Day 4: Patience

Day Four: Patience

 

Focus: Being patient until God reveals His plan to you

 

Hello again =). Today’s study is about patience. Patience is the key to a peaceful, blessed life with God. Sometimes we don’t see God working in us immediately. Sometimes we feel God has left us, or won’t do what we want Him to do, and that’s ok! God takes His time. He wants to prepare us and get us ready before He does something with us. God is our example with this. In Genesis it says that God took a whole week to create the world, to make it right, to make it bring praise to Him. It didn’t take him a day, it took him a week!

God prepared Abram for a very long time before He gave him a son. He wanted to teach and prepare him for years before He made him a father. Talk about patience! God hears your prayers. He listens to your precious voice and loves to hear it!

Maybe what you are asking for doesn’t match up with God’s great plan for your life. Just because something seems easy, doesn’t mean you were chosen to do it. You just have to be patient! Just because something is hard, doesn’t mean it’s not God’s plan for you. Don’t choose your own path. Let God direct it. God will reveal it to you at the perfect time. You journey could be easy or hard, but how do you know it’s God’s plan for you? Ask yourself these questions:

#1. Does it match up with scripture?

#2. Will it bring glory to God?

#3. Does it follow God’s commandments?

#4. Do you trust God with whatever the journey may bring?

 

#1. Does it match up with scripture? If you feel God is calling you to do something, but you don’t know if it’s the right path, see if it matches up with scripture. If it does, you can consider it! If it doesn’t, you know it’s not the right path. God wouldn’t call you to do something against His own word!

 

#2. Will it bring glory to God? When God is calling you to do anything, He wants to make sure that it comes back to Him.

Question: Does the path you follow lead to God or the world’s pleasure?

#3. Does it follow God’s commandments? You will know for sure it’s a good path to follow if it follows every one of God’s commands. Again, God wouldn’t call us to break His rules in any way.

#4. Do you trust God with whatever the journey may bring? Trusting God with whatever He is leading you through helps amazingly. Once you know that every single thing on this Earth was planned by God already, you will have a little more confidence in the way you do things! God is the driver and He won’t crash!

 

Verses

“But the LORD’s plans stand firm forever; His intentions can never be shaken.” Psalm 33:11

“For the word of the LORD holds true, and we can trust everything He does. He loves whatever is just and good; the unfailing love of the LORD fills the earth.” Psalm 33:4-5

“Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.” Psalm 119:105

“Its in Jesus Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for.” Ephesians 1:11

“Look at my servant whom I strengthen. He is my chosen one, who pleases me. I have put my spirit among him. He will bring justice to the nations.” Isaiah 42:1

 

Have a Jesus-ful day =)