All tagged Patience

Awakening to the Alarm of Life to meet with Jesus

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion

Have you ever overslept and then suddenly jolted from sleep to a feeling of panic? Were  you supposed to be somewhere at a specific time, but realized that you weren’t going to make it now? What did you do? I would suppose that you started scurrying around in haste washing your face, brushing your teeth, getting dressed, and then calling to inform who you were to meet that you were going to be late. Well, if your meeting is with Jesus He will not be upset, irritated with you, or cancel the meeting altogether... He will give you peaceful reprieve and say “It’s alright, I will hold my appointments, I am waiting for you!”

Suffering, and being made into the Image of Christ

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotion, Trusting God

When we accept God as our Father, and Jesus as His Son, and our Savior, we struggle and suffer immensely in our newly found life. During these early days we are tempted and challenged; in them we have to determine whether we will go forward in our faith... or not. Suffering for our faith is not a punishment for the believer, but hardens us like cold water tempers iron, and sets in us the image of Christ.

Patient Faith; is it Jerry Lee Lewis, or Johann Sebastian Brahms?

Richard Forbes
Daily Devotion, Faith, Christian, Jesus, Patience

Are you a driven person? Do you run at everything you do whether it is work, play, friendships, relationships, or even your faith? Are you known by monickers such as hard working, industrious, unrelenting, or other such descriptions? Being driven is a personality trait that often gets in the way of our faith. It is valued by society because we are creatures bound by time, and it lends well to works, but to God the true value is in perfection, purity, righteousness, and holiness. How do we reconcile these two ways of approaching life, faith, and eternity?

The Truth Behind Hidden Secrets and God

Richard Forbes
Christian, Secrets from God, Daily Devotion

Do you open yourself up to God? Do you allow Him free access to not only your actions and superficial thinking, but to those thoughts that you believe to be personal and secret? Do you interact with God by revealing every intimate confidence to Him? When we lift ourselves up to Him we are changing the relationship we experience together; not on His part, but on ours. At the moment we lift ourselves up to Him we are acknowledging our trust in Him, and giving everything we are to Him freely.

Praying with the Power of Elijah

Richard Forbes
Power, Daily Devotion, Prayer, Elijah, Christian, Waiting

Can we pray like Elijah? Do our prayers have the ability to reach up to the heavens and let not just drought come and go, but answered prayer rain down? Well, scripture tells us that Elijah’s nature is the same as ours... so how is it that his prayers are so powerful? Elijah had one more characteristic... righteousness. When we pray, do we possess that fullness of faith? How is our righteousness? How is our prayer life?

Waiting on God without Screaming on the Floor

Richard Forbes
Christian, Prayer, Trust, Daily Devotion, Waiting

It is expected that we will wait upon the Lord, and we know that during our waiting there will be those who will ask us “Where is your Lord?”, but we should never lose faith, and never ask this question of ourselves. In those times when we pray for something and God provides it right away, it is easy for us to be a saint, but when we must wait, it is then that we find the true state of our faith.

Waiting, Patience, and the Music in our Lives

Richard Forbes
Waiting on God, Daily Devotion, Christian, Trust, Patience, Blessings

Does waiting on God seem tedious to you? Perhaps it has become this way because you have the idea that He is doing nothing while you wait, and that He continues on doing nothing until at long last, in a moment suited to His good pleasure, He suddenly cares enough to act. Well nothing could be further from the truth, and waiting should be an active effort on our part in which we watch Him at work.

Waiting on God, and the Good Fruit of Trust

Richard Forbes
Daily Devotion, Trust, Christian, Waiting on God, Obedience

Have you been waiting patiently on the Lord? If you say yes, then let me ask this: have you done so without muttering and discontent? It is one thing to wait patiently and in great expectation on God, but it is quite a different thing to wait because that is your only recourse... and to do so with discontent, or complaints on your lips. Waiting brings honor to the Father, and a new song to us.

Wonderful and Certain is our wait for the Lord

Richard Forbes
Jesus, Patience, Daily Devotion, Obedience, Waiting, God, Christian

The most uncertain of victories will be won by the Lord because He is great beyond measure. How patient is our faith in this; His victory? Are we waiting in total confidence for Him to act? When those around us challenge our patience in God we can be moved to take matters into our own hands, and to abandon our assurance in His promise. In such times I look to scripture and hold tight to it.

Wine, Sea Creatures, Prayer, and Faith

Richard Forbes
Daily Devotion, Patience, Persistence, Christian, Faith, Prayer

Have you given up on certain desires because you prayed for them once, twice, three times, and they were not given to you? Have you resolved yourself to the fact that God just doesn’t want you to have this thing, or that He just doesn’t hear you? Well, if you are praying rightly in the will of God and not asking Him to go against His character and Word, then neither of these assumptions are correct. Persistent prayer leads us into the very crux of faith.

Prayer, and the Divine Time of Heaven

Richard Forbes
God, Waiting, Daily Devotion, Goodness, Patience, Prayer, Christian

Do you wait patiently for God’s provision and direction? Have you become practiced in allowing Him to do all things in your life, or does He teach you over and over again how to wait? Have you set your spiritual clock, and your expectations to divine time, the time of heaven? As the length of an earthly day is constantly changing, and our bodies acclimate to that change, we must also acclimate spiritually to the natural variation in the will of God... the day of heaven.