Study On Patience

We must learn patience with ourselves, with God, and with our Christian growth.  If you are frustrated, it is because you are not being patient with God.  We must wait; it is how we wait that is the art!  It shows how much we trust Him in our situations.

Examples of patience

Creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed (Romans 8:19).

God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the Ark was being built… (1 Peter 3:20)

For many years You were patient with them… (Nehemiah 9:30)

As an example of suffering and patience: take the prophets…  You have heard of the endurance of Job… (James 5:10-11)

And thus, having patiently waited, [Abraham] obtained the promise (Hebrews 6:15).

I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus… (Revelation 1:9)

But I was shown mercy so that in me – the worst of sinners – Christ Jesus might display His unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe… (1 Timothy 1:16)

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone. [Patience and prudence can do the impossible.] (Proverbs 25:15)

Better a patient man than a warrior; a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city (Proverbs 16:32).

We continually remember… your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thessalonians 1:3).

This is a cause of our mentioning you with pride among the churches of God for you steadfastness (your unflinching endurance and patience) and your firm faith in the midst of all the persecutions and crushing distresses and afflictions under which you are enduring (2 Thessalonians 1:4).

That you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises (Hebrews 6:12).

May the Lord direct your hearts into [realizing and showing] the love of God, and into the steadfastness and patience of Christ and in waiting for His return (2 Thessalonians 3:5).

While we wait for the blessed hope, and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13).

This calls for patient endurance on the part of the saints, who obey God’s commandments and remain faithful to Jesus (Revelation 14:12).