Cultivate | Part 4 – Cultivating Patience!

Galatians 5:22-23 (NLT)

The Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience,

Cultivating God’s Patience Takes – Managing Our !

Ephesians 4:26 (MSG)
Go ahead and be angry. You do well to be angry—but don’t use your anger as fuel for revenge. And don’t stay angry. Don’t go to bed angry.

James 1:19 (NLT)
Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.

Being “quick to listen” means we prioritize !

Proverbs 14:29 (MSG)
Slowness to anger makes for deep understanding; a quick-tempered person stockpiles stupidity.

Being “slow to speak” means we our words carefully!

Ecclesiastes 12:9,10 (NLT)
The Teacher was considered wise … he listened carefully to many proverbs, studying and classifying them. ¹⁰ The Teacher sought to find just the right words to express truths clearly.

Being “slow to anger” means we practice !

Proverbs 29:11 (NIV)

A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise person keeps himself under control.

Recommended Books:

Make Anger Your Ally — Dr. Neil Clark Warren

The Anger Trap: free yourself from the frustrations that sabotage your life — Dr. Les Carter

Cultivating God’s Patience Takes – Managing Our !

Proverbs 22:24-25 (MSG)
Don’t hang out with angry people; don’t keep company with hotheads. ²⁵ Bad temper is contagious— don’t get infected.

2 Timothy 3:10 (MSG)
You’ve been a good apprentice to me, a part of my teaching, my manner of life, direction, faith, steadiness, love, and patience…

Galatians 5:25 (NLT)

Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.

Cultivating God’s Patience Takes – Managing Our !

We need to our expectations!

Luke 24:21 (NLT)

We had hoped Jesus was the Messiah who had come to rescue Israel.

We need to our expectations!

Philippians 1:6 (MSG)
There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears.