This prophetic word is titled Love is Patient.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is patient
Being patient with someone is a sign that you are showing them love. Because love is an action word, it is something you do. Sometimes we need to be patient with ourselves too.
1 Thessalonians 5:14
Brothers and sisters, we urge you to warn those who are disorderly. Comfort the discouraged. Help the weak. Be patient with everyone.
We’re not the same. We don’t process things the same and sometimes it may take us a little longer to change in some areas than others. We need to extend patience to those who are still going through their process.
Galatians 6:9
Let’s not get tired of doing good, because in time we’ll have a harvest if we don’t give up.
We need to be patient to see the promises of God fulfilled. I believe in such a fast paced world where it seems we can get things instantly, we want everything at the same speed. But this is just not possible!
…There’s too much here to read can you put it in a video…..you’re talking too slow in the video, speeds it up…. the video is too long we need shorts or reels…you should really put that information in the first 10 seconds of the shorts…endless scrolling to get the info in 10 seconds.
We’re living in a society that is conditioning us to become impatient. The problem is when you go to meet with the Lord He’s going to talk to you in the way HE wants to talk to you. You may not get a vision (video) and you may have to actually sit there for 2 hours before He speaks one word.
He is not going to speed up His timetable for any of us. We are on HIS time, He is not on ours.
During our seasons of waiting this is when God prunes us. Removes things from us that needs to go so that we can handle the things He has for us with care and from a place of understanding.
Sometimes we can mess up our blessings because we never learnt the lessons we needed to learn before we got it. Then we mismanage and mishandle it and end up right back at the beginning.
Know that as you wait, the Lord is working out something in you. No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly so this tells you that it’s not a good thing for you right now.
James 5:7-8
Therefore, brothers and sisters, you must be patient as you wait for the coming of the Lord. Consider the farmer who waits patiently for the coming of rain in the fall and spring, looking forward to the precious fruit of the earth. 8 You also must wait patiently, strengthening your resolve, because the coming of the Lord is near.
We have to patiently wait for His return.
Ecclesiastes 7:8
Something completed is better than something just begun; patience is better than too much pride.
or as it says in the NIV
The end of a matter is better than its beginning,
and patience is better than pride.
Everyone loves the shiny and new. We love to start something new but as it is in life there comes a point when the shiny and new is not so shiny and new anymore. We can’t just abandon ship when things are not working out the way we want them to or at the speed that we would like. Completing something is better than starting it. We need patience, diligence, the perseverance to keep going when we would just rather throw in the towel and go find the next shiny and new….which eventually becomes not so shiny and new.
Here’s the thing, what you don’t want to do is give up on something that GOD has not given you permission to give up on. That would be pride. And pride comes before the fall. You cannot end something that GOD started. You need permission. If you don’t have permission to abandon that project or that mission or that relationship or whatever it may be, you need to be patient. If you started it in the flesh, OK you can end it because it was your doing all along. But when the Spirit of God is the one who started it, He will finish it. He who started a good work will complete it. You just need to be patient.
Romans 5:3-5 (AMP)
And not only this, but [with joy] let us exult in our sufferings and rejoice in our hardships, knowing that hardship (distress, pressure, trouble) produces patient endurance; and endurance, proven character (spiritual maturity); and proven character, hope and confident assurance [of eternal salvation]. Such hope [in God’s promises] never disappoints us, because God’s love has been abundantly poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Yes! Something is happening on the inside of us, in our character as we wait patiently for God to do what only He can do.
2 Peter 3:9
“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” (NIV)
Say what now?
The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.
Because…
Romans 2:4
Do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance?
Sometimes He’s giving people an opportunity to repent, them or you.
He STILL loves us even when we get impatient and abandon ship too soon. It’s the story of the prodigal son who thought he knew better wanted his inheritance to do what he wants to do with it only to end up messing up his life and realizing that he should’ve stayed with his family and see it through to the end. Once he realized that he made the mistake, he decides to go back to his father hoping that he will be received even as a servant…
Luke 15:18-20 (NIV)
“ ‘I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ So he got up and went to his father.
But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.
Because love is patient.
If you’ve wandered off like the prodigal son, please know that your Heavenly Father is waiting for you to return and He will receive you with wide open arms. He is not slow in fulfilling His promises to you as some people consider slowness. He’s waiting for you to repent so that He could restore you and complete what He has already started.
Blessings!
This word reflects on my life.In my marriage whereby I remember asking God for a husband while completing college and I met this gentleman who came as a teacher as I was doing final exams.I could tell and feel that this was the one.We were okay almost one in many things and even went to church together.Fast forward, I’m Avery patient person so I tolerated assumed and even apologized when hurt.Things went wrong from the ninth year and I couldn’t put a finger into what was happening ,rather,I prayed,fasted, interceded, now alone.searched scriptures about marriage because I wanted to obey the Lord and do what was right.I got ridiculed,mocked,abandoned by family and friends with no good reason but I prayed more.I even questioned God if this person was the ‘ one’ or I was mistaken. I was saved but realized he was a religious person but not saved! I st Corinthians 7 ,taught me a lot.25 yrs later,with my two boys saved and one serving the Lord and having seen what I’ve been through,I asked God again in my lowest moments this year about this marriage now that my children were emotionally hurting and felt drowning in sorrow to come to realization of what I always knew from year ten, that my husband had been unfaithful and had children.Then in my tears I heard this word’ let him go’… immediately I went to the bible and found that in 1st Corinthians 7: 15… My heart was and even now is Flooded with a lot of Peace…. Even after writing a message because he had decided to live secretly with his mistress,to let him know that I knew for 15 yrs a bout his affairs but I’ve released him to live his life his way without me!having been patient …yes ,”You cannot stop anything without God’s permission if he was involved from the beginning”! And until God says it’s over,it cannot be over ….love is patient.amo no longer broken but joyous in the Lord.For him,I’ve no grudge,no bitterness,no bad feeling,just praying he may find his way back to God.
That is a powerful testimony. While I’m sure it was very hard while you’re going through it, the best thing you did was to wait on God to release you from it. That way you know what comes next is better than what you had before. Praise the Lord! Blessings
What if someone warned you that you were jumping into a marriage for sex (flesh) but it seemed for a long time like it was working? Now the emotional/psychological abuse is fairly obviously not going to go away (almost 20 years later) – can I still ask God for permission to leave to protect myself and my children from the effects of psychological abuse?
Yes, because you stated that you did it because of your flesh. The first thing you need to do is repent for how you entered the marriage because it was in sin, then ask the Lord to get you out of that situation. There are 2 biblical grounds for divorce, infidelity and abandonment. If God wants you out of it, you’ll have grounds….patience. But you don’t do anything until you talk to God about it and you wait for the answer. Blessings.
it is insane… the next evening when I was driving home with my daughter, he flew into a rage with my other kids and punched a hole in the wall and traumatize them with raging etc. He didn’t hurt any of them physically, but it was emotional trauma. They told me after he left when I got back. I am filing for divorce… I’ve tried to stay for 8 years with him using DARVO (psychological abuse) but he’s been escalating the physical violence/destruction.
On abandonment… he’s failed for 4 years to provide for us basic running water… he uses “weaponized incompetence,” where he makes excuses that he doesn’t know how, or its too hard… he makes $4k-6k a month but spends all of it and then some, now he has started draining my own business money God provided me to make (I think as a way out)… he’s already drained $3k of my own business money I made this month in May and he would have drained $2k more but I’m hiding my money away from him right now preparing for the divorce.
I like the part that says if God didn’t give you the permission we need to be patient. It is really hard it’s like am a fool and my kindness is taken for granted. Dreams do show that I need to pray about it and fight until I win but im hurt and have given up deep down my heart because it’s been years praying about it.
Hi Leah, Ask Him if you can leave that situation. Wait for an answer and with that you know how to proceed. It’s not that you can’t leave a situation it is that you should never leave until you get the Lord’s permission. He may tell you He is working on those people and you need to hold on a while longer or He may tell you to give Him just a little longer so that He can prepare your next move and then you leave. But, you need to ask first, and wait for the answer. Blessings.
Hi, okay thank you.
this word came in at the right time. i’m in a situation living with family that God has called me too stand in the gap for while He transitions them out, and i have to say it is so hard. yes, pride makes me want to throw in the towel multiple times in a week, especially when i’m praying and doing all i can to reflect Christ, but still being ridiculed. because my justification is well, “i’m not Jesus”. it’s especially hard when I have to keep going especially when i’m going through my own internal conflicts, battling things (convictions) out with the Holy Spirit etc, at these times i def don’t want to deal with my assignment here. i’m still learning, praying and trying to push through, it’s been over 20 years of waiting and praying. trusting God for the grace to remember that I too am still a work in progress and need His daily mercies. May God help us in Jesus name
Hi Anne, what if you focused on changing the way that you are responding to it instead of waiting for them to change. Perhaps God is asking you to deal with it in a different way. Pray into this. Blessings
Nicole! Blessed be the the LORD God of your call and obedience. Your message just saved a relationship I was about to call dead weight today. Literally within 24 hours of my decision, which I still FEEL justified for making in my mind, is halted because I’m waiting for God to reveal all things in due course. When we walk away outside if GOD’S council then it’s like aborting a promise. Thank you