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welcome to everybody who is has come out
today and I believe God has something
specific for you for you today this is
the last week of our fruitful series and
if you are here for the first time I beg
you go back and watch these other
messages this probably has been the most
life giving a sermon series on the
fruits of the Spirit because I don’t
know about you but fruits of the spirit
if you grew up in church and even if you
didn’t it was just something that was
kind of gimmicky sometimes and you like
love generalities they’re songs for it
we get to eat some fruit sometimes and
and just different things that would
happen but God has really opened my eyes
and opened up this whole thing and we
find it in Galatians chapter 5 verse 22
and I just want to give you our anchor
scripture so you can go back and study
because people who believe in God study
his word and so Galatians chapter 5
verse 22 it says but the Holy Spirit
produces this kind of fruit in our lives
I have a question who produces the fruit
okay I need y’all to talk back to me who
produces the fruit and I don’t want this
to be clear because a lot of people want
these next things that come by thinking
they can do better at those things but
the Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit
when you get saved he produces these
things in your life what does he produce
love joy peace patience kindness
goodness faithfulness gentleness and
self-control which some of y’all didn’t
use over this last holiday season but
there is no law against these things so
today we’re talking about patience and
let’s just go ahead and put it out there
right now okay
how many people like waiting on stuff
none of us like like none of us like
waiting on anything but this is a fruit
of the Spirit when we talk about
patience
God says out of all the things I can
make and want for you I want you to have
patience and innate in all of us we
don’t want to wait for nothing I was
reading a study this week that said that
the likelihood
of somebody clicking onto a video after
buffering two seconds one two goes down
50% if it takes two seconds from when I
push the button to when it comes up I’m
switching how many people are guilty of
if it doesn’t happen in two seconds or
less they said at five seconds it cuts
it in half again and at ten seconds
there will only be 20% of the people who
watch it I said ten seconds now think
about it if patience is a fruit of the
Spirit but we won’t wait ten seconds for
something we desired to watch like
nobody made you click it like you click
this like that looks nice you desired to
watch it but you won’t wait 10 seconds
to watch it and I think that’s why many
people are sick and tired of following
after God because they prayed for 10
seconds oh come on let me come to this
side they then they waited for 10
minutes they tied for 10 days they they
forgave 10 times but the Bible tells us
very clearly how many times are you
supposed to forgive 70 times 7 a day do
that math something I said that’s just
too many that’s just and so when I
started to look at this I said okay God
you’re gonna have to help your people
with patience because because we live in
a culture where convenience is king like
like let me just read you some of the
things I thought the faster the better
no wait time we want microwaved meals
and drive-through dreams we want
high-speed Internet and you better have
Wi-Fi free Wi-Fi online grocery shopping
we want our entertainment on demand
don’t tell me that I can’t watch that
show I want it now so we buy Hulu and
Netflix how many people have a house
fine phone nobody cuz we have cell
phones we have uber each you don’t even
have to go pick up your food no more
Amazon Prime shipping within two days
and if that’s too long you can have
Amazon now shipping here in two hours
deal – Instagram Quicken Loans the
lottery ordering through apps fat diets
FaceTime don’t want a relationship with
trust respect and commitment great
neither do I hit me up on tinder or
Grindr let’s hook up tonight and the sad
thing is these convenience ideas have
crept into the church can we be honest
people would rather connection with the
computer instead of accountability in
community they would rather be seen than
serve they were whether a platform than
a process they want a moment of
deliverance without discipleship they
want success in that stewardship they
want likes more than lessons they want
wealth more than wisdom and all of those
things would be convenient to get if we
didn’t have to pay for them but this is
the thing the Holy Spirit probed my
heart with this week and I want to ask
you the same question this wrecked me
for seven days is your commitment to
convenience killing your Christianity
it’s your commitment to have it now is
your commitment to not waiting is your
commitment to I got a boyfriend today
we’re married in three months we have
kids is your commitment to convenience
killing your Christian character and I
begin to sit with that and I had to be
honest and I said it is like this world
tells me that I should be able to think
it click it have it like that that’s
what the world tells me and then God
tells me to get a vision write it down I
need to talk I wish vision you could
just tell it like series you know what
I’m saying like I need to be able to
have it write it down wait on it pray
over it submit it to leadership then uh
too many processes too much time and
then I got a weight on you
and we don’t have a scheduled meeting
every Wednesday for you to give me an
update only thing I prayed for and so I
begin to go through this and I said okay
God because I know I’ve had the excuse
like many of you had as I can’t read my
Bible cuz I don’t have any time okay we
have a hot church a humble open and
transparent church so I just want to ask
you have you ever said to yourself or to
anybody else okay just yourself I can’t
read my Bible because I just don’t have
time come on just beat and just be
honest okay okay how many of us have
said something like you know I can’t
pray because I have these other things
that are priority like maybe you didn’t
say it you just didn’t do it I never
said that okay you get the point
you still ain’t praying but there’s a
picture of us with the puppy-dog face
and we stick our tongue out some of the
old folks like what is he talking about
there’s these filters on snapchat where
it’s a little cute puppies or anything
and you got people but we don’t have
time to pray let’s be on and that may
not be your thing but you got a thing
like that may not be your thing but but
you got a thing that takes priority over
what God calls important and so when we
start talking about this idea of
patience we have this wai-wait mentality
in our generation and I want you to see
that we talked about it two weeks ago
but everything in our culture that is
natural is against God like God has a
plan for you so culture looks like what
God doesn’t and I need you to understand
that I’m not saying that everything and
culture is bad but if you don’t know the
use of it you will distort it and you
act like this is life and this is a
chore that’s why people act like when
they get become Christians
that they get these chains no this is
true freedom what you’re living in it’s
changed and you don’t even know it you
pay for it you-you-you-you you allow
yourself to be entangled and wrapped up
in these things and
and and we say things like this why
would we look to God for direction who I
can’t see when a university will gladly
give me a direction and make me pay for
it why wait to have sex why wait to get
married why wait to spend the money why
wait why wait why wait and this is
something that I’ve discovered as I was
praying the reason that you wait is
because the promise that God has for you
is usually discovered in the process and
the process will always require patience
I’m gonna say it again because I need
you to get this the reason that you wait
for things why you display patience
while you allow the Holy Spirit to work
that in your life is because the promise
that God has for you the intended in the
level of influence the marriage that you
see the relationship goals all of those
things that’s the promise that God has
for you remember before you were born he
said in Jeremiah 29:11 I have plans for
you plans to prosper you plan to give
you a hope in the future
I got good things plan for you I got a
promise for you but the promise we are
at the starting line asking God what’s
the promise I’ll go when you tell me the
promise I’ll obey when you tell me the
promises are you saying none the first
step I told you to make obey that one
you ever seen the Wizard of Oz follow
the yellow brick road that’s what the
Christian life is like you don’t see
where it leads until you step and
there’s another brick that comes when
you stop and the quicker the thing you
got to realize if you start stepping
quicker the steps keep coming quicker
but what we’re doing is we’re waiting
for God to show us everything and we
won’t step until we feel like we know
what’s gonna happen but then God says my
plans aren’t your plans and my socks
aren’t your thoughts and if I showed you
where you was going you try to figure
out an alternate path to get there oh
come on y’all y’all ready no okay so he
said I need you to trust me how many
people ain’t good for Thanksgiving like
like eight good like you like in
do you know the thing about that meal is
that that wasn’t a convenient meal see
that ham and that broccoli and cheese
casserole in that macaroni and that corn
in that whatever you ate that was just
mmm good
and whatever you ate that was that you
couldn’t throw that in the microwave and
if somebody did throw it in the
microwave you could tell the difference
because anything of value takes a
process and any process is going to take
patience and so I want us to value
patience maybe how we’ve never valued it
before and God helped me see this
analogy and y’all know God speaks to me
in movies and I get to see things so cuz
I want it to be real I’m not down for
coming into church and being in the
fifth heaven and then I’m figuring out
what did they talk about on Monday like
I’m not well I want to know how to walk
this thing out so God gave me this
analogy and y’all dis gonna flip the
script on you so few weeks ago I went
into a store and it was a place that
sold things that were nice and so I went
in there and I was like oh yeah that’s
gonna be nice right there I said sir how
much are those he said these and he
pulled them down from back behind the
counter and he said they’re this much
and I said ah I want two of them he told
me the price and I said okay cool and I
pulled out my card and he said oh I’m so
sorry sir there are certain items in
this store that only take a certain kind
of payment we only take cash for this
the level of offense I don’t need that I
had I said it’s 2017 I was like I was
you can’t take my cart he said sir
there are certain items in this store
that we want to make sure the funds
aren’t insufficient so we only take cash
for certain items in this store so I
left he’s still working on me y’all he’s
still working on me I told you I’m
coming I left and didn’t come back and
wasn’t I thought to find somewhere else
that has this I started to do out and
then as I was driving the Holy Spirit
started talking to me he said Michael
isn’t it funny how there are some things
you can’t get in life without having the
right form of payment it doesn’t matter
how much money you have in your a bank
it doesn’t matter how much you have on a
gift card it doesn’t matter how much you
have on the credit limit it doesn’t
matter how much you have on a gift card
or how many checks you bright it less
unless you have the right form of
payment you will not receive what you
desired so then it started messing with
me he said in the same way he said there
are things God has for you places that
he wants you to go there are dreams with
your name on it
there is relationships that you are
supposed to walk into and it’s supposed
to prosper you there are areas in the
atmosphere that are marked with your
name on it but you will never get it
unless you have the right form of
payment I said God you gonna have to you
gonna have to help me cuz I feel like I
got you but I don’t know he said Michael
there are some things in life that the
only payment is patience
I’m about to help you the only patient
for the jump the only payment for the
dream that you keep seeing is not going
to be working harder it’s gonna be
waiting on it I know you don’t like to
hear this I know
because if you’re if your text message
doesn’t work right you’re ready to throw
away the phone but God said that’s a
concept introduced by culture but my
word tells you that patience is a virtue
that I want the Holy Spirit to work into
your life and so there are things that
you’re gonna come up to the counter of
life and you’re gonna say yes I would
like a happy marriage
and um thriving business and they say
how much oh don’t worry about it I have
a gifting I have I have family I have
friends I have connections I have
charisma and they’re gonna say hey the
only payment for this one is patience so
I’m sorry I’m gonna have to put this
loving family back on the shelf cuz
you’re too out of control for this this
one’s gonna take patience yeah the only
payment for this career that you really
desire oh that yeah it wouldn’t look
perfect on you but you can’t wait see
when you look at the fruits of the
spirit faithfulness and patience are the
only fruits that have a prerequisite of
time you can’t tell if you’re faithful
unless you do it over time and you
cannot be patient unless it has an
amount of time attached to it and so
this is why many believers get so out of
whack about the promises of God because
they have not learned the virtue of
patience and you’re sitting up in here
and you want to get rich quick scheme
and you want a shock Ibaka to your
blessing and you want all of this other
stuff to just happen and God says
there’s some stuff that I promise you
that’s yours
it has your name on it you gonna walk
into it you gonna wear it right it’s
gonna be
everything that you think and more but
the only payment is patience look at
your neighbor and just tell them cuz
they’re in shock right now tell them the
only payment is patience yeah the only
payment could they send like oh my god
like you think you know the only payment
and that’s my first point I want you to
write this down because some of you are
in a season where you’ve been trying to
make things move where you’ve been
trying to move things you move from this
city to this city you move from this job
to this job and God say you can keep
doing that but you just exercising cuz
what I showed you it’s not gonna be by
might or power it’s gonna be by my
spirit and what are the things that the
Holy Spirit is trying to work in your
life patience oh oh so so so point one
write it down just in case you missed it
there are promises where the only
payment is patience and until you get
that this whole thing is gonna be off
kilter for you cuz everybody look we
celebrate just like one-hit wonders and
people who get discovered like that and
we just think about it we celebrate
people who were nothing one day BAM and
they became something new and God said
we can clap but that’s not gonna be your
story because God doesn’t want you to
have it for a moment and lose it do you
know there are statistics that say that
anybody who wins the lotto release the
70% of them are broke in seven years
it’s because God knows something that
culture does it that if your character
can’t sustain where you’re going it
won’t be the devil that has to kick you
out of that position you’ll disqualify
yourself and so slow and steady in
certain areas God will produce the
virtue of patience that when you get
there you’ll appreciate it when you look
around you’ll love the people who are
around you you’ll stand with the people
that bet that
tried to throw you away but then came
back God saying I want this virtue in
your life
look at Romans 12:12 it says rejoice in
our confident hope that’s Jesus be
patient in trouble most of us get
frantic in trouble come on let’s just be
honest like trouble comes oh my god I
don’t know how to pay this and oh my god
they’re gonna repossess my anything oh
my god a minute be patient in trouble
well God you got this and I trust you
and how do you how do you react in
trouble let’s just ask that question how
do you react in trouble because God says
we’re supposed to be patient wait on him
wait on the Lord when it’s trouble and
keep on praying those are instructions
that we have to do because for what God
has for you it’s great it’s big the
family you want to see the influence
you’re gonna have you notice I’m not
saying you got to work and do something
to get God’s art he’s already favored
you there are people that are ready to
stroke a check with your name on it
there are doors you’re gonna walk into
there are inventions and witty ideas
this is what the word promises us there
is mending of broken relationships there
is a book inside of you that is going to
change the world but the only payment
for this promise is patience
you said passing like I you know I just
what are the other promises we can get
without patience because this this one’s
a little difficult for me and I know
because it’s countercultural
but but God came to turn this world
upside down and I want to encourage
somebody who’s in a season where you’re
waiting on God that you’re in good
company
look at Joseph who had the jean jacket
of many colors Joseph Joseph was sold
into slavery by his brothers and had to
wait 14 years before he got his
opportunity to be impactful on the
culture now I just want everybody to see
would you be patient for 14 years
if God told you hey I’m gonna make you
the president of this company and you’re
gonna control 15 billion dollars of
income every year most of us would post
it on Facebook at that moment most of us
would go out but he didn’t tell you in
the fine print you know when you have a
contract and it says read the fine for
it but what Joseph would have taken this
before they told him your brothers are
gonna sell you into slavery you’re going
to be passed around you’re going to be
taken from your home country this crazy
cougar is gonna try to push stuff on you
and you not gonna want to do nothing but
she gonna want you to do some stuff to
her and me and you not gonna do it so
you ain’t even get none but then she
gonna blame you like you did his son and
like read the Bible it’s juic off the
Bible is juicy so then you get sold into
slavery in the king’s house and then you
you you interpret a dream and then they
forget about you your boy told you I
mean all this stuff happened and what
did Joseph have to be he had to be
patient and wait on God and he got the
coat 14 years earlier that said he was
favored see this value of patience if we
don’t get this and it’s worked in us by
the Holy Spirit we will forfeit our
promise because we want it now
y’all know that that commercial I got a
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okay
the problem with that in our culture is
they don’t tell you what they take they
they don’t they don’t tell you what what
it costs if you get it now you think it
costs more if you wait it costs more if
you did it
think of Joseph think of David who was
anointed king but had to wait 15 years
to take the throne think of Noah who got
instructions to build a boat on land and
start a zoo 50 years no he started a zoo
y’all did you up 50 years before it ever
rained like the instructions of God
sometime will put us out there looking
stupid he had to get up every day know
what you’re doing if I was his neighbor
what you doing ah are you doing the same
thing he was doing yesterday bro it
ain’t even right bro we not this is land
there’s no water even near what are you
doing and that’s the voices the enemy
tries to tell you why are you serving at
that church why are you going to that
school why did you start that business
why did you do and those are the voices
but he had to have patience the ability
to still stand fast and know that God’s
giving me a word and I’m gonna endure
this I’m gonna wait this thing out and
it’s a virtue that the Holy Spirit is
going to work in me no matter if nobody
in my family agrees with me no matter if
anybody understands I know that this is
a furniture that is only produced by the
Holy Spirit that tells you that a lot of
people don’t work through the Holy
Spirit
cuz barely nobody has patients but not
transformation Church see we’re gonna be
a church that doesn’t take one piece of
the Bible and try to live it out this
just in case anybody know this will be a
fundamental part of God developing you
into his character is there will be some
situation some person some obstacle that
will work patience into your life
because when we pray for
patience he doesn’t send patience he
sends an opportunity to be patient
oh boy that that was good he there is
not a like oh I’m patient now no he
sends that annoying boss he sends that
ungrateful co-worker he gives you a
child with your name but with the demon
spirit on the inside
do you understand what I’m saying like
he doesn’t give you patience he gives
you the opportunity to be patient and
until we understand that there’s nothing
in me that can feel patience it’s a work
of the spirit remember the Holy Spirit
produces this type of food in my life
that’s patience and so I want you to
understand this that time is the
currency of patience and go to this this
scripture in Hebrew chapter 6
cuz this bless me you know I like
formulas I like plays I like I like I
don’t know when I used to play video
games we used to play video game name
Street Fighter and and and I had my
combinations on Street Fighter that I
knew would work every time so like up
down like a B a B like I knew my
combinations and if I can just have a
combination it makes it easier for me
I’m about to give you an equation right
now that may make life easier for you
look at Hebrews chapter 6 verse 12 it
says we do not want you to become lazy
I can literally preach that one
scripture for 35 minutes but we’re just
gonna skip that but don’t become lazy
but we want you to imitate those who
through faith and patience inherited
what has been promised see most of you
would read through that scripture but
there is an equation right there
underline faith underline patience
underline promise most of us would say
we want the promise for our life we want
to be maximizing our potential we want
to help people we want to be generous
that’s the promise God has for us and we
probably know to get that we need faith
your new faith in God we need faith to
believe but that second line we will
probably put something else there how do
we receive the promise we have to have
faith and
shifting faith and connections faith in
a plan to reach the promise what does
the scripture say you need faith and you
don’t even want to say the word like
look at me boy you’re like mm-hmm you
need faith and these are the two
ingredients that will produce the
promise I need you to hear me if you’re
in hearing you’re 18 and you want to
take over the world by you’re 21 listen
baby you’re gonna take over the world
but it’s gonna take these two
ingredients faith and patience you will
receive the promise and then it goes on
in verse 13 and it tells us about
Abraham again it said when God made his
promise to Abraham since there was no
one greater for him to swear by he swore
by himself saying I will surely bless
you and give you many descendants that
was the promise and then this is
Abraham’s part in our part and it said
and so after waiting patiently Abraham
received what was promised I just came
to encourage somebody that the Holy
Spirit has a gift for you called
patience and if you could get faith and
let him you don’t even got to do it on
your own let him begin to work this
thing of patience in you so like when
you want to go and do something I’ll
tell this story I’ve been having these
shoes that I want it for a year and a
half like a year and a half and I went
to the website probably 30 times had
them in a cart ready to purchase them
and then I just shut my computer I said
that’s what they want me to do I don’t
know who they are but but but literally
and the Holy Spirit said you don’t need
to drop that type of money on those
shoes right now you need to save for
them and I was like I got the money in
the account right now everything will be
fine and so I start putting back a
little money every month and every month
I’m putting back money and I literally
while I’m putting back money I’m like
man I got half of it that’s better than
what I was gonna do two months ago
I can go ahead and buy that and the holy
spirit was working patience in me and
see we wouldn’t take a regular example
like that and think that’s the Holy
Spirit working patience in me but nobody
kept me from buying those shoes the Holy
Spirit was saying I want to teach you
something that’s not normal to you what
situation in your life can you go ahead
and do it right now but you feel
something saying don’t do it wait on
that stop think hold up he’s trying to
give you the ability to have funds in
your account for your promise see
because there’s gonna come a time and
God’s gonna say hey I have this purpose
on sale for you right now and he said
but the only form of payment we can
accept is patience you said all right
then I’m loaded I got more than enough
and then God can drop promises on you
because the only payment was patience
and I know this is not popular and I
know some of y’all’s like I didn’t come
to hear this today because but I’m
telling you you’ll be frustrated for the
rest of your life if you don’t allow the
Holy Spirit well why didn’t this work
out why didn’t that work out can I tell
you something that what God’s doing in
your life is not a punishment he’s
trying to give you the payment that will
pay for your promise
you gotta stop looking at your
situations would be saved by now or this
that dot listen change your heart
perspective on it change change your
perspective it didn’t work out but then
God says in Romans 8:28 that all things
work together for the good so could this
mean a part of the plan and until you
get a revelation of that you will never
ever realize that patience is one of the
greatest gifts that God can give you the
the Webster dictionary version of
patient is the capacity to accept or
tolerate delay trouble our suffering
without getting angry or upset
let’s just be practical most of us don’t
go through delay without getting mad God
says I want you to build up enduring
I need endurance to be built in your
life that’s why James tells us James
chapter 1 verse 3 it says for you know
that when your faith is tested how many
have people that test your faith y’all
know they may be sitting next to you
just put your hands down you got people
who test your faith but it says we know
when our faith is tested your endurance
has a chance to grow so let it grow
because you can forfeit this and not not
be patient not wait on God not do it he
said but let it grow for when endurance
is fully developed you will be perfect
and complete needing nothing this is the
thought the Holy Spirit gave me he said
Michael if patience is a fruit of the
Spirit impatience is a fruit of the
flesh and it hit me that means that
every time I’m in traffic come on let’s
be let’s be practical because God didn’t
come for us to live in every time I’m in
traffic and that car is just being slow
like there’s so much more room to go
like will you please move that raggedy
van and get right out of my way and when
I speed up then you want to speed and
then when I slow down what are you doing
but the Bible tells me that that’s a
chance for me to learn how to endure so
just sit there blessed be the name of
the Lord let it be the name of the Lord
like all I’m saying is are we looking at
the things that we are impatient in and
we’re passing up the opportunity to
receive a fruit of the Spirit God’s
gonna give you opportunities today what
are you working out of your flesh or
your spirit if patience is a fruit of
the Spirit then impatience some of you
are impatient with your wife some of you
are impatient with your kids just cuz
you had them doesn’t mean you treat them
any type of way
impatience they’re three they’re gonna
touch stuff stop touching did God give
you that child to teach you this fruit
of the Spirit because what you are
you’re gonna develop in them and they’re
gonna become just like you because you
didn’t have patience with them so they
won’t have patience for a destiny and so
they’ll quit because they feel like
everything should come to them like this
but you quit on them when they were born
because you didn’t want to teach them
how to be disciplined so you punish them
out of your emotions and embarrassment
and so they become what you never wanted
and then they repeat the cycle now all
I’m saying to you is maybe patience is a
bigger deal and there’s promises that
God has for you where the only payment
will be patience I think about this in
the life of Jesus have you ever thought
about this Jesus had to be patient he
was the son of God on earth if that was
me and I knew I was the son of God on
earth and I could do miracles do you
know what type of parties we would have
had in my teenage years like like just
thing do you know how it’ll walk the
ramp do you know but Jesus had
opportunity this vial of God because he
made him all human with God in him he
had a moment like that when he was 12 he
didn’t tell his mom and Daddy where he
was going
it’s almost mother God I ain’t got to
tell Mary and Joseph nothing
just think about it he goes to the
synagogue he started sitting down me
Jesus Jehoshaphat if you don’t get over
here right now mine what what I’m about
my father’s business you know I’m here
on purpose you know you didn’t do with
my daddy to have me you know that she
pulled up see what this is my man she
went cross-eyed on him boy
get back in that house and do the dishes
this is just a little sub point it
doesn’t matter about your gifting if
it’s not time for you to use it your
gifting doesn’t matter she knew who he
was she pulled him in and say and listen
he was 12 we don’t hear from Jesus for
18 years talk about patience but he
literally could have done miracles at 10
12 14 16 he was doing dishes and
learning how to make tables they called
him a carpenter where did he learn that
he learned that in the time where he was
being patient there are things that
you’re not ready to go to because you
haven’t learned what you’re supposed to
learn in the time of patience
this man was patient for 30 years to
have three years of a platform for three
hours of purpose I want everybody to let
that sit Jesus lived for 33 years 30
years of preparation of waiting for
three years of a platform for three
hours on the cross
of purpose will you wait on God
see some of y’all are uncomfortable
right now cuz you’re waiting on me to
say something but that wasn’t even 30
seconds of waiting what happens when God
gives you 30 years of waiting will you
be called faithful will you be found
doing what God told you to do the last
time he told you to do it well they
don’t recognize me
Dane recognized my gifts they see your
gifts it’s just not time
well they well God told me I was gonna
be married you will be he told me you’re
gonna have I was gonna have children
Sarah was 90 that’s physically
impossible God works miracles I’m not
coming to pump in prime you I’m really
just trying to pop your bubble like so
that you can see it clearly there’s no
hit like the one you don’t see coming so
I want you to see this coming God has
not forsaken you because it’s taking
time he he’s not left you because he’s
giving you an opportunity to work
patience in your life I don’t know some
of you ain’t gonna go back and
rebroadcast this but some of y’all gonna
catch this and you say okay pastor Mike
I’m I’m gonna be patient I’m gonna allow
the Holy Spirit to work patience in my
life I know I have big dreams and big
goals and all these different things but
God’s gonna get me to my intended in I’m
gonna walk into purpose I’m gonna stand
my family’s gonna behold I’m gonna be
healed I’m gonna do everything but it
may take some time and the only payment
for some promises it’s patience well
okay I just want to warn you though my
second point that pride will repossess
the promise like like if you’re patient
in one season but then you get prideful
and you start saying like I don’t need
anybody else and I don’t need to be
around and it was me who did this and
all the pride will repossess the promise
I think about a guy named Saul and most
people when you read the Bible they
don’t have a favorable favorable outlook
on Saul but I started to look at Saul’s
life that brother was blessed like
before he made one bad move this dude
was the king of Israel
he was thirty years old over the entire
country he was favored the Bible tells
us he was anointed he was doing his
thing everybody looked up to him it was
winning victories God’s favor was on him
and then he got an instruction from a
prophet named Samuel because they were
in a battle against the Philistines
that’s Goliath’s people they was big
they’re trying to take over everything
and he was the ruler of the king of
Israel and and God gave him instruction
he gave him an instruction in 1st Samuel
chapter 10 verse 8 it said then go down
the Gilgal ahead of me this is Samuel
talking to Saul I’ll join you there to
sacrifice a burnt offering and a peace
offering you must wait for seven days
until I arrive and give you further
instructions he was like cuckoo God’s
gonna be with us we’re gonna win this
victory everything’s gonna be good go to
chapter thirteen verse eight First
Samuel chapter thirteen verse eight Saul
waited there seven days for Samuel
Samuel had instructed him earlier but
Samuel still didn’t come so Saul started
to realize that his troops were rapidly
slipping away so he demanded we ain’t
waiting on Samuel bring me to burnt
offering and the peace offering and soul
sacrifice the burnt offerings himself he
tried to get in pride and do it his own
way he tried to make his own path to the
promise just as Saul was finishing the
burnt offering Samuel arrived Saul went
out to meet him I’ll shoot okay and
welcome him hey Samuel come in and
Samuel said what have you done
Saul replied see so you would see what
happened was I saw him a man scattering
from me and then I did you did you I
mean you had said she was coming in
seven days I mean I know it’s still the
same day but I thought she was coming
like right right when it turned to the
seventh day and you wasn’t here in the
Philistines we’re at mcmaster and it was
ready to bash and so I said to the
Philistines are you ready to march
against do gal cuz I haven’t even asked
the Lord for help so I’ll just you know
I had felt compelled I had prayed I felt
compelled to offer up my own burnt
offering myself
before you had come you foolish man you
have not kept the command the Lord God
gave you or in other words you were not
patient enough had you have kept it the
Lord would have established your kingdom
over Israel forever if you would have
just done this one thing I would have
made you ruler for air burst some of
y’all seen saying lot for ever do you
understand what I’m saying but now your
kingdom must in for the Lord has sought
out of a man or a woman after his own
heart
so that means patience means you’re a
person after God’s own heart
he said I’ve sought after a man after my
own heart the Lord has already appointed
him to be the leader of his people
because you have not kept the command or
you did not wait patiently 42 years of a
promise was repossessed because of a few
hours of impatience guys I don’t care if
you see a way to make it happen if God’s
saying wait on him wait on I don’t care
how easy it would be for you just to go
get married and hope that God would
bless the marriage or start the business
and do listen the promise is yours but
you have to use the fruit of the Spirit
of patience and patience and there’s
some things that God will only accept
patient patience for for you to see the
promise
I wrote down this statement and I think
it’s worth saying to you anytime you
come up with your own solution but it is
not in submission to God strategy it
will become your sabotage if you come up
with your own solution but it’s not in
submission to God strategy
it’ll be your sabotage Saul spent the
rest of his life fighting for something
that was already his
he tried to kill David he got jealous he
started listening to the voices of
people see when you’re not waiting on
God you then allow other voices to come
in and this man killed himself like this
is how his life ends he killed himself
running for his life
when God said I had a plan for you a
promise that your descendants your
children’s children’s children’s
children would have reigned over this
area forever but you were impatient guys
what are we forfeiting cuz we can’t wait
on God so you don’t see it now but
that’s why he’s saying I’m trying to
work this fruit of the Spirit in you
right now the two become patient that
you would wait on me that you would
allow me to speak to you and speak
through you and even if it doesn’t
happen when you think it is I didn’t
leave you I didn’t leave you I did not
leave you I’m right here I’m just trying
to teach you some things I want you to
trust me even when you don’t see me I
want you to hear my voice
in a still small tone I want you to be
able to hold on to a promise I don’t
want you to get to a place that your
character can’t sustain you in so it’s
going to take not four minutes not four
hours but what about five years what if
it takes 15 years for this church to
reach what God has called it to be that
sucks for me to even think that but if
we could ever get to a moment that we
are effective and we’re reaching tens of
thousands of people all over this world
and seeing the glory would I rather have
it now for it to leave and for me to be
cursed
and for me not to be in the presence of
God walking and holding it up by his
power or would I rather see the promise
of God come to pass but I just got to
pay fifteen years for it guys if you
don’t hear anything else I say that
patience is a fruit of the Spirit that
requires time so if you don’t allow the
Holy Spirit to work this in your heart
there are things that you will live this
life without
that God wanted you to live with so fast
Mike what I do cuz now you just tell me
I need to wait on everything feel like I
don’t need to go out to eat today like I
need to go put some in a crock-pot just
feeling it just feel it just feeling
like I need to you know just just walk
to work tomorrow that’s uh Mike just the
stuff okay I’m not saying be extreme I’m
just saying don’t allow convenience to
kill your Christianity don’t don’t put
God on Amazon standards if it’s not here
in two days then I don’t mess with you
no more so so so passing like what I do
my last point how you weight directly
affects how long you wait how you weight
directly affects how long you wait
passing like that’s not true ask the
children of Israel God delivered these
people from slavery and they literally
had an eleven-day journey 11 but on
those 11 days they complained they were
frustrating to leadership they made
false gods and worshiped other things
and those people turned an eleven-day
journey to purify them into a forty-year
death I mean what happens when God tells
you the whole reason I’m part in the sea
is to take you to a promised land like
y’all were slaves I’m about to take you
to a promised land they get out and they
like oh this sucks like I can’t stand
working with these people oh my god she
fainted look at her and all I see these
are things we say like I can’t believe
that Church I can’t do all this is
they’re just complaining and god they
haven’t learned patience they haven’t
learned to wait on me did they just
construct another God other than me the
dangerous did they just make their
business or their children or their fam
did they just make that come on man
this was eleven-day journey I bet at 11
years God was just frustrated
just like the job please just learn how
to wait on me and know that I was the
one who provided away when there was no
way before and I literally have mana
dropping from heaven every day I know
it’s not the best but I’m trying to work
something in you mana literally means
what is it so they get they food every
day and they say what is it like that’s
that’s what it is but it was a miracle
happening that they turned into a
problem because of their perspective I
guess I’ll eat this they did all of
these things and they turned an
eleven-day journey into a 40 year death
cuz they did not learn patience so my
questions to you is how are you gonna
wait see this is how most of us wait Oh
Oh God okay but it’s not how long you’re
gonna wait is how are you going to wait
what do you want me to do God who do you
want me to serve where do you want me to
go how much do you want me to give at
your service how do you want me to wait
on you how do you want me to stand in
the gap for other people how do you want
me to serve how do you want me to wait
you want me working the children’s area
for four years hard I don’t have nerves
for that but whatever you want me to do
God I’ll wait on you you want me to go
back to what school oh god I was at your
service what would happen if your waiter
talked too much
or was complaining when they were trying
to serve you like like we have to get
this and many of you have the
disposition of my little daughter Bella
I must show you this and we’re gonna in
two weeks ago I have a four year old
that is coming into her personality
and y’all just pray for me and pastor
Natalie but she said dad I’m starving
like everything is so dramatic that I’m
starving
I said Bella what do you want to eat
she’s like mac and cheese I was like
okay dad’s gonna make you some magazines
but I’m starving so she wanted it now
and I made the mac and cheese and I just
want you to see this video
watch what happened we’re trying to
teach you patience right and so you had
to wait how was it but you weren’t just
hunger you ain’t gonna beat us why’d you
get me there
okay so next time you’re gonna wait
you’re gonna be patient
you’re not hungry all day okay right now
okay we’ll eat but in different things
you have to be patient okay why don’t
you you don’t like the way
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as funny as that is isn’t that how we
sound to God we start to exaggerate the
truth that baby says she’s starving all
the time but but doesn’t that sound like
us God nothing is going right for me
thought there’s nothing well I’m trying
to teach you patience but it’s hard to
wait and what she did is she had
nourishment that was being prepared for
her but she settled for jump there was
gummy worms on the table and because she
was hungry and she felt like her father
wasn’t preparing it for her or she
didn’t understand the process then she
went to try to make her own way and she
filled her belly with something that was
going to make her feel full for a minute
and then drop her and her whole thing
then was to look at me and she blamed me
she said because you move so slowly but
doesn’t that sound like us but God I
thought this was gonna happen and I
thought I was gonna move here and I
thought I was gonna change the world but
you’re moving so slowly and it makes us
do things to provide for ourselves when
God’s in the background preparing a
gourmet meal for us right now
I’m just asking you to allow the Holy
Spirit to begin to produce patience in
your life and it’s not going to be a
prayer it’s gonna be a process it’s
going to be a process you say that out
of your mouth say it’s gonna be a
process that Hebrews 6:12 scripture says
so don’t be lazy but imitate those who
through faith and patience inherited
what has been promised can I tell you
this the only thing harder than waiting
on God is wishing you had
so the promise that God has for you it’s
gonna come to pass you’re gonna see it
but what if the only payment that is
accepted is patience let me pray for you
father I thank you that you’re working
in this church to not let us have a
watered-down version of this gospel but
you’re helping us father God be able to
really understand that there are things
that are gonna be uncomfortable that you
call us too that are gonna produce
patience in our life God for those who
may be in a situation right now that it
is requiring patience Holy Spirit I
thank you that she would be the
comforter the a the Paraclete the one
that comes alongside of us to help and
father let us use you God we have an
advocate when you left us you didn’t
leave us alone you gave us the Holy
Spirit and you said he’s gonna help you
through everything so Holy Spirit we
need your help father we need your help
as people as parents as business owners
father we want it now culture tells us
we can do it now we can have it now but
father God if you’re asking us to wait
father let us wait on you let us wait
with the right attitude let us wait not
complaining let us wait father God and
find joy in the process not just in the
promise God I’m asking you for every
single lady or single man that they’ll
wait on the marriage you have for them
God I’m praying for every entrepreneur
that they would wait on that business
that’s going to provide for their
children’s children father you have
plans for us you want this for us God
but let us not move and try to provide a
way for ourselves but let the fruit of
the Spirit of patience be worked in our
lives god I thank you that you are
supplying us with the payment of
patience and we will see the promise in
Jesus name we agree
amen if you’re gonna allow the Holy
Spirit to work that in your life go
ahead and give God some praise right now
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