​Patience. That’s a word that we hear a lot and it sounds really simple, but the truth is that sometimes being patient isn’t always easy. This is especially true when there is something that you really want to happen and you’ve already been waiting a long time for it to come to pass. I know that feeling all too well. Have you ever wanted for something to happen for so long and then after wanting it for so long, you’re told to be patient? That isn’t always the best feeling in the world, is it? I recently discovered something about patience that I hadn’t noticed before: Patience requires trust.



Let’s take a look at the word patient a little more in depth. The word patient is defined as bearing provocation, annoyance, misfortune, delay, hardship, pain, etc., with fortitude and calm and without complaint, anger, or the like. To have this quality is a virtue, but it doesn’t come without testing or trust. In order for you to have patience, you have to believe or trust that everything will work out. If you have a desired outcome, you have to be trusting in something or someone in order to be patient while you’re waiting on the manifestation. I realized that if I do not trust God to either deliver what I asked for or deliver me from a situation, then I won’t have any patience for it to happen. How can you be patient when you don’t believe that there’s something greater at work handling the situation for you? I have messed up and delayed several opportunities/situations because I wasn’t trusting God enough to be patient and let Him work it. I thought I was trusting Him, but when it wasn't happening at the rate I wanted, I got impatient. In order to trust God with your situation, you have to believe that He is working everything out even when it feels like it’s taking an eternity to happen. You have to trust God enough to know that if it doesn’t happen at a certain rate, there’s good reason for it.

Some women may be trusting God for a husband or better career, but it seems like it’s taking years to happen. Perhaps you prayed in 2008 for a better job and you’re still not there yet. Now it’s been five years and God is telling you to be patient, but you’re feeling like you’ve suffered long enough; what’s the problem? God can do it instantly; absolutely true, but the wait may be because you are not fully prepared for what He has for you. Maybe the problem is you’re asking for a better job when God is trying to equip you to run an entire business. Sometimes we tarry in being single not because God doesn’t hear us or honor our prayer, but because He is molding you to be the wife your husband needs and molding the man to be the husband that you need. If God gives us what we want before all parties are ready, it’ll appear to be more like a curse than a blessing. So, we have to be patient. Being patient strengthens us. You may experience some heavy hardships in the process of waiting, but endure to the end anyway. The greater the trial, the greater the triumph; just don’t let your trial be harder than it has to be because you won’t get out of your own way. James 1:2-4 NKJV says,  My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

Let patience have its full run, so that in the end you will not lack any good thing. It’s like the old saying goes, “Anything worth having is worth waiting for.”



​~Miss Jennipher~



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