Faith and patience are inseparable in our walk by the Spirit of our Heavenly Father.
If you don’t have patience
then you will not operate out of a place of faith.
Let patience have her perfect work.
Patience is an under-girder, a supporter,
patience and perseverance are pillars.
it’s a support while we wait
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Wait psalm 27:14 & 25:3,21 Waiting in this context does not mean that we sit back fold our arms and do nothing. It is not an idle posture. We are to continue with ‘our Fathers’ business’ being a doer of His Word. But concerning the thing we are waiting on we must allow His plan to unfold and not on our timetable.
This is the test of faith in Him.
Impatient and faithless people won’t wait on Our Heavenly Fathers’ timing but push forward their agenda and plan by utilizing the worlds ways. Doing things in the same way non believers do is being part of the world and its systems. We are depending on the systems set in place by the prince of this world and not of our Heavenly Fathers ways. It speaks of not trusting Him to do it His way and in His timing and we know better. Because we are impatient we rebel and resemble a spoilt child and do it our own way with natural wisdom citing common sense.
James 3:15 says this This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.
And it has its roots in the previous verse But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
Douay-Rheims Bible But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contentions in your hearts; glory not, and be not liars against the truth.
And the outworking evidence is in verse 16
Berean Study Bible For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.
It is based in self and what self wants, not what God wants. He does not need our help to fulfill the plans He has for us and thinking we know better than God is self elevation above Him…we must guard against these actions as it leads from faith to foolishness and presumption and we will end up in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people doing the wrong thing.
Didn’t Messiah speak of this in reply to Peter
when He said?
Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on things of God, but on things of man.
But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offense unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. Mark 8:33.
Jesus/Yeshua warned us that offenses must come… it’s how we deal with those offenses, those stumbling blocks.
The Greek word is skandalon where our word scandal originates.
We are to set our minds on the things of
Adonai Eloheinu Melek HaOlam.
The Lord our God The king of the universe.
Avinu Makeinu – our Father, our King.
Definitions of
Faith: Believing what God has said and stepping out and acting on it
Foolishness: To lack good sense or judgment; to act foolishly with stupidity
Presumption: Behavior that is perceived to be arrogant, disrespectful, and transgressing the limits of what is permitted or appropriate.
To many believers, an abundant life means peace, wealth/financial prosperity and physical happiness – This is presumption. They presume nothing will go wrong with their lives. Paul’s experience says differently..
We have been told and heard sermons and messages telling us: If everything works for our good, then just do your own thing because it’ll work out alright – this is foolishness. Those with this thinking and mind set/philosophy have not read the rest of the scripture verse.
Any action which is not done in obedience is a fall into sin, and any act of disobedience is rebellion.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. 1Samuel 15:23
Witchcraft always avoids obedience to His spirit of Holiness and by this it rejects the Lordship of Messiah.
This should make us examine our ways our decisions our attitudes and cause us to purge ourselves from the remnants of the old man and how we always conducted our lives… because
How does doing things the worlds way make us any different from heathen non believers?
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Matt 7:9-11
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? …Luke 11:11-13
Presumption and foolishness are two very big counterfeits to genuine Biblical faith. We must be on guard because the enemy wants to steal our faith by deceiving us with these counterfeits to real faith.
He wants to deceive believers into living by a presumptuous life. Numbers 14:39-45
Foolishness, and in most cases, it is Presumption.
Men and women who think themselves wise will often in their own conceit presume things that bring ruin. Presumption is born of pride.
Concerning our lives and our service to God, many religious leaders in their arrogance have presumed things about God which may or not be true. If they like something, they presume God likes it too.
King James Version. 4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally,
James 1:4-8 But let patience have her perfect work –
Let it be fairly developed;
let it produce its appropriate effects without being hindered.
Let it not be obstructed in its work on the soul by murmurings, complaining, or rebellion.
Those who implement worldly methods to achieve their goals may have success initially, but the end does not justify the means and there are consequences to all actions and decisions.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. Ps 27:14
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
is quoted in Romans 9:33
As it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.”
Matthew 21:42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
Romans 10:11 New King James Version For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”
King James Bible For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
and
1Peter 2:6
Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
New King James Version Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion A chief cornerstone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.”
The last sentence of verse 16
he that believeth shall not make haste –
is often translated similar to the Greek rendering –
and the one who believes upon Him will not be put to shame.
The NIV version has the one who trusts will never be dismayed.
The Hebrew is stronger and deeper than that it means:
I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah, and, though he tarry, I will wait daily for his coming.
The 2 words translated:
not make haste or dismayed
are more difficult but refer to
something not done quickly.
In the 12th century Rabbi Ibn Ezra wrote
“He the faithful one will remain steadfast in his faith however long realization may be delayed.”
Each of us must understand that delay is not denial and that when the Lord has given us a vision for ministry, or other things, that the timing is His, not ours, and we need to hold strong in faith while He brings all things in His timing.
If we know a thing an outcome or answer then we do not need faith, we know!
This is how faith grows and is stretched like a muscle!
If we get ahead of His timing, the ministry, or whatever we are waiting on, becomes our ministry, not His. That ministry or whatever we are waiting on, may have financial success but will not have spiritual success. When He gives any of us the vision for a ministry there may be years of preparation before we are to begin.
What seems to be a delay may be something the Lord is doing in us, Paul wrote in
Phil. 4:11-13 Not that I am talking… 11 Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: 12 I know how to [a]be abased, and I know how to [b]abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through [c]Christ who strengthens me.
Psalm 105:17-19 He sent a man ..
He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
We are to keep fighting the fight of faith against the flesh.
This Psalm refers to the time Joseph spent in slavery and in prison. The word translated
purified
comes from a root which means
to refine, purify, test, or burn.
The time spent waiting for the Lords timing has a purpose, whether to purify the minister, or prepare other elements.
We need to be like Paul, content in the season of lack. The lack can be money as Paul wrote about it or it may be in ministry. Each of us has a ministry, with or without ordination, that is the ministry of reconciliation; pointing people who are lost in sin to a forgiving Savior Who can reunite them with their Heavenly Father.
2 Cor. 5:11-21
How can we do that?
We can because the scripture says freely we have received freely give. We are to share what we know, that which Messiah has done fro us, and that He is no respecter of persons.
It is important to be obedient, to wait contentedly, to keep the faith and grow spiritually while He works His will in us.
Have we prayed and prayed and waited and waited and still see no evidence of an answer?
Are we tired of seeing no movement are we at the point of giving up?
Then perhaps we haven’t waited in the right way?
The way which removes us from the right place, that is, the place where the Lord can meet us.
Wait for it patiently
Habakkuk 2:3 it will surely come.
Patience eliminates worry and anxiety which is based in fear.
Fear that what we want will not happen or come to pass for us in the way and time we want it.
This is the difference between total submission to the will of god and His plans for us and what we personally want God to do for us. There is no anxiety or worry if we accept His outcome and timing and trust His plan and purpose; for we only see in the short term and He sees the whole plan with everything and everybody involved.
Rom. 8:28.
Wait for it patiently – patience eliminates worry.
The Lord said He would come and His promise is equal to His presence. Without patience our trust is not faith. The patient waiting in a surrendered life is the evidence of faith that we trust that His plan is perfect. Patience undergirds faith, it supports like a pillar or girder the structure of our mindset; which should be conformed to His Word by having been renewed by it.
Fear, worry, doubt, anxiety, impatience are all outward evidence of no internal submission, which is characterized as a lack of faith. There is no real and lasting natural solution to a spiritual problem when the roots are out of harmony with the Lord of all creation.
It’s our faith that pleases our Heavenly Father. Hebrews 11:6
It’s impossible to please Him without it, and with patience we can wait on Him; and be that one, whose trust reveals our deep love for a Heavenly Father, Who will never fail or forsake us.
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
One who truly believes is not in a hurry.
