia wrath
• Patience is not an absence of anger but how we
  handle anger

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Our patience is tested by

• Interruptions
• Then little children were brought to Jesus for
  him to place his hands on them and pray for them.
  But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.
  Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me,
  and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven
  belongs to such as these. -Matthew 1913-14 (NIV)

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Our patience is tested by

• Inconveniences
• But Martha was distracted by all the preparations
  that had to be made. She came to him and asked,
  "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me
  to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me! -
  Luke 1040 (NIV)

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Our patience is tested by

• Irritations
• He and Aaron gathered the assembly together in
  front of the rock and Moses said to them,
  "Listen, you rebels, must we bring you water out
  of this rock?" Then Moses raised his arm and
  struck the rock twice with his staff. Water
  gushed out, and the community and their livestock
  drank. -Numbers 2010-11 (NIV)

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Our patience is tested by

• Inactivity
• It is not good to have zeal without knowledge,
  nor to be hasty and miss the way. - Proverbs 192
  (NIV)
• If a man dies, will he live again? All the days
  of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to
  come. - Job 1414 (NIV)

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I Become a Patient Person When...

• I Develop a new perspective
• A man's wisdom gives him patience it is to his
  glory to overlook an offense. - Proverbs 1911
  (NIV)
• A mans steps are directed by the Lord Proverbs
  2024 (NIV)

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I Become a Patient Person When...

• I Acquire a sense of humor
• A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy
  rots the bones. - Proverbs 1430 (NIV)
• The One enthroned in heaven laughs the Lord
  scoffs at them. - Psalm 24 (NIV)
• A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed
  spirit dries up the bones. - Proverbs 1722 (NIV)

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I Become a Patient Person When...

• I Strengthen my love
• Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy,
  it does not boast, it is not proud. - 1
  Corinthians 134 (NIV)
• Be completely humble and gentle be patient,
  bearing with one another in love. - Ephesians 42
  (NIV)

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I Become a Patient Person When...

• I Depend on God
• Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for
  him do not fret when men succeed in their ways,
  when they carry out their wicked schemes. - Psalm
  377 (NIV)
• Bear in mind that our Lord's patience means
  salvation 2 Pet 315 (NIV)

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Summary

• Ways our patience are tested by

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• Interruptions
• Inconveniences
• Irritation
• Inactivity

Ways to develop our patience
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• Develop a new perspective
• Acquire a sense of humor
• Strengthen my love
• Depend on God

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See You Next Week!

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