Patience in Abundance!

Patience comes in abundance when you don't let your emotions be in control!

When you get behind a slowpoke and you're creeping along in traffic, take it as a trial from the LORD to strengthen your patience! (It's not His fault you left late from home!) Don't allow Satan to take this opportunity to use the situation to control your impatience! I have found myself purposefully putting myself behind a "snail" driver to show the LORD I do have patience! However, it's not during a time I need to get somewhere quickly, ha! Then in concentrating on my patience, I miss my turn, lol! Is this the LORD's way of telling me He's in control? Laughing with the LORD is a great emotion to have!

Another patience lesson: It never fails when I'm sitting with my lap full of my books with my computer amid it all, studying, the phone rings (and I forgot to bring the portable phone to where I am sitting) or worse, my dogs go crazy barking at someone at the front door! By the time I unload everything, the phone stops ringing, or the person at the front door was only a delivery left at the door! Having patience when you're interrupted is another lesson! It's funny that my dogs can sense my emotions! When something happens and I respond not too happily with, "Well, my dear!" or "Dad gum it!" If they are laying around my feet, they quietly get up and move to another area of the room! The negative vibes from my impatience is felt by them!

Patience in everything has brought me to think about why these things have happened. I have had the experience of being made to wait in traffic; it brought my safety! If I had been down the road sooner, I would have been in the auto accident that occurred ahead of me! GOD has His timing for you to be where you are, when you are, and why you are there! We may never know why (in this life) the LORD has had us to wait!

Patience in answers to our prayers needs to be given over to our Almighty GOD. There have been testimonies by family members that their loved one's prayer they have prayed for many years was not answered until after their death! Never stop praying.  You will see your prayers answered on this side of Heaven or on the other side!

John 14:14, "Whatsoever you ask in My Name, believing, that I will do." Jesus told us He will answer our prayer, He didn't say when He would answer it.

When your patience is tested, recognize it as a test, then through prayer respond to it in the strength of the LORD not your own!

Patience In Waiting For Answers to Prayers.

I remember being told that the LORD answers prayers you ask of Him in three ways: yes, no, and wait. We can accept the "yes" and "no," but there is just something about the "wait" that brings in the "patience" factor.

Isaiah 40:31, "They that wait upon the LORD, shall renew their strength." This sounds great for those of us who have had our prayer answered right away. But, it definitely brings in the "patience" factor when our prayer has reached into months, years, and even a lifetime!

Charles Stanley, 7/07/2014 shares, "We have the strength (patience) to persevere because of the indwelling Holy Spirit."

Acts 1:8, "GOD releases His Supernatural power into our life so we might endure." Our prayer may become one of endurance.

Romans 8:28, "GOD will bring good from our troubles (and trials.)" In GOD's timing, our prayer will receive good that outweighs the bad. 

I Corinthians 10:13, "GOD has promised to limit our trials to what we can bear." Each person has their own level of tolerance (patience). Thank the LORD, He knows our limitations!

Psalm 37:9, "...those who wait upon the LORD shall inherit the earth."  

Patience in the Blink of an Eye.

This life is but the blink of an eye, a puff of smoke;  man's fleeting years are gone before he knows it! Only when looking back can one realize this.

Psalm 73:19, "In the blink of an eye, disaster!"

Proverbs 23:5, "Riches disappear in the blink of an eye..."

Jeremiah 4:20, "Disaster hard on the heels of disaster, the whole country in ruins! In one stroke my home is destroyed, the walls flattened in the blink of an eye!"

Have patience! Because there is another "blink of an eye" which will make the worst of this life, seem petty in the trials of a fallen world:

1 Corinthians 15:52, "In an instant, in the blink of an eye, at the final trumpet. The trumpet will blast, and the dead will be raised with bodies that won't decay, and we will be changed!" What trials and suffering in this life may be, it is nothing compared to the Glory of GOD's blessings on us in Eternity!

James 4:14, "Your life is like a puff of smoke which appears for a moment and then disappears." But, remember Eternity is forever. Where will you spend it? Christ said, "I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man comes to the Father but through Me." (John 14:6)

Patience During the Trials of Life.

Patience in Trials

Serious trials in life come to everyone. It may be the lost of a friend or family member, a wreck, loss of your job. Some people have even asked the question, "Why does bad things happen to good people?" The book of Job shares about this question in great detail. He lost everything, had disease brought upon him. Anything Satan could think of to get Job to curse GOD, but Job didn't and in return GOD blessed Job with more than he had! Therefore the saying came, "Having the patience of Job!"

Patience in waiting upon the LORD

Charles Stanley's In Touch magazine (July 1, 2014) "the LORD creates 'gaps' in our life. Such waiting periods are designed for His specific purposes. Sometimes they are meant to prepare us for His preordained answer or waiting to fulfill His plan because there is something He needs to have happen first. He may be testing our faith or it may be a time of our correction. It is imperative that we pray and trust GOD during these times." It is in the waiting that mankind needs to find strength in waiting upon the LORD.

Blogger Tag!

Much to my surprise I was tagged

 this evening by sister-in-law, Nellie over at

 "Nellie's Cozy Place."

Thanks for thinking of me Nellie....

These things are fun,

and truly are a way to get to know

 others a little bit better!

and these are the questions.....

1.  Are you named after someone?? 

I am not named after anyone, but I was going to be named Beverly, but dad wanted a little Susie. So I was named Susan!

2.  When was the last time you 

cried? 
Just today while watching the movie "Because of Winn-Dixie" (a dog in the story!)
3.  Do you have Kiddos??
I have no children, but my kiddos consist of 3 dogs, 3 cats, and 3 birds!

4. If you were another person,

  would you be a friend of yourself??
I'm sure I would, for you have to be friends with yourself before you can be friends to others!

5.  Do you have a guilty pleasure??

Anything that is sweet, however I like pie better than cake.

6.  Do you like handwriting?

Not cursive, I have printed for so many years (being a kindergarten teacher for 28 years), but now we can choose the computer's handwriting, ha!

7.  What is your favorite cereal??

I just love the mini shredded wheat with the strawberry inside.

8.   What is the first thing you notice 

about people?

I notice their height! I am tall and it's nice to see people taller than myself.

9.  What is the color of your eyes?

My eyes are a blue/green. When I wear blue, they look blue. When I wear green, they look green!

10.  Scary movie or Happy Ending?

Definitely Happy Ending. There's enough scary and sadness in the world.

11.  Favorite TV Shows??

I like to watch the old westerns from the 1950/60's. Rifleman, Gunsmoke, Rawhide (Clint Eastwood), Bonanza... 

12.  Do you like Winter or Summer??

I like summer because the days are longer!

13. Hugs or kisses?

I'm a hugger! My dogs love it, but my cats don't so much. My African Gray bird will let me hug him occasionally.

14.  Do you have a special talent??

 (A long time ago) I use to play the piano, guitar.

15.  Where were you born?

As was Nellie, I was born in the Florida panhandle. I think we were born at the same Military hospital a month apart!

16.  what are your hobbies??

My pets, blogging, my truck, and TV (see #11.)

17. Do you have any pets?

See #3's pictures above.

18.  Favorite movie?

Space Cowboys

19.  What color is your car??

The color is called Aqua blue, but it looks green. It has green, tan, and purple sparkles in the paint!

It's been in 4 cars shows and I have won 4 trophies. Above are three of the four!

20.  What do you want to be

 when you grow up?
 RETIRED! After 34 years in education, I have made it there!
I'll tag:
Bonnie over @ One Designing Woman
I'll double tag:
Janet over @ Janet and Marvin's Life

My Patience!

Patience is the attribute I have to work on the most! The LORD surely knows it, for He has me working on it all the time with everything I do.

1. It never fails that I get into the slowest lane when driving. It doesn't take long when I start to say, "What is taking these people so long!" 2. It happens again when I get into the grocery line! And assuredly as I change lines in anticipation of a quicker line, I should have stayed where I was! Ha! 
3. Eating out, it never fails that a family with loud, rambunctious, and disobedient children are seated next to us. Know what I mean?

Philippians 4:6 "Pray about everything."  Now when these above mentioned things occur, I realize it is the Holy Spirit's urging me to pray for these people I don't know. It's amazing the things I pray for that are brought to thought. It can only be the Holy Spirit's leading me in prayer. I then realize the reason for my delay or my inconvenience.

Galatians 15:18, "the Holy Spirit brings a harvest of love, joy, peace, and patience toward others." 

I am so humbled with GOD's patience for me. He knows what is best for me as well as for you! If you do not know the LORD, find His truth and salvation in reading the Book of John in the Bible.

  

GOD's Patience!

This month in July, I'm going to share  the Fruit of the Spirit, Patience! What an Awesome GOD we have, Whose Loving Patience goes far beyond our  own! If it were not for the Patience of the Holy Spirit's restraining the evilness and wickedness of this world, mankind would have already destroyed himself. (II Thessalonians 2:7)

II Peter 3:9, "The LORD is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." However, GOD's WORD says He will not always strive with (unsaved) man. (Psalm 103:9) Those who continue to harden their hearts and refuse His offer of saving grace (by His sacrifice on the cross for their sins) will be given over to Evil. "Since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of GOD, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done." (Romans 1:28)

Praise GOD, the Love of His patience for us will carry His Elect into eternity with Him Forever! His patience is waiting for you if you don't know His salvation. "Believe in the LORD Jesus Christ that He died for your sins and you will be saved." (Mark 16:16) Learn about the patience of Almighty GOD!