Quotes About Patience

Mike Hyatt, and the Thomas

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer (Romans 12:12).

You can't control the weather. You aren't in charge of the economy. You can't undo the tsunami or unwreck the car, but you can map out a strategy. Remember, God is in this crisis. Ask him to give you an index card–sized plan, two or three steps you can take today.

Hope doesn't promise an instant solution but rather the possibility of an eventual one. Sometimes all we need is a little hope.

Don't get sucked into short-term thinking. Your struggles will not last forever, but you will.

2Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good. If you act too quickly, you might make a mistake.

God doesn't delay. He never places you on hold or tells you to call again later. God loves the sound of your voice. Always. He doesn't hide when you call. He hears your prayers. For that reason "be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God" (Phil. 4:6). God

Turn your attention away from the problem, and for a few minutes celebrate God. It does you no good to obsess yourself with your trouble. The more you stare at it, the bigger it grows. Yet the more you look to God, the quicker the problem is reduced to its proper size. This was the strategy of the psalmist.

Only God knows what's around the corner. Maybe we should let him do the driving.

Ask God for a special alertness to sense moments in this day when you can clothe yourself with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Thank the Lord for each person who has demonstrated one of those character traits of Jesus in your life.

35So do not lose the courage you had in the past, which has a great reward. 36You must hold on, so you can do what God wants and receive what he has promised. 37For in a very short time, "The One who is coming will come and will not be delayed. 38Those who are right with me will live by faith. But if they turn back with fear, I will not be pleased with them.

God can turn any tragedy into a triumph, if only you will wait and watch.

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward.

You'll Get Through This

Find a promise that fits your problem, and build your prayer around it.

Many people believe this world is as good as it gets, and let's face it. It's not that good. But People of the Promise have an advantage. They determine to ponder, proclaim, and pray the promises of God. They are like Abraham who "didn't tiptoe around God's promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong" (Rom. 4:20 THE MESSAGE). They filter life through the promises of God. When

You'll go nowhere tomorrow that I haven't already been.

Be still and allow God to be hallowed in your life. For the Tough Times

But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naive. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.

We long for the call to come home. But until He calls, we wait.... And how do we wait? With patient eagerness. (See rom. 8:25,23) Patient eagerness. Not so eager as to lose our patience, and not so patient as to lose our eagerness. ...we grow so patient we sleep!... ... Or we are so eager we demand. We demand in this world what only the next world can give. No sickness. No suffering. No struggle.

You grow weary of unrest. You're ready to be done with sleepless nights. You long to be "anxious for nothing." You long for the fruit of the Spirit. But how do you bear this fruit? Try harder? No, hang tighter. Our assignment is not fruitfulness but faithfulness. The secret to fruit bearing and anxiety-free living is less about doing and more about abiding.

Moses preferred to go nowhere with God than anywhere without him.

Cuando invitamos a Dios a nuestro mundo, él entra. Nos ofrece una multitud de regalos: gozo, paciencia, fortaleza. Las ansiedades llegan, pero no se quedan. Los temores se asoman, pero luego se van. Los pesares aterrizan en el parabrisas, pero luego viene el limpiaparabrisas de la oración. El diablo todavía me presenta rocas de culpa, pero me volteo y se las entrego a Cristo. Estoy

And it is when we are out of options that we are most ready for God's surprises.