Patience is a virtue.

Ephesians 4:1–4 NKJV

I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling;

The fruit of the spirit Patience is also translated long suffering

1. to be of a long spirit not to lose heart

to preserve patiently and bravely in enduring misfortunes and troubles

These above are the waiting part of patience.....all the things we talked about in my last sermons.

B. to be patient in bearing the offences and injuries of others

a. to be mild and slow in avenging

b. to be longsuffering and slow to anger, slow to punish.

You hurt me so i want you to hurt.

Hurt people hurt people but not if they are patient

Other people offend us whether on purpose or unintentionally

Example of Road rage....... underpass

Do not be easily offended and slow to emote.

teenagers and looking at me ugly-body language

they didn’t smile or wave at me

he talked about them in a sermon and not me

jealousy- i love my children the same but they are different and require different ways to feel loved. same with friends and family.

5 love languages

-gifts, time spent, touch, acts of service, words

In applying one fruit of the spirit it will lead to other fruits of the spirit being at your disposal. If you are patience with people you will have great peace. If you are impatient you will have great chaos and drama.

One minute of patience ten years of peace…Greek proverb.

No one is saying there should not be boundaries and that you don’t have to stand up or say things to people in them being offensive, but in every instance we should remember the things that God has bestowed on us in his mercy and grace.

In applying patience you will have more grace and mercy for those around you. In order to be patience with people where they are you have to have a merciful forgiving heart.

In the old testament “slow to anger” or “slow to wrath” “slow” was what meant patience in conjunction with these feelings.

Psalm 145:8 NKJV

The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy.

Proverbs 14:29 NKJV

He who is slow to wrath has great understanding, But he who is impulsive exalts folly.

Hebrew language is different than Greek slow in these instances mean patience and slow in a few other instance in conjunction with another word actually mean dumb or lazy. So we can see here when in conjunction with the emotion not only does it mean patience but the result of not being patience is wrath or anger.

So if we apply patience we can control the starter of all emotions anger. It is the one emotion that starts the feelings as we filter down what we really might be feeling.

annoyed

perturbed

frustrated

you can describe it all kinds of ways but they are all diversities of anger. Men feel anger much more than women having difficulty filtering through anger to the emotion that really is being hurt.

Practicing Patience can lead to control of emotions which is another fruit of the spirit self-control.

In conclusion

Patience produces Peace

Patience produces Mercy, Grace and Forgiveness

Patience produces self control over emotions.

Patience means in English the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset: