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Patience!

• Why Wait?

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Patience implies waiting. Patience is Difficult

• Waiting is not praised or welcomed (doesnt come
  natural for us, especially in this instant
  gratification society) I want it and I want it
  nowin my way.

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Patience is a Process
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What ought we to wait for and
why?-What should we do while waiting?
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We wait for our Perfection

• Patience is one of Gods characteristics that we
  are to be like
• Jeremiah 1515O LORD, You know Remember me and
  visit me, And take vengeance for me on my
  persecutors. In Your enduring patience, do not
  take me away. Know that for Your sake I have
  suffered rebuke.
• Luke 2119By your patience possess your souls.
• James 13-4
• knowing that the testing of your faith
  produces patience. 4 But let patience
  have its perfect work, that you may be perfect
  and complete, lacking nothing. 

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Patience prepares us for our great reward

• Well done, good and faithful servant you were
  faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler
  over many things. Enter into the joy of your
  lord.Matthew 2521

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Our work on earth as Sojourners requires patience

• And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
  By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a
  foreign country ...for he waited for the city
  which has foundations, whose builder and maker is
  God.Hebrews 119-10 Abraham lived as a
  sojournerawaiting for the true dwelling
  placemade by God.
• Patience takes faith. The children of God are in
  a status of waiting.
• We are waiting for the salvation of the Lordto
  be completed in each one of our lives.
• The story of salvation for each one of us is
  different, the details differ.
• Gods plan is in his time, not ours---God doesnt
  forget his promises. He is faithful.

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He makes all things beautiful in His Time

• Ecclesiastes 311He has made everything beautifu
  l in its time
• God prepares us, our struggles to develop us into
  His good and perfect will for usand this
  requires patience.
• Genesis 37 5 Joseph had a dream, and when he
  told it to his brothers, they hated him all the
  more. 6 He said to them, "Listen to this dream I
  had 7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in
  the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood
  upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine
  and bowed down to it."
• The series of events that happened in order for
  this prophesy to happen, was all kinds of
  struggles and events that were opposite of the
  prophesybut what was Josephs attitude in the
  process?

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Wait for the change tohappen

• All the days of my hard service I will wait,
• till my change comes.
• Job 1414
• Wait for change to happen in us, not in others
• Accept the struggles and challenges hoping they
  accompany change in us.
• Dont lose hope in the spiritual struggle, change
  doesnt happen over nightits a life long
  struggle requiring patience

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Wait for His good will tobe revealed

• Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are
  the God of my salvation On You I wait all the
  day.
• Accept his Guidance, live with His word. We get
  frustrated when we dont get our way, our
  expectations (Namaan example).
• Expectations, God exceeds our expectations if
  wed let HimNaaman the Syrian. 2 Kings 51-15

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Wait for prayers to beanswered in due time

• I waited patiently for the LORD and He
• inclined to me, and heard my cry. Psalm 255
• God answers prayers with No, Yes or Wait.

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Wait for His providenceseveryday

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• These all wait for You, that You may give
• them their food in due season.-Divine Liturgy
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• Do we wait on him or do we do it our own way? We
  solve the issue with our own hands.

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We Like to be in Control

• Good thing God has a sense of humor---because we
  make Him laugh all the time!

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Wait for Him to executejustice

• Psalm 10427
• Do not say, I will recompense evil wait for
• the LORD, and He will save you.
• The moment I feel compelled to take justice into
  my own hands, then Ive lost my faith that God
  will do it, I cant wait for him anymore.

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Wait for your reward fromHim

• Proverbs 2022 Wait on the LORD, and keep His
  way
• Our end reward is our Motivation along the way!
• For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we
  also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus
  Christ.Philippians 320
• Psalm 3734, He shall exalt you to inherit the
  land when
• the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.

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Patience can accomplish great things

• A miniature city made out of millions of
  toothpicks
• It took 38 year old Stan Munro 6 years to build
  this toothpick city. He used 6 million toothpicks
  and 170 litres of glue. He can spend up to 6
  months to create a building and each of his
  creations is built to 1164 scale. He works at
  the Museum of Science and Technology in Syracuse
  , New York ( USA ).

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Look at the amazing works of one of the most
patient men in the world.
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Not unto us O Lord, not unto us, but to Your Name
be the Glory.

• Amen