got fruit

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got fruit?
PATIENCE
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James 12-5 (KJV)

• 2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall
  into divers temptations
• 3 knowing this, that the trying of your faith
  worketh patience.
• 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that
  ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
• 5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,
  that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth
  not and it shall be given to him.

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James 112-14 (KJV)

• 12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation
  for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown
  of life, which the Lord hath promised to them
  that Love him.
• 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am
  tempted of God for God cannot be tempted with
  evil, neither tempteth he any man
• 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn
  away of his own lust, and enticed.

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1. There is Value in Troubles
James 12
v.3 Character Building (patience) v.4 Maturing
(perfecting) v.5 Relation building (pray)
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Romans 52-4 (NIV)

• 2 through whom we have gained access by faith
  into this grace in which we now stand. And we
  rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
• 3 Not only so, but we rejoice in our sufferings,
  because we know that suffering produces
  perseverance
• 4 perseverance, character and character, hope.

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1 Peter 16-7 (ESV)

• 6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little
  while, if necessary, you have been grieved by
  various trials,
• 7 so that the tested genuineness of your
  faithmore precious than gold that perishes
  though it is tested by firemay be found to
  result in praise and glory and honor at the
  revelation of Jesus Christ.

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2. There is a time table to Troubles
James 14
1. Dont rush out of troubleYou may end up
fleeing Him.
2. Check your Lordship (Who is running me?)
Listen to others, feel what the pain doing
(humbling-compassion)
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2. There is a time table to Troubles
James 14
3. Look at an eternal frame (v.12) (okay for
God to use you?)
James 14, wanting means needing
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• telios in this verse does not mean perfect, it
  means maturity. An oak tree is the perfection of
  an acorn. Men lift great weights to develop
  muscle. God does not want us to be spiritual
  creampuffs. When did you grow the most? When
  problems came and you learned to endure.
• Adrian Rogers

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3. Intimacy in Troubles
James 15
1. Draw nearer to God not shrink away

• Give permission for God to make me usable
• (Are you willing to let God set the
  intensity/time limits?)
• (Build an altar)

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3. Intimacy in Troubles
James 15
3. Expect God to use you.
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James 57-11 (ESV)

• 7 Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the
  coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for
  the precious fruit of the earth, being patient
  about it, until it receives the early and the
  late rains.
• 8 You also, be patient. Establish your hearts,
  for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
• 9 Do not grumble against one another, brothers,
  so that you may not be judged behold, the Judge
  is standing at the door.
• 10 As an example of suffering and patience,
  brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name
  of the Lord.
• 11 Behold, we consider those blessed who remain
  steadfast. You have heard the steadfastness of
  Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord,
  how the Lord is compassionate and merciful.

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Colossians 124-21 (ESV)

• Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and
  in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in
  Christs afflictions for the sake of his body,
  that is, the church,
• of which I became a minister according to the
  stewardship from God that was given to me for
  you, to make the word of God fully known,
• the mystery hidden for ages and generations but
  now revealed to his saints.
• To them God chose to make known how great among
  the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this
  mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of
  glory.
• Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching
  everyone with all wisdom, that we may present
  everyone mature in Christ.
• For this I toil, struggling with all his energy
  that he powerfully works within me.
• 1 For I want you to know how great a struggle I
  have for you and for those at Laodicea and for
  all who have not seen me face to face,