Defined as ... Accepting your circumstances and waiting no matter how eager you are to see them change.
“He that is not patient will soon become a patient.”
~ Author Unknown ~
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
~ Lao Tzu ~
“Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.”
~ Joyce Meyer ~
1. Patience of Job
(Job 1-2:10; 42:1-6, 10-17)
2. Abraham & Sarah Waiting for Child
(Genesis 15:1-6, 17:1-6, 17)
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“Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.”
James 5:11
“Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”
James 1:3-4
“In your patience possess ye your souls.”
Luke 21:19
“Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.”
James 5:7
“For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”
Romans 8:24-25