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Patience: A Key To Answered Prayer

1 Corinthians 13:4,5

Our primary responsibility as Christians is to love
In the Bible verse above we find that patience is the first quality of love.
Prayer works by faith, faith works with patience. Hebrews 6:12

Patience is a requirement  to possessing or receiving what is ours. Luke 21:19
Many people have missed out on what is theirs due to impatience.
"The biggest mistakes you will make in life will occur as a result of impatience" {Mike Murdock}
James 5:7,8

Imagine a farmer who is not patient enough to wait for the season of harvest. Such a farmer will miss the harvest that is due to him because the farmer couldn't wait for the due season of harvest. He will dig out his seed because he hasn't seen a harvest within a short while or he may stop watering the seed and the seed will die in the soil.
That seed had potential, it would have brought him results.
The issue was not with the seed but the impatience of the farmer.
An understanding farmer won't do that.
Patience is evidence of understanding.

Our prayers can be seeds that will produce results in our life in the immediate future or inthe distant future, but we need patience to receive the harvest of prayer. Isaiah 40:31, Hebrews 12:1

I once heard the story of a man who was clearing out a pathway in a cave looking for diamonds but unfortunately he gave up at the edge of his breakthrough, he was one more strike away from becoming as wealthy man as there was just a thin layer of rock between him and lots of diamonds, but he gave up and went home disappointed, he got tired and impatient trying.
Another diamond seeker came to the same cave and with one strike with his tool the thin layer of rock came down and he found lots of diamonds!
The first hardworking but impatient man had made the job easy for him!

I believe the first man who lost the reward of his hard work due to impatience falls into the category of those who fall by the wayside in life, while the second man who got the diamonds is in the category of those who reap the labor of others.
Jesus was clear about it, it is possible to reap where others have sown and reap the labor of others.

Patience can make you reap the labor of the impatient.

Olutosin Ogunkolade, a Teacher-Pastor shared this message!

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