Is It Time Yet?

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent His Son.
Galatians 4:4a

is often hard!

Why hasn’t Jesus yet?

But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not willing for any to perish, but for all to come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:8-9

The only way to gain is to learn to .

Patience is a quality that helps us handle difficult ; it is a virtue when dealing with difficult .

Better to be patient than powerful; better to have self-control than to conquer a city.
Proverbs 16:32 NLT

James gives us portraits of patience:

Job teaches us that patience is a sign of .

“Waiting ” is much easier when you are “waiting ”.

A Test Of Patience

• How are you with ?

One day some parents brought their children to Jesus so he could lay his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples scolded the parents for bothering him. But Jesus said, “Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children.”
Matthew 19:13-14

• How are you with ?

But Martha was distracted by the big dinner she was preparing. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, doesn’t it seem unfair to you that my sister just sits here while I do all the work? Tell her to come and help me.”
Luke 10:40

• How are you with ?

Then he and Aaron summoned the people to come and gather at the rock. “Listen, you rebels!” he shouted. “Must we bring you water from this rock?” Then Moses raised his hand and struck the rock twice with the staff, and water gushed out. So the entire community and their livestock drank their fill.
Numbers 20:10-11

• How are you with ?

All the days of my struggle I will wait until my relief comes.  Job 14:14b

Impatience will get you into trouble.  Proverbs 19:2b GNT

Is There Help?

1^st We need a new .

The root cause of impatience is .

Success = seeing life from the point of .

Jesus saw with eyes.

A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.
Proverbs 19:11 NIV

Wisdom is seeing life from perspective.

Whoever is patient has great understanding, but one who is quick-tempered displays folly.
Proverbs 14:29 NIV

2^nd A of is a must.

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 NIV

3^rd is required.

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails;
1 Corinthians 13:4-8a NASB

Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love.
Ephesians 4:1-2

4^th on the Lord

The Bible is a book about because it demonstrates , and this God.