SERMON SERIES: PATIENCE THE SERIES – SERMON #1 TITLE: THE “NEW” ATTITUDE TEXT: JAMES 1:-8 INTRODUCTION Meyer Friedman: Identified the type “A” personality Our unwillingness to wait and anger at being made to wait “hurry” sickness Patience is sometimes referred to as the queen of virtues; some translations have it let patience have “her” perfect of complete work in us Pregnancy is a nine-month wait and any birth before that is referred to as premature. No one rushes birth. SERMON OUTLINE 1. Our “Firsts” The Places, People, And Things that are FIRST are revealed when we have to WAIT Talk Is Cheap 2. Our “Fire” Or Passion Is Tested Quit Quotient The Wait Witnesses o Noah (120), Moses (80), Joshua (40), Abraham/Joseph (20), David (16) 3. Faith Is Matured We have to go through it…Test, Trial, Trouble APPLICATION Waiting is not accidental - it is necessary God’s plan is to make us 14 carat Christians and /or pure gold Be Still – Stay Right Where You Are as You Go Through - Job 23:10, Isaiah 40:31 DEFINITION OF FAITH
Faith is belief in the unseen, the quietly held conviction that even though you can’t imagine how (except through God), at some time, in some way, the right way - the thing you desire will indeed come to past - Daphne Rose Kingma