BBD 11.15.17 Patience (Classic)

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Classic from 2010

Burning Bush Devotional

15 November 2017

Patience



But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering (patience - NIV), kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
- Galatians 5:22 NKJV.

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for
you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all
wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully
pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge
of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all
patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has
qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. -
Colossians 1:10-12 NKJV.

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies,
kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering (patience - NIV); bearing with one
another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another;
even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. - Colossians 3:11-13 NKJV.

Walter and Rose Martin of Brooklyn, New York have had their patience tried.
Actually, they have had their patience tried more than 50 times beginning in
2002. What is it that is trying their patience? The NYPD keeps showing up at
their house to either raid it, or to ask questions. Hopefully, the problem is
fixed now, but they have said it was fixed in the past, and they keep coming to
their house. The NYPD blames it on a computer glitch which occurred when the
software they are using was first installed. The randomly chosen address used
to test the software was that of the Martins. Rose Martin is not so sure
the problem has been solved and wants a letter from the city that she can show
to the invading officers in the future.

The even stranger thing is that problems with the address go back not to 2002,
but to 1997. A previous resident had police, or fire crews, show up at his
house 30 times or so; because someone was calling them from a pay phone
reporting fires or crimes. The previous resident couldn't take it anymore, and
simply moved. His patience must have run out! Mine would have run out too!

Dictionary dot com gives this definition of patience: “the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance,
misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the
like.” Patience is one of those fruits of the
Spirit that I hesitate to pray that I receive, although I do pray for it. Why?
Because, to have patience, it has to be developed and tested. It appears that
Walter and Rose Martin have passed the test!

Patience is one of the marks you could say that a mature Christian has. Someone
with patience is “long-suffering” as the KJV puts it. They will put up with things when
most would simply bail out and try to escape from the problem, or irritation,
or frustration, or whatever is trying their patience.

How do we develop patience? We “put on” patience. How do we do that? What is our patience? The
better question is, who is our patience? Jesus. We “put on” Jesus. Jesus says this in John 15:5, “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and
I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” If you want patience, you must “put on,” abide in, Jesus.

So, the next time something, or someone is trying your patience just “put on” a little more of Jesus, and you will find
your suffering does not seem nearly as long.

Copyright © 2010 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
19 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 12,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help for
Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brandy, Brad,
Damon D. & wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Brent Baker, Gary Kirk, and
Jeanie.

Please also pray for my Aunt
Ellamae Dobbs, Aleesha McMillan, Amy
Carroll, Vivian and Henry.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: www.paypal.me/EdWrather

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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Classic from 2010

Burning Bush Devotional

15 November 2017

Patience

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering (patience - NIV), kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
- Galatians 5:22 NKJV.

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for
you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all
wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully
pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge
of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all
patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has
qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. -
Colossians 1:10-12 NKJV.

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies,
kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering (patience - NIV); bearing with one
another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another;
even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. - Colossians 3:11-13 NKJV.

Walter and Rose Martin of Brooklyn, New York have had their patience tried.
Actually, they have had their patience tried more than 50 times beginning in
2002. What is it that is trying their patience? The NYPD keeps showing up at
their house to either raid it, or to ask questions. Hopefully, the problem is
fixed now, but they have said it was fixed in the past, and they keep coming to
their house. The NYPD blames it on a computer glitch which occurred when the
software they are using was first installed. The randomly chosen address used
to test the software was that of the Martins. Rose Martin is not so sure
the problem has been solved and wants a letter from the city that she can show
to the invading officers in the future.

The even stranger thing is that problems with the address go back not to 2002,
but to 1997. A previous resident had police, or fire crews, show up at his
house 30 times or so; because someone was calling them from a pay phone
reporting fires or crimes. The previous resident couldn't take it anymore, and
simply moved. His patience must have run out! Mine would have run out too!

Dictionary dot com gives this definition of patience: “the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance,
misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the
like.” Patience is one of those fruits of the
Spirit that I hesitate to pray that I receive, although I do pray for it. Why?
Because, to have patience, it has to be developed and tested. It appears that
Walter and Rose Martin have passed the test!

Patience is one of the marks you could say that a mature Christian has. Someone
with patience is “long-suffering” as the KJV puts it. They will put up with things when
most would simply bail out and try to escape from the problem, or irritation,
or frustration, or whatever is trying their patience.

How do we develop patience? We “put on” patience. How do we do that? What is our patience? The
better question is, who is our patience? Jesus. We “put on” Jesus. Jesus says this in John 15:5, “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and
I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.” If you want patience, you must “put on,” abide in, Jesus.

So, the next time something, or someone is trying your patience just “put on” a little more of Jesus, and you will find
your suffering does not seem nearly as long.

Copyright © 2010 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
19 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 12,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help for
Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brandy, Brad,
Damon D. & wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Brent Baker, Gary Kirk, and
Jeanie.

Please also pray for my Aunt
Ellamae Dobbs, Aleesha McMillan, Amy
Carroll, Vivian and Henry.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: http://www.paypal.me/EdWrather

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time
constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by
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