September 13, 2025
Take Time to Ripen
I think some Christians are too anxious to bear their fruit before it is ready. Father God, Creator of all. Help us to yield to Your timing before we bear fruit.
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July 1, 2025
It Takes Practice
Practice - leads to and feeds the practice of stillness. Practice of what?
Read more..May 21, 2025
God’s Timing is Not Ours
God's timing is not ours: "With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." (1 Peter 3:8)
Read more..January 19, 2025
Put Your Love to the Test
This scripture reveals to us what it looks like to love God’s way. Tests are essential in life to measure one’s level of growth.
Read more..December 3, 2024
Choosing the Longest Line
How does one gain spiritual maturity in a fast-paced world?
Read more..June 15, 2024
Patient People
God is being patient with you (2 Peter 3:9). And if God is being patient with you, can’t you pass on some patience to others? Of course you can! Because before love is anything else—love is patient!
Read more..June 5, 2024
Fruit of Patience
Be blessed with the fruit of patience that the Holy Spirit produces in you, your grateful response to his patience (Galatians 5:22).
Read more..April 12, 2024
I’m so Impatient, Lord
Slow me down Lord! Help me be calm, relax and enjoy my day – my husband, my family, my friends, my neighbors, and the people I meet. “But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience . . .” Galatians 5:22
Read more..April 12, 2024
Patience Freely Offered
God does more than demand patience from us; He offers it to us. Patience is a fruit of His Spirit. It hangs from the tree of Galatians 5:22: “The Spirit produces the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”
Read more..January 12, 2024
Developing Patience
James tells us to consider trials a joy (1:2). But we often fail at this, don't we? Humanly speaking, praising the Lord for tribulation is unnatural. However, doing so begins to make sense to believers when they cling to God's promise that good comes from hardship.
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