PATIENCE

You cannot lose your patience when you are trusting in Me to work through you both the desire to do My will and the power to do My will.  Patience is a fruit of My Spirit that can only be attained when you totally depend upon Me instead of your flesh.

Your flesh is extremely impatient.  You want what you want when you want it and in most cases you want it right now.  You live in an instant society that screams "waiting a minute is just too long to wait." 

Think about the times in My Word that even the patriarchs of old paid horrendous consequences for their impatience.  There was Moses who was forbidden to enter the "Promised Land" because in his impatience, he struck the rock instead of speaking to the rock to receive the water I had promised him.  Then there was Abraham who was told that he would have a child of promise, but he went ahead of Me and had a child by someone other than Sarah.  You are still experiencing the dire consequences of his impatience today.

Good things come to those who wait upon Me. Make it your goal to depend upon Me to give you My patience when you need it because you will never attain that patience independently of Me.

PHILIPPIANS 2:13